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"Herbage," says Dallington scornfully "is the most generall food of the Tuscan ... for every horse-load of flesh eaten, there is ten cart loades of hearbes and rootes, which also their open Markets and private tables doe witnesse, and whereof if one talke with them fasting, he shall have sencible feeling." [
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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Reboisement in France: Or, Records of the Replanting of the Alps, the Cevennes, and the Pyrenees With Trees, Herbage and Bush, With a View to Arresting ... and Effects of Torrents [1880] by John Croumbie. comp.
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Berlin, Germany: Verlag Paul Parey, 147 pp. (Herbage Abstracts, 50 (10), 4724).
Chapter 16 1987
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Herbage grew here, glad of the shelter, and had built up soil enough to support swart, strong trees.
The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982
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Journal of the American Society of Agronomy, 32, 190 - 194, (Herbage Abstracts, 10, 200).
Chapter 5 1953
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You see a great way upon their hills ye bottoms full of Enclosures, woods and different sort of manureing and Herbage, amongst wch are placed many little towns wch gives great pleasure of ye travellers to view.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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Herbage and grass, being more easily propagated than trees, — sown as are their seeds by the birds and scattered by the winds of heaven, — in
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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Herbage around is abundant, and wild palms give it the appearance of an oasis.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Herbage is grown in the gardens for fattening the sheep.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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The Meadows are flowry and blooming; they produce the Trefoil and other kinds of Herbage, always tender and soft, and as it were, newly springing.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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