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Recent research points out that some sheep seem to be more resistant to foot rot than others.
I don't know anything about any curse. It sounds like a lot of contrived rot to me.
The dry rot has now entered the wainscot surrounding the lower part of the ground floor walls.
Small trees resistant to cotton root rot include Jerusalem thorn, yaupon and wild olive.
I still remember steeling myself to down the glass of the vile red stuff like a sailor knocks back a jigger of rot gut and then shakes all over.
Mice nested in the wellington boots, and the tank-suit got a bad case of wet rot from a small hole in the roof.
The members raised thousands of pounds to treat wet rot and keep the wooden structure sound.
If this disease develops in the plant's crown, a wet rot may kill the entire plant.
Chartered building surveyors will examine a property for structural damage such as subsidence, dry and wet rot and leaking roofs.
It is not a case of something like drains or dry rot or what have you that he can do anything about.
The Cordura fabric is windproof, water resistant, rot proof and fire resistant.
The three recent incidents cannot be bunched together to conclude that an irreversible rot has set in the police department.
At least they now have a building without all forms of rot and woodworm, and without pigeons in the roof and who knows what in the cellars!
Understanding that, like everything before us, we will rot our way back into the woof and warp of the planet.
A lot of wormy chestnut was left to rot in the forest or fed into wood stoves to heat homes before it became a prized wood.
Weather conditions other than alternating early mists and warm afternoons can result in a satisfactory noble rot infection.
This damage is associated with ambrosia fungi that cause wood rot and death of the tree.
It still doesn't change the fact that vicious, remorseless murderers are disgusting animals that deserve to rot behind bars.
But during the early years of the 20th century, root rot and mosaic virus nearly destroyed the crop and the industry it supported.
Many producers are letting the beans rot on the trees, since it makes little economic sense to harvest them.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The stagnancy has not dried up, but festers still in black rot below the rushes.
If this goes on, my beloved 'earers, it will be my painful duty to rot this bargee.
The pecan has a fungus attacking it that is very similar to the bitter rot of the apple.
Used for fungous and insect enemies of the potato, and of the apple when bitter rot is troublesome.
In Illinois, to illustrate, we have what is called the bitter rot fungus in the southern part of the state.
If any one has the bitter rot they are scared to death, they think they are suffering untold misfortune.
The root systems of wilted plants did not show the presence of club root or black rot infection.
They are practically curculio proof, and have never been affected with brown rot as have some other varieties.
This brown rot fungus sometimes destroys the whole crop of certain varieties, besides injuring the trees sometimes as well.
The brown rot of plum is without doubt one of the important limiting factors in plum-growing in Minnesota.
As for spraying to control the brown rot fungus, we have and are doing the best we know.
They were right close to them, and the brown rot didn't affect them particularly.
I expected to see them putrefying, running into sanies, like corpses left to rot in the open air.
His leviathans and huge worms and wrecks of ships rot on every shore and in his dunnest deeps amidst pearls and sea-born blooms.
Tomatoes on drouthy soils are likely to suffer from blossom end rot as well as from poor growth.
This name is given to a disease in cattle, which presents a resemblance to foot rot in sheep, but is different from this.
Virgilll rot before I do his thousand lines or pay any attention to his gating.
May your flesh be covered with sores while your bones rot and are gnawed by worms.
Experiments have shown pretty clearly that sunscald, blossom-end rot and cracking are worse on trained plants.
I think you will have more loss from sunscald and root rot than you will from blight.
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