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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
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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
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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
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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
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Then a new grain drill with fertilizer and grass-seed attachments was added.
Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson
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She used a native grass-seed in place of soap, and made the linen very white with it.
Morocco S.L. Bensusan
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Farther on, we saw five old and miserably emaciated Indian women, gathering grass-seed for bread.
What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant
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Their food consists almost entirely of insects with a very little grass-seed.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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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
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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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