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Here are a few tales to whet your appetite - or perhaps put you off your dinner.

English helped fund all the English-is-great propositions of my childhood to whet the xenophobic appetite of some Americans.

Such arguments will no doubt whet the appetites of law professors everywhere and may set up a clash that the Supreme Court will ultimately resolve.

The idea, Disney officials said, is to whet people’s appetites and encourage upgrades to the full bundle.

“Dune: Prophecy,” a prequel based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s “Great Schools of Dune” trilogy, has about six hours to set the table and whet our appetite.