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Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
Why can't he just be a person with down syndrome? keith pollard. From Wordnik.com. [Palin hits back at 'malicious' photo] Reference
Between them were a sea of hedges and green brown boles of pollard willows. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Everywhere tall lines of elms and stubs of pollard willows filled the landscape. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Although all wheat is imported, substantial quantities of bran and pollard are available. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
The whole countryside is dotted over with this tree, so cut as to resemble the pollard willow. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Poultry will eat the meal of them, if it is steeped in hot water, and mixed with an equal quantity of pollard. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827] Reference
The mysterious wind of will drove me to you, as the tempest brings the little rose-tree to the pollard window. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Figure to yourself (as Wells says, isn't it?) a country of flat plowed field, pollard willows and deep muddy ditches. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The pollard was inwardly rotten to the core -- a snug retreat for snakes, to which the only entrance was a water-way. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Great eyebrows overhung his face, like ivy on a pollard oak, and under them two large brown eyes, as of an owl when muting. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone] Reference
His head suddenly parted the water beneath the old pollard, and he swam slowly across the stream, craning his neck before him. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Cattle were grazing here and there, and a windmill rose in the distance above the pollard willows that fringed the low horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Switzerland, rather than the high peaks; Lambinet, an apple-orchard, a row of pollard-elms, or a weedy pond, -- not cataracts or forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
All the summer we kept four, at an expense of fifty-eight cents weekly, which was expended for two bushels of fine pollard (bran and meal). From Wordnik.com. [Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it] Reference
The rows of Willows, so frequent by the way-side where the road passes over a wet meadow, afford the most common examples of the pollard forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
They looked a little more sheepish when they took boat to the pollard tree swim and found two very young gentlemen with Hawkins seated in a punt. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
But Ruby had taken it into her foolish young head that she did not like meal and pollard, and now she had received the above very dangerous letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
One summer afternoon about five years after his first coming to the Potwell Inn Mr. Polly found himself sitting under the pollard willow fishing for dace. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference
The ground was perfectly flat and the outlines of several pollard willow stubs, with a bundle of small branches growing out of them, etched themselves on my memory. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
On this supposition, eight pounds of wheat yield seven of flour consumed by man, and one of pollard and bran which are given to animals -- chiefly to poultry and pigs. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
An old pollard oak stood near it, and from the oak there came a low discordant sound; it was the hungry cry of young ravens, awaiting the belated return of the parent bird. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
The nails are cut, the cuttings carefully wrapped in paper, and placed in the hollow of a pollard ash, concealed from the birds; when the paper decays, the warts disappear. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850] Reference
O Lord! said the pollard-headed dog, struggling to get his head loose from under my arm, while my other hand was muzzling about his cursed chaps, as if I would take his teeth out. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
‘Do what?’ he said, and climbed the stile by the pollard oak. From Wordnik.com. [Puck of Pook’s Hill] Reference
The presence of a line of pollard willows in the distance (Fig. 134) is. From Wordnik.com. [The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.] Reference
There was a rustle under the boughs of the old hollow-hearted pollard-tree. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
They were nearing the lake, with the stump of the pollard-willow in sight, and toward it they went. From Wordnik.com. [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference
Her heart failed her; she crept under the old pollard-tree, to gather up resolve, to watch, and to listen. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Just before the window was a row of pollard trees, looking black on one side and with a silvery light on the other. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Philip did "come on," and the boys swam up stream towards the willow pollard which overhung the river about fifty yards off. From Wordnik.com. [Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home] Reference
Under the old pollard-tree, by the side of John Avenel's house, there cowered, breathless and listening, John Avenel's daughter Nora. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
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