Four tonnes of hay and straw were also ablaze inside the barn, which was totally destroyed. |
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There were no rooming houses and although Mary offered to let him sleep in the supply room on the floor, he preferred the straw of the stable. |
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That horse lived out his life in comfort in a warm barn with more straw and oats than he could use. |
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The Devon landscape is now littered with foot and mouth warning signs and straw mats soaked in disinfectant. |
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It has terrific links to all sorts of things from architects and architecture to straw bale construction. |
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The company also uses recycled plastic, newsprint, cork, wheat straw and linoleum, a natural product of linseed. |
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Women sell everything from tomatoes, chillies and betel to clay coffee roasters and straw sleeping mats. |
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He was married to Judy, an apple-cheeked gardener in a straw hat who used to produce awful movies right alongside us. |
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He bent his head back to the powder and inhaled the line through the straw. |
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Our first night on the march, the General and his staff all climbed into a straw rick and passed a restful, if short, night. |
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Invoke the slippery slope and construct a straw man to knock down with one fell swoop of rhetoric. |
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Each sister had their own cell, furnished with a plank bed and straw mattress, a three legged chair and a wooden cross. |
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Evidently that cheery bedside manner was left behind on a straw bale all those years ago. |
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Because wheat straw is expensive relative to its feeding value, ammoniation of straw is usually not economical. |
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If you're short of forage and wheat straw is available, give ammoniation a try. |
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It was topped with a nest of straw potatoes and drizzled with a mustard and yoghurt dip. |
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It could happen this time around, with four, five or six also-rans in each major league clutching at the last straw in the closing weeks. |
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The Iowa straw poll is just another example of the general lack of enthusiasm for the GOP field. |
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Almost 100 bales of silage wrap, eight bales of straw and a number of tyres were destroyed as the blaze spread to his property. |
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Traditional Hutu houses are huts made from wood, reeds, and straw and are shaped like beehives. |
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Traditional Tutsi houses were huts of wood, reeds, and straw shaped like beehives. |
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Jamaican jewellery often incorporates small woodcarvings, shell work or even details in straw. |
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Their own little place was what the locals would call a kipsie, which had a door to keep the draughts out and a large, lumpy straw mattress. |
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Leaving a 12-inch stubble with the combine and baling the cut straw is an efficient practice. |
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A taxi driver and his four passengers escaped being crushed when a straw bale weighing half a ton bounced onto their car. |
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And then, sure enough, he walks right up and throws a big ole bale of straw on my back. |
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Handwoven out of natural straw, the basket is large enough to hold everything for a daily outing. |
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The guards looked rather bored as they sifted aimlessly through the straw at the edges of the cart. |
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She raises the malicious wood and straw object above her head, aiming another blow. |
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He could hardly make a living with his print designs and the story goes that he had to repair and sell straw mats to survive. |
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The straw poll of parliamentary party members last week showed no clear winner emerging leaving the contest wide open. |
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China tops the world in producing straw mushrooms, tuckahoe, lentinus adodes, agaric, white jelly fungus and hedgehog fungus, Liu added. |
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If I ever build a house I will use a combination of straw bales and the adobe techniques we learned from Jon Jandai. |
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Prehistoric tribes experimented with the first sun-dried bricks or adobe, mixing mud with straw into manageable building blocks. |
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She dressed in a simple denim jumper and a new straw cowboy hat with red cowboy boots. |
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Luke angrily stabbed his sugar-free juice box with the plastic straw, missing the hole every time. |
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Spread wheat straw mulch over your garden in February to keep weeds at bay. |
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Farmer's lung disease is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by the inhalation of thermophilic actinomycetes that grow in moldy hay or straw. |
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One of the original reasons to burn the straw was to combat blind seed disease. |
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The water chestnuts went with the baby corn and straw mushrooms very well, and the cream cut the chilli heat to perfection. |
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We went to the beach, sunbathed, read books under straw parasols, ate olives and drank cheap red wine watered down with soda water. |
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The living roof itself is a compost based system, usually a base of straw left to decompose within which native or introduced plants can then take root. |
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Brando's later, somewhat disoriented, support for the militant American Indian Movement was the last straw for his critics. |
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But Pawlenty then ran out of money after not meeting expectations in the Ames straw poll, so he dropped out of the race. |
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When the ashen Silda Spitzer appeared with her husband Eliot, it was the last straw. |
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In a recent straw poll among Tea Party supporters in the 8th District, Becker said Boehner received no votes. |
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He clumsily sipped from the dainty straw of a blasphemously non-bourbon beverage and smiled broadly as he talked to fellow bros. |
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That was the straw that broke the camel's back for a lot of lads who had already been making waves over the living conditions and their treatment. |
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She slowly moves her straw through the whipped cream in her designer latte and looks up. |
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The calf must have survived by living off straw in the barn. |
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A simple ration based on ad-lib straw with a protein balancer can be fed to young stock and replacement heifers and this will help preserve grazing. |
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Also available were supplies such as hay, oats, straw or shavings, harnesses, horse collars, whiffletrees, towlines, horsebridges, fenders, pike poles, and hardware. |
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Along the same tack, have taken a straw poll in our street, in return my neighbours had a whinge at me about the level of non resident illegal parking. |
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I suspect that was the straw that broke the camel's back and whipped them into migratory action, so to speak, because Leah and Jason arrived in Darwin not long afterwards. |
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By now the scent of rotting windfalls were heavy on the air, and the apples were taken from the trees, turned into jam, or stored among layers of straw for use later on. |
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She kept saying that the reason she fell was because she was looking up, hoping to catch sight of my wide-brimmed straw hat, with the scarf streaming from it. |
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The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us, but the erratic weather pattern has ensured there is still a lot of corn to cut and straw to gather. |
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Buy when they say you have to make your own bed they really mean it and hand you a sackful of straw. |
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Truly, these recording alchemists weave straw into sonic gold. |
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Chomping on a fine Cuban cigar, he speculated that seif might even be a straw man for America. |
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Pull the baby runners back into the rows so they are not trodden on later, lifting the ripening berries up and carefully coddling each plant in a nest of straw. |
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Following ammoniated wheat straw feeding, heifers were stratified by BW and assigned randomly, beginning on May 12, to one of four grazing treatments. |
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This stripping is almost inevitable when old straw roofs are rethatched with water reed, and very likely when older roofs are rethatched with one layer of new straw. |
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I insisted everyone wear straw hats and sunglasses and flower leis. |
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His straw hat was crushed and blood flowed from the exit wound in his face as he mumbled something incomprehensible. |
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Once in his stall, as soon as Adam had removed his saddle, he sank carefully to his knees and levered his body down into the straw, grunting bravely. |
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Catching dragonflies, collecting wasps' larvae, playing with ant lions and locusts, and learning to make cages from straw are all traditional summer activities. |
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On more than one occasion, he is said to have frothed at the mouth in a screaming rage, and is even known to have chewed the straw on the floor in apoplexy. |
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He's drinking a Texas Tea, running the black straw through the soup of ice cubes and liquor. |
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Around 500 Liverymen dressed in royal blue robes and straw boaters re-enacted an 11th Century right to the sound of drums. |
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Cleaning the byre involved barrowing out the contents of the groop, sluicing it down and rebedding it with clean straw. |
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Mat tea is a communal practice where tea is sipped through a bombilla tea straw, which strains the leaves and draws the tea to the lips. |
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Traditionally, zori are worn to and from the place of practice. Zori are similar to flip-flops and used to be made from straw. |
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Thatch is also a natural insulator, and air pockets within straw thatch insulate a building in both warm and cold weather. |
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Condensation is much less of a problem on thick straw roofs, which also provide much better insulation since they do not need to be ventilated. |
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Many farmers have found ways to use waste straw, such as shipping it overseas to land-poor countries as cattle feed. |
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But I do not want to imply that Miss Suckow makes bricks without straw. Indeed, her method is that of the skilled realist. |
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We are loving this straw trilby from Next, which will give an edge to most outfits and cover any bad hair days. |
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Looking after chooks and feeding dogs were bad enough, but having to empty the dunny can? That was the final straw! |
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Each leaf-cutting bee in the lab lives in a paper drinking straw stuck in one of many holes in a plastic block. |
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In the next few years, while Celtic continued with their suicidal youth policy, Stein made bricks without straw at Dunfermline. |
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The terminal legs were light orange basally, whereas the remaining articles were straw yellow over their length. |
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I've made straw into gold for that one using an old bog roll, some sticky tape, straw and gold ribbon. |
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Bangladeshi villages consist of thatched roofed houses made of natural materials like mud, straw, wood and bamboo. |
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The details of his former behaviour towards Elizabeth emerged, and for his brother and the king's council, this was the last straw. |
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She burnt a small quantity of straw and copra in an earthern incense bowl and took it out to him. |
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We will lay out straw and set miniature barns upon it, putting odorless cows and lintless sheep to rest inside each of them. |
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Imagine a bowl of milky cereal that's been liquidised all ready to suck up through a straw. |
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Most strawberries are soil grown in various configurations, under plasticulture or straw mulch. |
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A straw frame is placed over the tray of caterpillars, and each caterpillar begins spinning a cocoon by moving its head in a pattern. |
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Panamanian men's traditional clothing, called montuno, consists of white cotton shirts, trousers and woven straw hats. |
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In the summer, they cover the animal's head with white colored fabrics or straw hats. |
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Bundles of dried maize stalks are often displayed often along with pumpkins, gourds and straw in autumnal displays outside homes and businesses. |
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She pleaded that the final words had been the straw that broke the camel's back. |
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Isaiah Jennings, a skilled inventor, created a small thresher that doesn't harm the straw in the process. |
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Below the straw walkers, a fan blows a stream of air across the grain, removing dust and fines and blowing them away. |
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Although straw is also used as fodder, particularly as a source of dietary fiber, it has lower nutritional value than hay. |
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When the silo is filled or the stack built, a layer of straw or some other dry porous substance may be spread over the surface. |
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The logs are completely covered with soil and straw allowing no air to enter. |
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The Jet Man, under the weight of his wing, spraddles out on all fours in a poof of dust and straw. |
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Although the day was lightly overcast, Gulliver wore a torn large-brimmed straw hat. |
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She felt uncomfortable and ridiculous in her heavy straw hat and dark, tight-fitting linen dress with the padded shoulders. |
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A husband, wife, boyfriend or girlfriend who buys a handgun on behalf of their significant other is carrying out a straw purchase. |
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A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing. |
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Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner. |
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After being thus secured the surface was beaten flat and, in the case of straw thatch was combed down with a thatcher's rake. |
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The children, most 9 or 10, then signaled their preferences for the Democratic nomination in a gradewide straw poll. |
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Lavender stalks, mixed with the straw, contain an additional natural algaecide. |
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Using barley straw stuffed into old tights and weighted down with a brick will also help to clear algae as it contains a natural algicide. |
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But the final straw came last weekend when she threw an allnight birthday bash for fellow X Factor judge Nick Grimshaw. |
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Common natural fibres for rope are manila hemp, hemp, feathers, linen, cotton, coir, jute, straw, and sisal. |
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The bills of young birds are light yellow to straw, paler than the female's bill. |
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The nest is a flimsy platform of straw and sticks, laid on a ledge, under cover, often on the window ledges of buildings. |
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China is rich in agricultural and forestry waste materials such as straw, bush and quitch. |
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Chris had sorted 30 jelly beans into five flavours using a drinking straw in just 29 seconds, a second quicker than the previous record. |
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I thanked him, sat down on the sofa, and sipped it through the straw. |
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Wubo, a villager of Li village, wanted to use the wheat straw as firewood, and carried home several cartloads of it. |
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The chambers are frequently lined with bedding, brought in on dry nights, which consists of grass, bracken, straw, leaves and moss. |
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He gives it to me with a straw, coconut water straight from the source. |
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Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed. |
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The village of Ballygeary was divided into two townslands, one known as tin town and the other as straw town. |
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On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks. |
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When the brick would otherwise break, the straw will redistribute the force throughout the brick, decreasing the chance of breakage. |
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Every Saturday a farmer came to our door selling fresh country eggs from his big round basket covered with straw. |
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Scientists have done extensive studies on fibers such as barley straw, kapok, polypropylene wool, Ramkumar said. |
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Compared to the United Kingdom, the harsher winters in the Netherlands require covering the fields with straw for protection. |
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In 1958, Fern Marchessault of Montreal inverted the corn straw in the centre of the broom. |
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The pit may have been used for storage, but more likely was filled with straw for winter insulation. |
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Women continue traditional crafts of using straw to make baskets and hats on the larger Caicos islands. |
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When Moss misjudged a corner and collided with some straw bales Castellotti went past and built an increasing lead. |
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As the morning comes up, a crowd of young men arrive in wide-brimmed straw hats and blue blousons. |
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Traditionally the method for squeezing the juice from the apples involves placing sweet straw or haircloths between the layers of pomace. |
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Henry's support of a disastrous papal invasion of Sicily was the last straw. |
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When push came to shove he gave in almost immediately, showing that he was a man of straw after all. |
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Birds can damage a roof while they are foraging for grubs, and rodents are attracted by residual grain in straw. |
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He had a walrus moustache and often wore a straw boater hat. |
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The walls are comprised of straw, an agricultural waste product with no commercial value, and covered with cement-lined plaster on the interior and exterior surfaces. |
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An alluring Italian newcomer, a goat-milk robiola made by La Casera, is wrapped in verdant leaves of savoy cabbage and tied with strands of straw. |
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The cleaning shoe expels lightweight material known as chaff as well as material with intermediate aerodynamic properties, such as straw, from the back of the combine. |
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The ascitic fluid had a clear straw color and did not contain cells. |
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This the Scottish king did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in England's war against France. |
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The problems that we may find ourselves confronted with may be similar to a make bricks without straw condition, imposed by not only others but in large measure ourselves. |
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Protect the crowns of dormant plants such as agapanthus and alstroemerias with a loose covering of straw, held in place with wire netting and pegs. |
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Protect the crowns of dormant plants like agapanthus and alstroemerias with a loose covering of straw or dried leaves, held in place with wire netting and pegs. |
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Providing straw stocks hold out this summer, the high yielders will stay in between the night and morning milkings, to ensure they have plenty of time to eat their ration. |
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The Hundred Days Offensive beginning in August proved the final straw and following this string of military defeats, German troops began to surrender in large numbers. |
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He pushed his straw hat back, scratched his head, and laughed ruefully. |
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The new circuit was marked out with oil drums and straw bales and consisted of the perimeter road and the runaways running into the centre of the airfield from two directions. |
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Rumpelstiltskin, one of the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, revolves around a woman who is imprisoned under threat of execution unless she can spin straw into gold. |
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In the past, straw, bush and quitch was used as a household cooking fuel. |
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Sprinkled throughout the 50-year-old regulations were descriptions of jobs that no longer exist, such as keypunch operators, legmen, straw bosses and gang leaders. |
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Next, you should spread a mulch of leaves, seaweed, straw, salt hay or grass clippings between rows, and in some cases, right up to the stems of plants. |
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He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival. |
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When little more than a child, he was made to work hard in a silk factory, which he afterward deserted for the equally laborious occupation of straw plaiting. |
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Reinforcement is provided by straw, hair, hay or other fibrous materials, and helps to hold the mix together as well as to control shrinkage and provide flexibility. |
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The roofs are covered with straw and wood, resting on the walls. |
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I drew the short straw and got stuck doing the whole project alone. |
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Sawdust of babla, champa, garzon, ipil-ipil, jackfruit, mango, segun, shimul, shisoo, rain tree, and rice straw obtained from different sawmills were used as substrates. |
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A large amount of chaff and straw would accumulate around a threshing machine, and several innovations, such as the air chaffer, were developed to deal with this. |
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The emollience of peach flesh, peach kernel oil, and creamy coconut milk, balanced with soothing chamomile and oat straw, makes this the perfect skin concotion. |
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Manchu hats are either formal or casual, formal hats being made in two different styles, straw for spring and summer, and fur for fall and winter. |
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Harrow's uniform includes straw hats, morning suits, top hats and canes. |
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The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well. |
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This the Scottish King did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in the war against France. |
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A bartender in a straw hat was dispensing frozen tropical drinks that were as colorful as the bright flowers splashed across the fabric of his loud Hawaiian shirt. |
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The bottles stand 6 inches tall, hold 15 ounces of liquid, have white lids that screw off and have fold-up straws and filters that sit inside the straw below the lid. |
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A flirty woman in a straw hat slid through the crowd straight to Snyder. |
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Cryopreservation of chum salmon blastomeres by the straw method. |
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