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  • And what better day to write than when the wind is whipping outside, it's rainy and gray, and my little crabtree is looking just as beautiful as ever?

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • And what better day to write than when the wind is whipping outside, it's rainy and gray, and my little crabtree is looking just as beautiful as ever?

    Worry Tree 2006

  • I also discovered that we have two apple trees, a sour cherry tree, a pear tree, and a crabtree.

    Observations 2006

  • I also discovered that we have two apple trees, a sour cherry tree, a pear tree, and a crabtree.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • But, it's priced for much more--60-plus acres of desirable Hamptons land, encompassing a U.S.G.A.-rated Rees Jones golf course, a pro shop, 14 gardens, including a crabtree allée and lily walk, and a 75-foot-long swimming pool.

    © Allan Schneider Associates 1.... 2006

  • Went back to the Discovery Channel store at crabtree mall, negotiated a lower price and bought all six of the tshirt fixtures: they're cloth-covered metal, heavy, and adjust about 18 in height.

    six severed torsos don't fit in a Buick trunk badger 2002

  • So, when he arose, he getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon to them, and there first falls to rating of them as if they were dogs, although they never gave him a word of distaste.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • So when he arose, he getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon to them, and there first falls to rating of them as if they were dogs, although they never gave him a word of distaste.

    MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

  • The pith is taken out of him with a hot iron, and a yard of white hazel is similarly treated, also a fair shoot of blackthorn or crabtree for a top.

    Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878

  • Despair, with his grievous crabtree cudgel; and other people he saw who are with us always, -- the handsome Madam Bubble, and the young woman whose name was Dull, and Mr. Worldly Wiseman, and Mr. Facing Bothways, and

    Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

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