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  • I heard that the name "Barack" is Spanish for "octopus" and that Obama's mother named him that because he has suckers all over his body that allows him to crawl up buildings so that he can look through the windows and hiss at pot-plants.

    Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss 2009

  • We have yellow flowers from Supermouse Ellie said they are freesias, but I wouldn't know, they're lovely and yellow and blooming beautifully and a houseful of pot-plants which are not yet dead.

    Stealth migraine! ailbhe 2005

  • After lighting a taper, they entered a paved vestibule, and mounted a flight of broad and very shallow stairs; half-way up, there was a deep recess for pot-plants, and a wooden seat was attached to the wall.

    Maurice Guest 2003

  • Time was, when you stood outside one of those townhouse conversions, you never knew what awaited you: pot-plants and parquet flooring, or peeling walls and taped-on student nameplates.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Time was, when you stood outside one of those townhouse conversions, you never knew what awaited you: pot-plants and parquet flooring, or peeling walls and taped-on student nameplates.

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Time was, when you stood outside one of those townhouse conversions, you never knew what awaited you: pot-plants and parquet flooring, or peeling walls and taped-on student nameplates.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • We had just had a delivery of pot-plants, and I was unpacking them, when one of the young sales assistants came running in.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • We had just had a delivery of pot-plants, and I was unpacking them, when one of the young sales assistants came running in.

    Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

  • Friday went on the rampage, throwing chairs, pot-plants, bins, bricks and refuse on campus in a protest against having to pay tuition fees.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Standing on the step, Caris observed that the little mage had been so agitated that he'd left half his beloved pot-plants, which clustered the step and every windowsill within reach, unwatered.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

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