It is best done at meal time in the evening at a well-lighted table in a quiet corner, or under a tree in the morning.

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We haven't checked in with littleBits in quite some time and, honestly, it was a bit of a surprise to find the electronic tinker toys hiding in a quiet corner of the floor at Toy Fair this year.

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Oberon sat on the floor in a corner of the room, trying to quiet the brokenhearted wailing of the Beastie, but not making a sound himself.

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He joined us in a quiet corner of the room and cut straight to the chase.

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But in a quiet corner of the show, a new way of clocking up air miles was to be found.

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Earnings are around the corner, so it is now back in a quiet period.

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After a quiet spell in the second half, Bale found the bottom corner, before James McArthur chipped a consolation.

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The noise and dirt of the cars whizzing past might be a little unbecoming, but the Colosseum is not a building to be hidden away in a quiet corner.

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Like A Quiet Corner of London, above, John Piper's Interior of Coventry Cathedral was painted in the immediate aftermath of a bombing raid.

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In both 2010 and 2011, investors feared a recession was around the corner, and the Fed had been fairly quiet for a while.

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In the know celebs and CEOs also keep coming back to the casually elegant Taj Campton Place, tucked into a quiet corner of Union Square.

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