In the days after the riots, police spies were out in force, creeping through the capital with their ears open for sedition. |
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It propagates itself by seeding and by creeping rootstock, so keep an eye on it and limit its growth. |
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She lay there, with one arm creeping round a bar of the iron gate, and seeming to embrace it. |
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The new trend for a 1950s look is creeping in, accompanied by fuller skirts and wide belts. |
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Buttercups have creeping runners that root at intervals and are almost as difficult to dislodge as dock. |
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Creeping phlox, thyme and aubrietia grow between terrace stones, in typical English fashion, next to a creeping bent lawn. |
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Inland saltgrass is a native, perennial, warm-season, sod-forming short grass with vigorous, creeping, scaly underground stems. |
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This is a country which was facing creeping Talibanization and was sliding towards disintegration. |
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The first dealt with Canada's creeping demographic abyss, the so-called baby bust. |
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The creeping mist coiled its tendrils round the spiky barbs like grasping fingers. |
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They climb high on the rugged hillside to outrun the creeping light of the waxing moon, which backlights a skyline of shark-tooth peaks. |
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Over the period of a month or so, the temp kept creeping up even though the room temperature is maintained relatively constant. |
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This marshwort is a small, creeping umbellifer which grows in open, wet, usually base-rich permanent pasture subject to winter flooding. |
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Some polychaetes such as the sea mouse also bear a ventral muscular, creeping sole. |
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Some of the spirals found in Nature include seashells, animal horns, coiled snakes and creeping vines, among other things. |
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So the Medium Lobster salutes Virgina's attempt to put a stop to creeping secularity in our private arrangements. |
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These work well with pots of perennials such as thrift Armeria alliacea alternated with creeping Gypsophila repens. |
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Seeing as I wasn't about to fall back asleep, I slowly crawl off my bed, and throw a bathrobe on, creeping quietly out into the hall. |
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It was an odd, creeping feeling, that made her body tickle and itch at the same time. |
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He saw a flicker of movement in the trees, and he climbed forward quietly, creeping up on Devoss. |
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A tingly feeling was creeping down my spine as he slowly rubbed his thumb in circles against the pulse in my wrist. |
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The sun turned the chain of mountains on the western horizon an amber red, but it was slowly engulfed by the creeping darkness. |
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The famous Bermuda shorts were invented in the Fifties when hems were creeping up and shorts becoming dangerously brief. |
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To see the competitors creeping toward that starting line is to see the traffic jam of your dreams. |
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The upright stems branched from creeping branching horizontal rhizomes that bore delicate hair-like roots. |
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It grows from a creeping tuberous rhizome, a root-like horizontal stem growing just below the surface of the soil. |
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It was still light out, just the first orange rays of twilight creeping over the horizon. |
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Have you noticed those two blatherskites are creeping ever nearer to usurp you as champion posters? |
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A beam of silvery light was shining through the old windows, the moss already creeping up and encircling them in emerald tendrils. |
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Its shocked expression looks more like a simper as it sits on Brewer's shoulder, perfectly arranged to look like it's creeping up from behind. |
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Soft moss grew on the earth in places, and the roots of creeping plants branched out haphazardly here and there. |
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So in some splendid still lifes you will find blowflies sitting on a pear or the odd maggot creeping out of a peach. |
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The greens, fairways, and tee boxes are of creeping bentgrass, while the rough is a mixture of Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass and fescue. |
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We sat on our horses, and I watched the huts as the creeping shadows slanted across them. |
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In a moment, the forest was quiet again, and the flying and creeping things slithered and crawled to view the carnage. |
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Grey weathered posts, with white ant mounds creeping up around them, mark the boundary. |
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We carefully snuck up on the enemies, creeping through the backyards of each house. |
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It is a low creeping bush with needle-like leaves, somewhat like a prostrate yew. |
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A vapour trail was creeping steadily across the deepening blue of the evening sky. |
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The most common cool-season grasses are orchard grass, smooth brome, meadow brome and creeping foxtail. |
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The northern hemisphere has effectively eradicated itself in a nuclear war, and the fallout is creeping inexorably southwards. |
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Samolus valerandi is a short, creeping perennial with erect stems to 20 cm. |
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After 22 cuts of the whip, he was starting to feel the pain creeping through his mind. |
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The creeping fear of what might happen next is influencing public opinion even in the American heartlands. |
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The spikemosses are creeping or ascendant plants with simple, scale-like leaves on branching stems from which roots also arise. |
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On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine. |
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We suggest you also caulk around each hole to prevent water from creeping in and rotting the siding. |
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It started in the left leg, the tingle creeping slowly through the whole limb leaving numbness in its wake. |
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The oblivion of unconsciousness was creeping up on her at its leisure, and she would make him regret murdering her too slowly. |
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Primula foliage is still as crisp as lettuce, the creeping phlox looks as good as new, and so does the evergreen candytuft. |
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Then try growing creeping pineapple sage with smaller leaves and sprawling tendencies that make it well suited to growing in a hanging basket. |
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Everywhere I turned there were immense trees towering above me, rainbows of exotically coloured blooms, and thick dark carpets of creeping moss. |
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Orange hawkweed has a shallow root system and underground creeping stems called rhizomes. |
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Perennial weeds set fewer seeds, but sustain and propagate themselves other ways, with creeping stolons, rhizomes, bulbs or other plant parts. |
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Dressed in black the person was creeping toward the house, ducking behind bushes and hedges. |
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Darren Kelly's leveller just ten minutes from time means City are creeping rather than striding their way to glory. |
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Last night, creeping along in the dark, with no illumination but the lights of the vehicles, I could see little. |
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I felt my eyes widened, grief overtaking me while anger was slowly creeping up into my feelings. |
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She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully. |
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Benji had a creeping suspicion that this would be the answer to his question. |
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Choose perennials and bulbs that are quick to form intricate root systems, such as chrysanthemums, violets, daffodils and creeping phlox. |
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However, critics have complained of a creeping civilianisation of policing the roads. |
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A creeping process of impoverishment ensued, accelerating progressively to become the generally recognized pauperism of the nineteenth century. |
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The tiny hairs creeping from my skin make me look as though I am dusted with copper and am somehow fairylike, elfin. |
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The tide rose noticeably inch by inch, creeping up the two seaward tires alarmingly, my tires spun ever-deeper holes in the wet sand. |
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Within the lifetime of men now living, a miracle of creeping compendiousness occurred in copywriting. |
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I am thoroughly disillusioned by the insipidity that is creeping into all aspects of daily life. |
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I'm sick of the adolescent way this makes me feel, the adolescent way it makes me talk, the nervousness creeping into sexual congress. |
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Over 360 species of plant have been recorded on site including creeping spearwort and coralroot orchid. |
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And sometimes there's a flash of the old comic vigour, oddly transformed by creeping fogeyism. |
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We had started to think that this creeping fogeyism had something to do with the fact that Collings' own paintings are being ignored. |
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The unmoved expression slowly creeping over Lily's face prompted him to continue explaining post-haste. |
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At Blackpool yesterday, the shadow home secretary, Oliver Letwin, promised a radical counter-revolution against this creeping centralisation. |
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Fog had begun creeping into the nooks and crannies of his property, blurring fence lines and cattle in the process. |
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I dropped my counseling folder onto the desk and walked outside silently, carefully creeping around the corner. |
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Thick moss layered the rest of the floor like a carpet, occasional vines of twisting colored flowers creeping over the vibrant green. |
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It has short, creeping rhizomes from which new shoots arise each year, and is an attractive species with horticultural potential. |
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Allow creeping vines to run along the ground in areas that are difficult to mow. |
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Bright green baby's tears, blue star creeper, and creeping thyme grow below them. |
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Or arrange them on packed soil so you can grow plants such as creeping thyme in wider spaces between them. |
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Once you have the rocks in place, plant some ivy and creeping violets throughout, so that it will spill over the rocks. |
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The trees were tall and vast, of tropical origin, with vines hanging from the branches and creeping along the damp earth. |
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As culinary plants, most creeping thymes tank far below the English and French thymes, or the best-flavored citrus strains. |
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He pulled up to a huge gate, covered in rose vines creeping along the steel bars. |
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Branches and trunks twist and bend as they grow, creeping horizontally along the ground as well as reaching toward the sky. |
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If negative thoughts start creeping in at the last second, step back, take a deep breath and laugh at yourself. |
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The issues have changed little since his day, and the same error keeps on creeping in. |
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They often tried to force the play early and, with unforced errors also creeping in at inopportune times, they rarely completed sets of six. |
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Fixed rates started creeping up at the end of last summer in anticipation of increases in the base rate. |
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There is no way we want to see interest rates creeping up before the end of the year. |
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We are also seeing interest rates creeping up in an effort to stem the flow of borrowing that puts an extra burden on the shoulders of us all. |
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Lime green sweet potato vine, white-flowered bacopa, and small-leafed creeping Jenny spill over the urn's edges. |
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The daylight creeping up on night just outside my window would be the last of anything I saw out that window. |
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A third group, generically called creeping thymes, includes T. serpyllum and T. herba-barona. |
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Yes, I am talking about Hallowe'en, which is creeping ghoulishly closer and which seems to get bigger and scarier each year. |
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Since I was well back in the procession of creeping vehicles, it took me a while to figure out what the hold-up was. |
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It is one of Britain's most prolific weeds, with its creeping, fanned leaves having taken over large swathes of countryside. |
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Many plant species can reproduce clonally by creeping roots or stems, propagules such as bulbils and tubers, or agamous seeds. |
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The dress fell below her knees, the soft red fabric brushing against her legs and sending goose pimples creeping across her flesh. |
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Jack slipped out of the car, the chilly night air lashing against his skin and sending goose pimples creeping over his flesh. |
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Lia placed her hands on her lap, the overwhelming cold biting through her thin blouse and sending goose pimples creeping over her flesh. |
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My favorite movie of his is Waking Life, though the Before duology has been creeping up. |
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River trouting with a dry fly is all about slowly making one's way upstream, often creeping and crawling into position. |
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Lucas stared at the ground, trying to hide the joyful smile that was creeping across his face. |
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The creeping influence of literature is probably unavoidable, since screenwriters, as a group, are such a well-read lot. |
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Aggressive planting of hawthorn, pyracantha, creeping juniper, holly, Chinese jujube, roses, blackthorn or prickly ash will help deter criminals. |
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As I slowly made my way through the dark, crowded junkyard, I felt a smile creeping across my face. |
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Leafy shoots are borne adventitiously on the dorsal side of the long, creeping root. |
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His struggles were becoming more and more frenzied, a wild look creeping into his blue eyes. |
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A creeping, darkly flavoured, little number that more than serves as the big flipside to the more airy and light feel of much of the album. |
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Once realizing that this thing had some sort of wizardry in his power, he began creeping towards the door. |
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For the red-baiters, American movies represented a totalitarianism creeping in from without. |
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The main weeds dying back were creeping thistle, couch and mature knotgrass. |
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An extract from the root of the notorious creeping vine, kudzu, may also prove helpful. |
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Becca blinked a few more times before creeping out of the shower and relocking the door. |
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Downslope, a patch of creeping red fescue grows naturally, requiring mowing just once or twice a year to renew growth. |
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But as the final round unfolded, he found himself creeping up the leader board. |
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I could feel the blow in my gut and kidneys, sheer panic, creeping up my back and riffling the hair on my scalp. |
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Wild plants and flowers sprouted all over the place, creeping up the trees. |
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I can feel the sense of wellness slowly creeping back into my bones. |
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The deathless man character had been creeping around in other things I had written, so he came next. |
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Traditional societies in underdeveloped countries are no more immune to creeping moral decay than their more sophisticated cousins in rich, developed nations. |
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This seems to have been his response to the creeping erosion of the square's residential character primarily by the spread of barristers' chambers. |
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The faintest noise, it sounded like the creeping of some wraith. |
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The dragon is bodiless yet has scaly hands creeping upwards. |
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I see that film as evidencing the insidious effects of a creeping, dangerous worldview slowly infecting a small group of people, and then one by one destroying them. |
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There's a Pythonesque element creeping in to this conversation. |
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It was eerie to stand in the centre of this huge, empty, dark space, with only a few slivers of light creeping in through the cracks in the hangar door. |
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The minute hand on the clock above the Walls Unit entrance swept around past the 3, the 6, the 9, creeping toward 9 o'clock as the crowd looked on restively. |
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Feelings of lethargy and fatigue are creeping into my being. |
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Stan nodded conspiratorially, a sly grin creeping over his face. |
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Their seedlings become highly ramified, passing through a creeping establishment phase consisting of a decumbent lignotuber with several basal sprouts. |
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I used to somehow feel that I was just living the blissful life on borrowed time, and sooner or later I'd succumb to that same creeping feeling of not belonging, ultimately. |
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A slightly uneven surface is studded with irregular mossy rocks and covered with the northern European forest mixture of grass and creeping shrubs like bilberry. |
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Winter is fast creeping in, so pedestrians and cyclists must wear armbands or reflective clothing to be safe and be seen when using the public road at night. |
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This, despite feeling like futility is creeping like vines to tear down your walls of passion and security. |
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In Kirsty Gunn's second novel, Featherstone, we find ourselves confusingly but fittingly connected with characters disassociating themselves with creeping abandon. |
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Water gushed out of the ruptured pavement and poured through people's front doors as families desperately used towels and carpets to stop the water creeping in. |
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The creeping attack insured that the first assault would come without warning because the enemy would not pick up the asdic of the first ship right above her. |
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We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock. |
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Infestation by flies of the genus Hypoderma is characterized by general signs and symptoms followed by the appearance of furuncular or creeping myiasis. |
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Low, mounding chamomile and creeping thymes grow between the nemesias. |
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We were creeping forever through darkness with nothing but each other's black figures and the swoosh of our cloaks to tell that we were still together. |
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Gem returned the stare, a coy smile creeping its way onto her countenance. |
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We felt foolish standing there with rain water soaking up our ragged jean clad legs so we pretended that we liked that feeling of creeping dampness on the tube. |
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In Fontana, 80 miles to the east of LA, on the way to Vegas, a giant brown cloud will end its creeping spread and give way to clear empty clean skies. |
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With visions of poisonous spiders and fanged monsters lurking in hollow trees creeping around in my brain, I tentatively put my hand into the hole. |
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One of the more entertaining aspects of working for an institution like the Weekly is to see how often the readers sense some sort of betrayal, some creeping sign of impurity. |
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But the guilt has been creeping up on me, grasping at my skin, gnawing away at my bones, chewing on my heart, mauling my conscience, and spitting out my toenails one by one. |
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A horrible cry brought the house servants creeping up to the barred room. |
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Many club mosses have leaves which are attached in a spiral pattern, while in other creeping species the leaves are all oriented in the same plane. |
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However, now pushing 60, a twilight-years philosophy is creeping into the Lemmster's previously incorrigible worldview, with takes on death and environmentalism. |
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It is perhaps simplest to speak of a creeping military coup. |
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Many want to conceal the strands of gray hair creeping into their hairdos. |
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Vaguely, I could feel a smile creeping back to my melancholy expression. |
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You can however, see the excitement building day-to-day, creeping into his voice at odd times, and manifesting in increasing difficulty in getting him to sleep at night. |
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We've all complained about creeping infotainment, media concentration, the lack of serious investigative TV, the tabloid nature of the magazine shows and on and on. |
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Infuriation is creeping up my spine at Daniel's stab at martyrdom. |
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Tillage with a chisel plow, disk, or field cultivator may actually help spread perennials with creeping root systems, such as Canada thistle and hemp dogbane. |
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You can also let a creeping fig or other dense vine cover a block wall between you and your neighbors, or add planting sconces to walls and gates. |
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I didn't like him very much coz he was always creeping up behind you and giving you a dead leg with his knee, and stealing stuff from your desk and that kind of thing. |
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With the Woodlands complex at Carlton Minniot starting to thaw out entries are gradually creeping up again and with the water still cold the fish are tightly shoaled. |
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Well, it's part of a larger pattern, which is that the date of the trust fund's exhaustion keeps creeping ever closer. |
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Add jewel mint of Corsica or creeping thyme between a path's stepping stones, and, if you have room, put a lemon or orange tree or a mock orange beside the path. |
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The sporophyte has a creeping habit and is dorsiventrally flattened. |
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And so the same creeping rot of the rule of law that the administration has inflicted on immigration now bedevils our drug laws. |
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There's more accessibility to drugs, and it's creeping into our community. |
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I'd never thought of myself as a plainsman, but those trees closed in on me, creeping ominously up from the side of the road and obscuring my view of the horizon. |
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The Minister for Agriculture has again warned of the dangers of complacency creeping into the efforts to contain and prevent further outbreaks of foot and mouth disease. |
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Indeed, once stress tests on the banks are completed in April, there is the distinct prospect that the government's creeping nationalisation of the sector will extend further. |
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A creeping sense develops that Judy fled not just a stifling culture but a genuine existential threat. |
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Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. |
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What creeping advances the government has been able to make on some fronts are being matched by setbacks. |
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Hanging planters also make a good home for anything that will trail and spill over, such as ivies and creeping phlox, especially if the planter is hanging above eye level. |
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While consultation documents on wheelchair strategy have winged back and forth, the creeping paralysis of the National Health Service has gone unabated. |
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This method works well with groundcovers and other plants that spread quickly, such as creeping thyme, mints, lamb's ears, ajuga, vinca, mums, asters, and daisies. |
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There are some stats to explain why the age of nominees is creeping up. |
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The 15th RWF had fallen behind the protective creeping barrage to their front and came under fire from a German position known as Battery Copse. |
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She smiled, too, her incisors creeping out from behind her lips. |
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I still-hunted, creeping along slowly like I always do when after whitetails. |
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These days cramped classrooms are all too common, with class sizes creeping up. |
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You will note there was no complaint from Republicans about creeping socialism with respect to the production of gas guzzlers. |
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Bracketed by two roiling group passages, smaller dances slink by, marked by much creaturely creeping and carnivorous eroticism. |
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Some polyps can asexually produce a creeping frustule larval form, which then develops into another polyp. |
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It's height ranges from 30-45 cm with an underground creeping rhizome from which roots grow gregariously. |
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She then examines the creeping smuttiness and progression in scandal of Madame Bovary, The Well of Loneliness, and Lady Chatterley's Lover. |
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There is one creeping beast, or long creeple, that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. |
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Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism.... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle. |
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By the time they had reorganised they were well behind schedule and out of touch with the creeping artillery barrage. |
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Now even his mountainous funeral is creeping into the remorseless past. |
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He is critical of the Magi, attacking astrology, and suggesting that magic originated in medicine, creeping in by pretending to offer health. |
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It is a creeping vine that bears cucumiform fruits that are used as vegetables. |
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During the summer months, creeping bentgrass on golf courses loses out to other species and is often attacked by fungus. |
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This allowed the creeping barrage to move too far ahead of the advancing troops. |
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Forest Service and the state Department of Agriculture have cautioned against the development of bioengineered creeping bentgrass. |
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On top of this came burglars, tiptoeingly creeping from room to room, hunting for her. |
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If your panties are creeping up and creating a wedgie, or if they're digging into your cheeks or waist, they're too tight. |
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Add to them the perennial weeds such as dandelion, dock, clover, creeping woodsorrel and six dozen more. |
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It features the latest creeping bent grass greens and is now a permanent fixture on the EuroPro Tour. |
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Cymbidiums on the other hand are sympodial orchids, which are characterised by creeping rhizomes, with growing points. |
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Halloween is creeping up quickly and this year you will be cackling with delight thanks to this delicious dish from Tabasco Pepper Sauce. |
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The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground. |
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They ran a series of experiments investigating the transfer of compounds from two host species, white cedar and creeping boobialla, to quandongs. |
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The 16th RWF, which had fallen behind the creeping barrage, were met with determined German resistance which repulsed two assaults. |
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But he pulled the ball back to Kevin McDonald, whose cross found Dicko for the deftest of headers to send the ball creeping past Robinson inside the far post. |
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From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl. |
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When Bloodworth arrived, the flames were consuming the adjoining houses and creeping towards the paper warehouses and flammable stores on the river front. |
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Women and children ate separately, but in the later Empire period, with permissiveness creeping in, even decent women would attend such dinner parties. |
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In actual practice, an increasing degree of precedent is creeping into civil law jurisprudence, and is generally seen in many nations' highest courts. |
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As the infantry waded through mud, they lost the creeping barrage. |
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We are totally opposed to the creeping privatisation of these services which NuLab has indicated it will commence once this election is safely out of the way. |
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The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around supports with thin, spiraling tendrils. |
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Underplanting with creeping thyme to attract bees will help too. |
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Over the past five years, we have seen the corporatizing influence creeping into higher education with the same narrative applied to the professorate. |
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The walk into Burton's Lake provided periodic handfuls of deliciously hydrating blueberries, cranberries and the little-known creeping crowberries. |
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Bold and bolshie, brash, cunning and cautious Whilst craftily creeping on bloated belly to the raucous Blackbird greedily feeding on the worm-holed lawn. |
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He wore long pants, desert boots, and used a horsehide he found to stretch over his cot to keep the cold from creeping into his bones during the cold desert nights. |
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The grounds, encircled by towering palms and lush with bougainvillea, lavender, salvia, creeping thyme, rosemary and lantana, are seductively lit. |
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At Craven Cottage, Bullard was notorious for creeping up on naked team-mates as they lay helpless on the massage table and giving them a closeup of his, er, tackle. |
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It was not then listed as poisonous to livestock but was included with other weeds such as spear thistle, creeping thistle, curled dock and common dock. |
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There's an element of romance creeping into the new series with his police partner Camille starting to see the attraction of the straightlaced Brit. |
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