How To Use Leaf In A Sentence
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Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Even without captain Mats Sundin, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still alive in the playoff chase.
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The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
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But if you want voluminous leaf production during summer, you may want to fertigate it occasionally.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
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In 1883 Mr. Leaf wrote: "I take it that the _zoma_ means the waist of the cuirass which is covered by the _zoster_, and has the upper edge of the _mitrê_ or plated apron beneath it fastened round the warrior's body. ...
Homer and His Age
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On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig.
Times, Sunday Times
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A turtle eating the insect that eats the leaf makes a chain of two.
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But a tiny, naturally-occurring steviol glycoside constituent (about two to four percent of a whole leaf) of the plant, called rebaudioside A (also known as reb A, rebiana, stevia extract), was passed into Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS) status by the FDA in 2008.
Pooja R. Mottl: Can Stevia Solve Our Obsession With Sweetness?
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_Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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The earth was rich with undisturbed deposits of leaf mould and beech mast.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were still playing at war — dropping leaflets instead of bombs.
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They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river.
Darkness and Dawn
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Illiberis ulmivora Graeser is an important leaf - eating pest of elm tree in Shanxi province.
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She incited racial hatred by distributing anti-Semitic leaflets.
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Street vendors sell bundles of sticky rice bound in banana leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Following this intensive study carried out over a number of years it was discovered that Carlow boasts the tallest broadleaf in Ireland.
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Since the lateral axes have more or less the same pattern of arrangement of sympodia as the main axis, the number of branch bundles is related to the number of bundles within the leaf vascular supply characteristic for that species.
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And I may not be an expert, but I could swear it is far quieter within the protective leafy screen.
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The uniform canopy is dominated by broadleaf species, mainly kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa) and tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), with some emergent podocarps (e.g., rimu and matai).
Northland temperate forests
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The toothwort in your picture is broadleaf toothwort, also known as crinkleroot toothwort.
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The quality of the loose-leaf tea is critical to the success of the British tea party.
Times, Sunday Times
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We will not serve as anyone's fig leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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The delicate delineations of each square of metal leaf create subtle patterns.
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Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf. Christina G Rossetti
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Serves 2-4, depending on hunger4 raw, unshelled tiger prawns90ml olive oil3 cloves garlic, finely chopped500ml good-quality fish stock150g sustainable monkfish, cut into chunks1 onion, finely diced1 tsp smoked paprika200g chopped tomatoes50ml dry white winePinch of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp hot water200g Calasparra or other short-grain rice150g baby squid, cut into rings150g broad beans150g mussels, scrubbedHandful of flat-leaf parsley to garnish½ lemon, cut into wedges 1. Shell the prawns and put the flesh aside.
How to cook the perfect paella
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The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
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Probably a weed from the broad leaf with the thornlike tips.
Wellspring of Chaos
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Adventitious buds have been induced from protoplast culture, on leaf explants and on strips of stem.
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Thousands of leaflets had been given to motorists passing through and 1,000 had been hand-delivered to addresses in the city centre.
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A terminal bud was defined as the stage when the stipules of the foliage leaves covered the shoot apex and the youngest foliage leaf was offset from the central axis of the shoot apex.
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Ammopiptanthus Cheng f. is the only genus of evergreen broadleaf shrubs in the north-western desert of China.
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This exciting partnership also has its roots in both parties respect for the environment - the "cloverleaf" course was designed to minimize impact on the environment while Thule has gone so far as adding solar panels to the roof of its Seymour, Connecticut manufacturing and office facility that will offset 26\% of the total energy used.
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They were not very varied in design and the emphasis was on good luck charms such as four-leaf clovers, horseshoes and wishbones, again set with tiny diamonds.
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The same rates should control annual broadleaves (velvetleaf, lambs-quarters, pigweeds, mustards) less than 6 inches tall.
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When I stoop to feel the texture of a small furry leaf, she quickly tells me not to touch the plants.
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Green, leafy vegetables are especially high in minerals and fiber, so should be eaten often.
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Take Ginkgo Leaf Extract 80 to 160 mg twice a day Ginkgo biloba— standardized to 24 percent ginkgoflavonglycosides and 6 percent terpene lactones.
The UltraMind Solution
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Eventually we found the exit and climbed a steep, suburban street into some hills, rising above the great cloverleaf of the freeway into a development of newly built houses.
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The balsam impatiens usually grows as a two- or three-stemmed plant to a height of 2 1/2 feet, with white to dark red flowers tucked into the leaf axils, where they tend to be overshadowed by leaves.
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The whole page was blotted with fresh tears, and, upon the opposite interleaf, were the following English lines, written in a hand so very different from the peculiar characters of my acquaintance, that I had some difficulty in recognizing it as his own.
The Assignation
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I read more funny books and leaf through the cartoons in past Leadership issues.
Christianity Today
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Objective:To investigate the enhancing effect of some non-ionic surfactants on intestinal absorption of the main active components vitexin-2"-O- rhamnoside in Hawthorn Leaf total flavonoids.
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The leaflets are in two planes, giving a slightly plumate appearance.
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The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with.
Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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The wildflowers, many of which bloom in May, include waterleaf, wild ginger, red trillium, Jack-in-the-pulpit, smooth and woolly blue violet, Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, and enchanter's nightshade.
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Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
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Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.
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A protein resistant to heat and proteolysis that inhibits serine proteases was isolated from wheat leaf apoplasts.
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Besides tarot reading there are also runes, pendulums, Numerology, palm reading, tealeaf reading, scrying, and dowsing.
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These subtropical forests were then defined as the Himalayan Subtropical Broadleaf Forests.
Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
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You can turn the pages as though leafing through the book.
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Lizards scurry in the leaf litter at my feet, monkeys feed noisily in the branches above nay head, a vine snake makes its sinuous way toward an unsuspecting small bird.
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I sat down on the stairs, petted Cleo, leafed through my stack of mail piled in a mound on the bottom stair.
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In the apple I have observed leafy shoots bearing terminal tufts of leaves where the flower should have been, so that what, under ordinary circumstances would be a corymb of flowers, is here represented by a series of tufts of leaves.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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The leaflet says: ‘We need to form a new committee and require other helpers to assist in organising and running events that you want.’
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They come with wholesome winter references such as alpine leaf designs or chunky cable knits, and should be worn with jeans and heavy shoes or trainers.
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The snow also caused extensive damage to trees that had just come into leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders.
Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
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He dumped the pig of metal on the second desk, where Aletha sat with her perpetual loose-leafed volumes before her.
Sand Doom
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Tabasheer , safflower and calamine can clear away lung heat, expel toxic heat, sedate mind, and calm fright. Savory rhododendron leaf can clear away heat, diminish swelling, and tonify kidney.
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Include lots of green leafy vegetables and sweet juicy fruits.
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It prints off a leaf of paper and spits it at the man in the lab coat.
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The development of a leaf involves a complex pattern of cell division and cell elongation, with cell elongation playing a central part in the expansion of the leaf blade.
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-- A tree, with leaves bunched at the extremities of the branches, oblong, oval, acuminate, odd-pinnate, 3-4 pairs of opposite leaflets.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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Berberis darwinii is a small, dense shrub, spiny of leaf and stem, like an angry little holly.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had an hour-long tirade using everything from Play-doh, livestock, loose leaf paper, a sword swallower, and a Ronald Reagan mannequin smoking a marijuana cigarette in opposition to Gaga.
Bil Browning: Michael Steele Trying to Recruit Lady Gaga?
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The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized -- why don't you call the figures so?
The Two Paths
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Single leaf from a Missal, in Latin Germany, Hamburg, shortly before 1381 Illuminated by Meister Bertram von Minden The young people hawking are fashionably dressed: the youth wears a red pourpoint with a dagged hem, a particularly tight chaperon, narrow belt, and open shoes.
Fashion in Art: Medieval France and the Netherlands
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Stepping out of the wooden portals, your nostrils are assailed by the pungent smell of leaf-wrapped dosai.
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The leafy suburbs and rural areas also have their fill of young people using drugs.
Taking Drugs Seriously
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The woodland floor is dappled with sunlight, which makes it difficult to tell what is a mushroom and what is just a dead leaf.
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Standard potting mixes made up of finely milled bark chips can altered to a specific plant's special needs by mixing them with other potting compost ingredients such as vermiculite, perlite, coir fibre or leaf mould.
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Heads emerge from leaf collars beginning in early July, and flowering commences within days after head emergence.
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Gai laan, Chinese broccoli, has delicious tender stems and choi sum is a leafy veg rather like pak choi.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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It has a wildlife display and information leaflets.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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Good gardening practice would be to leave a layer of leaf litter on the soil between shrubs and trees in garden beds.
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Slice remaining garlic in rounds and add to pan with bay leaf and thyme.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the leaf, Ca-HGO was detected in all chlorenchyma cells; in the stem, it was observed in the same sites described for Ca-TDC1; in the root, no expression was detected.
BioMed Central - Latest articles
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These include exotic ylang ylang, jasmine, turmeric, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, curry leaf, water lilies, mahogany trees, avocados, wax apples, and five varieties of mango.
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Dense leaf pubescence is widespread among plants growing at very high elevations.
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Add the bay leaf and garlic clove, if using.
Times, Sunday Times
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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Once, on a one lane cloverleaf ramp, going from one freeway to the other (the two ran perpendicular to each other, if you don't know what I mean by "cloverleaf"), a car passed me.
Adventus
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More recently, scab has developed resistance to the strobilurin as well as the benzimidazole classes, and now Alternaria leaf spot resistance to the strobilurin and carboxyanilide (boscalid) chemistries has appeared.
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The leaflet explains how to complain to the banking ombudsman.
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Since plants suck up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than anything else on the planet, understanding leaf veins is an important part of grappling with the global carbon budget puzzle.
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Pickles is a grassroots "leafleteer" the type of a Local Government Pol and Political obsessive that are in fact the hallmark of the DimLebs.
Eric Pickles made a fool of himself on Question Time
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The highest priority is the publication of a suite of up-to-date comprehensive guidebooks and map leaflets for the four gardens.
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They bear bipinnate leaves with small, oval to lanceolate leaflets.
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Students were handing out election leaflets at the station.
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However, last year corn leaf aphids remained abundant in some field after tasseling, and the feeding appeared to cause death of the tissues fed upon.
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Even in face view the involute vernation is easily observed for the brief time that a leaf is emerging.
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This rustic top loading stove is supported on three splayed feet and decorated with gadroons around the base, leaf design around the fancy top plate which has a central sunflower design.
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I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current.
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'Twas when the wan leaf frae the birk-tree was fa'in ', vol. ii.,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
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The captain-general hereupon iflued orders that none fliould make the leaft mo - tion, or utter a fingle word without his leave.
Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
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A very typical view of them is with their head lifted to see if there is anything on the underside of a leaf above them.
Times, Sunday Times
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As it is, whenever sport-led regeneration is proposed in this country, the public is fobbed off with stat-free waffle about how it will benefit and regenerate local communities – and in some cases, we seem to be dispensing with even that fig leaf.
Stanley Park will bring little benefit to local community in Liverpool
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The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
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In contrast to these associations, there was no correlation between leaf and cell width, nor between leaf and cell length.
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He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.
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Of Oaxaca's twenty-seven churches, by far the most opulent is the Santo Domingo de Guzmán, built by Indian artisans in the 16th and 17th centuries and displaying much gold leaf.
Oaxaca: a festive city
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She had 500 envelopes to stuff with leaflets.
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Tall strap-leafed phormiums, or New Zealand flax, and the architectural-looking kniphofia, or red-hot poker, added structure just as surely as did the seating areas, paths, and stone work.
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Woodlands are the butcherbird's natural habitat, but like many similar species they have adapted well to urbanisation and can be found in leafy suburbs.
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Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces.
The Guardian World News
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Without the alchemy that each green leaf performs from sunup to sundown during the growing season, life simply could not be.
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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As she leafs through the yellow pages, my eyes try in vain to grab a word or two from the looped, fastidious handwriting.
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President Sirleaf says strengthening Liberia's General Auditing Commission and complying with the Norwegian-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has reduced corruption.
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Underneath the smaller leaflets the spores are arranged in pairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turning over a new leaf How gratifying to learn that lots of us have disgusting salad drawers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed the pleafure of this firrprife was fo great, that without regard to fo» many other lignal advantages it fpreada:
Private history of Peregrinus Proteus, the philosopher
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Tap the momentum of the big events to encourage supporters to leaflet their own areas and build support among people they know.
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Residents in the area were leafleted about trees being cleared.
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Others handout leaflets, talk to passers-by, and do chalk outlines of the bodies of the dead.
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Two examples are given overleaf Each of these can be calculated by several methods, one of which is by division.
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Outside my door was a green leafed bush, which apparently had not gone bald in the wintertime.
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Under the pale blue sky the trees seemed visibly to burgeon: yesterday's bare branches swelled into bud and would be in leaf by tomorrow.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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On the flyleaf were his initials R.D., the letters of the handkerchief, and underneath C.D. freshly written.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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Bamboo, Rattan , Fern , Seagrass, Banana Leaf Bamboo and Rattan Products.
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Present knowledge of the transport properties of cuticles is based exclusively on results obtained with astomatous leaf surfaces or astomatous cuticular membranes.
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At the other end of the spectrum are the leafcutter ants, the benign farmers of the insect world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Large field maples will give height and density and will be underplanted with sessile oak and small leaf lime trees.
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They could narrow the search to old houses—because of the camphene lamp—and to ones set back from the beach itself—because of the maple and oak leaf trace.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set
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A "palmer" is someone who wears a palm leaf as testimony of having taken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Maggie's Farm
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This deal is little more than a fig leaf for the continued destruction of the landscape.
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In future articles, we'll talk about plant chewing critters like beetles, caterpillars, borers, and the Leaf Cutter Bee.
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These so-called host plants include many broadleaf weeds and cover crops such as nettles, mallow, chicory, dandelion, thistles, bindweed, deadly nightshade, and many clovers.
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Reported diseases include a bark gummosis, one defoliation leafspot, and some fungal diseases of seedlings in nurseries.
Chapter 8
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This study demonstrates that the material with a low molecular weight of 158 is an active component in wasabi leafstalk which stimulates bone calcification.
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Some fields surveyed had orange leaf rust pustules on the lower leaves.
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petalism", according to which each man wrote on an olive leaf the name of the most powerful citizen; whoever obtained the greatest number of leaves was banished for five years.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Even the number of petals on a flower can change after leaf removal.
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The density of peltate glandular trichomes on the abaxial surface of a fully developed leaf is typically about 1600 per cm.
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Go for plain solids or patterns that fit with fall themes, like floral or leaf patterns.
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One sensed that the canopy had been wasted slowly by the powers of fungus and leaf mould.
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Cigarettes make up just 20% of tobacco consumed, with most tobacco smoked through the traditional, leaf wrapped, unfiltered cigarettes (called bidis).
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Long-backed, thin, ‘lank as a leafless elm,’ a New England coach driver might look as though a high wind would blow him away, yet he would wear nankeens and low shoes in winter weather, and was not fragile but lusty.
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Anything but a leaf blower, basically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Acid hydrolysis of crude leaf mucilage extract in both Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundifolia revealed that the main sugar constituents were rhamnose, glucose, galactose, and arabinose.
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The trees were bare and leafless, but the snow made them a sight for sore eyes.
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On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf.
The Abbot
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A Maple Leaf Canada graphic features the word Canada arched within the shape of a maple leaf.
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For each plant, we recorded the number of leaf nodes producing flowers and the total fruit production.
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But farinaceous sediments in the urine are bad, and still worse are the leafy; the white and thin are very bad, but the furfuraceous are still worse than these.
The Book Of Prognostics
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The sample traces (a, b) are representative of the diurnal pattern of leaf extension rate for each species.
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Common onion diseases include damping off, botrytis leaf blight, downy mildew, and bacterial blight.
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Add the lentils, broth, tomatoes and their juice, water, bay leaf, black pepper and salt.
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Here is a jade-coloured conglomeration of life resembling nothing in the world more than a loose handful of worms without beginning and without end, interloped and writhing and glowing as it writhes with opalescent fires; and here a tiny leafless shrub, jointed with each alternate joint, ivory, white, and ruby-red respectively; again this tracery of gold and green and salmon pink decorating a shiny stone, in formal and consistent pattern.
My Tropic Isle
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This corvine do-it-yourselfer sometimes fashions the tool from the left edge of a leaf and sometimes from the right.
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Swords needed leather grips, belts, and leather scabbards overlaid with hammered bronze leaf.
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An intelligent solar bulk curing barn includes solar heating system, coal heating system, leaf loading system, ventilation system and automatic control system.
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A matt finish solid silver leaf is fashioned into a beautiful pendant, earrings and also as the silver decoration on a polished wooden bangle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The leaf laminae of Q. serrata were lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5-15 cm long and 1-3 cm wide.
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Toss red leaf lettuce, orange slices, and red onion slices in large bowl.
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Sharpe aimed through the bars of the balcony's balustrade, lining the notch in the rifle's backsight and the leaf of the foresight on Aksel Bang's face.
Sharpe's Prey
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They play cards, smoke in the freezing gaps between carriages, leaf through magazines and snooze on narrow bunks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Costmary, Alecost, Bible-leaf, Sweet Mary, or Mint Geranium is a sprawling, hardy perennial that reaches 3 feet in height when in bloom.
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He said it was not reasonably foreseeable that, by placing a leaflet in the door, a dog could jump up and injure itself.
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No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers.
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Then he proceeded to turn it over, leaf by leaf, and took exact notice of all in it: and it being _full of pictures of sundry mens cuts_, he could tell the palsgrave, who seemed also to be knowing in that kind, that this and this, and that and that, were of such a man's graving and invention.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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Let us assume that the leaf is composed of thin, serial layers.
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Yet everything about them boasted of their origin in the leafy shires.
YELLOW BIRD
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Those leaf-eating primates have foreguts where lysozyme is found and may have acquired a new digestive function.
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You'll find them on estates yes, but also in the nice, leafy suburbs and in quaint olde English villages.
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Leaves, each with one to three pairs of smooth, tiny leaflets, shed early, leaving leafstalks to provide lightly filtered shade.
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Serve with a leafy green or tomato salad.
Times, Sunday Times
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A dead leaf balanced precariously on the knuckles, twitching in the breeze.
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I may so plant myself upon Him, as that in Him I shall be strong, and then my life will not only grow like a tree and have its leaf green and broad, and its fruit the natural outcome of its vitality, but it will rise like some stately building, course by course, pillar by pillar, until at last the shining topstone is set there.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
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Environmental campaigners who had dressed as penguins today defied a ban on handing out leaflets without permission in Telford Town Park.
Archive 2008-08-01
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City officials plan to enhance the pine canopy by thinning out thickly planted forests to give older longleaf pines more room to spread their crowns.
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The sales leaflet for it duly arrived and circulated amongst the staff.
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Feeding on a milkweed leaf, tiny aphids (some winged, some wingless) are ‘tended’ by an ant, which feeds on the sweet honeydew excreted by the aphids.
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A minute projection on the surface of a stigma , petal, or leaf.
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Since ‘spines’ are modified leaf stipules, they are referred to as stipular spines.
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The garnish is a banana leaf holding an anise-flavored blend of tomatillo-seeded sauce.
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The local church was full of well-heeled people poring over leaflets about the possible dangers of electromagnetic radiation.
Times, Sunday Times
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These can be found in fruits, dark leafy green vegetables and seafood.
The Sun
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Write or draw a list of items for them to find, from a pine needle to a clover leaf.
The Sun
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There is a downside to leaving it a while, the trees will have leafed up and you won't see so far, but I would wait.
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Things like, you can get true love if you take a leaf of a certain plant and write their initials on it under a full moon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each plant has one drip line, with the exception of cucumbers, which have three lines due to their large leaf surface area that loses more water than do the tomatoes and peppers.
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Webs of filmiest white clung to the rose-leaf body.
The Moon Pool
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Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
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As no festivity is complete without food, special Rajasthani shikar cuisine, the rathwa leaf baked food and the mouth watering chattpattias will be laid out.
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The leaves are trifoliate with tomentose leaflets that have the typical reticulate venation of yams, 12-16 cm long, 6-9 cm broad: the petioles are pubescent and often spiny.
Chapter 37
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In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
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A variety of foods can provide your family with nutritious sources of iron: lean meats, eggs, green leafy vegetables, dried peas and beans, blackstrap molasses, raisins, and whole-grain bread.
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It was also important to determine the degree of universality of the correlative relationships between free amino acid levels and leaf senescence.
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Of the olive-tree two varieties are particularly distinguished: the long-leafed, which is cultivated in the south of France and in Italy; and the broad-leafed in Spain, which has its fruit much longer than that of the former kind.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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They had no perceptible impact on German opinion, though the leaflet raids gave aircrew some essential training in night navigation.
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Two year old fillies are usually pretty formful, and that's what I expect in the Oak Leaf.
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Likewise, trunks for foraging woodpeckers and vegetational structures for dead-leaf foraging antbirds are found throughout the midstory, often extending into the understory and canopy.
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The flowering Rush, or water gladiole, which grows by the banks of rivers is called botanically "butomus," from the Greek, _bous_, an ox, and _temno_, to cut, because the sharp edges of the erect three-cornered leaf-blades wound the cattle which come in contact with them, or try to eat them.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Place one basil leaf in the centre of each and spoon the corn mixture on top.
Times, Sunday Times
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By Him who made mankind and every branch with leafage dight,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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All this manliness and yet we manage to come up with the daft idea of a leaf blower.
The Sun
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The agent meets me outside the pastel-coloured Victorian villa, which sits on one of the area's most picturesque and leafy squares.
