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(Prelude 1805: 1. 331-32) that are not eternity, but the reflux upon an imagination still haunted by boyhood thefts (how rare to put the sound of undistinguishable to work in blank verse); or the luxuriously echoing redundancy of "heard the murmur and the murmuring sound" in the nut-tree grove (Nutting 37) that underscores epicurean boyish foreplay in the key of
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I think it was caused by eating some boiled gum which had been obtained from the nut-tree Mr. Kekwick discovered last year.
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And all of a sudden I saw a hole under the nut-tree, like a little grave.
Adam Bede 2004
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I knew the way to the place ... the place against the nut-tree; and I could hear it crying at every step ....
Adam Bede 2004
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Immediately a tall nut-tree grew up, whereon the bird rested, and then carried them home, where they found their child, who had grown tall and beautiful, and they lived thenceforth happily until their death.
Household Tales 2003
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As stated before, the larvæ were reared on a nut-tree in the garden, till the last stage.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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For the first time I reared _Actias selene_, from India, on a nut-tree in the garden, and _Attacus atlas_, on the ailantus.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various
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In short, widespread recognition of the importance of nut-tree planting as a side line.
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The use of synthetic plant hormones on cuttings of nut-tree species has been of questionable value.
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Mound layers are used quite successfully for the propagation of filbert varieties but have not proven of value with other nut-tree species.
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