When I sit down on empty days like this and wonder what to do with myself I think mostly of tidy roses and neatly mown lawns. |
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The next, a big gopher snake, fat with spring voles, suns itself on the mown grass. |
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Flowers, shrubs and neatly mown lawns have been concreted over so people can park their cars there instead. |
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The lawns are mown, the box hedge parterres are neatly clipped and the central fountain plays gently in the sunshine. |
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Many beautiful wild flowers, such as wood cranesbill and bistort, are mown down before they can seed. |
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The death of a child, mown down by a speeding sponsor in 2000, led the organisers to push as much traffic as they can on to diversionary routes. |
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The smell of freshly mown grass just brought it all back to me, and for one brief moment I was seven years old again. |
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It was a hot day and the windows were open and the smell of newly mown grass wafted in from the playing fields. |
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Is your course manicured with tightly mown fairways, fast, firm greens and deep greenside bunkers? |
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When they did sit down to eat, they were surrounded by the smell of newly mown grass. |
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Lawns are freshly mown, paintwork touched up, tiles buffeted by winter storms shoved back into line. |
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It seems like a window that you could step through and the gentle, washy colours are like the dew on freshly mown grass. |
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Garden designer Chris Paul drew a design for the mown areas, and suggested the cabbage trees and lancewoods to add height, says Kate. |
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A yeomanly tear was pricking at the corner of my eye as I stepped out across a small junction and was nearly mown down by a scooter. |
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The freshly mown hay lies in the hot sun waiting for the bailer to make bales and be done. |
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Those who escaped death from blast and shrapnel wounds were ordered outside, only to be mown down under a hail of bullets from automatic weapons. |
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The large park was neatly mown and the large trees provided a pleasant view from the road. |
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But as the paratroopers entered the main gateway to the Temple they were mown down. |
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At the conclusion of the coming six-part series, he is mown down by a female motorist and dies. |
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The family of an interior designer mown down by a hit-and-run driver are urging witnesses to help police catch him. |
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The top terrace consists of a lawn surrounded by borders, the bottom terrace is a small, mown orchard. |
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I loved the farm, tractors, machinery, the smell of cows, freshly worked fields and newly mown, hay. |
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The air smelled of daffodils and new mown grass, and spring was in the air. |
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What were phone calls and deadlines are now freshly cut grass, casein painted wood, and newly mown hay. |
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He is also working with Blumenthal on chocolates flavoured with the essence of fresh mown grass and leather. |
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We strolled along the mown grass on a long trail around the grounds lasting about an hour and a half, guided by a leaflet handed to us on arrival. |
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It popularly evokes long English summers, newly mown grass, the causeless boredom of childhood. |
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On March 13th, Mr Tsvangirai stopped short of calling for mass protests, doubtless for fear that his supporters would be mown down. |
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Many thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators then lost their lives in Tiananmen Square in 1989, mown down by the military. |
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None of these parcels had any trace of being grazed by animals or having been mown over several years. |
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The land can be used for grazing or mown for silage, hay or used for renewable energy production. |
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How large an area is mown depends primarily on the condition of the blades and the type of grass, growth rate and humidity. |
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For example, the quality of your lawn will improve if it is mown every other day instead of 12 hours each day. |
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It is intended for grass-cutting, scarifying and collecting mown grass and leaves in autumn. |
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Huge areas must also be mown in the shortest time possible so that the crop dries evenly and the best use is made of short weather windows. |
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This mowing system means the lawn is mown equally without any mowing lines. |
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In other words, meadows which have reached maturity need to be mown for transpiration to continue. |
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It also includes the construction of a new eco-manure production unit which recycles rushes mown on the site. |
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Olive groves must be maintained either by planting crops or sowing grass which is mown or used as pasture every year. |
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Make sure that there are no small animals on the area to be mown before you start. |
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It looks like a giant's white powder puff that when cut reveals a smooth, pale cheese with an aroma that hints of lemon, milk and freshly mown grass. |
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The smell of freshly baked bread, a newly mown lawn, chocolate, and pine trees have all been reported to have been used by firms to invoke a sense of calm in customers. |
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When the rotor starts spinning, the mowing and scarifying knives are raised and thus catch hold of the material to be mown and cut it off. |
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So the park authority contracts a grazier on an annual basis to keep it mown. |
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If the grass has exceeded this length, the lawn should be mown before it is aerated. |
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In fact, my partner, Lance, observed that the lush, manicured verdure through which we were driving looked like it was mown and rolled on a daily basis. |
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This will ensure both areas are mown equally and the grass close to the charging station will not appear downtrodden. |
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And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched. |
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Is it newly mown grass, pies baking, or a favorite aunt's perfume? |
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Where there were once rose beds and lawned areas up past Hermit Hole, there is now rough grass which is occasionally and halfheartedly mown and the cuttings left to rot. |
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It is not surprising that they were mown down by machine-gun fire. |
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This law contains the rules governing how pitches should be prepared, mown, rolled, and maintained. |
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Eggs hatch in a few days and the larvae, which prefer unshaded, frequently mown lawns, burrow to 10-20 cm from the soil surface and continue feeding on tender young grass roots and humus until temperatures drop to freezing. |
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Southsea Common is a large expanse of mown grassland parallel to the shore from Clarence Pier to Southsea Castle. |
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The lawn is not mown and the grass is 50 cm high. |
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At the roundabout by the Abobo town hall, near the spot where just four days earlier seven unarmed women were mown down by Mr Gbagbo's security forces, we are stopped at an improvised barricade. |
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The meadows close to the holding are mown for hay during this period. |
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The latest shows a rabble of angry cavemen charging repeatedly out of their caves only to be mown down by machine guns or blown up by bombs while Western and Arab spectators look on nonchalantly. |
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Some were mown down while waiting to vote. |
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Under no conditions should grass be mown to a height of less than 7.5 cm. |
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The clipped, controlled sward in front of the family homestead, meticulously mown and shorn of alien growths, makes a potent symbol of suburban conformity and repressed individualism. |
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By mutual consent between the teams, the pitch could be rolled, watered, covered and mown during a match and the use of sawdust was authorised. |
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Out of the greens which are in speedy conditions and the fairways where the dunes grass is mown, the environment is as the nature made it and roughs are rough. |
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Furiously sprouting grass mown from around the city is rotting at a council depot, creating a nasty niff. |
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I come from a land where judges, politicians and trade unionists have been mown down by Mafia gunfire and where the current president of the region is on remand for having links with the Mafia. |
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Half-fill a seed tray with compost then plant a low-growing rock plant that looks just like a freshly mown lawn, such as Raoulia haastii. |
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The very least EastEnders' most dastardly villain deserved was to be mown down in a hail of bullets and then run over by a steam roller. |
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Contrary to our expectation, long-eared owls and kestrels did not prefer the areas with high densities of small mammals but hunted primarily on freshly mown artificial grassland and extensive meadows. |
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The cover crop is to be mulched and mown alternately. |
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Crossing the road without injury is cause for celebration, but the next trick is to avoid being mown down by kids joyriding on hired quad bikes opposite the National Museum. |
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I started out, some 20 years ago, doing what I thought I was supposed to do to make my yard look nice: annual planting beds around the base of the house and a crew cut lawn mown on the diagonal. |
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Pasture is typically grazed throughout the summer, in contrast to meadow which is ungrazed or used for grazing only after being mown to make hay for animal fodder. |
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When I first met her in a college in Sheffield, she told me of her school years in the oil town of Abadan, a place of privet hedges and mown lawns. |
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For the past three years, beginning in May, lady's smock, water avens, cranesbill, campion and ox-eye daisy, among others, have been mown down when in full bloom. |
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