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“A few words and we fell in love,” she says, the smile of her teenage years returning to her face.

They only want a few words, more a haiku than a work of fiction.

This is a deliberative conversation, and he tries to get as much meaning into as few words as possible.

Usually a rancher of few words, when it comes to the Border Patrol, Art has a lot to say.

Later that day, she had just enough energy to type a few words on her Facebook profile: “Feeling complete.”

A few words explained his errand; but the brave Englishman would hardly hear it to the end.

Felipe had leaped out of the carriage, and after a few words with the old Capitan, had hurried with him into his house.

Guilelessly, the old man, in a few words, had swept away the barrier Mary and I had raised between us.

A few words about the interior of Stradivari's instruments; one kind of work is perceptible in all of them.

A few words will suffice to explain the general scope of those alterations.

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