In an excerpt of Small Fry, Lisa writes about how she used to tell her school friends: 'I have a secret, my father is Steve Jobs'.
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Not only that, they might have local authors read an excerpt from their most recent novel.
One of the oldest examples of the word in English is found in an Old English excerpt that translates as 'But if it be a fast-day, they are to be given a wey of cheese, and of fish, butter, and eggs, as much as they can get'.
One featured a stand-up comedy routine by Michael McIntyre, another a straightforward golf instruction video, and the third a pleasant nature excerpt from the "Jungles" episode of the BBC's Planet Earth series.
Data sharing The warning came to light via a story in online news magazine the Daily Beast which published an excerpt of a section of Samsung's privacy policy for its net-connected Smart TV sets.