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As they fry, the little petals meld into a rich, not-quite-earthy, slightly sweet polleny center, which is perfectly contrasted by the crunchy fried batter that encases them.
Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Lenz 2008
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As they fry, the little petals meld into a rich, not-quite-earthy, slightly sweet polleny center, which is perfectly contrasted by the crunchy fried batter that encases them.
Dandy Dandelions Sarah Lenz 2008
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I can remember the dirt-edged Band-Aid on her elbow, the smell of syrup and bacon, the polleny, green-grass haze in the humid air.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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I can remember the dirt-edged Band-Aid on her elbow, the smell of syrup and bacon, the polleny, green-grass haze in the humid air.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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I can remember the dirt-edged Band-Aid on her elbow, the smell of syrup and bacon, the polleny, green-grass haze in the humid air.
Best Friends Forever Jennifer Weiner 2009
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Butterflies delight in cosmos 'open arms, that daisy beckons neurotic fluttering to stop to drink nectar and rest warmly on polleny pillows while wings bask proudly on pink petal-tops.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 (ANSI Edition) 1993
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She fell face forward among polleny stamens, almost unable to breathe for the scent of the flower, but incapable of moving.
HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962
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They consider the lilies and roll into them, pushing their blunt polleny faces against them like babies on their mother's bosom; and fondly, too, with eternal love does Mother Nature clasp her small bee-babies and suckle them, multitudes at once, on her warm Shasta breast.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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The common honeybees, gone wild in this sweet wilderness, gather tons of honey into the hollows of the trees and rocks, clambering eagerly through bramble and hucklebloom, shaking the clustered bells of the generous manzanita, now humming aloft among polleny willows and firs, now down on the ashy ground among small gilias and buttercups, and anon plunging into banks of snowy cherry and buckthorn.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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