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One of them, about a shelter dog named Ruby, is the basis for Netflix’s upcoming “Rescued by Ruby.”

Some of Mattie and Eddie’s handiwork — ruby velvet curtains — have yet to be hung.

Tokuyama and her colleagues also noticed that a female bonobo named Chio, estimated to be in her mid-50s, had adopted an orphan the team dubbed Ruby.

Ruby’s father lost his job when he refused to pull his daughter from the school, and the local grocery store began turning away the family’s business.

I tried to explain to Ruby what had happened, and she listened, but I didn’t raise my kids with television so she listened and heard but didn’t necessarily grasp how crazy of a moment this brief moment was for me.

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Ruby also danced in a chorus of a Hollywood club for a while, as her marriage deteriorated and finally ended in divorce.

But Ruby Pearl kept order, and the more responsibility she took the more Spahn relied upon her.

In the last few years, however, Spahn gradually began to notice changes in Ruby Pearl.

After Spahn had obtained the movie ranch, Ruby applied for a job there and was hired.

At one community fair, in Thousand Oaks, Ruby met a man, a wrestler, who would become her next husband.

He went back to his praying mat and bent again toward the west, where the Holy Kaaba enshrines the ruby sent down from heaven.

As a rule, Ruby Ann was popular with the majority of the people, and there had been some opposition to a change.

Mrs. Biggs had not expected Ruby Ann to call, and her face wore a vinegary expression when she opened the door to her.

Then he spoke of Ruby Ann, the biggest woman he ever saw, he believed, and just the one for a school-teacher.

But he did not want any money but his own spent for it, and he believed he'd speak to Ruby Ann and have it put aside for him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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