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flashbulb

Photog a small expendable glass light bulb formerly used to produce a bright flash of light
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I found envelopes full of pictures of late-night car crash scenes harshly lit by flash bulbs. One intriguing picture showed men tossing liquor bottles off the back of a truck at what appears to be the landfill.
Then at the ninth Montgomerie complained to an official when a spectator's flash bulb went off as he again prepared to putt.
'See you in the morning,' I say to Elsa, and walk quickly up the stairs to my dormitory, with her voice ringing up the stairs after me: Nos da, cariad, as automatic as the flash bulb on that camera.
As I foretold, however, he did not have a very easy race, which is entirely his own fault, as he was pulling Pat Taaffe out of the saddle till he was given his head three fences out, where he went to the front to win by 15 lengths from Flash Bulb. If he runs today, I think he will win.
Accept gratefully, but do remember to take the film and flash bulb, because he won't have them and will slip out to make the purchases just as you have lost the first five children, someone is being sick and someone else is announcing they have a serious nut allergy.
Flyingbolt had a reasonable excuse, as he had won the Two-Mile Champion Chase the previous day with Haine on the distant runner-up, Flash Bulb.
Uma's top isn't transparent until you lean forward and put your breasts near a flash bulb. It's called a Thurman vest.
The tiny Scots presenter, below, who has a reputation for stripping at the hint of a flash bulb, looks over-dressed compared to some of these other lovelies.
He described how the grenades were made from pet food cans, steel tubes, a flash bulb and a packet of digestive biscuits.
His pioneering use of chemicals that created light flashes decades before the invention of flash bulbs enabled him to photograph wildlife at night for the first time.
The flash bulbs were about the same size as today's house bulbs.
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