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Nowadays, he finds it tough to look back at that version of himself: "While there's a bit of shame and embarrassment... I think there is a bit of empathy for that younger man."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

They returned a bit later in the afternoon to interview residents: "They told us they were investigating someone who lived here, but they didn't say anything else."

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

“We were a little bit out on our own,” Michelle said of figuring out the approach to take with Bo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

My suspicion is the next governor will sound a bit of a different tune than McMaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

And when I feel him wrap that arm a little bit tighter at my words, I feel brave enough to glance up, to see him smiling.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

We must have dropped three thousand feet before a sudden calmness came over me and I found this aerial monster as gentle to manage as a perfectly bitted horse.

From Night Bombing with the Bedouins by Robert Henry Reece

“A big dog done bitted him all up!” cried Mildred.

From Molly Brown's College Friends by Nell Speed

Foam from the heavily bitted mouth flashed back in great yellow flakes against Kirby’s dust-caked aviator’s tunic.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various

So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

Before the king was led his beautiful Cyprian steed, Favelle, gorgeously caparisoned, and bitted with gold, the saddle adorned with two little golden lions.

From With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds by Frances Nimmo Greene

A little shadow passes over my mind as I think of the analogy to bitting a horse.

From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill

He had thought and read to some purpose, for he ruled the lay brothers with diligence, and instructed the monks with great care, stirring up the sluggish and bitting the heady into restfulness.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Charles L. (Charles Latimer) Marson

Still no suspicion of the truth reached me that since I came to live with him my uncle had been bitting and breaking his tongue.

From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller

I have not seen a dozen coachmen, private or public, to whom my youngest child could not have given invaluable suggestions as to the bitting, harnessing, and handling of his cattle.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Price Collier

"Why, there's for you; and there, and there!" said Sebastian, bitting back a great deal harder, and again and again, till Sir Toby came to the rescue of his friend.

From Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by E. (Edith) Nesbit