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- noun Plural form of
aspidistra .
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Examples
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Plants were everywhere in shades of dark green, lightened in some places by paler ferns, delicate against the larger, stronger leaves of what looked like huge aspidistras.
The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010
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He stopped her in a quiet area between a row of white pillars and a row of aspidistras in huge brass urns.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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There were marble statues on fluted plinths and dark-leaved aspidistras in terra-cotta urns.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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He stopped her in a quiet area between a row of white pillars and a row of aspidistras in huge brass urns.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Mrs Honeyball, who reportedly makes her staff hold aspidistras and type with a pencil clenched in their teeth, would be a much more representative leader than Mrs Glennis Wilmott, the present Leader of Labour MEPs.
Blogs by idiots 2009
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Reluctantly, Col emerged from the shelter of the urns and aspidistras.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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Reluctantly, Col emerged from the shelter of the urns and aspidistras.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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There were marble statues on fluted plinths and dark-leaved aspidistras in terra-cotta urns.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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You will find it there among the plush curtains and the aspidistras.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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You will find it there among the plush curtains and the aspidistras.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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