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It's only a matter of time before you get your fill of synthetic-stocked, bean-field rifles and remember with bitterness and self-loathing the svelte Austrian jewel you cast away like a dirty sock.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do (With apologies to Neil Sedaka. Remember Neil Sadaka?) 2006
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Snatch'd from yon bean-field! and the world so hush'd!
Archive 2006-06-01 StyleyGeek 2006
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I had an old axe which nobody claimed, with which by spells in winter days, on the sunny side of the house, I played about the stumps which I had got out of my bean-field.
Walden 2004
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He came along early, crossing my bean-field, though without anxiety or haste to get to his work, such as Yankees exhibit.
Walden 2004
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Before yet any woodchuck or squirrel had run across the road, or the sun had got above the shrub oaks, while all the dew was on, though the farmers warned me against it — I would advise you to do all your work if possible while the dew is on — I began to level the ranks of haughty weeds in my bean-field and throw dust upon their heads.
Walden 2004
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East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, who built his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in
Walden 2004
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Wherever the aphides abound, whether in hop-ground, bean-field, or rose-garden, there are lady-birds gathered together, and they are welcomed by the cultivator, if not by the aphis.
The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various
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Much has been written, and not without justice, of the rich fragrance of an orange grove; and at home we ofttimes hear of the sweet odors of a bean-field.
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Some storks were likewise feeding in a neighbouring bean-field, the fragrance of which was delicious, as wafted to us by the evening breeze.
Byeways in Palestine James Finn
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I pass from it as from a bean-field into the forest, and it is forgotten.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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