Flowers
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They are hoping that Americans will forget all the cocksure predictions of a military walkover and cheering crowds lobbing
flowers
at US and British troops.
Finally, the United States’ politicians and pundits deserve a bouquet of dead
flowers.
Called to protest America's impending attack on Iraq, marchers set effigies of George Bush and Tony Blair on fire as smiling portraits of Osama bin Laden, draped with fresh flowers, looked on.
Most importantly, the gardener does not manage the garden for the sake of the plants, but for some other goal - to raise food, produce flowers, or just to look pretty.
Often, a Secretary General can raise an awkward question but not dictate the appropriate answer;Annan’s historic speech to the General Assembly in 1999 on intervention set a thousand
flowers
blooming at think-tanks and among op-ed columnists, but it has not led to a single military intervention to protect the oppressed.
In Ecuador, a country that is now a successful exporter of cut flowers, farmers would not grow
flowers
decades ago because there was no modern cooling facility near the airport, and private firms would not invest in such facilities without a supply of
flowers
for export.
More new hybrid plants – such as cord grass and monkey
flowers
– have evolved in the UK in the last three centuries than have gone extinct throughout Europe over the same period (according to existing records).
Many of them have extremely elaborate
flowers
that have evolved to trick male bees or wasps into trying to copulate with them, thereby ensuring that they are regularly pollinated.
Seducing bees and wasps might work well for a few individual flowers, but it would never work on an agricultural scale.
On the third day of the protests, the area around Pushkinskaya was covered with
flowers
to commemorate the victims who had been beaten and shot.
I have just witnessed women dressed in white walking down Independence Avenue with
flowers
in their hands.
Women adorned them with
flowers
and embraced the soldiers, further discrediting President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime and providing a moving example for other members of the security services to witness.
And countries such as Cameroon, the DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Senegal are growing a variety of exportable produce, including flowers, lentils, palm oil, rice, sugar cane, bananas, and corn.
If there is sufficient demand for
flowers
when the economy recovers, a new florist can start up at the site of the old one.
And when your innocent little one asks, "Papa, who has created everything that pleases me in this world – earth, water, sun, flowers, grass?" what will you say?
More carriages kept driving up, and now ladies with
flowers
in their hair got out, holding up their trains; or men appeared who doffed their military caps or black hats as they entered the church.
On the right of the well-heated church a staid though animated conversation was going on amidst the swallow-tail coats, white ties, uniforms, brocades, velvets and satins, hair, flowers, bare shoulders and arms and long gloves – the sound of which re-echoed strangely from the high dome above.
He looked at her hair dressed high beneath the long veil and white flowers, at the high frill that covered her long neck at the sides and showed it in front in a particularly maidenly way, and at her strikingly slender waist.
He thought she was prettier than ever: not that those flowers, the veil, or the dress ordered from Paris enhanced her beauty in any way, but because, despite all the carefully planned richness of her attire, the look on her sweet face and lips was still that look of innocent truthfulness.
Wait a moment, put your head down,' said Kitty's sister, Princess Lvova, and raising her plump, beautiful arms she adjusted the
flowers
on Kitty's head.
The priest lit two wax candles decorated with flowers, and holding them askew in his left hand so that the wax kept slowly dripping, turned to the young couple.
This hotel had already reached this stage: everything – the soldier in a dirty uniform smoking a cigarette at the front door, acting as a hall-porter, the dismal and unpleasant ornamental cast-iron staircase; the free and easy waiter in a dirty dress coat, the general room with a dusty bouquet of wax
flowers
decorating the table, the dust and slovenliness everywhere, mingled with a kind of modern, self-satisfied railway-induced state of bustle.
They drove into a gravelled courtyard surrounded by flowers, where two men were making a border of rough porous stones round a well-forked flower-bed and stopped beneath a roofed portico.
obstinately, as if insisting on having its way, pushed Levin back and, tearing the leaves and blossoms off the lime trees and rudely and strangely uncovering the white branches of birches, bent everything in one direction: the acacias, the flowers, the dock leaves, the grass, and the crests of the trees.
A gardener and his wife were occupied with the vegetables, the fruit, the flowers, and the poultry-yard.
Grass was invading the pit-bank,
flowers
were covering the meadows, a whole life was germinating and pushing up from this earth beneath which he was groaning in misery and fatigue.
It was decorated with two garlands of paper
flowers
which crossed one another, and were united in the middle by a crown of the same flowers; while along the walls were rows of gilt shields bearing the names of saints--St.
The decorations were the same, the garlands which supported at the ceiling a crown of painted paper flowers, and the gilt cardboard shields in a line along the wall with the names of saints, male and female.
The garlands of
flowers
swayed from the ceiling, and the gilt shields jumped against the walls.
He roared; his breath startled the
flowers
of painted paper beneath the low smoky ceiling which sent back the sound of his voice.
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