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Pears

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Pears  (pîrz), Sir Peter Neville Luard 1910-1986.
British tenor noted for his reedy tone and vocal agility and as chief interpreter of the vocal works of composer Benjamin Britten.
Pears [pɪəz]
n
(Biographies / Pears, Sir Peter (1910-1986) M, British, MUSIC: tenor) Sir Peter. 1910-86, British tenor, associated esp with the works of Benjamin Britten
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Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying:
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
It was a joke of a compact and portable nature, turning on the difference between Eton pears and Parliamentary pairs; but it was a joke, a refined relish of which would seem to have appeared to Lord Decimus impossible to be had without a thorough and intimate acquaintance with the tree.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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