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- noun Plural form of
garden . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
garden .
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Examples
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-- why, at the end of the row of narrow beds which we called our gardens when we were children, grew an old thorn, and in the hollow of the root of the thorn, lived a toad, a great ancient toad, whom I, for one, never dared approach too nearly.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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I have seen snowdrops; in gardens and on the cart of a peasant woman who was driving to market.
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In the woods atop old hazels under a thinning canopy of ash, along the lime avenue where high branches spread into the crowns, in gardens where hawthorns overhang the unworked edges? here are the robins.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010
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We loved biking from the 15th to the Eiffel Tower and then down the Seine to the Place de la Concorde and then on to the Tuileries Gardens, although they wouldn't let us ride our bikes in gardens, so we crossed the river and rode back to the ET to wait in line ...
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M experience with gardens is that they always hit a rough patch early in the season, and then (usually) most things turn out okay.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Marijuana cultivation, often associated with NorCal hippies on small gardens, is in fact an industrial practice.
Adam Yamaguchi: Are You High? California's Pot Proposition Won't Stop Mexican Narco War Adam Yamaguchi 2010
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The 120-square-meter Imperial Suite — which overlooks the main gardens and includes a large living room, dining room and white marble bathroom — starts at € 770 a night.
French Master Chef Reinvents His Art Emma-Kate Symons 2010
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I have seen snowdrops; in gardens and on the cart of a peasant woman who was driving to market.
Commonplace 2010
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Marijuana cultivation, often associated with NorCal hippies on small gardens, is in fact an industrial practice.
Adam Yamaguchi: Are You High? California's Pot Proposition Won't Stop Mexican Narco War Adam Yamaguchi 2010
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The solution isn't to limit the number of roof-feet, by banning cottages ... rather, it's to do far more creative things with the runoff: green streets, rain gardens, bioswales.
Report Card Gives Low Marks to City Council Members « PubliCola 2010
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You could only visit a select number of information resources on the likes of AOL; they were “walled gardens,” to use a term that was coined sometime in the mid-1990s.
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