spring lamb

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a lamb born in the late winter or early spring and sold for slaughter before July 1.

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Are you aware how often people swap around “their,” “there,” and “they’re”? Prove you have more than a fair grasp over these commonly confused words.

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Althea is now re-scheduled with her surgeon for this spring.
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It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
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I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
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Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
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In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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Young Lamb has already paid several visits to Mr. Levison's little table.
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