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Cycle

1. See: Business cycle.

2. See: Product cycle.

3: See: Industry life cycle.

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And once again, if the thought of leaving a bicycle concealed outside had occurred to you, would it really have seemed worth doing when the dullest detective would naturally say this is an obvious blind, as the bicycle is the first thing which the fugitive needed in order to make his escape.

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The bicycle explains the disappearance of the murderer's big foot-prints," I said.

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So Bert grew up, filled with ideals of speed and enterprise, and became, so far as he became anything, a kind of bicycle engineer of the let's-have-a-look-at-it and enamel chipping variety.

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I turned to her bicycle, and, examining it with the air of a man who had won silver cups in his day, I speedily discovered what had been the mischief.

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The big gates had long been shut, but you can manoeuvre a bicycle through the others.

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But I am not rich enough to afford a horse," he said, approaching her to pat the bay, having placed the bicycle against a tree.

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I got my bicycle, my watch, and my father's mackintosh out of pawn and rented a typewriter.

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The man on the bicycle was doubtless a member of those week-end parties at the Hall of which the publican had spoken, but who he was, or what he wanted, was as obscure as ever.

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Martin talked with the superintendent of the Asa agencies, and after dinner he drew him aside with Hermann, whom he backed financially for the best bicycle store with fittings in Oakland.

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A few yards behind, Meekins had alighted from his bicycle and was standing waiting.

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She would bicycle from the station, and is, I am sure, the first woman who has done it.

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Simpson, wholly unable to console his offspring for the loss of the beloved object, mounted the bicycle and rode away on it, not to be seen or heard of again for many a long day.