Much softer than the privet, which is so hard it should be used to build houses. From Wordnik.com. [Killer-The Final Chapter? « Fairegarden] Reference
Few animals eat privet, which is one of the reasons the plant has been able to proliferate the South. From Wordnik.com. [Local News from TimesDaily] Reference
The solution to the high maintenence of the privet was a row of arborvitae behind and C. pisifera ‘Gold Mops’ in front of the large existing hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Chamaecyparis « Fairegarden] Reference
Oh ya the President of the USA attacking a "privet" American citizen. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Whatever the "privet" CO. contract was in 2007 irrelevant once AIG was bailed out. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Invasive plants, such as privet, will be removed and a pervious walkway will be installed. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
It is known to botanists by the name Lawsonia alba or inermis, a kind of privet, which grows 6 or 8 feet high. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
The Californian privet is excellent for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
Sanford Kombe, privet entrepreneur, construction of biogas units. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 2] Reference
Cheney helped Halliburton set up a privet supply chain for the Army. From Wordnik.com. [Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to] Reference
Towards evening some one fired a shot-gun just beyond the privet hedge. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
It is first in our country any privet university performs in this museum. From Wordnik.com. [University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh @ liberation war museum] Reference
Probably privet berries, thought Cthosis, and not enough salt in the boil. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
So had the lead Tudor statues among the garden's neatly pruned privet hedges. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Down a lane between clipped privet hedges we caught a glimpse of little white flanks. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
The exotic Chinese tallow tree and Chinese privet have invaded large areas in this region. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
There would be a hedge, that ever-predictable barrier of privet, in the background of the frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
Our yard had been landscaped so they had the English privet hedge borders, the little short hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett, January 21, 1986. Interview C-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
This field extended to the limits of the glebe, which was enclosed on that side by a privet-hedge. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Every shadow in the winding walk, every recess in the over-grown privet, hid a secret enemy to him. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Behind the privet hedge fencing off the paradise, on this good Sunday morning, lurked Amos Entwistle. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
Before her was a high hedge of privet; beyond it, among the trees, the chimneys of a red brick house. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
Fairview Street, where Green Willbanks lives is a section of shabby cottages encircled by privet hedges. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
The privet hedge surrounding this oasis proved to be very thin and there were no convenient little bushes. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
Cheney helps this privet company he has personal ties to, and helps them get back on their feet financially. From Wordnik.com. [Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to] Reference
All over China, but especially in this part of Szechuan, there grows a tree of the large-leaved privet species. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Invasive plant species include privet (Ligustrum spp.), camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), and Lantana camara. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Australian temperate forests] Reference
She went through the field to the privet hedge, clambered into the middle of it, and reclined upon the thick boughs. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
Even the hedge fund I invested in -- it specializes in privet futures -- has been seriously pruned and is now screwed. From Wordnik.com. [Alison Teal: Financial Crisis] Reference
Roger looked up and seeing the young, privet-white throat and shoulders which gleamed above the black, smiled contentedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
In addition, the privet hedge planted by the ACC on Washington Avenue blocking egress to the greenway will have to be removed. From Wordnik.com. [Greenways, Fairways and Driveways] Reference
Besides the above-mentioned flowers, we saw wild roses and buttercups and flox and privet, and whole acres of the wand-like lily. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Just beyond the drive a low shape rose, which proved to be a poorly maintained privet hedge, vastly overgrown but easily breached. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
I remember where I was when I heard the broadcast floating out of Nef's open window: in the center of a privet hedge with Nicholas. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
Our guides through Mr. Franzen's privet-hedged underworld are the Berglunds, Patty and Walter, and their children, Joey and Jessica. From Wordnik.com. [Power Struggles, Family Style] Reference
Nothing was to be seen save that some body or bundle had been dragged through a low privet hedge which is in a line with the wood-pile. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Norwood Builder] Reference
I hope in your landscaping you will make use of nut trees, and when you want a hedge you do not have to have a privet or a barberry one. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
The cameraman had used a telephoto lens — you could tell by the out-of-focus branches (probably privet) in the foreground of the frame. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
Then he comforted her; went to fetch water in her can to make rivers on the sand path, or broke off branches from the privet hedges to plant trees in the beds. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
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