The Lonely Giraffe.The Lonely Giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. Peter Blight blight, general term for any sudden and severe plant disease or for the agent that causes it. The term is now applied chiefly to diseases caused by bacteria (e.g., bean blights and fire blight of fruit trees), viruses (e.g., soybean bud blight), fungi (e.g. Bloomsbury Bloomsbury section of London where, in the first half of the 20th century, a group of artists and intellectuals frequently congregated. [Br. Culture: Benét, 115] See : Bohemianism Books/Trafalgar Square, dist. PO Box 257, Howe Hill Road, North Pomfret, VT 05053-0257 0747568944 $16.99 1-800-423-4525 www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com Poor giraffe is feeling left out: his long neck keeps him from the action and he startles his friends and isolates them ... but when disaster strikes, it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have the lonely giraffe who discovers his underlying talents in Blight's appealing LONELY GIRAFFE, offering Michael Terry's engaging drawings. |
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