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“Hopefully now that there has been some attention towards it that maybe now when they do come to matches they’ll be a little bit more informed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

"We were that close to coming away with three points today. That's football. There were little moments we can deal with a bit better, but we'll be fine."

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“We have others where it’s a little bit tighter.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

One of the reasons I was so ferocious about getting “Elsinore” made was that I would put all of myself into this and then maybe I can chill out a bit more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Tell her how you got all dolled up for your first-ever bit part.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

So he was to be bitted and bridled, it seemed, in the future.

From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward

“Well, have you bitted the poor fellow within,” said Mason, “that he can take his last ride under the curb of divinity, old gentleman?”

From The Spy Condensed for use in schools by J. Fenimore Cooper

Always he had seemed to be aware, in her, of hidden forces—of something fresh and charmingly impetuous held in leash—of controlled impulses, restless, uneasy, bitted, curbed, and reined in.

From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Mrs. Morry's got him too rankly bitted," they agreed unanimously.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

He scampers about in this way for about a year: then he is 'taken up;' that is, bitted, and backed by a 'dumb-jockey'—a cross of wood made for the purpose.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

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

So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.

From South Sea Tales by Jack London

Well what makes you so sure about it sneered the other bitting his lip so savageley that the blood ran.

From Penrod by Booth Tarkington

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