Often he would lie for hours, his elbows in the peaty soil, peering through a jungle of grass blades in search of those elusive musicians. |
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Your palate is at first pleasured with a sherried smoothness and then with subtle, smoky, peaty notes. |
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More elderly members of the party were helped over peaty ditches to the edge of the plantation. |
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Some years ago, while trekking over the peaty moorland of the Western Isles, I stumbled upon it quite by accident. |
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There were many cesspools in the city and more in the suburbs, and slops were being emptied on to peaty land. |
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The white mountain avens needs a moist peaty or sandy soil, and must be protected from slugs and snails. |
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One was a species of Euphrasia, or eyebright, endemic to the peaty heathlands and mountains of the Port Davey area and never before described. |
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At the extreme tidal limits in wet areas, organic production may exceed sediment supply and peaty organic sediments may then accumulate. |
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The steel-grey wavelets of Loch Skeen lapped dark peaty banks. |
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I simply jigged the buzzer slowly up and down in the dark but clear peaty water and the fish would follow it occasionally darting at, but not taking the fly. |
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The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream. |
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Although the perfume contains no whisky, the blend of ingredients is chosen to recreate the traditional smoky and peaty smells of island malts such as Talisker and Laphroaig. |
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Vibrant acid green with royal purple, refreshing pale green with peaty black and dark green with pastel shades or pure white are all winning combinations. |
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Foxes capture the lemmings by digging them from their nests, which are located in soft peaty hummocks. |
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The Hakushu 12 was a little peaty and nutty, the kind of dram I want to unwind with after a fine restaurant meal. |
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The peaty shores at the northwest end of Mullin Lake are a haven for a rare twig rush. |
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One of the characteristics of the whisky produced then is their strongly peaty character, like some of the current Islay whiskies. |
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A really amazing nose, full of flowers on a peaty background and some smoky hints. |
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Plants store carbon, which accumulates in the peaty sediment of the salt marshes. |
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In the past, the malt produced by the distillery was much more peaty, on the model of those of the neighbour Isle of Islay. |
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Generally, the new method must be compared to this benchmark method using a variety of soil types including peaty soils and heavy clay soils. |
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The ground was dark and peaty, and bounced gently beneath my feet. |
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On peaty areas: golden ray, cotton grass, marsh marigold and carnivorous plants as common butterwort and round-leaved sundew. |
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It had presumably returned to its haunts in the murky, peaty depths of the lake. |
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It will provide protection for 565 ha of peatland, swamps, peaty banks, scrubland and riparian forest around Lake Saint-Paul. |
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What chemicals were released in concentrated amounts as a result of the flooding of the peaty areas or wetlands? |
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Moreover, without a compulsory second rear axle, they can destroy roads on soft soil, such as in the peaty areas in the Netherlands. |
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Also, if there should be transitory drying, the peat starts to decompose and release diverse minerals, and one heads towards a system of peaty moorland. |
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Brora produced the most peaty malt of the Highlands. |
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Table 3 shows the plant and animal species cited in the annexes of this directive which more or less owe allegiance to peaty habitats and their surroundings. |
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In swamps, stands of black ash, red spruce, eastern white cedar and red maple typically occur, with peaty deposits supporting black spruce and tamarack. |
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Mechanical draining, using tractor-drawn plows to create deep open drains and so aerate the soil, is now usual on the peaty swamps of Europe, especially in Finland. |
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As the Sovetsky Sport columnist Yury Tsyban put it, if Hiddink's side produced champagne football, Capello's style is more of whisky: there may not be much in the way of fizz but there is a peaty robustness to it. |
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The situation was acute in some areas, particularly on peaty or heavy clay soils, and conditions were so poor that a large proportion of winter fodder could not be harvested due to ground conditions. |
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Among these high, low and peaty areas, the remaining and largest areas of land are made up of a mix of clays, silt and sand in proportions that vary as one moves away from the river and towards the sea. |
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Under high runoff conditions, maximum lake level will only rise by a few centimetres and the area of the lake will only increase slightly as low, peaty ground is flooded, especially along the northern shores. |
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It comprises rocky outcrops or irregular masses of glacial debris in a topography composed of hummocky ridges separated by more or less narrow peaty depressions. |
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Water in the Highlands is often peaty, which gives it a brownish colour. |
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Actions include restoring 1400 ha of peaty and wet habitats, abandoning spruce plantation for natural habitats on 630 ha and regenerating 400 ha of oak and birch forests. |
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This watershed area has been affected by loss of biodiversity, erosion of the peaty soils' structure, and accelerated drainage. |
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In October, 1972 a fire on Kittern Hill burnt though the shallow peaty soil to the granite. |
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The area is very swampy, and soils are mostly peaty histosols and, in the treeless northern part, histels. |
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The upper part of the fell, in excess of a mile square, is soft, peaty and drab. |
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Large areas have been reclaimed and have a distinctive pattern of rectangular fields of dark peaty soil with deep drainage ditches. |
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Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire. |
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Peaty soils dominated hollows and lower slopes with tallish heather, and subalpine soils dominated the freely drained ground with short heath. |
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