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n. - Showy pitcher plants

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  • Above the cannon and rifles the music of the calling trumpets sounded.
  • What he hears, what he responds to with such joy, is the cataracts, which "blow their trumpets from the steep."
  • In addition to the blog entry's reductionist view of why Disney's traditional animation unit shut down, the entry's title trumpets:
  • We definitely don't need no stinkin 'trumpets, says Declan Burke, about his book The Big O (or "the embiggened O", the mind boggles).
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