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What Kevin Nettle and myself are simply saying is that the question was from the promotional material is any GUY interested in seeing this movie, since Kevin is a Guy he has formed an educated opinion based off what he has seen and read (as have I) and we simply have no interest in this MOVIE whatsoever.
Twilight's First Official Photo and Why I'm Passing « FirstShowing.net
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"Flowering Nettle" is a book about the feeling of being an outsider, experiencing guilt, and being worried and afraid.
Harry Martinson: Catching the Dewdrop, Reflecting the Cosmos
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The word Nettle is derived from _net_, meaning something spun, or sewn; and it indicates the thread made from the hairs of the plant, and formerly used among Scandinavian nations.
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Gerard says, "the Nettle is a good medicine for them that cannot breathe unless they hold their necks upright: and being eaten boiled with periwinkles it makes the body soluble."
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Again the Nettle was a favourite old English remedy for consumption, as already mentioned (see _Mugwort_), with reference to the mermaid of the Clyde, when she beheld with regret the untimely funeral of a young Glasgow maiden.
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In other points the Nettle is a most interesting plant.
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-- Darts about gardens, and is locally called Nettle-creeper.
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Perusing the drinks list for the Zetter Townhouse in fashionable Clerkenwell, central London, something stands out: a concoction called a Nettle Gimlet, made from Beefeater gin and nettle cordial.
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A Nettle is a Plant so well known to every one, as to what the appearance of it is to the naked eye, that it needs no description; and there are very few that have not felt as well as seen it; and therefore it will be no news to tell that a gentle and slight touch of the skin by a Nettle, does oftentime, not onely create very sensible and acute pain, much like that of
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That I was not the recipient of a similar midget was due to the death of "Nettle," the animal selected for me.
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