Their wonderfully playful set took in reggae and funk as well as the reliably prickly outbursts of their infectious and catchy crowd-pleasers. |
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Sideoats grama, buffalo grass, sagebrush, yucca and prickly pear cactus are also common on the canyon floor and walls. |
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No, she was still the prickly, ornery, far too practical person she had always been, even in matters of sentiment. |
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Earlier he tried pushing his nose against it and it had felt all prickly even though he couldn't see any prickles. |
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An anonymous member of the public found the injured hedgehog in her garden and took the prickly fellow to the Swan Sanctuary last Wednesday. |
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We wandered through a maze of prickly bushes and speculated about the people who had lived there once. |
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Because of their prickly nature, cacti could also make life difficult for farm workers. |
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The tropical prickly ash has a temperate equivalent called the toothache tree. |
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I feel tearful, angry, despondent, restless, annoyed, irritable and prickly all at the same time. |
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The perfectly symmetrical prickly balled yacca or Australia grass tree, which takes 100 years to grow a central trunk, is my favourite. |
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I liked the stealthy hiding part, often choosing the excellent cover provided by a set of prickly Pyracantha bushes in a neighboring yard. |
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One plant we should see more of is Rubus biflorus, the ornamental bramble, whose prickly stems are covered in a white, waxy bloom. |
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He headed down the street to the opposite corner, where a large, prickly bush had grown through the fence, covering the entire corner. |
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The true protectors of clownfish in the ocean, however, are not parents but rather prickly, stinging sea anemones that live on reefs. |
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The wash is quite savoury with a winning rush of prickly white pepper spice at the finish. |
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and palo verde, and mesquite trees. |
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The ground was prickly and Erial wore no shoes but her feet were tough and soon she made it down to the bank. |
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During her last days, she felt most difficulties in eating because her lips and mouth were so prickly and painful. |
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Peppery, spicy and prickly with good tannins there are ample amounts of redcurrant and raspberry fruit flavours present in this wine. |
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A majestic theme emerges, its clarity disrupted by prickly guitars and scrambled flutterings that threaten to bury it completely. |
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I still remember his gentle brown eyes, set in his warm and prickly skin, and framed by his delicate waves of deep mahogany. |
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Not only do the sprays resemble a cacti garden, but collecting the specimens is like trying to harvest prickly pear cacti without getting stuck. |
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There is a mild, prickly sensation for 45 minutes as the solution is left to work, but you are distracted with a hand, foot or scalp massage. |
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A prickly and tingly sensation ran up through my body as I armed my head back in sorrow. |
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These hot and dry rocky slopes support scorpions, tarantulas, collared lizards, pygmy rattlesnakes, roadrunners, and prickly pear cacti. |
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Once described as a one-man awkward squad, Bennett is nothing if not prickly and morally unforgiving. |
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Razor burn and prickly underarm hair make the list of most women's annoying beauty battles. |
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Maybe we would be lucky with a little wind tonight, I thought, so I could sleep without feeling prickly heat. |
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If you are overweight or sweat easily you are more likely to have prickly heat. |
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He was a very prickly person and took criticism badly, it took all Halley's skills in diplomacy to nurse the Principia to publication. |
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Areas once graced by desert mariposa tulip, Rocky Mountain bee plant, prickly poppy and evening primrose were invaded by the hostile horehound. |
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Small, prickly goosebumps broke out across her arms and stomach, sending a small, cold shiver through her. |
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The people are prickly on the outside, but a lot friendlier once you get to know them. |
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The overall pattern, however, suggests that her personality is prickly to begin with and that her life has not gone the way she would have liked. |
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I have learnt how to establish a healthy working rapport with difficult, prickly people with whom I have precious little in common. |
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Like many issues in a prickly first meeting for 2002 on Tuesday night, Lismore's 12 elected representatives could find little to agree on. |
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It is a tall plant up to 3ft high and the flower head is just as prickly as a thistle. |
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While he is prickly in his dealings with the media, O'Sullivan is an avid student of the press, feeding journalists just enough juicy morsels. |
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Even though my thighs were not enormous or anything, I would still get prickly heat. |
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Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty. |
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Its cooling properties are such that application on the body prevents prickly heat and summer boils. |
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Handwringing over prickly privacy issues has, of course, inspired many books in recent years. |
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The vegetation varies, from beach grass and Virginia creeper stabilizing the dunes to eastern red cedar and even prickly pear. |
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This is a highly readable, jargon-free treatise on a notoriously prickly subject, intended for general readers rather than academics. |
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Consider that if this is a guy you'd marry, this is a guy with whom you should be able to bring up tricky prickly stuff, scary though it is. |
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I wanted to imagine Gabe's arms around me, but I just felt prickly from the temperature and the sweat beading my skin. |
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The fruit is tough and prickly on the outside, tender and sweet on the inside. |
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My secret thoughts on it were that some of these prickly, prissy dons really needed toughening up. |
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Because of the glochids, great care is required when harvesting or preparing prickly pear cactus. |
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He had the distinct prickly sensation on the back of his neck that usually meant he was being watched. |
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A gust of red dust swirls around a patch of prickly poppies outside her hogan door, twisting past a pair of horses in a makeshift corral. |
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A number of studies show that prickly pear can control blood sugar in experimental diabetes in animals. |
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And what about Mexico, where eighty species of Opuntia support a cochineal dye industry and are the source of edible prickly pear fruit? |
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On hillocks trailing she-oaks, olives, myrtle and prickly pear, circular ruins rise up, like razed windmills. |
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The flavours are plentiful with raspberry, blackberry, chocolate and mint coupled with prickly, tarty little tannins. |
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Like prickly pear thorns, needle grass penetrated moccasins and leather leggings and punctured the skin. |
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The Old Course wasn't built, it simply evolved, a combination of scrubby seaside turf, wispy grasses, prickly gorse and rolling dunes. |
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Come to think of it, the summer was a lot better in spite of the sweat, dust and prickly heat. |
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The morning, like most out in the open in summer, was cold to start, quickly warming up to an uncomfortable prickly heat. |
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Squabbles over the garden fence can be unedifying, and the relationship between sporting neighbours is more prickly than most. |
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It is therefore unlikely that extracts of northern prickly ash would specifically inhibit fungal infections associated with mycoses. |
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Tropical plants here include two species of wild coffee, pigeon berry or rouge-plant, prickly ash, marlberry, and colicwood. |
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It worked well with myxomatosis on rabbits, and cactoblastis on prickly pears. |
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Weeds not well-controlled by other herbicides include marestail, prickly lettuce, mustards, giant ragweed, Pennsylvania smartweed, and dandelion. |
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Red elderberry, snowberry, and a species of prickly currant are common in the shrub zone. |
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Once, out picking blackberries, he over-reached and fell headlong into the prickly bramble. |
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One is less used to having the prickly complex of historiographical issues actually sorted out and straightforwardly addressed. |
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Also, the leaf margins of spiny sowthistle are much more spiny or prickly than those of annual sowthistle. |
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You never have to worry that Mowat will press his interviewees on prickly issues. |
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From my perch above the brush, I watched that animal run at full throttle through dense tangles of mesquite and prickly pear. |
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So why are so many politicians so prickly when one of their number spills the beans on another? |
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Sharp, clever and prickly, Gwendolen reads the days away, oblivious to dirt and decay. |
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There are about three hundred members of the cactus family classified as prickly pear, all belonging to the genus Opuntia. |
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My happy muse was interrupted by the prickly, nettling sensation of being watched. |
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Aggressive planting of hawthorn, pyracantha, creeping juniper, holly, Chinese jujube, roses, blackthorn or prickly ash will help deter criminals. |
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We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus. |
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A key characteristic is their well-defined spiny hairs, which cover their body and give them a prickly appearance. |
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Wood handled the prickly Watson diplomatically and established a harmonious relationship with him. |
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The plant must be eliminated before the flowers ripen and form the brown prickly burrs which spread the seeds. |
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There was no breeze next to the deserted highway, but the air was filled with prickly wintriness. |
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It was a dry and dead place with almost nothing living out here but a few cacti and some small, prickly bushes. |
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Although currently regulated, trade in hippo ivory is not banned, and enforcing trade quotas remains a prickly problem. |
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Red roses might melt your lover's heart, but they present a prickly problem unless your wallet is loaded. |
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We are rich with saguaros, prickly pear, and cholla cacti, and paloverde, and mesquite trees. |
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Also fairly common are bluejack oak, netleaf hackberry, honey mesquite, and prickly ash. |
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One might assume Kiley's tough negotiating skills and high standards would make for some prickly dealings with her newspaper colleagues. |
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Flanked by ocotillo and prickly pear, you'll make an easy half-day ride to the Telephone Canyon backcountry campsite. |
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Actually, he reflected, Hannah Zachal was a handsome woman, despite her prickly personality. |
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In the 1970s, some prickly US libertarians set up a republic on an oil platform near Tonga. |
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This annual festival boasts food and craft stalls, with the main attraction being the prickly pear witblits made in a 19th century copper still. |
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As for the prickly pear entrada that so enticed me on the menu card, it did pack quite a punch. |
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Perhaps movie-makers see it as a prickly subject, limp as a film theme, a let-down for audiences. |
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The annatto tree is quite pretty, with big green leaves and bright red, prickly seedpods. |
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The prickly complex of historiographical issues is actually sorted out and straightforwardly addressed. |
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He may be prickly, but he's an absolute straight shooter and he tells it exactly like he thinks it is. |
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But still you'd bump into a prickly pear or cholla cactus and have to stop and pull the thorns out of person's leg or shoe. |
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Nopal is prickly pear and has been studied in Mexico for its ability to lower blood glucose and cholesterol. |
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Along the way, look closely at the bluffs for the small prickly pear cactus that grows in the rain shadow here. |
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In one tiny schoolhouse the roof caved in after a heavy rain and prickly pear quickly began to take root inside. |
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Here and there is the large-leaved, prickly stemmed Hercules' club, also known as the devil's walking-stick. |
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Gringolts shows maturity beyond his 21 years in his rich phrasing of the boldly romantic Sibelius and the prickly angularity of the Prokofiev. |
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Forest edge habitat, especially on drier sites, often features yucca and numerous kinds of prickly pear cacti. |
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The sharp, prickly leaves provide an effective deterrent, and the holly can be removed after a few weeks. |
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The targeted pests were chickweed, prickly lettuce, and root-knot nematode. |
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Its common name is prickly rhubarb and it does indeed look like rhubarb gone ballistic. |
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I would add that the conference's refined dialogue and inquiry did not blunt the prickly sense of more image-trouble lying ahead. |
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Its foods are hot, spicy, or bitter, and its plants are prickly, sharp, or stinging. |
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Mary Ellen's hyperactive guilt complex responded immediately and sat like a prickly insect at the bottom of her stomach. |
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The ice plant's lime green foliage contrasts strongly with prickly silver mats of neighboring pinks. |
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There was a prickly weed known as cockspurs which grew amid the wheat crop and those handling hay at chaff cutting had to wear leather gloves. |
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On San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, prickly pear cactus is a major food of rock iguanas. |
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In the gardens are lemon and lime trees, prickly pear cactus plants, fig trees and ornamental palms. |
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His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean. |
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The prince feverishly tossed and turned, his movements impeded by the prickly quilt tucked tightly around his ailing body. |
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This rough, loose, prickly coat allowed the Shar-Pei to wriggle out of its opponent's grasp while fighting in the dog pits. |
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The extinct mammoths ate mainly grasses, sedges, and other riparian plants, salt bush, prickly pear, and even some needles of blue spruce. |
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But his prickly sense of slighted dignity and obsessive contempt for other people's ethical squalor inevitably drags him down. |
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Before I left for Costa Rica, I bought a Del Monte Gold, skinned its prickly bark, cored its hard center, and ate it with my fingers. |
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There will be colourful flowers, such as poppies to look at and smell, prickly plants and vegetables to eat. |
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He had a reputation among Washington insiders for being prickly, abrasive, brash, impatient, and intolerant of bureaucratic foot-dragging. |
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Suddenly Betty comes alive as a prickly character with her own issues. |
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I missed Don's chiseled mug and Roger's blithe wisecracks and Peggy's prickly chutzpah. |
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They lead into pine forests as well as impressive stands of coastal sage scrub and chaparral communities notable for Mojave yuccas, prickly pear, and agaves. |
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It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves. |
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Being in the desert was a new experience for me, a native Westerner who had never seen birds nesting in a saguaro nor tasted a prickly pear margarita. |
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Staccato stabs of dry-brushed whites over pale, scumbled colors show the distinctive locale, the early light and the pale, prickly thickets of desert thornbush. |
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Prim, proper and oh so reserved, Broadbent's Gilbert is prickly to be sure but he well conveys the thunderstruck quality of when inspiration hits. |
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Eventually, they cohabited and married, but things were never that simple for the prickly couple who were both too independent to settle easily into married life. |
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Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac. |
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Clumps of itchy or prickly tiny red bumps on the skin that appear with hot humid weather in tropical countries is called miliaria or prickly heat in layman's terms. |
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Plants here include prairie rose, nodding onion, gray-headed coneflower, butterfly weed, green milkweed, hoary puccoon, and even eastern prickly pear cactus. |
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Thorny plants are unpleasant to rub against and trimmings from spikey, prickly plants placed under bird-feeders help protect our feathered friends. |
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Music critic and former MTV News anchor Kurt Loder pays tribute to the prickly, brilliant Velvet Underground front man. |
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This is one of those shot-across-the-bow editorials, but of an especially intense and prickly sort. |
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Yet nationhood is such a prickly issue, it overwhelms even great tragedy. |
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In their desert habitats their diet consists of spiny cactus, yucca pods, creosote bush, cholla, pinyon nuts, seeds, prickly pear, and any available green vegetation. |
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Photographed clutching a spiny anteater with the same alacrity that he might hold a non-alcoholic beer, this may not be Harry's only prickly encounter in Australia. |
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The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens. |
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Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem. |
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There were lots of snakelike creatures, some roundish things as prickly as hedgehogs and some notable beaks and pincers as well as possibly a stinger or two. |
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The highlight of the album, this song comes over like Costello singing for The Travelling Wilburys and flits catchily between both prickly and country pop. |
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It grows here, along with numerous smaller cacti, including beaver-tail cactus, California barrel cactus, hedgehog cactus, and various prickly pear cacti. |
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We found that these pads, if placed too close to prickly pears infected by Cactoblastis, would soon be discovered by the moths and eaten by caterpillars. |
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Bookish, arrogant, prickly, and often willing to take offence when none was intended, he struck some of his contemporaries as solemn, aloof, and over-serious. |
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Avoid prickly leaves like holly or ones that are extremely fragile. |
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From where I sit, that chimes with the man, capturing nicely what seems to be a prickly earnestness and an eagerness to convert everyone to his way of thinking. |
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Velvet cactus, prickly pear, Bergerocactus emoryi, and cholla are widespread, often joined by box thorn, a prickly shrub in the nightshade family. |
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable. |
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In addition, a pair of antennal spines flare upon attack, transforming the larva into a prickly ball, difficult for small-mouthed planktivorous fishes to swallow. |
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The company will export several tons of fumet of prickly pears to Taiwan. |
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I understand that feng shui practitioners swear by the deterrent of prickly cactuses, positioned close to doors and windows, but these are ugly, and may impede escape. |
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Rya's shirt was soaked and had turned to a crimson color, her hair was covered in blood and it had started to dry, making her hair hard and prickly. |
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To my horror I realized my eyes were all prickly and my palms sticky. |
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She felt a prickly sensation rise over skin, as she shivered. |
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In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off. |
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Doyle could feel a flow of power moving through Angel's hands to Cordelia's foot, and he could feel the warm, prickly sensation as the power caressed the small wound there. |
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It's this so-called bronchial constriction that creates the tight, prickly sensation in your chest, and aerobic exercise only compounds the problem. |
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Cara had seemed like such a prickly person that he would never have imagined, in his wildest or craziest dreams, that she was capable of breaking down like this. |
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He could be very prickly, especially with people who disagreed with him. |
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This is understandable since most of them take exceptional care of their face, and don't want the unnecessary irritation of a prickly face against theirs. |
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There will be few tears shed at the prospect of the skipper's demise should that happen since Gregan is a notoriously prickly character who engenders more respect than warmth. |
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One of the reasons that I love Brendan the way I do is because he is a kind and generous person with enough room in his heart for the most prickly among us. |
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Diversification can be a prickly topic, though, because there are no hard and fast rules about how many your should own to have a truly diversified portfolio. |
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The day's most prickly moment surrounded one of this election year's hottest issues, and encapsulated the risky nature of an unscreened, unscripted town hall meeting. |
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Those issues were as prickly and elusive then as they are now. |
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Some prickly problems of racial and economic accessibility that one senses when visiting the country's galleries and museums were nowhere in evidence. |
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Pilot seniority is paramount to the pilot group as a whole, and the Flight Options CEO is letting the pilots themselves solve this prickly problem. |
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Other general herbs to help support digestion and circulation are prickly ash which supports peripheral circulation, particularly a foggy brain, and rosemary similarly. |
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The historic use of prickly ash includes it as a medicine for intermittent claudication, Raynaud's disease, peripheral vascular insufficiency and muscle cramps. |
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There aren't many places where you can see prickly pear cactus and redwood trees growing along the same trail, but that's what you'll find in Soberanes canyon. |
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Along the way you'll see bunch grasses, annual wildflowers, and prickly pear cactus, as well as rust-and lime-colored lichens adorning banded rocks flecked with fool's gold. |
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I ate Indian food in a strip mall surrounded by prickly pear cactus and watched movies at the three-story theater that squeezed out the independent downtown joint. |
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A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that an extract from the skin of the prickly pear fruit has a moderate effect on hangover symptoms. |
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The prickly pear fruit resembles a small cucumber, but with seeds distributed evenly through its flesh and with rosettes of little spines on the outside. |
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After a while, the prickly feeling of anxiousness dulls and turns blunt. |
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Harold Pinter earned a reputation for being notoriously pugnacious, enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding. |
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The friendship between the two men was prickly, on Olivier's side, for the rest of his life. |
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Globe thistle produces prickly mauve spheres on silver stems ranging from 6 to 15 feet in height, depending on the species. |
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Collared peccaries are primarily herbivores that feed on prickly pears, roots, mesquite beans, and other succulent vegetation. |
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Other plants found on the control sites include soapweed, sand sagebrush, and prickly pear cactus. |
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She used electrolysis to banish the prickly hair from her delicate face. |
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A prickly bindweed forms a feature in the near landscape, with its creamy odoriferous blossoms, coral berries, and glossy thorned leaves. |
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And such an order is observed in the aculeous prickly plantation, upon the heads of several common thistles. |
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Indian fig or prickly pear has fruit of a similar appearance except they have spines and large seeds. |
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He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off. |
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He hopes to use the herb prickly ash to halt the decline of his once brilliant mind, an idea scorned by housekeeper Mrs Munro. |
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These too are adapted to the low soil water content and have small, prickly leaves which reduce transpiration. |
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If the manner of the telling occasionally recalls MR James's prickly, donnish narrators, that is surely apt. |
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They also, much like peccaries, eat the cladophylls of prickly pear, the leaflike pads where the cactus stores water to survive droughts. |
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The most abundant cacti are the chollas and prickly pears, easily recognized by their jointed stems. |
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Soapweed was ground into feed, and spines were burned off prickly pear cactus for the same purpose. |
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Though they are not related, mahonias and hollies have superficial similarities in terms of their shiny, often prickly foliage. |
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CactiNea is a prickly pear cactus-fruit water extract with an exceptional indicaxanthin content, the most bioavailable betalain. |
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The prickly pear cactus is the only plant in the world to contain all 24 known betalain antioxidants. |
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The silence between them was prickly and oppressive, like the humid forebirth of a thunderstorm. |
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There are cottonwoods, Russian olives, and in spring, wildflowers and prickly pear cactus in bloom. |
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Three javelinas were about 60 yards back in the brush, feeding on some prickly pear cactuses. |
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The drink is a blend of exotic fruits, including acai, acerola, prickly pear, yumberry, grape, green tea, pomegranate and Brazil's cupuacu. |
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Though the woman can no longer feel the dull ache in her hip, she can feel a prickly burning in her arm where a general anesthetic drips intravenously into her veins. |
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Therein lies their prickly problem if The Thorns hope to draw blood, their highly-derivative, West Coast country-folk-rock will have to put down roots in some earthier soil. |
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A particularly dangerous plant, and one that may cause confusion, is the apple of Sodom, a low, prickly bush with a tomatolike fruit that is highly poisonous. |
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There is also detailed information on the nutritional content of such plants as prickly pear fruit, pinyon seeds, purslane goosefoot, and sunflower seeds. |
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In this denuded landscape, the sole survivor engages in a daily survival routine, foraging for food among cacti, sage and prickly stunted trees known as caatinga. |
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The prickly pear cactus is an introduced species in Australia. |
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Annick Swenson, a brilliant but prickly ethnobotanist whose research in the remote Amazon rain forest could revolutionize fertility and childbirth. |
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Some rare plants should also benefit including the prickly saltwort, early sand-grass, smooth cat''''s-ear, blue fleabane, sticky stork''''s-bill and dune fescue. |
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More important was Iain Macleod's prickly relationship with Home. |
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This reddish-brown fruit is a berry that comes from the prickly ash tree. |
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