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  • rosenst1 on 9/23/2010 & rated 85 points: Light ruby red with brown edge; rather muted on the nose initially, but clean without any of the "bretty" notes others commented on.

    CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes) 2010

  • Some will find this a bit bretty and barnyardy, but I liked the funkiness and thought it in no way overpowered the wine's fruity complexity.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • It wont be better than the original, plus ugly bretty directing it would screw things up for good.

    So Brett Ratner Will Be Killing Conan After All? « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • And this is vod Binda does: Bale and bretty, do you zee? at the door for vive zilent zeconds, and then with all her zoul one great appeal, she crosses to Raoul at his desk petween zecond and third O.P., ant she coes like this. '

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • "Vhe'll get into der lee of somedings bretty soon," he replied.

    Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub 1909

  • Hans finally exclaimed, as he tried in vain to win, "uf I don'd do petter as dot, I vill suicide go und gommit bretty soon alretty."

    Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905

  • I knew der lufly musig vot I vos discouragin 'to you vould pring de houze oudt uf you bretty quick.

    Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Vell, you may sday till der cows come home!" gurgled Hans; "but I don'd peen caught in here any more bretty soon righd avay, you pet!" and he made a break for the door.

    Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905

  • "Veil, maybe dey vos not quite full, but dere is a ham in der bantry dot vould pe bretty good mit der stomach."

    My Lady of the North Randall Parrish 1890

  • "Wail, aindt dey gowun to gommence den bretty soohn," exclaimed Mrs. Hooven, who had taken her husband's place on the forward seat of the wagon.

    The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886

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