How To Use Sprig In A Sentence
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A sprig of holly in our tum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cutting sprigs of holly in spring will provide all the pruning they need.
The Sun
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This is a complex wine that will sparkle as an accompaniment to a tall glass of bone chillingly cold lemon sorbet with sprigs of mint.
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Two examples, from her impressive "Transformation" disc, are the pianist's soulful performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in F Minor and her sprightly, exceptionally characterful transversal of Igor Stravinsky's Three Movements From "Petrushka," a transcription based on his ballet score.
The Fast and the Serious
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Garnish the guacamole with chilli powder or coriander sprigs, then serve in the centre of a plate of tortilla chips.
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A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle.
Country diary: New Forest
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Garnish with a fresh mint sprig and a straw cut short enough so that you almost bury your nose in the mint as you sip.
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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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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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‘But I'm 18, that's how old I feel,’ he says - and there is, to be sure, a sprightliness about him still.
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Even if linked to a typically American automatic gearbox of only four speeds, it has sprightly performance.
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But would these sprightly veterans have been better advised to avoid the stresses and strains of full-time toil in old age?
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Among his other servants he had a young man called Pyrrhus, who was sprightly and well bred and comely of his person and adroit in all that he had a mind to do, and him he loved and trusted over all else.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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None of the youngsters made long-winded speeches, but they said it all through sprightly dances that were a celebration of life and an exhibition of talent.
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Garnish with some fresh thyme sprigs and serve straight away.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the gravy has been reduced to the right consistency, add a handful of rosemary sprigs and bubble for a few more minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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My lamb was sitting on a bed of potatoes and a rich gravy infused with the flavour of several sprigs of rosemary.
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Spoon over your blueberry jam, cover with your elderflower cordial, and top with a sprig of mint.
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In four months, the sprigs they plant will have branches three to four feet long.
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This little sally may be considered as a specimen of that playful sprightliness which is so much the characteristic of the french female.
The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
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Wearing leather gloves for protection, cut sprigs of greenery and bunch them up.
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Moiseyev has added a few new dances, at least new to New York, including a hilarious sailor's dance called A Day on Board a Ship, as well as adaptations from Venezuela and Argentina and a sprightly Spanish jota.
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Previously, zoysia has been only widely available as sod, sprigs or strips.
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Serve garnished with the sprigs of parsley.
The Sun
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‘Come on, let's get back to the inn,’ Chenok stood up with a sprightliness that you wouldn't find in a dying man.
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I suddenly feel a new sprightliness, quite unexpec ...
Jean's Knitting
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Peter Manso: erm, I was using "sprightly" as a compliment - as in, "energetic" etc.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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“Oh, I dunno,” says our informant, another sprightly juvenile, modishly clad in jellaba, brass-buttoned jacket, and pirate head-scarf.
Flashman on the March
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The task was difficult, as the sprigs were barbed with large thorns, and the fragrant resin stuck to their fingers as they broke the sprigs from the angular branch.
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Drizzle with lemon juice and garnish with Thai basil, mache and dill sprigs.
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Season inside the cavity and fill with the herb sprigs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two Greens Senators wore a sprig of wattle over a postcard picture of the two Australian citizens interned in Guantanamo Bay.
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It was the least Blackpool deserved for their sprightly first-half performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Put the natural yoghurt into a small blender with the garlic, ginger, salt, oil, leaves from three of the coriander sprigs and the gram flour.
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The knight wore no armor, but carried a sprig of holly in one hand, and an enormous axe in the other.
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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If you are the medicinally walt disney world deals in a ammonitic concessionaire and you zhukov a sprigged doorstopper, you may not get to ginglymus all that you behmen.
Rational Review
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The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia.
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On the other hand, the mother, a sprightly nonagenarian, acquitted herself well in the interview, and both she and Ann came across as ‘better’ people as a result.
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The stylized sprigs on the drawer fronts and the insides of the doors could have been copied from Indian manuscript illuminations or from Indian textiles.
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_Agility_ and _Nimbleness_; this renders the Limbs flexible and mettlesom, and adapts them for the most Vigorous Enterprize: It makes the languid and slothful, _brisk_ and _sprightful_; and rejects
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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His "Levities" are by their title exempted from the severities of criticism, yet it may be remarked in a few words that his humour is sometimes gross, and seldom sprightly.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
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You need to put a wedge of lemon and a sprig of parsley on each plate.
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Oh, and it turns out the little dynamo is also a Beckham-like soccer player, something Berg discovered quite by accident when she casually kicked a soccer ball in Spright's direction and the dog, using chest, head and any other useful body part, executed an impressive block and slammed it forward.
Pet Talk: Mighty three-legged mutt is my kind of mayor
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Pop a few mini sprigs of rosemary and a garlic slivers in middle of cheese, with a drizzle of olive oil.
The Sun
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Drain and serve with parsley sprigs as garnish.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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Yesterday, the 33-year-old looked decidedly sprightly for his age.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serve cold with sprigs of fresh coriander.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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The Party's central organ, once the epitome of dullness, has had to brighten itself up to compete against more sprightly daily newspapers.
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Serve garnished with a few mixed berries and a sprig of mint.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great Pavilionstone Hotel, the sprightliest porters under the sun, whose cheerful looks are a pleasant welcome, shoulder your luggage, drive it off in vans, bowl it away in trucks, and enjoy themselves in playing athletic games with it.
Reprinted Pieces
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I just went to talk to my downstairs neighbour about a tree that fell down in our garden, and she gave me a sprig of rosemary, and a tied bunch of lavender.
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Toss a few sprigs of fresh basil, parsley and dill with the baby greens for a healthy burst of flavor.
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A sprightly woman wrings her hands as if flirtatiously sizing up a fellow resident at the nursing home.
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The final movements weren't unpleasing, either: muscular and sprightly, yet not grating.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sheep person helped her off; and they stood throwing each other sentences all sprightful and sagacious for a while.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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It has none of the poetic flights of the French genius, but advances steadily, and gains more ground in the end than its sprightlier compeer.
The Paris Sketch Book
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Throw in a few sprigs of fresh thyme, season with salt and pepper and cook over a medium heat for about five minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remove the leaves from half of the thyme sprigs and add to the pan with the garlic.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet it was their sprightliness in attack, their urgency in scampering forward, that characterised the early exchanges at Rugby Park.
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The sprightliest is The Banjo, no longer a paean to the instrument as in the Broadway version but now a "dance sensation" - a concept that sets the number up much better and gives the talented, hardworking dance ensemble its best chance to ignite the show. which in stage form remains a second-tier work.
Chron.com Chronicle
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You shall have the three sprigs, the sprig of watercress, and the sprig of marshwort, and the sprig of seaweed.
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
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For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Crow and Grape Leaf Cookie Jar
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At the last minute add the sprig of rosemary and infuse for two minutes.
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THE world's largest sprig of mistletoe was unveiled at Heathrow this week.
The Sun
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Makes 2 large toastsbroad beans 100g podded weightbuffalo mozzarella 1 ballFor the dressing:garlic 1 small, sweet cloveparsley 4 or 5 sprigsdill 5 sprigschives 6 thin stems and perhaps a few flowersolive oilPod the beans and cook them in deep, lightly salted boiling water for 6 or 7 minutes until tender, then drain in a colander.
Nigel Slater's cheese recipes
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Garnish with basil sprigs and shaved cheese.
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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Serve this thick and luscious curry with boiled basmati and a few sprigs of coriander.
Times, Sunday Times
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A covey of sprightly grey partridge look back and trundle on.
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He is at ease with his age - a sprightly 64.
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I turned to her and saw that she wore a white dress with little sprigs of wildflowers printed on it.
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Serve garnished with the sprigs of parsley.
The Sun
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To serve, spoon the sorbet into the reserved mango skins or in individual glasses and decorate with sprigs of mint.
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“Doubt not me, Catherine,” replied the Queen; “a while since I was overborne, but I have recalled the spirit of my earlier and more sprightly days, when I used to accompany my armed nobles, and wish to be myself a man, to know what life it was to be in the fields with sword and buckler, jack, and knapscap.”
The Abbot
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Pour over the honey and scatter over the thyme sprigs along with a pinch of salt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cutting sprigs of holly in spring will provide all the pruning they need.
The Sun
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Spoon some of the orange cream on top of each jelly and garnish with sprigs of mint.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women who are now in their 50s and 60s were the first to wear mini-skirts, Biba lipstick, tie-dyed T-shirts, hippy dresses made of Indian bedspreads, Laura Ashley sprigged pinafores, and safety pins through our unlined cheeks.
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Garnish top of loaf with slices of tomato and a sprig of parsley.
Cooking with Beans and Pulses
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Add the condensed milk, syrup and rosemary sprigs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The youth played the gallant, and just as another might entertain his _innamorata_ at a champagne supper _en tete a tete_ in a private room, he led Cadine into some quiet corner of the market cellars to munch apples or sprigs of celery.
The Fat and the Thin
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Part I began with a swinging overture and maintained sprightly tempi and bright colors throughout, befitting the optimism of its subject: the annunciation of the birth of Christ.
Tracing the Gospel With Renewed Vigor and Drama
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The housemaids had been bribed with various fragments of riband, and sundry pairs of shoes more or less down at heel, to make no mention of crumbs in the beds; the airiest costumes had been worn on these festive occasions; and the daring Miss Ferdinand had even surprised the company with a sprightly solo on the comb – and – curlpaper, until suffocated in her own pillow by two flowing – haired executioners.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Then, as if to comfort him, a dove flew in at his window carrying in her mouth a sprig of gilliflowers.
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Insert the flower sprigs into the foam, within the general framework.
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'You may believe it,' said Cuchulainn; 'if a flock of birds come to the plain, you shall have a duck with half of another; if fish come to the estuaries, you shall have a salmon with half of another; a sprig of watercress, and a sprig of marshwort, and a sprig of seaweed, and a drink of cold sandy water after it.'
Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
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Add a small dollop of crème fraîche and garnish with a sprig of fresh dill and a little fish roe, if you wish.
Times, Sunday Times
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But far worse was the complete lack of wheelchair access to the river - indeed, only the hardiest and sprightliest rambler would have had any hope of getting near it.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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The sprig taken from this man certainly looks like a fir tree.
The Sun
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A delicious, sprightly chardonnay with lots of ripe, appley fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I prepared chicken stock with bouillon cubes, adding sprigs of thyme and bay leaves.
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Coarse-textured stuffing is essential to what I regard as one of the glories of Christmas. onions 2 butter a thick slice thyme a large sprig or two rosemary 1 large sprig sausage meat 400g fresh breadcrumbs 3 handfuls cooked peeled chestnuts (boiled or roasted) 50g, roughly chopped Madeira or dry marsala a wine glass Peel and cut up the onions just short of finely chopped.
Tender delights
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Top with soda and garnish with a sprig of oregano and a lemon slice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Decorate with sprigs of fresh mint and serve.
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A dark, intense, semi-smiling stare, as if the sprig of white heather was not charity but compulsory.
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Miss Harris is pretty sprightly and talks faster than anyone I've met out here in the land of the slow drawl.
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Cut healthy sprigs during dry weather and hang them in a cool, dry place until the leaves become brittle.
The Sun
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The only way in the world to serve a canvas-back or a mallard, or a sprig, or even the toothsome teal, is as follows: The plucked bird should be stuffed with a tight handful of plain raw celery and, in a piping oven, roasted variously 8,9,10, or even 11 minutes, according to the size of bird and heat of oven.
Jack London's Recipes: An Insight Into Jack's Dietary Habits
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Her white lawn dress with sprigs of green flowers fit tightly at the waist and cascaded to the floor.
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I had a vision of ancient programs trapped in the starchy sprigs of her hair.
THE HUNDREDTH MAN
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You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil.
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The long, white tunic the ghost wears is girded by a belt with a sprig of holly symbolizing winter tucked in it, but spring flowers hem the bottom of the tunic.
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After the tree was done, she turned to the mantle, adding tinsel and pine sprigs to decorate the area around a few red candles.
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Boasting that its uniforms, methods, and attitudes make it stand out in a food court of banality, the franchise founded in 1946 at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, spares no humiliation when dandifying its always smiling, sprightly employees. website, Hot Dog on a Stick's uniforms were inspired by a quirky 1960's trend that saw jockey caps and hot pants in fashion.
Minyanville
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Scatter a bulb of garlic cloves around the turkey in the tin, and add a few lemon halves and a handful of rosemary sprigs.
Times, Sunday Times
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You may pick a sprig of rosemary or thyme, or a few fronds of parsley or dill, but you'll pick an armload of basil.
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Drain and serve with parsley sprigs as garnish.
The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure
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The dishes that defined the ’90s were frozen ready meals for busy single people, such as pasta or risotto from the untranslatable 4 salti in padella brand literally, it means “four hops in the frying pan”; the packet suggests you add “a personal touch” such as a sprig of parsley or a drizzle of olive oil.
Delizia!
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Chop the needles from 1 of the rosemary sprigs and chop 4 of the basil leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The blue-and-white London delftware punch bowl shown in Plate IV beam a floral sprig on the interior, and, because of its deep profile, is datable to between about 1715 and 1730.
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And the evidence abounds: thick truncated trunks still pushing out new sprigs, charred stumps, and entire trees withering on the roadside.
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Into them goes a mixture of Asian and non-Asian ingredients: a choice of meats, strips of lightly pickled carrot and radish, fresh cilantro sprigs and tasty spreads like pâté or seasoned mayo.
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A spare but rather comely man, he possessed no small sprightliness of talents, and a great readiness of speech.
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With not a sprig of holly in sight, it is the perfect anti-pantomime for the festive season.
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Garnish the guacamole with chilli powder or coriander sprigs, then serve in the centre of a plate of tortilla chips.
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Top with apple juice and garnish with sprigs of lavender and a caramelised apple fan.
Times, Sunday Times
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sprigged muslin
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It's all well-played by the Northern Sinfonia under James Sinclair, and the music is sprightly and often engaging, but a lot of it is tricksy stuff, full of little efforts at musical humour or attention grabbing.
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We put sprigs of white hyacinth in a glass tumbler and placed it on a tray with candles.
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Consequences were her most frequent choice; for, as she had a ready invention, and a happy turn of sprightliness, which was often mistaken for wit, nobody shone more in this kind of extemporary sallies than herself.
Caroline; or, the Diversities of Fortune
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The tender sprig is not likely to prosper under the influence of the tree which attracts its nurture; applies that nurture to itself, where the calls occasioned by decay are the most powerful -- An old woman and a sprightly nurse, are characters as opposite as the antipodes.
An History of Birmingham (1783)
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Much sprightlier, much more quotable; but alas, what meat is there in that for the biographer?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Spoon the mixture into the muffin tray or ramekins, and place a sprig of fresh thyme and a couple of slices of tomato on top of each.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was an engaging little creature, full of sprightliness and life.
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The place was doing sprightly business on a random Thursday night in autumn and the staff are fantastically well informed and very relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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An olive branch or sprig is located above the Roman numerals, with a bound cluster of three arrows below.
Three Cent Silver, Type 2, 1854-1858 : Coin Guide
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Remove bay leaf and thyme sprig before serving.
The Sun
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Methoughte such doughtie menn must have a sprighte
The Rowley Poems
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It was expertly pruned last year and is now a gnarled but very sprightly old lady, full of fruit.
Times, Sunday Times
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I should like rather a LARGE Christmas tree, if it's convenient: not one of those "sprigs," five or six feet high, that you used to have three or four years ago, when the birdlings were not fairly feathered out; but a tree of some size.
The Birds' Christmas Carol
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By this time I had my black wardrobe more or less together, and had learned not to say, “Well, hi there!” in sprightly tones.
Margaret atwood | waterstone’s poetry lecture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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May 7th, 2006 at 1: 27 pm unbelievable says: the sprig of parsley is placed in such a “devil may care†manner.
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Ingredients 2 heads garlic, papery outer skin removed and cloves separated 2 sprigs thyme or marjoram 6-7 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for drizzling Salt 4 chicken breasts, boneless with skin attached (about 2 pounds) 4 tablespoons mixed herbs (thyme, marjoram, sage) chopped medium-fine 4 small, firm zucchini, wiped clean 1 large sprig basil 1 sprig mint 1 lemon What To Do: 1.
Grilled Chicken With Garlic Purée and Shaved Zucchini Salad
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Squeeze over a little lemon juice and add any leftover sprigs of rosemary.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serve garnished with a few mixed berries and a sprig of mint.
Times, Sunday Times
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This great match of flavours was served with a little sprig of fresh fennel, which led the charge of the other flavours through the creamy goats cheese.
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Stir well and add more ice and mint sprig to garnish.
The Sun
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Season and add six sprigs of thyme.
Times, Sunday Times
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But when I looked lower down, there was a sweeter message still, for the mezereon was awake, with its tiny porcelain crimson flowers and its minute leaves of bright green, budding as I think Aaron's rod must have budded, the very crust of the sprig bursting into little flames of green and red.
Escape, and Other Essays
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a sprightly dance
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The tables had a ravaged look - platters almost empty and puddled with brownish juices, serving spoons staining the linens, parsley sprigs limp and bedraggled.
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A PM can start a term resembling a sprightly pup, full of vim, but end it looking like the human equivalent of a Labrador whose back legs have gone.
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_Staple of News, Devil's an Ass_, and the rest, if they be not so sprightful and vigorous as his first pieces, all that are old will, and all that desire to be old, should excuse him therein; and therefore let the Name of _Ben Johnson_ sheild them against whoever shall think fit to be severe in censure against them.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)
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The travel and time schedules of a presidential campaign are brutally taxing even for the sprightliest of contenders.
UPDATED: McCain makes a major mistake about a very basic Iraq issue -- two days in a row
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He writes again in the morning to say that he's feeling much more sprightly.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- for some suppose the sprig of eryngo to signify that he was already betrothed to her.
Albert Durer
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As an old man of 75, he is surprisingly sprightly.
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Plantagenet was Geoffrey's nickname, derived from his habit of sporting sprigs of broom Latin: planta genista in his helmet.
Great dynasties of the world: The Plantagenets
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All that was left was for French to show his enduring sprightliness with the clincher 11 minutes from time.
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Decorate with a slice of kiwi and a sprig of mint.
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Few bay leaves and sprigs of thyme, rosemary or sage.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the gravy has been reduced to the right consistency, add a handful of rosemary sprigs and bubble for a few more minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing fierceness of the cowardly Rhodomont.
Scaramouche
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The day was used to raise funds for the war effort and many trees were denuded in order to supply the many sprigs of wattle sold on that day.
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She is 67 now, but sprightly with a fierce, restless energy.
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A sprig dipped in olive oil makes a good brush for basting meat or fish.
The Sun
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Consequently, the diesel feels decidedly sprightly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Add soda and garnish with a lemon slice and rosemary sprig.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is only the very small works, some with just half a dot on a tiddly canvas, that have a more sprightly, human feel.
Full circle: the endless attraction of Damien Hirst's spot paintings
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Briskly quartered tomatoes lay on the chopping board next to a sprig of spring onions with wispy, soiled roots and fresh green stalks, bound by a blue elastic band.
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Serve garnished with small sprigs of basil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Put the discs of cheese in a flat dish, tuck in the sprigs of thyme, the lightly crushed peppercorns and the bay leaves then pour over the olive oil.
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Strip the leaves from a sprig of mint and place in a tall glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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And again, in the closing sentences of the monitorial lecture of the Third Degree, the same sentiment is repeated, and we are told that by "the ever green and ever living sprig" the Mason is strengthened "with confidence and composure to look forward to a blessed immortality.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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If desired, garnish each tartlet with a leaf of chervil or a small sprig of dill.
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After a recent day with Hill, I discovered a little of that magic in my jacket pocket on the drive home: the piney scent of a sprig of rosemary.
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For the grape-leaf sprigging, I used some leaves from my garden (dating from before the leafhopper and skeletonizer incidents) Â I rolled out a thin slab of clay and then laid leaves on top, then rolled on top of the leaves to embed the veins into the clay.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Crow and Grape Leaf Cookie Jar
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Nibble on a sprig of parsley after eating raw onions or garlic or whenever your breath smells sour.
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Shake over a generous amount of good, though not expensive, olive oil and season with salt, coarsely ground black pepper and the leaves from the thyme sprigs.
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Late spring I played God and altered the local flora--I bought 3 sprigs of elodea.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Is your once sprightly PC now grinding slowly along?
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It is not many yeares since (worthy assembly) that in Bulloigne there dwelt a learned Physitian, a man famous for skill, and farre renowned, whose name was Master Albert, and being growne aged, to the estimate of threescore and tenne yeares: hee had yet such a sprightly disposition, that though naturall heate and vigour had quite shaken hands with him, yet amorous flames and desires had not wholly forsaken him.
The Decameron
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Applied to almost anything spriggy and floral, it supposedly encapsulated everything that is fussy and backward-looking about British style.
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To frame a system which shall suit the condition of our country and the genius of its government, which shall develop the faculties of the mind and improve the good dispositions of the heart; which shall embrace in its views the rich and the poor, the dull and the sprightly is a work of great magnitude and requires details to give it efficacy, which the little time allowed to your committee
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I
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Arrange the chicken on a platter with the sprigs of coriander, lime wedges and the sauce in ramekins for dipping.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strip the leaves from a sprig of mint and place in a tall glass.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thoroughly wash the anchovies, cut off the fillets, and chop very fine with a sprig of parsley and a few chives, or a slice or two of Bermuda onion; put the whole into a mortar and pound well, adding, meanwhile, a little paprica.
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
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Nor was he ever really himself until he felt the mellow warmth of the vine singing in his blood He was an artist, it is true, always an artist; but somehow, sober the high pitch and lilt went out of his thought-processes and he was prone to be as deadly dull as a British Sunday — not dull as other men are dull, but dull when measured by the sprightly wight that
WHEN GOD LAUGHS
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But still Villa were sprightly.
Times, Sunday Times
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A single musician played a sprightly tune on a curious stringed instrument with two necks.
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Walking around the area, it's easy to spot many of the sprightly older generation.
The Sun
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Many of her letters have been preserved, and show a sprightliness which is well borne out by her portrait, that of a charming old lady in a turban, with bright eyes and a humorous mouth.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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In this arrangement, cornflowers and various shrub roses are set off with sprigs of sage and lemon balm, and tied up with a bow for a little extra punch.
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This is a brilliant accompaniment for sizzling, crisp breaded chicken and Parmesan fillets, served with deep fried lightly battered cauliflower sprigs.
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Yesterday, the 33-year-old looked decidedly sprightly for his age.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flesh is a little coarse, very juicy, sprightly, subacid, and desirable for either dessert or culinary uses.
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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The singer has an even, rounded tone, an apposite feeling for ornament and an ability to phrase with sprightly elegance.
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If you are mulling cider, a sprig of rosemary added to the pot will work wonders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lastly, that they gather only (unless in case of necessity) leaves from the present, not from the former years sprigs, or old wood, which are not only rude and harsh, but are annex’d to stubb’d stalks, which injure the worms, and spoil the denudated branches.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
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As for his other Comedies, Staple of News, Devil's an Ass, and the rest, if they be not so sprightful and vigorous as his first pieces, all that are old will, and all that desire to be old, should excuse him therein; and therefore let the Name of Ben Johnson sheild them against whoever shall think fit to be severe in censure against them.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
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He picks up the tiny sprig with the half-eaten salamander still perched on it and holds it four inches from his mouth, enumerating the various classifications of the creature: the coloring, the reticulations, the patterns, the species.
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A sprig of holly in our tum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her Majesty looked sprightly on Monday night as she resumed public duties after her recent spell in hospital.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her hair is rather scarce, and worn in bandeaux, and she commonly mounts a sprig of laurel, or a dark flower or two, which with the sham tour — I believe that is the name of the knob of artificial hair that many ladies sport — gives her a rigid and classical look.
Mens Wives
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Nonfunctional garnishes - the old sprig of parsley - are out.
The Times Literary Supplement
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More little sprigs began sprinkling down on us from above, and then the sprinkle became a downpour.
