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  • No piles of dirt and grass-seed bags or rolling shelves full of begonias and impatiens will be found at the design centers.

    Home Depot Set to Test Jennifer Waters 2007

  • The June air infected us with primitive hungers, grass-seed and thistledown idled through the windows, we smelt the fields and were tormented by cuckoos, while every out-of-door sound that came drifting in was a sharp nudge in the solar plexus.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • Trees and vines had also been planted outside, and the inevitable grass-seed sown broadcast.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • No cultivation is usually given, the grass-seed being sown upon the ashes remaining from the burnt scrub, which forms very effective manure.

    Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

  • Then a new grain drill with fertilizer and grass-seed attachments was added.

    Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson

  • She used a native grass-seed in place of soap, and made the linen very white with it.

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • Farther on, we saw five old and miserably emaciated Indian women, gathering grass-seed for bread.

    What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant

  • Their food consists almost entirely of insects with a very little grass-seed.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • A thick seeding of lawn grass-seed should be sown early the next spring and raked lightly in.

    Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • They pricked his consciousness at unexpected moments, like a grass-seed in a walker's stocking ....

    The Long Trick 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926

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