How To Use Heirloom In A Sentence
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The group that had been holding service behind the nursing home got the buildings and some church funds, while the ultraconservatives got some cash and church heirlooms.
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Although not hugely valuable, they were both treasured family heirlooms.
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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His house had been burgled, windows smashed, doors broken and family heirlooms stolen.
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British strawberries are at their best in September and our heirloom tomatoes are still great in October.
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There are many good reasons to incorporate more heirloom varieties into your gardening.
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Their affair is going nowhere until he asks her to restore a family heirloom that may contain the key to a centuries-old murder mystery.
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He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
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I plant heirloom vegetables in my garden because I'm partial to the complex flavors of such things as black tomatoes, purple carrots and candy-striped beets.
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Pile lush heirloom tomatoes in a footed bowl for a jolt of hot late-summer color on your outdoor table.
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Heirloom plants can also help buck the trend of monoculture, in which one variety is grown in vast fields.
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So stay clear of heirloom china early on.
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There are full size heirlooms as well, and what I'd call XXL size beasts that can weigh in at two pounds.
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These needles are an especially good choice for heirloom sewing and when perfectly straight stitching is desired - such as for topstitching or making pintucks.
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The Cook's Garden: Seeds and plants for gourmet gardeners, with 110 pages of heirlooms, herbs and quirky vegetables such as cardoon and orange cauliflower.
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The situation hasn't quite reached the stage where pre-bookings are handed down through the generations like family heirlooms, but getting a pitch at peak times is difficult.
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On the menu: The Wolfgang Puck menu featured barbecue pork shank, paella, tortelloni with summer truffles, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, heirloom tomatoes with mozzarella, garlic shrimp, scallops and filet mignon.
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Burglars ransacked the house, taking £1,000 of jewellery, silver and china and the family heirlooms.
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Warwick's skills as a chimney maker were at a premium in the goldfields, and prized heirlooms were bartered for his services.
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Then there is the heirloom tomato salad with baby spinach, a little white balsamic vinegar and feta cheese.
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That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance.
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To serve spoon some pineapple mint and heirloom tomato salad onto the center of a plate and set a yellowtail snapper fillet on top.
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One of these, the "araba," is an heirloom from their old Tartar ancestry, and is only an exaggerated ox-cart with seats, and a scaffolding of poles around it.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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If you can't find Rockwells, says Smith, you can substitute any traditional baking bean such as cannellini beans or any of several heirloom beans, like cranberry beans, soldier beans or Jacob's cattle beans.
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Don't underestimate the value of this heirloom-you may sell it at a good price
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She looked around the room slowly, her eyes taking in everything from the expensive paintings and family heirlooms dotted around the room, to the Oriental rug.
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Many heirloom varieties are the great-grandparent plants of modern cultivars.
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My grandmother would let me play around in her kitchen with our family heirloom civil war sword.
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Its style borders on the eccentric: all heirlooms and portraits of sinister-looking forefathers.
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She plants heirloom varieties whenever possible - they adapt better to the challenges of climate than hybrids.
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Your ability to distinguish sprouted brown rice protein from heirloom maca marks you out as one of the evangelical elect.
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These precious ornaments are often passed down through the generations as family heirlooms.
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A red-faced dad accidentally threw away his wife's family heirlooms and found them after hours rummaging through a rubbish dump!
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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There is no talk of compulsory acquisition or compensation: they are being forced to leave their homeland with nothing - no chattels, heirlooms or personal possessions.
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In spring of 1988, I planted 100 blueberry bushes, 24 heirloom apple trees and 500 raspberry plants.
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One of the biggest trends over the last 20 years has been the rediscovery of heirloom plants, both ornamental and edible.
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The ring, heavy rope of white diamonds was an heirloom and signified permanency.
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The interior contains a remarkable collection of family heirlooms and works of art.
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Some include journal entries or family heirlooms such as recipes that have been handed down from generation to generation.
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She then walked over to her closet and pulled out a large, brown trunk full of heirlooms and dust.
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In a lengthy codicil of 1854, Carl Mayer had specified as heirlooms for Mayer Carl his ‘Ancient coins and modern medals in my iron chest’ and his collection of cameos, while his antique timepieces and snuffboxes were to be divided by lot.
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The prince has taken this spectacular heirloom and suspended it from a simple leather plait.
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So stay clear of heirloom china early on.
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My mom, my sisters, and I boxed up photos, guns, and heirloom quilts.
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I plant hybrid tomatoes, but grow heirloom chick peas, fava beans, lettuce, and cucumbers (to list but a few).
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When parking-lot congestion impedes the advance of responsible eaters toward the bin of heirloom tomatoes, you see that anger comes in many flavors.
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So stay clear of heirloom china early on.
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Partygoers munched on Chinese stuffed bao with Cantonese duck, prime rib eye with wild mushroom scone and bearnaise, and paper wrapped halibut with heirloom tomato.
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Mawi (pronounced "moy"), known for its eclectic, heirloom-style jewelry, even sells items from the past four years of collections in its archives section, while its blog announces sample sales and imparts crucial fashion gossip.
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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Growing heirloom seeds can be an adventure since they don't always produce uniform, picture-perfect results.
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It's become a family heirloom.
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Not too many years ago, New York City sanitation workers got pay and benefits so far above those of private refuse haulers that those city jobs were passed down through families like precious heirlooms.
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Jose's Produce of Warsaw County has five or six kinds of heirloom tomatoes displayed shoulders down for $2 per pound; bicolor corn, three for $1; dreamy French cantaloupes for $2 each; and smooth-skinned, bright-orange zucchini for $1.50 per pound.
To Market, to Market: Sundays in Fairfax City
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Saturday morning greenmarkets nearby offer a venue for farmers to sell heirloom tomatoes, artisan goat cheeses, and baby vegetables.
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Preserving heirloom vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers keeps the world's available genetic diversity alive.
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Heirloom tomatoes are making a comeback in farmers' markets and natural food stores as people rediscover how good a real tomato tastes.
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Between the soft sheets and abundant pillows, I was temped to stay in my plushy tomb, but I was glad when I finally hauled my body downstairs for brunch at the hotel's locally sourced restaurant, Heirloom.
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Celebrate Brooklyn Opening Night Gala and New Haven Weekend Getaway
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Unless it's a family heirloom, most people feel belittled by a regift.
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Hundreds of Essex residents queued from early today to have their family heirlooms identified and valued by a team of TV experts.
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I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of those pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappeted by the pen behind it, and the other an heirloom, as Charles would have had it, in Laud's
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The heirloom tomatoes were sliced, salted, peppered, and placed on a white dish with a wee bit of basil.
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I wonder if Mom grifted some ancestral heirloom or if it actually belongs to her.
White Cat
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There are others who have suggested he sell off the valuable collection of art and other family heirlooms, but he doubts they would raise the required amount.
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This ring is a family heirloom.
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At the KJ wine center, there are four acres of organic gardens where we grow 175 different kinds of heirloom tomatoes.
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I knit the turquoise one in cashmere, and she knit the white one in yarn from Heirloom.
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The 20,000-square-foot spa also uses local, antioxidant-rich wild elderberries and elderberry flowers in facials, and grows heirloom-variety herbs that are incorporated into services.$145 for 50 minutes, $190 for 80 minutes, osthoff.com
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Then there is the heirloom tomato salad with baby spinach, a little white balsamic vinegar and feta cheese.
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Come to think of it, I would also avoid acrylic for a bedspread, after all, all that work means heirloom and it should had been done in a much better yarn.
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I plant hybrid tomatoes, but grow heirloom chick peas, fava beans, lettuce, and cucumbers (to list but a few).
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It is dotingly displayed, like everything else, under dramatic lighting that illuminates heirloom tomatoes as if they were heirloom diamonds.
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Like family heirlooms, libraries and research collections gain luster with age and use.
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The Prime cheesesteak is "Sliced Kobe beef, melted Taleggio cheese, shaved truffles, sautéed foie gras, caramelised onions and shaved heirloom tomatoes on a homemade brioche roll brushed with truffle butter and squirted with homemade mustard.
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The prince has taken this spectacular heirloom and suspended it from a simple leather plait.
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It's set around a courtyard and a garden full of heirloom tomatoes and fragrant herbs.
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It's set around a courtyard and a garden full of heirloom tomatoes and fragrant herbs.
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We had heirloom roses growing in our backyard that locals said had been planted during the antebellum days.
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In the tourist shops of Toraja heirlooms fetch high prices as objets d' art, and land too is sometimes sold for government projects or tourist developments.
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Pollen from genetically altered crops can spread to heirloom crops, threatening their biological integrity.
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Archival records such as these family heirlooms, handed down from one generation to another, stand as evidence of a rich past that has impact for everyone.
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I have been forced to sell family heirlooms like our vintage cars.
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He said he had cried watching Antiques Roadshow when some family heirloom was found to be worth thousands.
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I would try selling the pendant first to a cousin, but, despite being a family heirloom, I don't have a great sentimental attachment to it.
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By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release.
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“As for ourselves,” they said, “we will go on fighting and accept whatever Heaven has in store for us,” — adding, “never will we submit to be deprived of our territory of Messene, which we received as an heirloom from our fathers.”
Hellenica
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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You must order a few sides, including the farm-fresh pickled veggies and roasted heirloom carrots.
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Tam, piquillo peppers, heirloom tomatoes, & some kind of olive tapenade, which is on a toasted foccacia bread.
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This platter is a bit more crowded than I recommended in my post about plattering heirloom tomatoes.
Steve Poses: On the Table: Farm Stands of New York's Hudson River Valley
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It seemed to be taking hours, long sluicy kisses that she disappeared into, distant, empty, feeling his hand brusque on her tit, but also practical all of a sudden, yes, pushing him off and going into the closet down the hall and getting the spare mattress for the child’s bed, a Jewish heirloom of the generations.
Underworld
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But when you’re persuading people that the three day-old Big Mac that you’ve just microwaved is the same as a grassfed bison burger with heirloom tomatoes, carmelized onions and smoked gouda served on a La Brea Bakery kaiser roll …
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Her ring is a Windsor family heirloom, and she posed with it to show off the square-cut central diamond and three diamond baguettes on either side.
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I've also become very interested in heirloom seeds.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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It is filled with antiques, family heirlooms and portraits.
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My grandchildren have expressed an interest so maybe it could become a family heirloom.
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I have a friend who grows Italian heirloom vegetables as a link to his Italian ancestry.
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He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
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No doubt this book will become a treasured heirloom in the Murphy family.
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Other gifts are given as investments - an heirloom is essentially a saftey deposit against hard times in the future or a down payment on a house, car or holiday.
The value of gifts (or 'What Star Trek taught me about capitalism')
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Her loom is indeed an heirloom, and the simple contrivance is often elaborately carved, it being the pastime of lovers of successive generations to make fresh carving on the fair one's loom.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
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The prince has taken this spectacular heirloom and suspended it from a simple leather plait.
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If the perspective of the longevity of an instrument's "working life" is taken into consideration, the short time to seek out and find a Luthier that will have the ability and appreciation to make the heirloom is short indeed.
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We talked about growing up in Catania, in his nonna (little bambino sitting on the counter) and mamma's kitchen (garlic first, basil last) picking up culinary inspiration and family heirloom dishes along the way.
Corkscrew & Cave
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Beautiful mono. For Armstrong aficionados, a golden heirloom.
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Yet here among the ancient family heirlooms and Douglas legends, thick as furze, the sense of patient waiting seemed almost tangible.
Earl of Durkness
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The name heirloom refers to how the seeds of some tomato varieties were passed on for generations, and there's widespread agreement among tomato lovers that heirloom tomatoes are often more flavorful than hybrid varieties.
BlogHer
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Italian green sprouting or Calabrese broccoli is the most commonly grown heirloom type.
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a treasured heirloom
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There's been a reawakening of interest in heirloom melons among home gardeners.
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You've probably heard of the term heirloom somewhere before (my guess is having to do with antiques or tomatoes) -- Griffith calls it something that will not only last through your lifetime and into the next generation, but that you also want to keep that long because it's beautiful, functional, and timeless.
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Every year I visit apple orchards in one or the other region and taste as many heirloom varieties as I can.
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Nearby is the kitchen garden with its heirloom vegetables, as well as the formal Victorian gardens and tennis court.
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Then there is the heirloom tomato salad with baby spinach, a little white balsamic vinegar and feta cheese.
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My son loves burgers, so I pack him one Roadhouse-style: with ground beef shoulder, heirloom tomatoes, homemade mayo and an onion roll from our bakehouse—and serve it cold, like a meatloaf sandwich.
A Gourmet Lunchbox
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On their farm in Carmel Valley, Jon and Nancy embrace the seasons and grow unusual and heirloom vegetables.
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The headdress was an heirloom that mingled pearls with a few choice brilliants.
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They will happily cast their eye over any old family heirlooms, household treasures or car boot bargains.
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The brooch is a family heirloom which came down to her from her great - grandmother .
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An excrescent t survives in a number of words, e. g., onct, twict, clost, wisht (for wish) and chanct; it is an heirloom from the English of two centuries ago.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
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The tourist is now making fluttery movements from her heart to the sky and pointing to the bangle, which is obviously indicating a family heirloom that's she's not parting with.
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Even if you have such UV-blocking windows and picture-frame glass, you cannot assume that other protections for heirlooms and valuables are unnecessary, for visible light is responsible for much fading and other forms of photodegradation.1
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The sword was a family heirloom, passed down through the generations to the eldest child.
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The reporter was particularly taken by ‘Lady Deramore's dress of white and gold brocaded satin, embroidered with tiny gold fleur-de-lis, worn with heirloom diamonds in eighteenth century settings’.
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So stay clear of heirloom china early on.
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Furthermore, they did not retain these primal practices merely as heirlooms.
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This was inspired by a magnificent calendar stone, which still stands as an heirloom from the Aztecs, whose calendar was based on the conjunctions of
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Again, not many watchmakers bother today, so they seem to end up on his bench but he admits it would take a hard man to turn a customer away who wanted a family heirloom repaired, especially clocks such as these.
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So Mr. Kim helped five of his best urban farmers get licensed, and now they provide him with a bounty including blood oranges, heirloom Italian chicory and a fruit called black sapote.
The Rise of the Lazy Locavore
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Little does he know the fallen star is now a young girl who was knocked from the night sky by a jewel, an heirloom belonging to the King to Stormhold.
“Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie” by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (Vertigo, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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Included on his menu is tangia, an heirloom recipe in which lamb shanks seasoned with cumin, saffron, nutmeg, and ginger are placed in a fat, terra cotta urn and cooked overnight in the coals of the public ovens.
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So stay clear of heirloom china early on.
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If you look after your tools, they'll look after you and maybe some day, you can pass them down to the next generation of enthusiastic gardeners like family heirlooms.
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That clock is a family heirloom.
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They managed it together, and they had divided their mother's clothes, and also her rings and ear-rings, her gold skull-cap and head-band and pins, -- the heirlooms of a Dutch farmeress.
Mary's Meadow And Other Tales of Fields and Flowers
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Tree as yet undecorated with quirky, hand-painted, heirloomy baubles, because tree as yet unerected?
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Many old garden roses, or heirloom roses, bloom only once a season.
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On the menu: The Wolfgang Puck menu featured barbecue pork shank, paella, tortelloni with summer truffles, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, heirloom tomatoes with mozzarella, garlic shrimp, scallops and filet mignon.
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For the salad, Mr. Maws suggests tatsoi, a spiky heirloom green—though arugula or a mix of soft herbs, such as parsley, tarragon or mint, are good substitutes.
Lamb Sausages With Poached Fig Salad
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There are literally thousands of different seeds to choose from such as herbs, vegetables, heirloom flowers, everlastings, grasses and so on.
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The walls had excellently crafted tapestries that must have been precious family heirlooms from the look of them.
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He is dedicated to organic growing principles and supplying gardeners with great heirloom vegetable varieties.
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The company offers more than 600 varieties of organically grown, mostly heirloom seeds for gardeners and more than 100 types of seeds in bulk amounts for farmers.
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Scores of people lost sentimental engagement rings and irreplaceable family heirlooms.
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The sky was bright; so were the girls, each in her festal dress, the peplos damp-pleated into tiny clinging folds, and fastened on the shoulders with gold brooches; the himation draped across, often an heirloom, with borders of six months 'work; hair freshly washed and waved, combed down over back and breasts.
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The tokonoma is the place of honor in a Japanese style house used for displaying family heirlooms and seasonal flower arrangements.
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Your most precious family heirloom is the shotgun used at your grandparents 'wedding.
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