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1. Jorma took the cook pot she'd mixed the batter in to the lake to wash out
2. Pour boiling water on to the leaves, flowers, roots, seeds and place in a cooking pot or container with a lid
3. You can spray the solution directly on the spiders or you can bathe (place) the entire plant, pot and all into warm water with a dash of Dr
4. On top of this place either a pretty rock or a nice clay pot to cover it, or simply mulch over, remembering where it is
5. Dacreea is the cook on Morningdays and she usually does a variety of zhlindu rolls and a pot of a pretty good diddle
6. ‘Have you lived here long, Stephen?’ I asked, dipping my brush carefully into the pot so that I don’t do what my father always said was the worst crime of all – coating the entirety of the bristles in paint
7. door, and a very bald and tattered grey felt mouse lying by a pot rack next to the
8. ‘I can’t compete … I’ve got saggy rings under my eyes, my figure has gone to pot and my hair is going grey
9. After a thoroughly enjoyable half hour, debating the relative merits of the various plants on offer, I decide to buy a rather nice little Areca palm … small and neat … just right for the middle of the table; I splash out on a pretty pot to stand it in – my reward for having made a good start at The Laurels
10. Something else I remember is him making glue … he had a little metal pot which he heated and melted the stuff in, no idea what went into it
11. She whispered her secrets to the bald felt mouse over by the pot stand
12. ingredients in the pot
13. a pot of tea and sleepy conversations in the morning
14. he fussed and apologized impatiently, desperate for pot holes,
15. ‘How was Issa when you got there?’ Kara asked, reaching for the pot of coffee Friede had placed within reach and pouring some into her cup
16. Desa's cook pot lay a ways further behind it but there was no sign of the tent, the maps or Desa's cup
17. He motioned with the coffee pot asking if she wanted some, she shook her head no
18. “Well, now you are here, put the pot on the angle
19. Cosmicblasto took the pot and checked that there was enough
20. and stones too hot to touch in the melting pot
21. warming the pot and drinking tea
22. A Pot without Bacon
23. Then she got out the corn, filled a large pot with water and set it on the stove to boil
24. on the water pot onto the angle
25. They found some roots that needed a cook pot so they had to leave them, but they also found plenty of wild thesh
26. the fruit bowl or the honey pot instead
27. Unfortunately, Cyberia’s appreciation of art and craft was based on the experience gained at her finishing school, where she had spent relaxed Wednesday afternoons fiddling with watercolours and making decoupage kittens out of old socks and yoghurt pot lids
28. With a smile of satisfaction, he puts the pot of water to boil
29. Making a space on one of the top shelves, I fit the pot into it, allowing the leaves to cascade down over the books … I step back to consider the effect … yes, that looks nice
30. He spent the day preparing the soil in his allocated spot, mulching, weeding and hoeing, before gently placing his prize specimen in its ornamental pot in the middle of his display
31. I pictured food in the pot and someone, perhaps the cook from his ship, wiping down the wooden table then shaking out the cloth through the window - not realising he was scattering seeds
32. “But then I’ve got nothing to fear either have I? I mean, who’s going to bother with someone like me? All I’ve got is my mother’s old ring and grandma’s pot”
33. Over coffee the next morning great-aunt Edith inspected first the ring and then the Chinese style pot
34. Indeed, with the decline in rental income caused by the ever increasing costs of insurance, red tape and health and safety initiatives, great-aunt Edith had financed some of the finer pieces in the apartment, including a real Ming chrysanthemum pot and a small Lowry, through her prowess at conducting phishing expeditions across the global email network in search of the details of other people’s bank accounts
35. stockpot and even though the pot lid was rammed down as hard as
36. After Billy picked up the curry, the popadoms and the pot of
37. stiff as an earthenware flower pot, for cold glazed pottery was what
38. that grime onto his pot bound body
39. “Still”, he muttered, “none of the other ugly pot bellied bastards
40. placing his prize specimen in its ornamental pot in the middle of his
41. He rose and put on a pot of coffee, let Red out, and released Rusty for his morning run
42. Tam asked for more coffee and Brent returned with the coffee pot and poured him another
43. ring and then the Chinese style pot
44. Ming chrysanthemum pot and a small Lowry, through her prowess
45. the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool
46. The girls finish their cigarettes and stub them out in the same neglected plant pot as before
47. Jorma felt stupid, he had imagined some drug that would extract his mind or knock him out til he came to in a stew pot
48. ’ He said, indicating a china pot sitting on the worktop
49. The water seethed in the pot beside her, cooking the potatoes
50. Reflected in the glass Billy watches Dave and Carol leave the serving area with a pot of tea on their tray and pay the old girl on the till
1. As soon as they were out onto the plaza atop that building, Yorthops turned east toward the basin and went to the far end and found a table among the lush pots of mushroom ferns they had in the corner
2. Dead plants stand, dry and brown, in pots near a window
3. All the stuff has been packed up in boxes now – thank you, off licence! The pots in the garden will have to wait for the man with the van
4. She set candles and pots of potpourri about upstairs to put some scent into the air
5. collections of burned out pots and pans
6. As he made his way through the darkness he kicked various buckets, pots and pans that had been left strategically placed to deal with the many leaks that the roof had sprung during so many years of neglect
7. stood on a kitchen chair and washed all of the pots
8. notice that you were looking at the pots, and
9. ’ Billy said, surveying the room as though seeing it freshly, measuring it in terms of pots of paint and man hours wielding a paintbrush
10. He had five little pots, she got hers with orange spiced flaked whitefish, while Althart the White took the black darter in purple lon shreds
11. handed the soiled pots and bowls out to Janine and
12. I have two large pots at the bottom end of the drive
13. In her thoughts she throws open the patio doors at her father’s house and takes a slow step around his garden, shuffling past flower pots full of cigarette butts, one more casualty on the mend, a dressing-gowned remnant of the whistling generation
14. Trays and trays of plants, plug plants and seedlings in pots
15. decorated the structure, pots in every row of every aisle, and flowers wrapped
16. horses, and the cooking pots in the
17. some of the pots and cook in them
18. coming from the banging of pots in the kitchen
19. “Well you will find they just chatter just the same on TV at that time of the morning or they have continuous adverts selling pots and pans or healthy exercise routines and other stuff, I wouldn't bother if I was you and save your money”
20. Some of the men helped to carry heavy items, bags of oats for the horses or large cast iron cooking pots, but, on the whole, the men stood watch
21. As well as food he started stocking extra arrows by the hundreds of thousands, spears, armor, handcarts, tents, shovels, cooking pots and swords
22. Bread was baked and vast pots of stew bubbled in cast iron vats, plopping viscously like fragrant witches brews
23. We do not, however, reckon that trade disadvatageous, which consists in the exchange of the hardware of England for the wines of France, and yet hardware is a very durable commodity, and were it not for this continual exportation, might too be accumulated for ages together, to the incredible augmentation of the pots and pans of the country
24. But it readily occurs, that the number of such utensils is in every country necessarily limited by the use which there is for them ; that it would be absurd to have more pots and pans than were necessary for cooking the victuals usually consumed there; and that, if the quantity of victuals were to increase, the number of pots and pans would readily increase along with it ; a part of the increased quantity of victuals being employed in purchasing them, or in maintaining an additional number of workmen whose business it was to make them
25. On the sides of the hall were large, painted clay pots with palm trees surrounded by round, white river stones on the floor
26. A small greenhouse had been added adjoining the kitchen with rows of herbs growing in clay pots lined up on long tables on either side
27. inconveniency, upon all the different pots and pints of porter which he drinks in any such period of time, the sum might frequently distress him very much
28. The pots, pans and other kitchen
29. The trenches had been marked out with white tape and we practised moving foreword in formation as smoke pots created a fog over the field
30. Carmen went to her room and stayed there until the banging of pots and pans announced that Katie was cooking supper
31. The town was littered with fetish heaps, shrines, images, clay pans, bottles, and other symbolic fetish tokens, and many a sly kick was given by the Houssas to these charm pots
32. Pots, named for his trade as a tinker
33. Brother Peter washed the pots,
34. “Clever little pots of paint, aren’t they, Cora?” Jane beamed over my shoulder
35. Abruptly, he motioned to the coffee table, which was set with a tray with various pots and arrayed with a variety of finger foods
36. We had smudge pots, flares and water barrels for quick signals in an emergency; we had railroad-type emergency flares with the spikes on the end, we used those in various ways, and by the most careful choosing of the field, the terrain masked our lights
37. Two pots stood by the fire
38. The back of our smudge pots were covered, the tops were covered, yet air came in, and the insides of the wooden angles were painted with thick coats of whitewash
39. I had a legal Beretta close at hand in my backpack – Glock in my trunk – Sig and silencer in the garden pots inside the garage
40. His bowl, a cup and plate, a couple of pots and pans had been left in the sink
41. “Oh hello, I forgot you were still here,” Martha said as she returned to the kitchen and found a very sheepish me among her pots and pans
42. The large leaves were crafted into pots, containing the highly flammable mixture of tar and tree sap
43. Elizabeth picked out an assortment of pots, pans and cheap metal plates, cups and eating utensils
44. He heard her feeding the cat, and then pots and pans banging away in the kitchen
45. Bear spotted LP's crab pots stacked against the house and said "Come on we're wasting time, throw those pots in the tinnie, let’s go crabbing
46. ” Pots, rods and bait were placed into LPs boat, and they headed back towards the barge on the Noosa River, where they would launch their crabbing mission
47. Anchoring, Bear threw out three crab pots and proceeded to cast out their lines and wait for a feed of fresh fish, whiting or bream that they could cook up on the barbie later
48. He stood up with the oar in both hands, and started moving the boat slowly over to their floats, pulling up three empty crab pots
49. No one wanted to remind Bear that there were laws against raiding someone else's crab pots
50. They knew his answer “How many times have my pots been raided? I'm just returning the favour
1. any harm in a little potted history
2. There couldn’t be any harm in a little potted history
3. potted plants placed on the window sill of your
4. Several potted plastic plants filled in the gaps amongst fresh jasmine trailing round the room from every hook and pin
5. Karen’s sitting in the shade of a potted palm, leafing through one of the multi-coloured brochures which litter the low tables in our reception area
6. The little dog cocked his leg and urinated against a large potted aspidistra before turning to the old man and saying, "That's five thousand Bonios you owe me
7. I give him a potted version of the conversation I just had with Katie
8. A phone number and contact details scrolled along the bottom of the screen as the presenter went on to describe the bird sanctuary, giving a potted history of the Arlosh Warbler and interviewing the obviously irate chairman of the sanctuary committee who waffled on about desecration of protected sites and the like
9. potted dandelion and shows it to the Fixer, “Is it a weed or
10. In the corner of the front lobby, Aspen exhaled as she came from behind a potted fig tree in the corner
11. spent any time in office building atriums in the United States, you know the ficus as a kind of gangly potted ornamental
12. Only dimly did I take in the rest of the room—the clusters of potted plants in the corners, the sparse pieces of elegant furniture, the chaise longue that had a sudden, ominous significance
13. There was even a gentle sea breeze to flutter the leaves of his potted palms and tease her hunger with sumptuous odors
14. The potted palms at the patio’s edge stood motionless in the still of the late-night air as they hashed over the astonishing events of the day, and Beth related the whole sordid tale of her problems with the FBI
15. I doubted that any self-respecting moose would have been caught dead anywhere within the boundaries of Toronto in the past three or four decades – unless Kidd had potted one at the Metro Zoo
16. The hall to his left took on added insignificance, as she ran up and up, disappearing behind some potted plants, mutated penicillin or something by the look of it
17. took one last drag on her cigarette, extinguished it in a potted plant, and then popped a
18. Only disgrace, the wooden bamboos potted the length of the theater to match the Dolby digital sound of big cinemax
19. John, with a glass of whiskey in his hand, strolls past the potted butterfly palm as he comes in my direction
20. With the bright sunlight shining through the high windows, the two cream sofas casually placed, wide coffee table set on the African rug, and a couple of potted butterfly palms on either side, the room feels as if the outside is inside
21. Clean up the curb and entrance path and put the potted flower
22. In their tenth floor apartment, he stashed the books behind one of the potted palms
23. He was partiall;y screened from them by a large potted palm, but he could see them clearly
24. At the mention of his name, Bracken flinched and moved farther back into the cover of the potted palm
25. He glanced toward the alcove entrance, but the archway was partially covered over with potted palms and the guards were out of sight
26. “Of course,” she replied and moved quietly to a position behind the potted palms where she was hidden, but had a good view of the ballroom
27. Who else would take a job at a hotel transporting the massive potted palms on the
28. Right smack in the very centre of sailors’ haven, this conspicuous landmark of music, drink, sex and laughter beat all lesser competitors such as the Moulin Rouge, the Atlantik Bar, One-Eyed Jack and the Englische Garten, so named for its starchy waiters and potted palms
29. Dust and cobwebs dominated the chairs, and broken potted plants littered the front
30. same potted plants, the same massive lobby with windows looking out on
31. There’s a plastic potted plant in a corner, a coffee table with crappy magazines like a doctor’s office or a boring person’s home, some stupid framed maps on the walls, and several big fat comfy chairs
32. Concealed behind a cluster of potted palms he looked back to see whether Bart had followed him, if only with his eyes
33. It was void of anything apart from an old chair and some potted planted plants she kept indoors
34. They never made it past the third ring and were asked to wait in a large chamber that was cool, painted a pale green and had many potted plants lining the walls
35. sheltered from view by a large potted palm, was the security man
36. The window was once again in its original state as well, but the potted plant still roiled black
37. Jim gave Carol a potted version of the conversation with
38. It landed in the wrong place and you could say that the result was a potted policeman
39. When they arrived at the Carolinian Suite, Feltus continued to the end of the corridor and motioned for the elusive Cyril who was secretly hidden behind a potted palm and white column at the entrance to the Tower
40. The lobby was a world of marble, brass, potted palms,
41. privacy assured by an array of potted vegetation and the natural
42. the restaurant - which was busy, noisy, and had beautiful potted plants, ivy, and hanging blooms
43. It grew chilly on the balcony, the potted bamboo whispering in the
44. Rolled up in a corner, behind a potted plant, was a small rug
45. “There must be some paper plates here somewhere,” he said, as he looked behind a rather tall potted plant
46. Principal Klieglight, having given up on finding any paper plates behind the potted plant, was staring out the window
47. Apparently he was stocked heavily on that particular blooming item, but I was in the market for more of a plant than a flower and I handed the owner a twenty-dollar bill to take with me a potted germanium of some
48. Jennifer took the potted plant I had given her in her hands and studied it for a few moments
49. Three large potted trees towered to the ceiling
50. The entrance hall was fragrant with winter greenery and potted orange trees
1. Shelagh continued with her potting
2. And he came out of his potting shed to find Minty Pinter, the tinker, running up his pathway
3. I patted down the soil on top, like a little old lady potting her magnolias, then I drove home and had a shower
4. three foot wide hole and fill it with your potting soil and ash
5. Robert was entranced by the seed collection, the clutter of the shade-house and potting shed, the creative disorder of the painting studio - a light-filled room attached to the workshop, the huge python draped in somnolent loops under the supports of the shed’s rainwater tank, and the overflowing garden
6. The gardener was in the potting shed
7. ‘I was potting plants in the greenhouse,’ said Mr Tower, with his distinctive West Country burr
8. How many loony English speaking people chose to holiday in a place like this and just happened across his threshold in the hope that they could spend the night in a rotting potting shed
9. Add some potting soil in the end of the hosiery on top of the seeds
10. Denis Hood made another, rather desultory attempt at potting a ball, which hit several cushions before finally coming to rest on the green baize as far from a pocket as it had started
11. Potting soil is sold for ready use
12. Potting soil is a compound of both organic and inorganic materials with such ingredients as compost, peat moss, sand, and vermiculite
13. Replace the surface soil with potting soil
14. Hold a young plant in the centre of a clean pot and trickle fresh potting compost
15. Ensure the potting
16. Lower a stem to the potting compost, press in about 2
17. piece of wire to secure it into the potting compost as shown in the picture above
18. When pegged into pots of potting compost placed around the
19. into the potting compost
20. potting compost and cover with a plastic bag
21. Cover the base with peat-based potting compost, to which has been added a handful of
22. Although it smacks of a Frank Capra movie (and me a bewildered Gary Cooper), two new poems (Naming Things and Homecoming), and all of Eldred's history came to me in a rush one day while I was driving to pick up some potting soil at the Green Fountain Garden shop in Sarasota
23. potting, the containers may be stored out of sight until the bulbs have produced roots
24. Use a good potting soil of the mix
25. Deteriorating potting mix will result to orchid roots that are black and mushy
26. The following are suggestions in selecting a potting material for the orchid to thrive better and longer
27. If you want to extend the effective use of your potting material combine moss or bark with pumice
28. You can use the potting material that the orchid is growing in
29. The important thing to observe though is that whatever the method and potting materials used, plan the repotting so that it does not become compacted easily
30. So when six hothouse roses come in a bouquet, I could not resist potting them