The nest is actually a burrow which the bird digs into soft, turfy slopes for a distance of about 90 cm and in which one egg is laid. |
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In Nigel Farage – of the turf turfy, of the beer beery, a man of the people – bar-room boorishness found authentic expression. |
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But look up and you'll see, mounted upside down on the ceiling, rows of turfy grave plots with classic spookhouse tombstones. |
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Just half an hour south of Oxford, my family's home back then, its steep turfy hillsides were the best place in the world for rolling downhill. |
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The Victorians collected CP for their strange beauty and to keep flies off botanical treasures in the orchid houses, but many CP live unnoticed in our turfy bogs and forests. |
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A cespitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. |
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