As is often the case with such fervent opposition, a person's view of Brahms depended less on the actual character of his music than on how it was described or pigeon-holed.

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The coyote didn't start here, nor did the hog, the sparrow, the starling, the rat or the pigeon.

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Strong in his own judgments, he has never been over-bothered by fashion or by pigeon-holing but has loved, and exhibited, all sorts of modern art.

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Not that any of these companies claim or even welcome being pigeon-holed as Republicans or Democrats.

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Yet as inevitably turned out in order to be able to write a letter in less time that it would take to tattoo it onto the skin of a carrier pigeon you actually needed a Pentium with 8 MB or RAM in order to be able to use the new Windows.

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Nonsense, say the pigeon-owners, who point out that a hawk or falcon attacking a flock of 50 pigeons may get only one of them, but that the rest will be so frightened that they lose their bearings.

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Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, has launched camera-carrying aircraft hundreds of times to film pigeon shoots, said Steve Hindi, the organization's president.

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During pigeon shoots, hunters try to shoot birds after they're released from cages or mechanically launched.

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