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Discover LudwigThe word "bible" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the sacred book of Christianity, or when referring to any authoritative book or code of rules. For example: "He was reading the bible with concentration."
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bible
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A comprehensive manual that describes something. (e.g., handyman's bible).
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The architectural bible Pevsner described it in 1994 as "still the best-looking if no longer the biggest shopping centre" in the UK.
At the end of the course, you'll have everything you need to pitch your show to producers, including a script, one-page pitch, two-page proposal, a series bible, and the confidence to start contacting agents.
A Sony source told the US trade bible: "It was never going to be released in Japan.
Even Larousse Gastronomique, that bible of Gallic gastronomy, proved mysteriously silent on the subject.
But if they are verses from a bible, it's Stephen Crane's own revisionist bible of scepticism.
Still, no character of mine is as devoted to the cause as Jude Sweetwine in I'll Give You the Sun, who carries around her grandmother's leather-bound "bible" of superstitions, and who, at any time, might have an onion in one pocket to ward off illness and a mirror in another to deflect unwanted attention.
If you want to give it try, here it is direct from Grandma Sweetwine's "bible": If a boy gives a girl an orange, her love for him will multiply.
I believe that this was accepted many years ago but colonisation took away a lot of things through the bible," she says.
"Sounds marvellous!" I said, which with me silently translates as, "Yeah, sure…" As usual, though, Rose was quite right, as The Joy Of Cooking, the encyclopaedic bible of American food, later informed me: it is a truly fabulous, sunny-looking salad.
Wycliffe's prologue is not concerned, as it might seem, with arguing for a form of representative democracy, but speaks specifically about the word of God: "This bible," it argues, "is for the government of the people, by the people, and for the people".
Elsewhere, the director of Inside Claridges, Jane Treays, will go behind the scenes of Country Life magazine, the 120-year-old country living bible, also for BBC2, while new BBC4 documentaries include The Prosecutors, about the Crown Prosecution Service.
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