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Even worse, our largest trading partner doesn't give a fig for international treaties and breaks them with impunity.
This is merely a fig leaf to cover up its ruthless attempts to preserve the ability to extract huge profits from those artists.
The ficus we grow indoors are members of the fig family and capable of fruiting.
This fluid is called the fig latex and has antibacterial and anti-parasitic properties.
Adapting that fig and cashew loaf to apricot and hazelnut is the domestic version of painting go-faster stripes on the side of your Ford Escort.
A multiple planting permit might be given without fee to anybody scoring a Moreton Bay fig or camphor laurel.
In the gardens are lemon and lime trees, prickly pear cactus plants, fig trees and ornamental palms.
She held a fig out in the palm of her hand, and the animal darted away and disappeared into the thicket.
The saga begins as female wasps wriggle into an unripe fig through a small hole at the end and lay eggs in developing flowers inside.
This critique of modernist nationalism-as-mental-colonialism has come to serve as the fig leaf for the postmodernists.
They held the sacred Ruminalis fig tree in respect and the nearby Lupercal cave was pointed out as the she-wolf's lair.
To one side of the plate, place a fig tartlet with a quenelle of rosemary creme fraiche on top.
Why should a divine being, with creation and eternity on his mind, care a fig for petty human malefactions?
Grapes such as terrentez, bastardo, malvasia, and especially bual and malmsey are as rich as fig juice and still exhibit balance and longevity.
The best time to prune a fig bush is late February or early March, while it is still dormant.
Starters included black pudding with fresh fig and Jerusalem artichoke gateau with mint and balsamic jus.
I sat very still, and watched as various birds flitted about the yard and in the fig tree.
I simply served fig halves with plain mascarpone cheese with a few fresh grinds of black pepper, and it made indeed a sublime dessert.
A barren fig tree takes up valuable garden space and nutrients that fruitful trees can use.
Yet Weil thought so poorly of her achievements she once identified herself with the barren fig tree Jesus cursed because it bore no fruit.
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We started up a trail between some kaffir corn when we suddenly came to another fig tree.
The larger, juicier Smyrna fig attracts her, and she crawls inside, searching for gall flowers there.
Tonio pointed her out to jasmin and he sent her up the fig tree in a hurry.
What vigour there is in the parable of the sower, the harvest, and the fig tree!
The comparison of the fertilization of the date palm to the use of the wild fig refers to the practice of caprification.
I am sorry to disillusionize you, but I don't care a fig for balls and garden-parties and salons.
She has apple and fig trees, and scuppernong grape vines grow rank and try to climb all her trees.
But Gervaise ended by not caring a fig for these thwacks, not more than she did for anything else.
I will send up your cloak, which is barely bigger than a fig leaf, when I can.
You agree with me, don't you, my dear, that it is not necessary to have more than a fig leaf?
It started by sketching a history of the petticoat, beginning with Eve's fig leaf and working up.
First you must know that several tribes go completely naked and wear but the fig leaf.
She would bring them herself, and have a slice of galette or a fig from the big basketful with them.
For instance, Kikuyu women in Africa smear themselves with the sap of fig trees to ensure pregnancy.
It is a species of fig tree, known to naturalists as the ficus dendroica.
Many fig trees are easy to grow as roadside, hedgerow and garden trees, as well as making ideal bonsai specimens.
The beach is lined with palms, cocoa-nut, fig and tamarind trees.
Pollinator fig wasp foundresses enter the figs in order to lay their eggs in, and gall, the ovules that line the inner surface of the fig.
And then the fig ure of Hermann's niece appeared before my mind's eye, with the wealth of her opulent form, her rich youth, her lavish strength.
In his sane moments he did not care a fig for anybody's birthday.
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