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Sentence Examples
This is a potent new herbicide used to control cockspur and other weeds in rice paddy fields.
In 1871 a group of 32 burly Victorians met at the Pall Mall restaurant on cockspur Street and started the Rugby Football Union.
Before fog leaves the scrub-oak Or the grasses of the downland, Take dragonwort under the black alder, Take cockspur grass and henbane, The belladonna, the deadly nightshade.
Examples from Classical Literature
The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head.
One afternoon in the spring of '95 I happened to meet him at a corner of cockspur Street.
It was on cockspur Island, which is a mile long by half a mile wide, and commanded all the channels leading up to the harbor.
On arriving in cockspur Street, Hamar's temper underwent a still further trial.
In the top right hand drawer of the chest of drawers in my bedroom, in cockspur Street, I have left a red pill-box.
And then, in excellent spirits, he repaired to cockspur Street.
The many species of cockspur thorns are multiplied by numerous varieties.
Finals day of the second staging of the Cockspur Cup Twenty20 at the County Ground in Derby, featuring the semi-finals and final.
From Cockspur Street to Nelson's Monument the men were lined up in a long queue, making their way to the recruiting office.
Hyde travel to Chelmsford for their Barbados Cockspur Cup t20 Finals on Monday, which will be televised live by Sky.
The competition winners in the finals day on June 27, enter the national Cockspur Cup, going into the Northern Area finals.
The project not only renews the 200-year-old Canada House, it connects the Chancery to the adjacent building at 2-4 Cockspur Street.
The parade finished in the city centre, in Cockspur Street, and band members and supporters headed off to continue their St Patrick's Day celebrations.
He made his way to Cockspur Street to buy his ticket for New York.
