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  • Kristin: "don't forget to smell the rosies" - from a botanist's view, the flowers being smelt are of a begonia.

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Kristin: "don't forget to smell the rosies" - from a botanist's view, the flowers being smelt are of a begonia.

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The Colosseum, by the late Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, gives a sprightly, entertaining account of this archetypal building in all its various incarnations, from the "killing fields" of antiquity to the pilgrim's goal of the sixteenth century, the botanist's paradise of the nineteenth, and the archaeologist's puzzle of today — four different construction crews worked on separate quarters of the building, with conspicuously differing results.

    Rome: The Marvels and the Menace Rowland, Ingrid D. 2007

  • Now fat and pregnant, Bronwyn took a job as a botanist's assistant at the University of South Underland.

    At least you girls have Fabio Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • Bonsai weren't for everyone, but the person who appreciated them had a botanist's heart.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Bonsai weren't for everyone, but the person who appreciated them had a botanist's heart.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • One minute he was walking through a botanist's heaven, the next through an equivalent hell.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • One minute he was walking through a botanist's heaven, the next through an equivalent hell.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • Neither name had appeared on the botanist's name tag.

    Quozl Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1989

  • Fawkes 'botanist's eye did not miss the vegetation he passed, absorbed as he was.

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

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