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- verb Present participle of
herborize .
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Nicander, Macer, and Galen, and carried home to the house great handfuls of them, whereof a young page called Rizotomos had charge; together with little mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cabbies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborizing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nicander, Macer, and Galen, and carried home to the house great handfuls of them, whereof a young page called Rizotomos had charge; together with little mattocks, pickaxes, grubbing-hooks, cabbies, pruning-knives, and other instruments requisite for herborizing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Mr. Petiver, and the apothecary Mr. Tydall, drink in their herborizing tour through Kent?
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 Various
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André Michaux, a distinguished French botanist then herborizing in the United States.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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M. Bonpland, in an herborizing excursion, warned by his Indian guide to hide himself behind the trunk of a tree, saw a number of these peccaries (cochinos or puercos del monte) pass close by him.
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The same Indian, who would complain, when in herborizing we loaded him with a box filled with plants, would row his canoe fourteen or fifteen hours together, against the strongest current, because he wished to return to his family.
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The most agreeable places for herborizing near Caracas are the ravines of Tacagua, Tipe, Cotecita,
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THE first weeks of our abode at Cumana were employed in testing our instruments, in herborizing in the neighbouring plains, and in examining the traces of the earthquake of the 14th of December, 1797.
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In herborizing further southward, we found a new palm-tree with fan-leaves (Corypha maritima), having a free thread between the interstices of the folioles.
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In a herborizing excursion we made at Rinconada we attempted to penetrate into the crevice, wishing to examine the rocks which seemed to contain in their bosom the cause of these extraordinary conflagrations; but the strength of the vegetation, the interweaving of the lianas, and thorny plants, hindered our progress.
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