How To Use Hedge In A Sentence
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I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests expressly for those in love, — in that eternal hedge-school of lovers, which is forever beginning anew, and which will last as long as there are hedges and scholars.
Les Miserables
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Plastic bags, crisp packets, plastic bottles and soggy newspapers lie abundantly in the verges, or caught in trees and hedges.
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It ain 'fittin' fo 'you-all to say anythin' ag'in 'Dr. Morgan, whatever he may _se_-lect to do," asserted Bud, combatively, and Pink hastened to hedge.
A Tar-Heel Baron
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His beard went all round under his chin, and was clipped into the appearance of a stiff thick hedge — equally thick, and equally broad, and equally protrusive at all parts.
John Caldigate
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The cases have mainly involved small companies and hedge funds or predatory investors.
Times, Sunday Times
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More than 30 elaborate scarecrows are peering from hedgerows, fields and chimney pots, as part of the annual scarecrow competition.
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He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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The trade-off between performance, fees and illiquidity will make hedge funds much less alluring in the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is increasingly a focus of activist shareholders, including hedge funds.
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Over hedge and fence they race, hounds in the lead, redcoats and hangers-on following on horseback.
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There's more to the field and hedgerow trend than pretty florals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The landscape was well ordered with fields defined by hedges and ditches, trackways linking settlements, and unenclosed grazing areas beyond the more intensively used enclosed land.
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You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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Critics warn that the new hedges were often overvalued, allowing banks to minimise how much the redress scheme costs them.
Times, Sunday Times
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He cowered in a hedge fearing she would return to run him over, the Feilding High Court was told.
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While I've been under the weather things have been growing in the fields and hedges, turning my little world back to a green and pleasant place.
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He added: ‘Perhaps you hedged on this, so as to avoid giving the directors of intelligence too much detailed information.’
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The company also represented that they had helped it to hedge downside risk.
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Does anyone plan to plant trees as a hedgerow to block the wind?
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When I went for my walk this afternoon there was still no sign of snow, though the drifts of fallen May blossom along the hedge bottoms kept my mind on the topic.
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I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
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At dawn alert next day Suwanti chained the dogs away from a round jungle-green enigma then bowled the baby into the hedge to its kind.
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One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
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A hedger locks in a price for a cash commodity by cross-hedging that commodity with a related commodity traded at one of the commodity exchanges.
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His comments came amid claims hedge fund speculators are driving up prices.
The Sun
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To the west a tree lined hedge screens the site from Stantyway Road, which passes the site in a shallow cutting with tree lined hedges on the banks on both sides.
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A beech hedge that keeps its russet-brown leaves right through winter is the perfect instant garden solution for a bare, brand new plot.
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the hedgehog is a primitive and generalized mammal
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When you have made a bad bet, it is best to hedge off.
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So, the suit invents a derivative to hedge the volatility-say a "swaption," which is an option on the interest rate swap.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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She had crashed her car into a hedge after drinking two bottles of wine.
Times, Sunday Times
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There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
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A hedge between keeps friendship green.
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His nonchalance contrasted with insatiable appetite from hedge funds and speculators.
Times, Sunday Times
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She could smell the pungent blossoms of the town's caragana hedges, for sure.
The Doctor's Daughter
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I should be safely back at the Glacier while he deals with Hedge and whatever else is out there!
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Much of the growth in their loan books in recent years has been to the financial sector - hedge funds and the like.
Times, Sunday Times
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The countryside had been scorched; the acacia hedges were tipped with orange.
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And hedgehogs released into areas of excellent habitat hightailed it out of there if they smelt badger.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, putting these extras where they show to best advantage provided a good hedge against the financial risk of building a home from scratch.
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If you can create a bank on which to grow your hedge, this will provide more opportunities for plants like primroses, violets and stitchworts.
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Herbs, such as germander and santolina, can be clipped into low hedges to create a knot garden.
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Plant prickly hedges such as pyracantha, holly or hawthorn to deter thieves and add sturdy trellis to fence panels to make fences more difficult to climb over.
IcNewcastle
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The rep I†™ m supposed to meet in this humid section of a hedge maze is called Rainbow Shark.
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The ball fell to Jimmy Hedges and his strike was again blocked on the line as the whistle went.
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WHY are the leaves on my laurel hedge turning yellow?
The Sun
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Bernie Madoff got caught running what he called a hedge fund; thousands of uber-financiers are making off with billions running an even larger ponzi scheme that is perfectly legal.
Leo W. Gerard: Q&A With Responsible Pension Investment Expert Thomas Croft
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In our smallish town garden we have honey fungus, which in the past has killed hedges and trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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When there is nothing in bloom, she can learn to use her imagination with boughs and branches and clippings from hedges, grasses, and even weeds, to make friendly little bouquets.
Learning to Be a Home Keeper
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A stocky white dog, which looked like a bulldog, came charging through a hedge straight for Milly, with its owner strolling behind.
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Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
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The dika nut matures in seven years and although exploitation is still limited to self-planted trees the dika seems suitable for planting in hedges, wooded areas, mixed orchards and pure groves.
1. Lost crops of the incas.
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The hedgehog rolled up into a spiky ball.
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A street cleaner already cleans the main thoroughfares but wind eddies can blow drifts of crisp packets and chocolate wrappers into alleys and hedges, he said.
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The hedgehog caper had somehow affected his pattern of sleep and he was wide awake at six, with nowhere to go.
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These investors are generally more cautious than speculative hedge funds willing to take a punt at a higher price.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plant vigorous species for large hedges 70cm (28in) apart: laurels, photinia, elaeagnus, yew, viburnum, holly, griselinia, cypress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boxwood hedge of the knot garden and the ever present penstemon ‘Husker Red’ are in the background.
Movement « Fairegarden
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Views on the best inflation hedge differ.
Times, Sunday Times
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Buying a house will be a hedge against inflation.
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These and the hedgerows drifted in and out with the ebb and flow of the firelight, but the two piebald horses were too far away to be seen, although they could be heard occasionally, blowing and stamping.
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There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb.
John Gabriel Borkman
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The hedge funds claim that shareholders are being denied the real value of the property holdings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Radek Bonk (Nashville): Although not much of a scorer, he could be a cheap acquisition as a hedge against injury.
Count on the Leafs being popular as trade deadline nears
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The cruise ship operator leaves it entire fuel bill unhedged.
Times, Sunday Times
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Civilizations run by hedgehogs tend to have a fetish for uniformity; those run by foxes are more tolerant of diversity.
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As they turned into the hedges that bordered the door, a man motioned to Gordon, shamefaced.
A THEORY OF RELATIVITY
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Being a hedgerow plant, it is happy to live in the shade, and its laciness is a delicious thing for the moment it is in flower.
Jolly brollies
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Investment banks and hedge funds are the most active players.
Times, Sunday Times
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The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
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Scarborough, the keeper of the greenyard in London, the hedge-lookers of
The Customs of Old England
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A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
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The main drivers of the surge are hedge funds - secretive, loosely regulated pools of capital deployed to take extra risks to achieve above-average returns.
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The hedges bowed to the earth under their weight of hawthorn blossom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The morning is spent gathering food which grows wild in fields, hedgerows and on the seashore.
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The same goes for weak holly hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Be prepared instead for some rather more unusual ways of adorning nature such as spikes for hedges and fences, and decorative chokers and collars for branches or you could even crown the bean poles with a conical finial pot.
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In the dark we went past a burning pyre only yards from the hedge separating the road and the field.
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They would press on well into dusk, when spunkie lights rose from the hedgerows and swales and danced in the ground-mists, until they reached a suitable castle or large manor house, whose resident windvoice had received advance notice from the Royal Alchymist of the king’s imminent arrival.
Conqueror's Moon
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Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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And suddenly he went up to the boot, and, hooking the point of his umbrella under what was left of the toecap, flung it pettishly over the hedge.
Swan Song
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It appears that the charismatic Parker's first contribution is to hypnotise Zuckerberg, his second to marginalise Saverin, his third to hold out the prospect of big hedge-fund money, and the fourth to suggest shortening the title to "Facebook".
The Social Network – review
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Vidal and Hedges collected and analyzed the largest genetic data set ever assembled for the scaly reptiles known as squamates.
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Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
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I managed to squeeze through a gap in the hedge.
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I like high hedges which really enclose.
The Education of a Gardener
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Each time a car ploughs through the hedge, Mr Painter is left with the bill to fix it, which can cost up to £1,000.
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Geary was pleased with the performance, and although there are several players nursing injuries the manager will be pleased to welcome back his talisman, Jimmy Hedges.
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A willingness to accept untidiness: shaggy hedges, hairy field margins, trees, fallen branches, unkept bits, tangly bits, squashy bits.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ahead rose the manse, on the other side of a stone wall and some hedges.
A TIME OF WAR
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Under planning law the maximum height for a fence or hedge is 2 metres.
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One man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge.
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What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
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And of course, we benefited from the upside in the gold price, but not as significant as one would have expected, because as you know, we are heavily hedged.
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Even scientists optimistic about the future have hedged their predictions with warnings.
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Big sodden bales sat in the small high-hedged fresh-cut fields, a pigeon clapped in the alders and misty rain filled a steel grey sky.
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Each eardrop was a single turquoise, almost as large, and quite as clear in colour, as a hedge-sparrow's egg.
Vixen, Volume III.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
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While big banks consider requests from staff for moves, more nimble hedge fund managers are already packing their suitcases.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swimming pool is set well down below a high retaining wall and surrounded by cypress hedges.
The Education of a Gardener
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The countryside was a gentle patchwork of fields and hedgerows, still green from the rains three months before.
Times, Sunday Times
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In December, the RBI placed limits on unhedged foreign currency positions that banks can hold overnight and also banned companies from cancelling and rebooking forward contracts with the same underlying exposure as part of measures to prop up the local currency.
RBI: Forex Trading Curbs Temporary
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Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral
How to get back to nature when camping
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So you can hedge against risk by taking offsetting positions in the option and in delta units of the underlying asset.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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As well as chasing higher one-off returns, hedge funds are increasingly looking to diversify their own risks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fields and hedgerows would be overrun by monstrous insects and gigantic, unstoppable weeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
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Birds such as dunnocks, robins and wrens prefer a hedgerow which is thick at the bottom.
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As, under Blair's premiership, the UK has been reduced to the role of being an international 'chancer', our best strategy is probably to smile, back off and try to sell him a football club, a swanky townhouse or some hedge fund bonds.
How Should the West Respond to Putin's Threat?
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But if all these words look wordish, sound wordish, and act wordish, why are they all hedged about with the namby-pamby "I know it's not a real word" disclaimers?
Peter Black's Freedom to Differ
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Pixar is about to hedge all their bets on an upcoming rattish film by the name of Ratatouille.
Going Backwards
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It empowered local councils to enter gardens and cut down problem hedges if their owners refuse to cooperate.
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Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks.
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To the front, a yew hedge is clipped into swags to mirror the ogee windows of the house, framing views of the Bringewood hills and Welsh Marches in the distance.
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Similar to grass shears, only longer, this tool is useful for trimming shrubs and hedges.
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While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines.
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They're liars who only care about Insurance companies, Banks, and Wall Street Hedge fund managers selling fradulent CDO accounts.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent
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Seeing as eggnog is full of potentially hazardous milk and eggs (albeit pasteurised), I wasn't going to hedge my bets that someone drinking the rest of it was going to walk away unscathed.
Archive 2009-01-01
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High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars, but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
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Holly trees and hedges are heavily laden with their scarlet berries this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hedge funds love deal arbitrage.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's better perhaps to nick a few red flowers off the ixora hedge that borders the road.
ChangeYourLife! Sdn. Bhd.
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A lorry driver had a lucky escape after his vehicle and a tractor apparently collided and the lorry ploughed into a hedge.
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We hope that by cutting hedgerows we will make ginnels safer and make it more difficult for burglars to work without the cover that overgrown hedges provide.
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From the manicured lawns of the Victorian villas to the trimmed hedges of the freshly painted council houses, Beauly epitomises the word ‘tidy’.
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Now the average man on the street is not going to get worked up over what happens to hedge funds.
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A good time to clip a holly hedge into shape is in the early spring (it can also be lightly clipped in late summer), just before the new season's growth emerges.
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But neatly clipped hedges have their beauty too.
Times, Sunday Times
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If your front yard slopes downward, it is a good idea to terrace it and/or have a waist-high hedge blocking the initial drop off.
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The ‘constructive’ market position is favourable to short term unhedged long positions.
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His religious belief was always hedged with doubt.
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The wood for the hedge arrived not on the backs of the hedge-builders but in the boot of their Ford Cortina.
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Hedgerows with grassy banks can shelter primroses, orchids and other wildflowers.
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He penned a large chunk of the epic The Lord of the Rings here, inspired by the rural patchwork of hedges, meadows and woodlands rolling down to the lazy River Ribble.
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A hedgehog often contracts its body into a ball.
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Because a prime attraction of local currency bonds are the expected extra returns an investor can earn rising emerging-market currencies, most local bond investors left their positions unhedged against currency fluctuations.
Emerging Markets Tumble World-Wide
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Being damaged is a hedge against the illusory promises of consumer culture.
Christianity Today
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To hedge around a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
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By 1816 she had married a wealthy merchant named Hedgeland, who was dead by 1820.
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They jumped over countless hedges and a myriad of small streams and barbed wire, all set up to prevent what was happening now.
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The plane is ‘capable of launching precision attacks while hedge-hopping, and making long-distance assaults at altitudes above 10,000 meters ’, the sources were quoted as saying.
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They also sometimes roost in the burrows of other mammals such as hedgehogs, porcupines, and aardvarks.
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The woman was sometimes caught or confronted on properties or in her victim's homes but always made a getaway, once through a hole in a hedge and on another occasion by leaping a fence.
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This option provides an income stream for life, which is an effective hedge against outliving your retirement income.
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It resembles our little boreen, down to hedgerows of flowering whitethorn and grass growing in the middle of the road.
Out of Ireland (3)
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Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.
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HCL Technologies has $297 million of total outstanding hedges unexpired from the $1 billion cover, which runs till June 2011, Sandip Gupta, deputy chief financial officer, said.
HCL Technologies Profit Up 3.1%
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Then again, in full sail, she was a wonderful sight: Rod Hull's emu as styled by Salvador Dali, a human triffid who smoked Benson and Hedges, who never wore underwear and whose touchstones in life were good jewellery and high birth, and not a lot else.
Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
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It didn't leap that last hedge: it just munched its way through.
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Too far," says I, for like Tom I didn't fancy taking hedges on wettish country with the light starting to fail.
Royal Flash
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One group of personnel accompanied the aircraft as they hedge-hopped across country, and the other that proceeded through to California.
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Around me in the East Stand upper tier are an assortment of senior company directors, bankers, hedge-fund managers, and, curiously, quite a few mini-cab drivers.
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There used to be small farms with hedges but now there are big fields with no hedgerows and cover, so the same thing applies.
Times, Sunday Times
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We reached our own conclusions and informed those in charge of the Soviet units present that we believed that hedgehopping should be prevented because it would make a surprise attack easier.
ROME PAPER CARRIES FIDEL CASTRO INTERVIEW
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The law has to be expressed in words, and some verbal formulas are hedged about with linguistic conventions which do not correspond to moral or social distinctions in responsibility.
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In the real world, no hedge fund or other large trader actually ‘loots’ a fund, embezzles assets, or engages in other clear-cut forms of larceny.
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But even the so-called unhedged companies are falling over themselves to produce and sell all the gold the traffic can bear, cheered on by a crowd of dividend-hungry shareholders.
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It's looking very handsome out back, all sweeping lawns backed by a soft mixed hedge perhaps ten feet high, composed of a good blend of native trees and bushes.
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Across the surface of a vast upland plateau stretched the plains of Maras, fallow fields of gold and russet, broken by hedgerows of agave and patches of brown earth where oxen and ploughmen had been.
One River
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The males will soon be building nests in the brambles and tall nettles at the foot of the farmyard hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cricket is the national game among the school-boys of the Punjab, from the naked hedge-school children, who use an old kerosine-tin for wicket, to the B. A.'s of the University, who compete for the
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
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Looking down the main axis to the bottom of the garden, there is a dip in the field hedge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throughout the scheme, tiers of steps leading into the sunken areas provide informal seating and car parking is screened by hedges of dark cypresses.
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Hedges have eyes, and walls have ears.
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They can also use derivatives such as futures and options to hedge their holdings.
Times, Sunday Times
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More hedge sparrows are also singing though the mornings are frosty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investment banks and hedge funds are the most active players.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a public footpath and small brook between our boundary wall and the hedge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dressed in black (how obvious) the person was creeping toward the house, ducking behind bushes and hedges.
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The hedge clippers, meanwhile, were now cutting at the air, jarring her fingers as the handle opened and shut in her hand.
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Most of the physical players (those who deal with concrete energy products) start as hedgers, that is, they trade in order to mitigate the risks they are exposed to.
Hurriyet Dailynews
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The teacher, the product of a local hedge-school and of a Munster classical school, or perhaps an ex-student of Maynooth, had first been employed as a tutor in some farmer's family.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge.
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Under planning law the maximum height for a fence or hedge is 2 metres.
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He backed out of the hedge and set off at a steady lope up the lawn.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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The hedgerows are in bloom, too, and, on the way to Minehead, there are several fields filled with oilseed rape, an early crop, flowering into lemon yellow already.
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The hedgerows are rich with fruit, elderberries, blackberries, sloes, hips and damsons.
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It can be found in deciduous or mixed woodland, hedges, gardens and parks.
Times, Sunday Times
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To hedge about a partnership of love with control by law would be to destroy its base of trust in one another.
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There would he lay till they would him descry, spancelled down upon a blossomy bed, at one foule stretch, amongst the daffydowndillies, the flowers of narcosis fourfettering his footlights, a halohedge of wild spuds hovering over him, epicures waltzing with gardenfillers, puritan shoots advancing to Aran chiefs.
Finnegans Wake
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A huge gap had appeared in the hedge.
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High walls, fences, thorny hedges and bushes can all put off burglars but make sure the front of your home is visible to passers-by
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There's a little diddy baby hedgehog (about the size of my fist) in The Coven Grounds at the moment.
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I walked leisurably down the village street, then crossed the hedge and doubled back on the high moors.
Wandering Heath
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Not only does the noise go on for hours but these infernal machines kill or maim thousands of hedgehogs, frogs and fledglings every spring and summer.
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Hedge got a job hauling coal for Sam Dean, who had a little mine near Sand Coulee.
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Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge.
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He also knows - and if he doesn't he should - that geographical diversity in a pension portfolio is an essential hedge against harder times at home.
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Hedge funds are still largely misunderstood as investment vehicles.
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The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue.
The Book of Household Management
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There is no question of destroying hedgerows or bucolic woodland.
Times, Sunday Times
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And then this great ugly grey beast comes into sight, hugging the ground, hedgehopping, looking for all the world to be moving along on giant rails.
Power of Chinooks
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There was a high hedge verging the yard.
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It is medium and low-growing hedges and edgings that are underused; they can have enormous value in even the smallest gardens.
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Hedges effectively treads the tightrope between comedy and drama without veering too far in either direction.
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Europeans, and it is certainly grand and interesting and in a certain sense beautiful, but not the calm, sweet, warm beauty of our own fields, and there is none of the brightness of our own flowers; a field of buttercups, a hill of gorse or of heather, a bank of foxgloves and a hedge of wild roses and purple vetches surpass in _beauty_ anything I have ever seen in the tropics.
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
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Many vegetables and herbs are highly ornamental, and potagers have become an art form in themselves, with patterns of exotically coloured salad plants and brassicas being displayed within neatly clipped box hedges.
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And it is always the fault of the market or the hedge fund or of soft dollars or of the mutual fund or the limited partnership.
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What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
