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1. Between taking off his cap, wiping the brim and replacing the sprig of basil behind his ear, the old man fingered his worry beads and prayed
2. With great care, Manolis placed a sprig of marjoram behind his left ear, 'You know, my friends, when I was touring with Pantelis I took my cat with us everywhere, but when he ran away to settle down, more than anything, I missed his teachings
3. I pulled at a grass sprig beside the rock, removed it and stuck it in my mouth
4. "It is very simple," said Peascod; "only seed and honey dew, stirred from left to right with a sprig of fennel
5. each held aloft a sprig of holly, and they all kept time as they sang,
6. Serve with crushed ice in a tall glass with a sprig of mint
7. A Fairy fluttered across the sky dragging a large sprig of Foxglove
8. A Fairy landed on a sprig, close to Ruby
9. Laura’s father held out a piece of fish he had been grilling over the fire and offered it to David, opening the foil it had been wrapped in and placing a sprig of parsley on top
10. Then he had got to work, using his hands and the hoeing implements to turn the soil around each sprig of corn in order to encourage its growth
11. Every sprig of nettles grew in sets of three, every set bent like knuckled claws
12. each with about 1/2-teaspoon caviar and a dill sprig
13. He had thick dread-locked hair that he wore in a kind of pineapple sprig of
14. A sprig of hope
15. It was believed that after a protective imprecation was breathed up the sprig of dried thyme, and then gently burned on an open flame, it would repel evil spirits and spells
16. He cut a small sprig from the bush, then carried it back to the sculpture,
17. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror
18. The blouse was white, with a little sprig of heliotrope and black
19. blue cotton one with a black sprig pattern which had formerly done duty there
20. These things happened so often at balls, and why not by the morning light, when the complexion showed all the better for it? Rosamond, though no older than Mary, was rather used to being fallen in love with; but she, for her part, had remained indifferent and fastidiously critical towards both fresh sprig and faded bachelor
21. "A very pretty sprig," said Mrs
22. "Oh, he's a dangerous young sprig, that Mr
23. It was a little too provoking even for her self-control that this blooming youngster should flourish on the disappointments of sadder and wiser people—making a meal of a nightingale and never knowing it—and that all the while his family should suppose that hers was in eager need of this sprig; and her vexation had fermented the more actively because of its total repression towards her husband
24. "Now, child," said he to his own daughter, "what will you have?" "The first sprig, dear father, that rubs against your hat on your way home," said she
25. Then he bought for the two first the fine clothes and pearls and diamonds they had asked for: and on his way home, as he rode through a green copse, a sprig of hazel brushed against him, so he broke it off and when he got home he gave it to his daughter
26. Gape, with a sprig of morning-glory in your hair
27. Brujon, of whom it is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an appearance of delicate health and a profoundly premeditated languor, a polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a
28. There was his red bandanna handkerchief on the cabin table, sandwiches folded fresh and oniony in it, tied with a mint sprig to keep it clean to the smell; there on the floor, freshly polished, were his shoes to get into, and there on the chair, with his pencil which had once been long and yellow but was now stubby and chewed, sat Benjy
29. And besides, if you died, you’d look very pretty in the catacomb standing between Mr Grimace and Mr Gape, with a sprig of morning-glory in your hair
30. He was a sprig of farewell summer pressed in an old book, to be taken out, turned over, admired, once a year, but more than that? Who could say? Surely not I, so long, so late in the day
31. Its outrages were usually preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic but generally recognised shape—a sprig of oak-leaves in some parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others
1. Charly picked out a sprigged early American pattern while Trask insisted on something Victorian and grand
2. There remained varicolored cotton dresses which Scarlett felt were not festive enough for the occasion, ball dresses and the green sprigged muslin barbecue, for it had only tiny puffed sleeves and the neck was low enough for a dancing she had worn yesterday
3. This annual sacrifice united us; here among the holly and mistletoe and the cut spruce, the parlour game's ritually performed, the brandy-butter and the Carlsbad plums, the village choir in the pitch-pine minstrels' gallery, gold twine and sprigged wrapping- paper, she and I were accepted, whatever ugly rumours had been afloat in tile past year, as man and wife
1. She had also picked up a couple sprigs of dried hoyberry to chew on in between
2. dress exactly, and the sprigs of ivy complemented her
3. However, green sprigs of grass sprouted in patches
4. hold sprigs of holly for the morrow--that was the idea of church
5. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs
6. An old sheet was draped around the base to make snowy hills, and they agreed to pretend the sheet's lavender sprigs were holly bushes
7. At Christmas, spray paint pine cones silver and gold and surround them with pine sprigs
8. Was just curious where he comes from, finding him sitting on the bridge on Sprigs Hollow Rd
9. Grunt, Crushing The Sprigs
10. Tie together the reserved carrot, leek, parsley sprigs, bay leaves, and celery with a piece of string and bury the bundle in the mixture
11. You’ll need to pick leaves and berries from the Dragon Lady holly bush and collect wild mistletoe sprigs which grow on the oak trees by the sacred well
12. As we lowered her into the garden grave, Valera scattered basil sprigs over her body
13. I know what you're thinking, Angelo, that what I had in the bag was pure heroin, but it was just ground basil sprigs and leaves
14. Combine lemon wedges, mint sprigs, green chillies, ginger, black salt and muddle the ingredients with a muddler
15. For what harm can a wreath with a couple extra sprigs of greenery strategically placed cause to property values
16. An old woman was smudging sage as she whispered her own prayers, leaving sprigs as an offering
17. water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
18. She could not be reduced to a recipe: a pinch of mind-reading, a spoonful of childlike wonder, a cup of ravishing beauty, two sprigs of laughter, three cloves of wisdom, a dash of twinkling eyes and voila!—the perfect mate
19. scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
20. flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
21. the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
22. Though its roots grow old in the ground, and its stump dies in the dry soil, at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
23. Though its roots grow old in the ground, and its stump dies in the dry soul, at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant
24. Meanwhile they had slung the mighty boar across the back of a mule, and having covered it with sprigs of rosemary and branches of myrtle, they bore it away as the spoils of victory to some large field-tents which had been pitched in the middle of the wood, where they found the tables laid and dinner served, in such grand and sumptuous style that it was easy to see the rank and magnificence of those who had provided it
25. than his neck, in short easy curls; and he had a few sprigs about his
26. On leaving the church of Saint Fiacre in Horto after the papal blessing the happy pair were subjected to a playful crossfire of hazelnuts, beechmast, bayleaves, catkins of willow, ivytod, hollyberries, mistletoe sprigs and quicken shoots
27. "Why didn't he use his interest to get Ladislaw made an attache or sent to India? That is how families get rid of troublesome sprigs
28. Sprigs of violets danced on white porcelain banded with gold
29. If you lifted the aisle carpets, you'd find the lost pharaohs buried with fresh loaves of bread and bright sprigs of onions; food for far-traveling up-river to Eternity
30. She bought only one hat from Madame Reboux, but on the other hand she filled a trunk with sprigs of artificial cherries, stalks of all the felt flowers she could find, branches of ostrich plumes, crests of peacocks, tailfeathers of Asiatic roosters, entire pheasants, hummingbirds, and a countless variety of exotic birds preserved in midflight, midcall, midagony: everything that had been used in the past twenty years to change the appearance of hats