Six long, spindly, purplish-black legs, thick like the boles of sapling trees, sprang forth and hauled up the rest of the foul thing. |
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She's an old woman pulling out a maple sapling by its roots and trying to recall a song she once knew about mandrakes. |
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An ashplant was the name for a common implement among farmers and drovers of cattle in Ireland, made from a sapling of an ash tree. |
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The tests were carried out with different methods and directions of mechanical loading in order to initiate the movement of each sapling. |
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I have watched a coconut sapling slowly grow into a tree and imagined it ever so often in my mind's eye before going to sleep. |
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In some patches of my woods in Maine, I can hardly find a single sapling that is untouched by moose, deer, or snowshoe hares. |
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Every young sapling that pokes its head above the heather is chewed to death by hungry deer. |
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The interaction between branch position and sapling height was used to test for differences in slopes among branches in different positions. |
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Armed with a long ash sapling, a ball of cord, a baited hook, a box of worms and a cork I arrived on schedule. |
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The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off. |
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He once made a bronze cast of his own hand, which he used to grip a sapling. |
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The small sapling layer was also diverse and was dominated by sugar maple and hop hornbeam followed by pignut hickory, slippery elm, and paw paw. |
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He sent in a photo of himself proudly holding an apple tree sapling that grew from a discarded apple core in his garden. |
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He sat up in a sapling, throwing back his head, opening wide his slender bill, and singing his rising, buzzy song. |
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However, the relative density of this species was negatively correlated with tree age in the sapling layers of abandoned agriculture plots. |
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Here is another example of ligustrums growing heavily where a sapling is attempting to survive. |
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The leaves of the understory shrubs, lianas, and sapling trees bear the unmistakable signs of damage by hungry insects. |
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Every grass tree and sapling was essential as a hand-hold before we eventually emerged on a mossy rock face and eased ourselves past wild orchids without mishap. |
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First, Dr. Savidge places the sapling in a looping tool, secures it, and loops the supple tree stem using the tool as a guide. |
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Sown plants do grow slower during their sapling years, but grow in greater numbers. |
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A metallic roar cuts through the stillness, and out of the murk further up the valley a gigantic shape rears, an uprooted sapling clutched in its metal talons. |
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To save water, Jenu puts a mulch of rice husks or charcoal and ash around the sapling. |
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To show appreciation, the participants were sent home with a sapling as part of an effort to counter deforestation. |
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Untrimmed thorns and sapling limbs clutch at the car with intermittent shrieks that embarrass you. |
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It would be nice to have that seedling or sapling grow into something potent. |
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We found butternut squashes from our farm two miles downstream, stranded in sapling branches five feet above the ground. |
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That 4m-tall royal sapling is but one of many planted by visiting dignitaries over the years and probably the largest, having been planted first. |
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You have taken care of it for many months and it has now grown into a sapling. |
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As I pressed the sapling into the soil, I could not help but reflect on the positive difference Bob had made with his life. |
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The aircraft came to rest upright in soft ground, in an area of sapling trees, about 500 feet north of the runway end markers. |
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The value of 3 hectares of sapling stand and the value of the soil were also assessed. |
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You mix the fertiliser with the soil and prepare the soil for sapling plantation. |
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The sapling should be at least one year old and have an established root system in order to minimize losses. |
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It is extremely rare for women to put a sapling in the earth because they seldom own land. |
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This programme consists of three activities, viz. nursery raising activities, sapling plantation activities and fodder farming. |
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A small-fence should be constructed with sticks and sacks around the sapling to protect it from animals. |
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We will campaign that for every tree felled for so called developmental reasons a sapling should be planted in return. |
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Like a root out of dry ground, like a sapling he grew up before us, with nothing attractive in his appearance, no beauty, no majesty. |
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We cannot go up into the upper atmosphere and pump ozone back in the ozone holes, neither can we plant a sapling for every tree cut in the past ten years. |
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He is a lawyer who has served ShrubCo since he was a sapling in Texas. |
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When I explained what I had in mind, Larry, amazingly, said that he would be tickled to death to give us a sapling, and it would be the best sapling in his breeding program. |
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I rummaged in my pack for nay emergency fishing gear, cut down a 10-foot sapling, tied on my line, sinker, and bobber, then sat down by the stream to relax. |
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Flash forward to the present, and the life cycle has completed itself: the tree that grew from that key is now a fallen trunk out of which a new sapling grows. |
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It all begins with the designation of four male stewards, which is done by placing a pine sapling decorated with paper flowers in the windows of the houses of those persons who have been selected. |
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Could not the running girl present the promise of social renovation, like the gracile sapling we see a few seconds later? |
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Cleaning of jungle including Uproofing Ranks Vegitation, grass, Bush Wood and sapling of grith etc. |
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When you plant a sapling three feet tall, nothing seems to happen to it the first year, or perhaps the second, but during all this time the tree is working hard to establish its roots. |
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Evil Mountie, is a fast past game which involves chopping down a Redwood sapling. |
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This is still a rather tender sapling which needs our undivided attention. |
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But it's fun to step inside the trunk of a huge baobab tree brought from Africa as a sapling 400 years ago, and to spot the wild horses, descendants of animals also brought by the Portuguese, that roam the island. |
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But Cavafy suffers it afresh with every instance, and he suffers it entirely, without the comforts of metaphor: nobody is ever compared to a falling leaf, a dewdrop, or a sapling cypress. |
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A cockatoo flying up from a sapling dislodged a rhinestone spray. |
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A sapling of the Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment was brought to Sri Lanka during the same time. |
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After planting, 15-20cm of soil should be heaped around the sapling. |
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Pawpaw and Lindera benzoin dominated the seedling and small sapling categories, while pawpaw, sugar maple and American elm were the important large saplings. |
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The sapling density for the floodplain is the lowest of the three communities and is dominated by shrubs that will not become components of the overstory. |
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