The timber chiefly box, with some few trees of another species of eucalyptus called stringy bark, and cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales] Reference
Cabbage has always been there: pale and limp when boiled with corned beef or in stringy nest of tangy sauerkraut. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
She had little color, and her black hair was "stringy" -- which she hated!. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner House Girls at School] Reference
One tree is called the stringy bark, on account of the ragged appearance of its covering at the time it is shed. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent] Reference
Soon he delivered them plates of frijoles, some kind of stringy meat, and corn tortillas. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
Near the sea grows a peculiar kind of stringy reed, very strong and pliable. From Wordnik.com. [Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah] Reference
Little Orphan Annie-style, with a heavy, "stringy" sound and a wide vibrato. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog] Reference
Robin says that rhubarb works particularly well because it is both 'stringy' and. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Solomon John had brought in his supply of candles; but they proved to be very "stringy" and very few of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Peterkin Papers] Reference
A long rope formed of a kind of stringy vine of tough texture. From Wordnik.com. [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference
"I've heard they are stringy -- and a bit smelly.". From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Goldie Hawn is "borderline dirty with stringy hair.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bad And Not So Beautiful] Reference
Frequently stringy milk results from fungi entering the udder. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
For supper our men had stringy bully beef and biscuit or bread. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Round stalks are best — flat stalks can get tough and stringy. From Wordnik.com. [Health Weekender: Enjoy asparagus] Reference
Whalebone is very fibrous or stringy, and it splits very readily. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
A stringy mucus is sometimes expelled during the spasm of coughing. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
The act loosened her stringy gray hair and it fell down upon her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
The heat from the vegetables melted the cheese so it was soft but not stringy. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Lunch From the Farmers' Market] Reference
James Carville's jeans and running shoes adorn a body as stringy as beef jerky. From Wordnik.com. [No Happy Warriors Here] Reference
He twisted his arm to coax a rise from a stringy bicep and told me to squeeze. From Wordnik.com. [The Things That Danny Said] Reference
I like a blend of 2 ounces of soft and stringy muenster and 1 ounce sharp asiago. From Wordnik.com. [Meathead Goldwyn: Gooey Grilled Cheese on the Grill] Reference
Although it is watery and stringy it does very well and is called a good vegetable. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
The pith is dried, ground to a powder and washed in order to remove the stringy fibre. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
He shook his sweaty wisps of stringy hair so that they flopped around his neck and face. From Wordnik.com. [The Outlaw's Last Stand] Reference
Wild peas, beans, stringy-rooted carrots, ruta-bagas, and turnips grew on the hillsides. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree-Dwellers] Reference
He let the liquid flow back into her mouth, feeling the stringy strands among the liquor. From Wordnik.com. [Novel excerpt: "Home Cure"] Reference
Nicholas looked inside one of the bags, but all he saw was a stringy mess of fur and tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Release] Reference
The surface of the throat is first dry, glistening, and streaked with stringy, sticky mucus. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The Tartar's beard and mustache were not full and flowing, as Angelo's had been, but stringy. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
There is a chopping of the jaws, and a very free flow of stringy saliva dropping from the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
The stringy black beard of the younger one, Philip, was clotted with bits of half-digested food. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Models with stringy, matted manes were all over the runways during the recent spring shows in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Scary Hair] Reference
Then came the braces, stringy hair and oversize Kurt Cobain T-shirt, the tween years of Seattle grunge. From Wordnik.com. [Say ‘Cheese!’ And Now Say ‘Airbrush!’] Reference
At 9 o'clock, Elvind Aarset, a 41-year-old Norwegian with long stringy blond hair and aquamarine eyes, takes the stage. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Gets Rhythm] Reference
Kilmer's Irish accent is a flickering bulb, and Douglas, with his graying, stringy hair and beard, hams it up like a pirate with scurvy. From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Feed The Lions] Reference
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