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The accompaniment is an ostinato that sticks to the memory like a burr and becomes hypnotic.
Other species are burr ragweed, crown-leaf evening primrose, hairy bugseed, rush skeleton plant, and Russian thistle.
I rubbed the spot where the burr had prickled him, still talking in his ear.
A further development was to use a brace and bit to ream out burr holes about 1 cm in diameter.
Butler is softly spoken with a trace of an Edinburgh burr still discernible in her gentle Canadian accent.
I hit my first snag when I managed to burr one of the screws, which made it impossible to remove the arm at all!
On the plastic it will enter readily and throw up a burr at the edges of the hole.
Inside, the wood in the burr is winding round and round itself giving a magnificent complex surface.
We note that the brighter signal from the center of the tumor may be partly due to reduced attenuation of the light through the burr hole.
That's one group but the other group had the burr holes made in their skull but they didn't actually have the cells put in their brain.
The needle was slowly retracted, the burr hole left open and the skin sutured closed.
The first was an emergency suturing of her scalp lacerations and insertion of an intra cranial pressure monitor through a burr hole.
The surgeon makes a 6-cm incision and uses a 5.0 mm round cutting burr to drill the burr hole.
This infusion is not stopped until the burr hole is drilled and the surgeon is ready to begin microelectrode recording.
Trees of these varieties produce only a single, large nut in each burr instead of several small ones.
His clothes were smudged with grass and mud, his hands covered in small burr scratches and dirt.
Spot the walnut tree, toss the multi-hooked seed heads of the burr plants, help these path dwellers hitch a fleecy ride.
On show in the gallery is a striking coffee table fashioned from an elm burr found in a Tipperary wood.
The elegantly crafted table is constructed in English walnut with inlays of burr elm and satinwood stringing.
The interior is elegantly styled with three circular displays of crisp, clear graphics and broad burr walnut moulding.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So the burr reed, among the prettiest of all the upright plants growing out of the water, is not a reed, but a reed mace.
Joe answered with a grating laugh, and then with a burr he applied a towel to his face.
The replies also were typical, and in the burr of conversation her fears vanished.
No lawyer for the defence was ever better prepared than burr, and he did his best.
And then, just as the snake was going to eat the tarts Jumpo threw the sharp burr at the wiggly, crawly creature.
Sounds like your grandpappy had a burr under his tail an' bucked it out on you.
The rich fuzzy line produced by the burr is what we most typically associate with drypoint work.
The corundum burr in McTeague's engine hummed in a prolonged monotone.
In any event, he set a match to a long burr of a sugar pine.
The rows of chops opened and shut in vast unison, and the sound of it was like to the muffled burr of subterranean machinery.
Just at this bend raise a burr with a sharp chisel to keep the washer on.
When 323 burr chose, neither man nor woman could resist him.
After the pipe is cut this burr should be reamed out thoroughly.
A little more sunshine to ripen the nut, then, not a boy's impatient shake, but a man's hand reached up to pick it gently from the burr, and find the kernal sound and sweet.
I loved the hearing of them, in the various dialects of the protagonists, from a lordly lisp to a backwood burr.
They liv in the ground, and are az prikly all over az a Chesnutt burr, or a case ov the hives.
Perforation of the exostosis, or enlargement of the small passage existing between multiple exostoses, by means of the burr.
But he soon gave that up, panting and blaspheming, demanded explanations in his hybrid tongue that had half a brogue and half a burr.
She thought that Burr was there, and she lilted more loudly the Virginia reel.
Aunt M'riar went on to mention other atrocities ascribed by Mrs. Burr to the freckly brother.
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