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  • When we think of respiratory disease, we generally think of short, compressed noses, says veterinarian and project researcher Kate Creevy.

    Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds 2011

  • But the rate of respiratory deaths in these two long-snout breeds was surprising and as yet unexplained, and because most veterinarians don't see a sufficient number of either breed in their practices to detect a respiratory-disease pattern in them, exploring that as a possibility wouldn't be a natural first response to an ill dog, Creevy says.

    Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds 2011

  • For example, Ahmed and Creevy were the star and writer-director of Shifty and Yann Demange directed the Big Brother zombie show Dead Set.

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  • As Miss La Creevy spoke, she held up an ivory countenance intersected with very perceptible sky – blue veins, and regarded it with so much complacency, that Nicholas quite envied her.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Miss La Creevy looked slyly at her companion, as if she doubted whether

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • It was not a very awful weapon that Miss La Creevy held, it being in fact nothing more nor less than a black – lead pencil; but discovering her mistake, the little portrait painter exchanged it for a mother – of – pearl fruit knife, wherewith, in proof of her desperate thoughts, she made a lunge as she spoke, which would have scarcely disturbed the crumb of a half – quartern loaf.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • ‘Very true,’ replied Miss La Creevy, not at all displeased with this implied compliment to the apartments.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • As Miss La Creevy had anticipated, Nicholas betook himself straight to her house.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • ‘It is I, Miss La Creevy,’ said Nicholas, putting down the box and looking in.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • ‘To carry out an idea,’ repeated Miss La Creevy; ‘and that’s the great convenience of living in a thoroughfare like the

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

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