Those marks on my face are wrinkles, and that thing under my chin is called a wattle, which is only going to hang lower in years to come. From Wordnik.com. [You've got to be kidding.] Reference
By cutting down invading alien plants, such as wattle and pine, the availability of water was significantly enhanced. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Green wattle, Sydney black wattle, king or queen wattle. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Like other acacias, green wattle fixes atmospheric nitrogen. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
She thought about piercing her wattle, but decided against it. From Wordnik.com. [Wattle] Reference
The wattle will readily grow on the treeless plains of Texas, New. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
A puka shell necklace ringed a neck that had begun to turn to wattle. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
As for "wattle and daub" I could wish that it had never been invented. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
From the meeting the party cycled to the little wattle-and-thatch Court. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
It was bad enough that she'd become a middle-aged woman with a wattle. From Wordnik.com. [Wattle] Reference
Suddenly a spear came whirling out of a growth of wattle beside the pool. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
It was built of wattle and mud, had a mat roof and a whitewashed interior. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
On his left the slope of grass rose to the wattle fence and the cemetery wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
Then one red-hot afternoon came Frobisher's boy to my wattle-and-dab, bearing a note. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917] Reference
Near the creek we observed clumps of mimosa, the kind that is commonly called green-wattle. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
THE DIRTY DUCK miles away, and used to daub and wattle and thatch, thought of it as a Fink Horror. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
They were nearing the trodden path that led up a grassy slope to the open gate in the wattle fence. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Brother Cadfael stood with Mark at the gate in the wattle fence, and gazed with sharpening attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
Travelling twelve miles down we came, subsequently, upon a thinly-timbered forest of gum, wattle and oak. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
And taking his lasts, his awls, and his golden leaf, he left the wattle hut and went to tell the villagers. From Wordnik.com. [Granny's Wonderful Chair] Reference
The varieties are as follows: Gold wattle, silver wattle (blackwood, lightwood), black wattle, green wattle. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference
Here the houses were like peasant hovels, made of wattle-and-daub, with large gardens such as village houses had. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
She stepped within the house, pulled out the wattle door and between it and the fir post stuck a disapproving face. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Currently each household has a black wattle plot, sufficient to supply its needs of fuelwood and building materials. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
It is commonly known as golden wreath, orange wattle, or blue-leafed wattle and was formerly known as A. cyanophylla. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
The village consists of several wattle and daub huts, placed where there was enough room to fit them in between trees. From Wordnik.com. [In the Forest of the Snake People (Part 1)] Reference
Betty stooped, grasped another stone, took aim at a distant wattle in sheer desperation, and caught Brown on the hand. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
A shifting line of dark-gowned figures lined the wattle fence, as animated if not as agile as their healthy fellow men. From Wordnik.com. [The Leper of Saint Giles]
At a hut where I called there was a baby hanging from the wattle roof in a cow's hide, and flies covered the little one's eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
Malmsbury says that Glastonbury was "a mean structure of wattle work," while of the Monastery of Iona, it is related that in 563. From Wordnik.com. [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference
Except for one rotted relic from the age of wattle and daub, the cabins were made of chestnut logs, peeled and notched and lapped. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
· Daubed earth applied on a supporting substructure, eg wooden or bamboo frame with wickerwork or plaited straw (wattle and daub). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The villages of Morocco are no more than collections of conical huts built of mud and wattle and palmetto, or goat and camel skins. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco] Reference
So there was great excitement and a mighty chattering went through the round wattle of mud huts with their circular thatched roofs. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
It seems better, therefore, to spend on walls of burnt brick, and be at expense, than to save with "wattle and daub," and be in danger. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
You cannot live the way Jake did, without freedom in your breast and your wattle all aquiver, without expecting one day to pay a price. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005] Reference
We gathered in a cluster near the wattle gate, the minister perhaps the only man who had the wit to acknowledge the reality of the vision. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
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