Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
sterile . - A simplified and former spelling of
sterile .
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Only sayin 'since we shipped off 220 head to IBP or Tyson rather today lol but seriously This is an assanine concept as far as nutritional value goes they can insert vitamins and minerals, but I agree on the taste issue, probably would taste as steril as the enviornment it was engineered in
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Only sayin 'since we shipped off 220 head to IBP or Tyson rather today lol but seriously This is an assanine concept as far as nutritional value goes they can insert vitamins and minerals, but I agree on the taste issue, probably would taste as steril as the enviornment it was engineered in
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Nothing is absurd and steril like cruelty, Only exist or persist the justice.
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I drove from Dallas to Austin in 2002 and despite beeing used to Freeways,running through the city,I found the center of Austin very steril...
Living on the Donkey Cart Highway Lauri 2009
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This, I say, because the Europeans fight for a rock in the sea against one another, or for a steril land ... where the people by changement of air engender sickness and die ....
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It is certain that in very steril years corn sown will grow to another kind: --
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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It is singular, that while San Agustin is situated in the midst of the most fertile and productive country, there should lie opposite to it, and bounded as it were by the graceful Peruvian trees and silver poplars which surround a small church on the other side of the high-road, a great tract of black lava, steril, bleak, and entirely destitute of vegetation, called the Pedregal.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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It is singular, that while San Agustin is situated in the midst of the most fertile and productive country, there should lie opposite to it, and bounded as it were by the graceful Peruvian trees and silver poplars which surround a small church on the other side of the high road, a great tract of black lava, steril, bleak, and entirely destitute of vegetation, called the _Pedregal_.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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There, on a steril and lofty rock, hard by the sea, Prometheus is chained by Vulcan -- "a reward for his disposition to be tender to mankind."
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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A steril soil, a limited territory, a scanty population -- all these -- the drawbacks and disadvantages of nature -- the wonderful energy and confident daring of
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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