Bushes Sentence Examples

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  • Out here in the bushes with a man you just met.

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  • I paid him for three bushes.

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  • He pushed the bushes aside and went a little farther.

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  • Dan and Elise rose from the bushes and lowered their weapons.

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  • The western half of these plains has only a few trees along the watercourses and some scraggy bushes of oak, juniper and cedar in the more hilly sections.

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  • There had been trees and bushes in her time, but none of them remained.

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  • After two years' growth the bushes should be 4 to 6 ft.

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  • She filled the canteens and started back to camp, pausing when Bordeaux emerged from the bushes below.

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  • I think that he must have fallen upon some bushes and vines that grew in some parts of the chasm.

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  • Mature bushes are 3 feet or so high and rather more through.

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  • His body was discovered in some bushes near the ocean, up the coast.

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  • At the back of the garden there will be modern woodland planting including angelica, ferns, Libertia and blueberry bushes.

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  • All are peculiarly suited for rough places, and will scramble over bushes.

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  • Soon a green river winked at them playfully between rocks and bushes, and roared impressively as they entered the clearing at the mill site.

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  • Forests of conifers (Picea obovata) and deciduous trees - Przhevalsky's poplar, birch, mountain ash, &c., and a variety of bushes - are common everywhere.

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  • Weigelas make large bushes, 6 to 10 feet high and as much in diameter, and their graceful drooping branches are ornamental, even when leafless in winter.

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  • These grow well as bushes, some of the first sometimes 10 feet, and as much in diameter.

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  • These I put in, and are now graceful bushes, quite hardy, and without a sign of going back.

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  • There are now several species available, all of them handsome decorative bushes, both as regards foliage and flowers.

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  • Pick the tomatoes off the bushes and place them in a single layer in boxes or brown paper bags.

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  • They grow 6 to 9 inches high, forming dense bushes, with many small pinkish, and sometimes white, flowers.

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  • Of compact and fairly rapid growth, they make dense bushes of 6 to 10 feet, freely branched to the ground, and of so good a shape that they may be almost left alone.

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  • It climbs over bushes to a height of 4 to 8 feet, and may be planted to cover a trellis or to roam among the shrubs at the back of a sunny rock garden, several tubers being planted together to secure the best effect.

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  • Himalayan Heather (Cassiope) - Tiny alpine bushes, thriving in peaty soil well drained, as they are all impatient of stagnant moisture about their roots, while absolute shade from the midday sun is also necessary.

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  • A word should be said for Tree Ivies, which make fine bushes in the garden, and may be associated with other shrubs in beds.

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  • Other species of Santolina suited for rock gardens are S. pectinata and S. viridis, which form bushes something like the Lavender Cotton.

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  • Small plants quickly become Lilliputian bushes, 3 inches to 6 inches high, and when fully exposed are almost as compact as Moss.

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  • Mutisia Ilicifolia - Native of Chili, where it grows over bushes.

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  • Pear and Apple (Pyrus) - Beautiful flowering trees and bushes of which there is now a bewildering number, since botanists have classed all Apples, Pears, and their allies under the one family.

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  • Isolated plants in good soil make well-shaped bushes, 3 or 4 feet high and as much through, and look better than when planted closely in rows.

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  • It is a tall, upright grower, established bushes being 6 feet high.

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  • The plant ought to be grown by the thousand, and anybody with a few bushes of it can save the seed for this purpose.

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  • Sand Myrtle (Leiophyllum) - L. buxifolium is a neat, pretty, and tiny shrub, forming compact bushes 4 to 6 inches high, with evergreen leaves resembling those of the Box.

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  • Its habit and relationship make it interesting, and it is easily grown in shady or half-shady spots, and under or near Hollies or other bushes.

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  • The hardier varieties are admirable for artistic gardening, their fine forms being very effective when tastefully grouped on the fringe of beds of choice bushes and when touching and seeming to spring out of the grass.

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  • Wormwood (Artemisia) - Herbs and low bushes covering a large part of the surface of northern and arid regions.

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  • Either plant deciduous plants, trees, or bushes for a natural solution or use a shade cloth.

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  • If you want to preserve the harvest or you plan to raise some fruit permanently in the garden, such as a bed of strawberry plants or raspberry bushes, add on separate beds for each.

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  • If you know your roses attract Japanese beetles, place garlic and rue near your rose bushes to help keep them away.

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  • Trees are flat, grass and bushes (or what I thought were bushes) were terribly angled and when you walked through them, your character just disappeared.

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  • Large bushes shadow Sam's presence, small bodies of water speak to enemies when disturbed, and large blades of grass can hide a well camouflaged spy.

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  • For example, if you grab "Joe", we'll say, and place him near the berry bushes, he may start to learn how to forage and gather food.

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  • Build your fire pit in a safe location at least eight feet from bushes, trees, and tents.

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  • Build your campfire at least eight feet away from buildings, tents, bushes, trees, and structures.

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  • The plant grows in vines (typical in the Midwest, East coast, and South) or small bushes (in the North, West, and Great Lakes region), and has clusters of three leaves.

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  • Plant bushes next to an older home with painted exterior walls to keep children at a distance.

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  • Very traditional farmers burn bushes and clear out last year's patches of corn and other crops as the dance is executed.

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  • Primarily, traditional cemeteries have few trees or bushes since they have cleared the land to allow for as many burials as possible.

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  • Eco-cemeteries on the other hand encourage the planting of trees or bushes to remember loved ones.

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  • The pathway leading to the front door should be free of clutter, bushes should be neatly trimmed and the area should look pleasing and inviting.

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  • Children at a wedding will inevitably play, and their activities could include running, hiding beneath tables, climbing chairs, dancing, or running into bushes or under arches at an outdoor celebration.

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  • Candid shots were snapped, presumably from behind bushes, of the couple enjoying their time and just lounging around easily.

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  • Minimize obstructions that may block the candles' light by pruning bushes and removing snow buildup on windows.

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  • Take advantage of outdoor sockets to make your bushes and trees shine and twinkle.

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  • The tree crushed all the bushes that it landed on when it fell with the exception of a tiny fir tree.

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  • Rose Bushes - A woman loves to receive flowers, but fresh cut flowers wilt and die within a few days, a rose bush can bloom every year and gives her fresh cut flowers for seasons to come.

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  • Set up garbage cans around the lawn, tie ribbons to various trees and bushes that will serve as targets, and hang a Hoola-hoop from a tree or clothesline.

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  • The group gathers around the wall of bushes, better known as a hedge to humans, and discusses what this could be and what they should do.

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  • Boys were doubled over in the bushes, so sick they couldn't speak.

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  • Many Sasquatch photographs are simply shadows from rocks, bushes and trees that have a human-like appearance.

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  • If the evidence shows broken shrubs and bushes along with footprints, be sure to take multiple pictures to include close-ups of the broken branches.

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  • These included sharpened rocks, sea shells and plant material such as wood or thorny bushes.

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  • Feel free to remove bushes, trees, or other elements that distract from the painting's overall composition.

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  • Deciding to use the sun to orient herself, she detoured around several dense patches of blackberry bushes.

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  • She finally reached the bottom of the embankment and fell headlong into a bunch of blackberry bushes.

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  • What if a snake had been in those bushes?

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  • She started to call out to him, but a pretty young Indian girl emerged from those same bushes.

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  • He carried it into the bushes but I didn't want to see it so I didn't follow him.

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  • Surely such sleuthing and cleverness deserves more reward than hiding in the bushes and watching the dogs of law ineptly do their duty.

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  • And when my father finds you lurking in the bushes beneath my window?

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  • She looked to the bushes several floors down and decided it was worth the risk.

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  • Carmen saw Alex's truck parked in the drive of an old vacant house where she had admired some healthy quince bushes.

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  • Digging up some of these quince bushes.

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  • As in, there are the two of you being lovey-dovey and happy, and me hanging out by the bushes.

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  • Lana made out his form as he emerged from the bushes.

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  • He hid the rest of his weapons under some bushes near the entrance to the underground world and drew a deep breath.

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  • The cubes were gone.  Swiping at lively bushes, she inched forward, searching for the cubes.

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  • Those are sumac bushes.

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  • Clara identified some of the bushes - all the while filling Megan in on the goings on in town.

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  • She found a hand saw in the shed and cut down several small trees and some sumac bushes.

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  • How could she have let him talk her into swimming in a creek where snakes slithering around in the nearby bushes?

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  • Yet it builds its nest in thick bushes or trees at about a man's height from the ground, therein laying two eggs, which Professor Burmeister likens to those of the Land-Rail in colour.'

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  • In the dry, saline regions of the west and north-west, where the rainfall is slight, there are large thickets of low-growing, thorny bushes, poor in foliage.

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  • In life, however, its appearance must be wholly unlike, for it rarely flies, hops actively on the ground or among bushes, with its tail erect or turned towards its head, and continually utters various and strange notes, - some, says Darwin, are "like the cooing of doves, others like the bubbling of water, and many defy all similes."

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  • Where artificial copsewood is the object, hazel, hornbeam and other bushes may be planted between the oaks; but, when large timber is required, the trees are best without undergrowth.

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  • The vine is cultivated throughout the length and breadth of Italy, but while in some of the districts of the south and centre it occupies from 10 to 20% of the cultivated area, in some of the northern provinces, such as Sondrio, Belluno, Grosseto, &c., the average is only about I or 2% The methods of cultivation are varied; but the planting of the vines by themselves in long rows of insignificant bushes is the exception.

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  • Many trees offer magnificent displays of flowers at certain seasons of the year; perhaps the loveliest effect is derived from the bushes and trailing creepers of the Combretum genus, which, during the "winter" months from December to March, cover the scrub and the forest with mantles of rose colour.

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  • Cottonwoods line the streams, salt-loving vegetation margins the bare playas, low bushes and scattered bunch-grass grow over the lowlands, especially in the north.

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  • Gray desert plants, notably cactuses and other thorny plants, partly replace in the south the bushes of the north.

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  • Captain Taylor, however, found their nests as well on low bushes of the same tree in the Bay of Fonseca (Ibis, 1859, pp. 150-152).

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  • It was formerly supposed that this custom was peculiar to a single species, which was called the "gossamer" spider from the fact that the floating webs, when brought to the earth by rain or intercepted by bushes and trees, coat the foliage or grass with a sheeting of gossamer-like silk; but the habit is now known to be practised by the newly-hatched young of a great variety of species belonging to several distinct families.

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  • When concealment is no longer possible terrestrial species, like the Lycosidae, dart swiftly to the nearest shelter afforded by crevices in the soil, stones, fallen leaves or logs of wood, while those that live in bushes, like the Argyopidae, drop straight to the ground and lie hidden in the earth or in the fallen vegetation beneath.

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  • Then come the catinga tracts, and, beyond these, the open campos of the elevated plateau, dotted with clumps of low growing bushes and broken by tracts of carrasco, a thick, matted, bushy growth 10 to 12 ft.

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  • Few of the low veld bushes are large or straight enough to furnish any useful wood, and timber trees are wholly absent from the level country.

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  • Feran there is little cultivable land, the greater part consisting of bare, rocky hills and sandy valleys, sparsely covered with tamarisk and acacia bushes.

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  • Though almost waterless, it is in fact better wooded and richer in pasture than any part of the Hamad; the sand-hills are dotted with ghada, a species of tamarisk, and other bushes, and several grasses and succulent plants - among them the adar, on which sheep are said to feed for a month without requiring water - are found in abundance in good seasons.

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  • The Nafud sands, too, are tufted in many places with bushes or small trees, and after the winter rains they produce excellent pasture.

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  • It builds its nest in March, or early in April, in thick bushes or in ivy-clad trees, and usually rears at least two broods each season.

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  • Thus the artificial lakes and hills, the stones forming rockeries or simulating solitary crags, the trees and even the bushes are all selected or manipulated so as to fall congruously into the general scheme.

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  • It feeds exclusively on leaves and branches of bushes and small trees, and chiefly frequents the sides of wood-clad rugged hills.

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  • Then follow the low, dense, prone, pillow-like dwarf bushes, thorny and grey, common to the Oriental highlands - A stragalus and the peculiar Acantholimon.

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  • They feed on various vegetable substances, as shoots of trees and bushes, American Tapir (Tapirus).

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  • The vegetation consists almost entirely of scrubby bushes of several varieties, including tamarisks and wild briers, of reeds (kamish), and of grass on the yaylaks (pasture-grounds) of the middle ranges.

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  • Good pasture grounds are only found near the streams. The soil is dry gravel and clay, upon which bushes of Ephedra, Nitraria and Salsolaceae grow sparsely.

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  • It generally inhabits woody districts, and can climb trees with facility when hunted, but usually lives on or near the ground, among rocks, bushes and roots and low branches of large trees.

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  • There is but little natural vegetation to be seen - ragged yucca trees, many species of agave and cactus, scrubby mesquite bushes, sage bushes and occasional clumps of coarse grasses.

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  • In central and southern Mexico the mountain slopes are forested up to 12,500 to 13,500 ft., juniper bushes continuing up to 14,000 ft.

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  • Maize or Indian corn was cultivated on patches of ground where, as in the Hindu jam, the trees and bushes were burnt and the seed planted in the soil manured by the ashes.

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  • Its nest, which is a model of neatness and symmetry, it builds on trees and bushes, preferring such as are overgrown with moss and lichens.

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  • The species of Octodon have larger ears, longer, tufted tails and the sides of the cheekteeth indented by plates of enamel; they are chiefly found in hedgerows and bushes, where they burrow.

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  • They are solitary birds, frequenting countries possessing extensive swamps and marshy grounds, remaining at rest by day, concealed among the reeds and bushes of their haunts, and seeking their food, which consists of fish, reptiles, insects and small quadrupeds, in the twilight.

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  • Net up, in dry weather, gooseberry and currant bushes, to preserve the fruit till late in the autumn.

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  • The lion lives chiefly in sandy plains and rocky places interspersed with dense thorn-thickets, or frequents the low bushes and tall rank grass and reeds that grow along the sides of streams and near the springs where it lies in wait for the larger herbivorous animals on which it feeds.

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  • On the north the hills rise gradually from the shore, which is fringed with oleander bushes and indented with small bays.

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  • It may then be learnt who made the first cup of tea, who planted the earliest bushes, and how the primitive methods of manufacture were evolved.

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  • The object of this cutting down is to cause the bushes to spread out and cover the ground area usually allowed to each plant, i.e.

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  • When the duke of Bedford besieged Orleans the inhabitants offered to surrender, but to the duke of Burgundy; whereupon Bedford retorted that "he did not beat the bushes for others to take the birds."

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  • In the deserts haifa grass and several kinds of thorn bushes grow; and wherever rain or springs have moistened the ground, numerous wild flowers thrive.

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  • Formerly the island appears to have been wooded, but it now presents only a few bushes (Edwardsia, Broussonetia, &c.), ferns, grasses, sedges, &c. The natives grow bananas in the shelter of artificial pits, also sugar-canes and sweet potatoes, and keep a few goats and a large stock of domestic fowls, and a Tahitian commercial house breeds cattle and sheep on the island.

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  • At many parts of the north coast the edges of this plateau reach the shore in precipitous cliffs, but in others low plains, dotted with bushes and date-palms, front the heights behind.

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  • In the arid portions of this and the tropic areas the indigenous plants are creosote, mesquite and alfileria bushes, desert acacias, paloverdes, alkali-heath, salt grass, agaves, yuccas (especially the Spanish-bayonet and Joshua tree) and cactuses.

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  • Blanford considers that it dwells among grass and bushes rather than in forests.

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  • This dwarf system of culture gives the Medoc vineyards at a distance the appearance of a sea of small bushes, thereby producing an effect entirely different from, for instance, that seen on the Rhine with its high basket-shaped plants.

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  • The sandy lands were in part burnt over by Indians, and there was a growth of scrub oak, aspens and huckleberry bushes.

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  • Huckleberry, blackberry and raspberry bushes are common in the north sections.

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  • As early as 1285 a law provided for the cutting down of trees and bushes on either side of highways, so as to deprive lawless men of cover.

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  • Bushes are common in western Alaska, but undergrowth is very scanty in the forests.

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  • In the valleys and lowlands the vegetation is dense, but the general appearance of the plateaus is of a comparatively bare country with trees and bushes thinly scattered over it.

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  • Certain species of Pinus, the yews (Taxus) and some other genera grow as bushes, which in place of a main mast-like stem possess several repeatedly-branched leading shoots.

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  • They live either among bushes or in trees, and make a neat nest for the reception of their young, which are born blind.

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  • Alloys prepared in this way, and known as phosphor bronze, may contain only about 1% of phosphorus in the ingot, reduced to a mere trace after casting, but their value is nevertheless enhanced for purposes in which a hard strong metal is required, as for pump plungers, valves, the bushes of bearings, &c. Bronze again is improved by the presence of manganese in small quantity, and various grades of manganese bronze, in some of which there is little or no tin but a considerable percentage of zinc, are extensively used in mechanical engineering.

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  • It has heaps, but no hills; bushes, but no trees, unless indeed three or four tamarisks of aspiring height deserve the name; many old ruins and vestiges of civilization, but few monuments or relics of antiquity.

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  • In proof thereof, we may quote the case of an extensive grower in the midland counties - sending fruit to the London market in tons - whose crop of gooseberries increased nearly fourfold after establishing a number of stocks of bees in close proximity to the gooseberry bushes.

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  • The pie's nest is a wonderfully ingenious structure, placed either in high trees or low bushes, and so massively built that it will stand for years.

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  • Further ahead were some Gooseberry and Huckleberry bushes void of fruit.

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  • His bare back glistened as he walked across the patio and tossed the snake into the bushes.

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  • He lay under bushes on a hill overlooking the resort area of the clubhouse with another Guardian.

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  • More than likely what has happened, is that the bushes that the front aero operates on have seized.

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  • Even the lizards had gone on holiday to escape the furnace heat, leaving only barbed wire bushes and a tap 500 yds away.

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  • In spring the butterflies often bask on bare ground, on low foliage or on bushes.

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  • It consists of a single story surface brick blockhouse, now partly hidden by trees and bushes.

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  • The Emir also benefits from 24 hour security and features private, landscaped gardens with many stunning fragrant bushes, shrubs and vibrant bougainvillea.

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  • Very few have been seen this year, although September saw a surge in the numbers of Peacock Butterflies seen on garden buddleia bushes.

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  • He agreed and two weeks ago discovered the joys of speeding humps, raised slabs, potholes and overgrown bushes.

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  • Time fished roach dead bait close to overhanging bushes.

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  • June or July is the best time to prune raspberry bushes.

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  • This kind of damage often comes from parking your car into undergrowth, be sure to trim back bushes from your driveway.

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  • Plant wildlife-friendly vegetation, such as prickly bushes and thick climbers in the garden to provide secure cover for birds.

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  • Evidence suggested that the murderer hid among flowering bushes in front of the Simpson home waiting for the victim.

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  • It turned right with gorse bushes in the hedge giving extra color.

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  • Runs (center) can be seen emerging from bramble bushes.

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  • Do look for the big spiders in the low bushes, pale upper parts and very colorful under parts!

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  • Genner V and Bonnevie P (1938) Eczematous eruptions produced by leaves of trees and bushes.

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  • A smallholder coffee farmer bends to inspect several bushes which have just caught his attention.

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  • Dragonfly Flight Times Pretty young gold finches were in the bushes on the railroad track south of Old Shoreham.

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  • Most of the leaves have now fallen from the Hazel bushes and the small, tightly furled catkins are already visible on the branches.

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  • He made his way in to the bushes then he jumped up in the jungle gym.

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  • Birds eat the haws on the hawthorn bushes and deposit the remains across the common, surface planting them for germination in the summer.

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  • It means you can run your hands through the bushes when you walk by and it smells just heavenly.

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  • They are good, upright dense bushes with slightly smaller leaves than common holly.

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  • Forsythia and winter jasmine at the side of the building provide color in the Spring and cotoneaster bushes are planted at the rear.

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  • A pack of 5 bushes was a quid at last year's Beaulieu auto jumble.

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  • With some luck it is possible to see the rare lesser kudu, gazelles, zebra and other game in the surrounding bushes.

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  • This shallow loch is surrounded by rhododendron bushes, which are in full bloom in the summer.

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  • There might even be porno mags hidden in the bushes across the street.

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  • Extending this just a little further allows conversations with standing stones, cave paintings, even burning bushes.

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  • I don't beleive this ' ' little britain is just bushes poodle ' ' line, it worries me.

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  • Last listed in 1998, it seems popular with florists, but I couldn't find any rose bushes.

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  • It is the earlier type which has bronze bushes rather than needle rollers.

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  • Sounds silly but the falcon knows that nothing likes going into thorn bushes, so she is protecting herself against retaliation by other rooks.

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  • From his eye, he saw a third ruffian hurtle backward into the bushes.

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  • If you feel your back end is a bit saggy it might be to do with your bushes.

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  • Suspension changes include retuned shock absorbers, adjustments to the bushes in the rear suspension and changes in anti-roll bar thickness.

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  • Rear Suspension alternative material bushes; lowering blocks; telescopic shock absorbers using any design of bracket; spring rates may be altered.

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  • If you have a garden shredder you can also grind and compost twigs and branches left from the summer pruning of trees and bushes.

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  • It smelled of Africa, that pungent spicy smell from the sage bushes.

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  • Jude watched the little sparrows, scratching about under the bushes.

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  • Two or three stunted bushes were boxed into a small strip of grass that bounded it like a monk's tonsure.

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  • You continue to descend through a dramatic gorge lined with Mediterranean bushes that is home to 200 pairs of griffon vultures.

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  • Bird Life Among the bushes by a shady path an adult calls a warning to four young wrens.

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  • In areas of dense scrub and bushes, the explosive songs of Cetti's Warblers may be heard almost year-round.

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  • The shores of the larger islands are fringed in some parts with a dense barrier of mangroves, backed by an often impenetrable thicket of tropical undergrowth, which, as the ridges are ascended, give place to taller trees and deep green bushes which are covered with orchids and trailing moss (orchilla), and from which creepers hang down interlacing the vegetation.

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  • They are most ravenous feeders, stripping bushes and trees completely of their foliage, and even fruit.

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  • One of the most troublesome pests of the interior is a minute degenerate spider of the genus Ixodes, called carrapato, or bush-tick, which breeds on the ground and then creeps up the grass blades and bushes where it waits for some passing man or beast.

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  • Besides the grass and the creepers the bush is made up of berry-yielding bushes (some of the bushes being rich in aromatic resinous matter), the wait-abit thorn and white thorned mimosa.

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  • Do not all people grow upon bushes where you came from, on the outside of the earth?

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  • On some of the bushes might be seen a bud, a blossom, a baby, a half-grown person and a ripe one; but even those ready to pluck were motionless and silent, as if devoid of life.

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  • There the bushes were very close together and the pathway came to an end.

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  • Something was pushing its way through the bushes.

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  • Then I will drag it out of the bushes and call mamma to come and see it.

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  • It was only a pet calf that had come there to browse among the bushes.

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  • I recall my surprise on discovering that a mysterious hand had stripped the trees and bushes, leaving only here and there a wrinkled leaf.

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  • The withered grass and the bushes were transformed into a forest of icicles.

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  • It is fun to try to steer by the scent of watergrasses and lilies, and of bushes that grow on the shore.

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  • Already she began to see quite plainly the little elves in their tall pointed hats, dancing down the dusky alleys, and peeping from between the bushes, and they seemed to come nearer and nearer; and she stretched her hands up towards the tree in which the doll sat and they laughed, and pointed their fingers at her.

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  • It was very beautiful; but the idle fairies were too much frightened at the mischief their disobedience had caused, to admire the beauty of the forest, and at once tried to hide themselves among the bushes, lest King Frost should come and punish them.

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  • At length every jar and vase was cracked or broken, and the precious stones they contained were melting, too, and running in little streams over the trees and bushes of the forest.

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  • So they hid themselves among the bushes and waited silently for something to happen.

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  • Frequently he would leave his dinner in the bushes, when his dog had caught a woodchuck by the way, and go back a mile and a half to dress it and leave it in the cellar of the house where he boarded, after deliberating first for half an hour whether he could not sink it in the pond safely till nightfall--loving to dwell long upon these themes.

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  • Once more, on the left, where are seen the well and lilac bushes by the wall, in the now open field, lived Nutting and Le Grosse.

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  • At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.

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  • If the forest is cut off, the sprouts and bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever.

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  • Not seeing any ducks, he hid his boat on the north or back side of an island in the pond, and then concealed himself in the bushes on the south side, to await them.

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  • I hear a song sparrow singing from the bushes on the shore,--olit, olit, olit,--chip, chip, chip, che char,--che wiss, wiss, wiss.

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  • He seized his pistol and, instead of firing it, flung it at the Frenchman and ran with all his might toward the bushes.

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  • He mustered his last remaining strength, took hold of his left hand with his right, and reached the bushes.

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  • Bagration called to him from the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes.

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  • Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level ground like cliffs and slopes.

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  • The hazel bushes parted behind the hounds and Daniel's chestnut horse appeared, dark with sweat.

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  • He was galloping round by the bushes while the field was coming up on both sides, all trying to head the wolf, but it vanished into the wood before they could do so.

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  • Through a gap in the broken wall he could see, beside the wooden fence, a row of thirty year-old birches with their lower branches lopped off, a field on which shocks of oats were standing, and some bushes near which rose the smoke of campfires-- the soldiers' kitchens.

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  • From the left, over fields and bushes, those large balls of smoke were continually appearing followed by their solemn reports, while nearer still, in the hollows and woods, there burst from the muskets small cloudlets that had no time to become balls, but had their little echoes in just the same way.

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  • He had felt it for the first time when the shell spun like a top before him, and he looked at the fallow field, the bushes, and the sky, and knew that he was face to face with death.

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  • Near by could be seen the familiar ruins of a half-burned mansion occupied by the French, with lilac bushes still showing dark green beside the fence.

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  • When he espied Denisov he hastily threw something into the bushes, removed his sodden hat by its floppy brim, and approached his commander.

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  • Tikhon followed behind and Petya heard the Cossacks laughing with him and at him, about some pair of boots he had thrown into the bushes.

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  • The French were making a stand there behind a wattle fence in a garden thickly overgrown with bushes and were firing at the Cossacks who crowded at the gateway.

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  • Land is river sand & pumice based with good quality top soil Large and flat with some trees & bushes.

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  • She bent over and examined the bushes, finding a quart bottle hidden within the fronds and leaves.

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  • Among the trees grew tall rhododendron bushes with clusters of red blossom.

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  • I must have lost two dozen good rosemary bushes over the past 10 years solely through poor drainage coupled with winter wet.

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  • Alam was the last one and he did not run off into the bushes.

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  • There was no more growling; no more rustling in the bushes.

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  • The larvae, along with some sawfly larvae, share some responsibility for ' leaf roll ' damage to rose bushes.

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  • Developing our Forest Garden area by planting up a shrub layer of soft fruit bushes.

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  • You hide among the bushes, You fly with the air, You slink behind the shadows, But secretly you care.

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  • In Autumn, the sloe bushes provide a rich harvest for the gin drinkers.

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  • Trees and bushes normally on the bank of the river are clearly submerged by the flood waters.

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  • Tamarisk bushes provide a Mediterranean screening and privacy to this area.

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  • I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes.

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  • He was thrown off his feet into some thorny berry bushes.

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  • Two or three stunted bushes were boxed into a small strip of grass that bounded it like a monk 's tonsure.

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  • Urethane bushes should be fitted and the original lever arm shock should be checked for wear in the spindle.

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  • Planting of whin bushes on sand dunes at Jubilee Course.

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  • This month it has had to have a new head gasket, water pump, thermostat and a pair of rear wishbone suspension bushes.

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  • Front suspension bushes are altered and the rear lower wishbone bushes have greater stiffness in their lateral plane.

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  • In areas of dense scrub and bushes, the explosive songs of Cetti 's Warblers may be heard almost year-round.

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  • I am amazed at the number of trees and bushes that precariously grow on the side of this cliff.

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  • If you're looking for edible wild berries in the U.S. or Canada, most will be found on low bushes and creepers.

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  • Many berry bushes sport thorns so caution is needed when picking the fruit.

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  • However, you'll find most fruit-laden bushes in the sunlight along field edges and other places berry eating birds stop and spread the seed.

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  • Perhaps you've purchased a country or suburban home and notice some bushes that look surprisingly like blackberry or raspberry bushes, or you're wondering if those red berries are actually strawberries.

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  • Black bears are notorious consumers of berries and may be foraging among the same bushes you want to visit.

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  • Carefully edge around sideways and driveways and trim bushes.

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  • Having a wedding without the whirr of helicopters flying overhead or paparazzi hiding in the bushes is proving to be quite the challenge for couples who are in the public eye.

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  • Drape bushes with light netting, or place luminaries along the sidewalk leading up to the entrance.

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  • Crafta has a good selection of silk flowers, which can be purchased in bushes, swags, bouquets, sprays, and single stems.

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  • Lights rated for indoor/outdoor use are generally safe for placing on bushes or around trees.

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  • I. religiosum, also known as I. anisatum, from China and Japan, with pale yellow flowers, is also interesting, and may be grown against walls or as bushes in warm places.

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  • Among bushes or hedges, over railings, or on rough banks, it is charming, and takes care of itself.

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  • Some attain great dimensions, while others are dwarf bushes with woody root-stocks.

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  • Tom Thumb Dahlias - This is a very dwarf race, the plants forming little bushes, but they are not satisfactory, as they appear not to bloom with great freedom, whilst the growth does not retain its true dwarf character.

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  • Washing women in medieval and renaissance Europe were actually known as "lavenders" because they would dry laundry on lavender bushes and scent drawers with the fragrant herb.

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