| 单词 | weedy |
| 例句 | Clumps of weedy grass poked through the surface here and there, but it still looked like a serviceable road. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It all seemed very weedy and rank somehow, and thorns and bracken were invading the beds down near the bottom hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Long weedy grass grew up, as high as the porch floor. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Absolutely weedy, and named “Spurge,” which is a weed. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z There was one flat rock there, spread like a table, and the waters sucking down on the four weedy sides made them seem like cliffs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z This house, a large, ram bling gray stucco with a picket fence surrounding the weedy grounds, stood away from the street, perched on a ledge that dropped fifty feet down into the river below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Anastasia and Mushie descended from the trees and joined me on the ground as we came upon a field planted with short, weedy bushes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The wind whipped my hair and flooded the truck with a weedy, new-mown smell. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Seth had never particularly noticed the weedy cart track. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z They have recently appeared, replacing the strip of weedy field that used to be there before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z MacDuff leapt up from the terrace and bounded ahead across the weedy lawn, as anxious as we were to get away from the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The grass around the well was tamped down, but everywhere else it grew up in weedy thickets that reached higher than some of the ground-floor windows. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The weedy fields where the game lived had been leveled and their black soil turned over in neat rows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For the first few miles the Stampede Trail was well graded and led past cabins scattered among weedy stands of spruce and aspen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn saw a crumbling porch first; then a weedy, overgrown yard; and then the tall fences blocking off the houses on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z For C.P., it occurred when he was eight years old, playing football in a weedy field with a group of black children who lived just over the railroad tracks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Peeking between weedy stalks, they had a good view. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The three of us stood in the weedy grass along the edge of the parking lot until a long yellow bus dragged itself up from the street. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I say, “No. Too weedy. Too mucky. And besides this is fall.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z My parents don’t smoke cigarettes, so I have to collect this paper where I can find it, on the edges of gas stations, in the weedy grass near motels. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A couple of tall weedy guys leaning against a wall smoking and laughing and radiating cool. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z My body is no longer made of dirty potatoes just pulled out of the earth and wild, weedy herbs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground grew soft, and in places boggy; springs appeared in the banks, and soon they found themselves following a brook that trickled and babbled through a weedy bed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then the sea sucked down, revealing a red, weedy square forty feet beneath Ralph's left arm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Bright plastic bags blew across its viscous, weedy surface like subtropical flying-flowers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him they walked in file, threading their way with care, for under the weedy pools were sliding and greasy stones, and footing was treacherous. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Mistletoe, eh? Well, truth to tell, I wouldn’t have bothered with that either. Much too weedy.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He passed through an archway of wrought-iron curlicues, and paused, squinting at the weedy rows of gravestones. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking along the weedy strip beside the highway for the second time that day, I was thinking how much older fourteen had made me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She took off from the tower and flew out over a weedy meadow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Out in the river, a few feet away, the punt lay against the weedy piers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed by burned-out buildings and weedy, littered vacant lots. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Then he raised his eyebrows once and did as he was told, stepping calmly off the porch and walking— slowly—onto the weedy, rocky front yard. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She pointed again, and Kira saw a sprawling, weedy plant in a raised bed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More and more of Brangwain Spurge could be seen—the weedy arms, a spherical box clutched to his chest. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z But mostly it works to strip away the thick, weedy language of the original, revealing something pure and alive. Thomas Berger’s Egoless Fictions 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Within a few feet, he stops and hunches over a weedy patch at the edge of the asphalt, where he identifies wild buckwheat, wood sorrel and chickweed. In Asheville, N.C., foraging for food with the Mushroom Man Here he’s played as a paranoid but oddly understandable stalker by Patrick Vaill, as a pale, weedy man with the kind of grudge that lands sociopaths on the front page and in prison. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Moukhin’s worker, shot in a weedy lot surrounded by run-down homes, no longer looks so heroic. Art Review: MoMA?s ?Original Copy,? Photos Meet Sculpture 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z In time, blankets of weedy plants smother shrubs and trees and prevent the desired flora of the forest floor, such as mayapples, bluebells, ferns and trilliums, from thriving. Like a virus, weeds seize any opportunity to spread — and this summer, they’re ferocious 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Here's a song that often sounds thin and weedy when played live, but this is great. The Rolling Stones and all tonight's bands – live! 2013-06-30T00:31:00Z I love these places: small towns, weedy railroad tracks, bridges over bayous leading to wetlands that give way to the oil rig-dotted Gulf of Mexico. Literary Louisiana 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Crabgrass is beginning to germinate, meaning this is the time to apply a pre-emergent herbicide if your lawn was weedy with crabgrass last year. How gardeners can prepare for the hot season ahead 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Mary Sharratt’s new novel “The Dark Lady’s Mask” involves a William Shakespeare who is a bit weedy, down-at-heel and unsure about his sexual orientation. Shakespeare strikes back at the woman who helped him write his plays 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He was telling me how he wants it to sound, and I'm hearing these mixes and they were just really thin and weedy. Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott opens up about how they made Mick Ronson’s last album 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z There’s a long comics tradition of physically weedy and morally deficient bad guys brainwashing others – often innocents – to do their dirty work. Jessica Jones recap, episodes 1-7: what do you make of Marvel’s newest TV hero? 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Walled-in, abutting a weedy stretch of railroad tracks, the distillery was a picturesque assortment of dilapidated stables, a bottling facility, a carriage house, some offices and warehouses. Shape-Shifting Art Tower Completes Prada’s City Within a City 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The development’s roads and Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course are weedy and blanketed with fallen pine needles. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Such conditions, by the way, are one of the common reasons lawns grow thin and weedy, and you may want to replace areas of turf with plant beds. If 2018’s rains wrecked your garden, it might be time to try something new 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z “Murder boards,” in Fox parlance, are sessions in which each moderator’s questions are refined — pared if they are too long, scuttled if they are too “weedy.” Chris Wallace, moderator of the first GOP debate, plans ‘some doozies’ 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z We cut right past the dumpsters and climbed a weedy hill into the woods. Will Russia thwart Karl Bushby’s epic hike around the globe? Some are brittle or weedy, and some get too big for their allotted space, so you have to be discerning. It’s never easy to say goodbye, but it’s time for me to plant some trees 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Irish language, as well as Irish land, informed such early poems as “Anahorish” and “Broagh,” whose weedy riverbank “ended almost / suddenly, like that last / gh the strangers found / difficult to manage.” How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z I used to be rather weedy, but now I run regularly and never expect a man to do the heavy lifting. What I see in the mirror: Nadia Sawalha 2013-02-02T06:59:01Z The setting agent As the name suggests, the first marshmallows were set with the mucilaginous root of the marsh mallow plant, which McGee describes as “the weedy relative of the hollyhock”. How to cook the perfect marshmallow 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “If you were funny or weedy or magnificent or strange, if you were a guy who weren’t sure how your body or personality fitted into the dance landscape,” she said, “here was something for you.” Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z In preparing seedbeds that are weedy, I turn the soil and remove dislodged weeds as I go. Perspective | The therapeutic value of the garden in trying times 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z You must cut the stem near the ground and then paint the wound with the applicable herbicide, and such candidates include porcelain berry, English ivy, trumpet creeper, and weedy honeysuckles, bittersweet and wisterias. Perspective | Whether or not Roundup is safe, the gardener has better options 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z For clumsy, weedy kids like me who spent hours alone reading the dictionary, the silver-tongued, homely Cyrano opened a glorious new vista on possibilities for becoming a hero. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z You are left with a pile of stone and gravel that grows dark with decaying leaf litter and weedy with invaders. If the garden is due for a rock revival, gravel would be the way to go 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z My limited adolescent enthusiasm was taken up by piano lessons, detention and the weedy next-door neighbor I was in love with. When my birth mother found me 2013-09-16T23:30:00Z As I wondered, the image of weedy overgrowth loomed in my mind. Beijing Dance Theater’s ‘Wild Grass’ at the Kennedy Center: A superficial spectacle Where his vibrato was weedy, hers was a voluptuous purr; where his palette stretched at best to pastels, hers plundered rich, nightly hues. BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-11-09T16:51:45Z Shiso is a Japanese herb that grows weedy in our garden. Motherlode Blog: Bragging About the Kids 2011-08-11T14:51:11Z In second grade, it was a weedy lot where she made herself a crown of burs while waiting for her father at the parent-teacher conference. Ramona Quimby’s Portland: A self-guided walking tour through sites in Beverly Cleary’s books 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Mowatt-Wynn recalled recently spotting a father with three children peering in at the museum, which is set back from the street in a secluded, weedy courtyard, like the vault of some secret society. art: Changes at the Hispanic Society of America 2011-11-13T05:00:15Z “Used to be a gas station over there,” he says, pointing to a weedy lot. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z They were long and robust, nothing like those sad, weedy clumps we now buy in supermarkets, and were meant to be eaten by the stalkful, as if they were vegetables. A Case for Eating Herbs as if They Were Vegetables 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Here in the Mid-Atlantic, late August to mid-October offers the prime period for tackling thin and weedy lawns, repairs that progress from simple patching of small areas to overseeding to complete lawn renovation. It’s lawn-fixing season. Here’s how to do it. 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Her hands almost shivered after a Saturday morning walking the woody hills and weedy marshes along the Anacostia River, the waterway on the eastern side of Washington. On a winter’s nature walk, you might happen upon headgear 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Make that the barest evidence of a ruin—a weedy foundation of scorched concrete blocks at the top of a dauntingly steep Tennessee hill. Tour Ray Booth and John Shea's Grand Hilltop Home in Nashville 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Is global proliferation of the very Swiss, clean, antiseptic Helvetica a welcome phenomenon, or is Helvetica the weedy, unstoppable kudzu of the design world? Books Of the Times: Font Pain and Poetry: So Much Depends on a Curve 2011-08-21T22:00:10Z Eze gets scammed before he even passes through customs in Lagos and emerges into its parched, weedy cityscape. Review: Bright Young Men Stoop to Scam in ‘Nigerian Prince’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Consumer tastes have evolved over the last 30 years, and many people would describe these wines as lean and weedy. Come for the Values, Stay (or Leave) for the Vintage 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z In February, it opened its second engineered wetland in South L.A., a boggy, weedy marsh on the site of a former MTA bus yard. Is that a forest downtown? 2012-07-07T16:00:00Z The weedy interlopers grow in soil with a low pH, especially the sorrel and dock. Knowing what types of weeds grow in your garden can help you improve it 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Kimberly Ovitz had some nice moments in her collection of dark weedy dresses and leather jackets layered over pieces with long hairy fringe; it’s just that it seemed like the same moment rewound. Fashion Review: Jason Wu, Peter Som, Richard Chai, Kimberly Ovitz - Review 2012-02-11T00:19:47Z I think we were too weedy for that. Ed Miliband at Hay festival: Coalition was betrayal of Lib Dem principles 2010-05-30T19:04:00Z This contrasts with a movement in gardening toward more naturalistic gardens that are often read as being weedy. Perspective | Was Rand Paul attacked over a yard dispute? It wouldn’t be unheard of. 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Growing up in Cape Town, I was a very shy, weedy little kid – I didn't fit into the sports-mad world of white South Africa. Antony Sher, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-02-12T16:59:01Z Wait, you say: Isn’t bermudagrass a running, weedy, deep-rooted nightmare in lawn and growing beds alike? Looking for a more resilient and less needy lawn? Try zoysia or bermuda grasses. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s got some feeling, but it also seems weedy on purpose, second-guessed and underplayed. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z It's a little bit weedy, but no peat. How to garden through climate change 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z At times the supporting roles and male chorus sounded weedy. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Your instinct may be to start with the worst weedy patch or the one with the most beloved vegetable, but a more carefully conceived triage plan is in order. Perspective | If your weeds are getting wild, first things first: Rescue your crops 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z Will Arthur the weedy sixth-former triumph over a load of sword-wielding hooligans? Camelot: episode nine 2011-07-30T21:01:00Z That meant a week in a pop-up camper in the weedy far end of her father’s suburban backyard. Art in Review: JENNIFER SULLIVAN: ?One-Week Walden? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z Her garden is beautiful and productive, where mine is weedy and full of old bin-liners. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z The choral voices, returning here and there, are the only ray of hope: the Body’s own singing amounts to weedy, apocalyptic howls, barely clearing the din of their processional stomps. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z In “The Region of Unlikeness,” a graduate student develops a “Jules and Jim” sort of relationship with a pair of weedy intellectuals who may be experimenting with time travel. Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z "Chocolate is really good for masking some of that weedy taste." How pot brownies came to reign as "the OG edible" 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z No matter how many times they've tried to portray Arthur as a hard man, he still ends up looking like a weedy Kate Thornton, trying to open a jar. Camelot: episode 10 2011-08-05T21:01:01Z A hundred times better than weedy, simpering Anne, who didn't even know what a cartwheel was. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z But it also grows slowly, looks weedy and takes a long time to bloom. Monarch butterflies appear to be everywhere these days. Is the crisis over? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The cemetery was arid, weedy and chained shut, with a sign that simply said, “Unreachable.” With the fate of their sacred space in limbo, they took over the cemetery 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Last summer, the squad sipped, swirled and spit its way through 17 beverages and found it challenging to pick five good-tasting ones from a sea of weedy White Claw wannabes. Celebrate high summer with these 5 taste-bud-tickling weed drinks 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z For Mosley, the weedy lot, still dotted with graceful palm trees, stands as crushing symbol of faded glory and lost opportunities. Orange County looks to redeem its fabled Road to Summer, one seedy motel at a time 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Is there a weedy section of lawn that could be replaced with a perennial garden? Struggling to keep up with your garden? Consider hiring a pro. 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Plant it behind prettier shrubs if you don’t like its weedy appearance because remember, the idea is to create habitat for threatened animals. Monarch butterflies appear to be everywhere these days. Is the crisis over? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z The latter brings some serious heat — as well as a punch of paprika and garlic — to the palate without even the slightest hint of weedy flavor. 8 wacky ways to get high without smoking 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Last May, aquarium staff members discovered that a male weedy sea dragon was successfully carrying his mate’s eggs. Scientists Breed Sea Dragons, but Not by the Seashore 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Suddenly that parking strip infested with weedy dandelions looks like garden gold. 3 things Mason bees need to flourish, and to give a boost to your garden 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z It also recharged giant reservoirs that had dwindled to weedy channels. After pummeling, scientists say California storms were more hype than climate change 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z And the Berlin study, they say, highlights the kinds of intriguing discoveries that can reward scientists willing to trade pristine forests for weedy lots and pocket parks. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Her beloved garden in Upstate New York is a “weedy mess.” ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ has gone from surprise hit to juggernaut bestseller 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego celebrated the arrival of more than 70 weedy sea dragon babies a few weeks ago. Scientists Breed Sea Dragons, but Not by the Seashore 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Up for consideration were tightly coiled mullets and beach-wave mullets, weedy mullets and mullets cascading down past shoulder blades. Inside the search for the best mullet in America 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Commonly available M. armeniacum verges on weedy, but it’s easy to forgive the plant’s profligate nature when an ever-increasing number of cobalt blue blooms appears in the garden each April. These perennial bulbs stand out in a garden ensemble and on their own 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Smooth lawns and snaky ones and weedy ones and some resistant to herbicides. Column: Has a UC Riverside researcher created the Holy Grail of drought-tolerant lawns? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Stuart-Smith begins with a look at tending and examines how the process of gardening, even the tedious routine and weedy bits, helps to restore our physical, emotional and even spiritual equilibrium. The garden is a spot to restore and ground us, and nourish our spirit 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — The children flicker like ghosts on the empty playgrounds in weedy courtyards deep in a city whose residents have been told to get out now. ‘Bang, bang’: Children live and play near Ukraine front line 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z In addition to studying sea dragon DNA, the team also CT-scanned a weedy sea dragon in the highest resolution they knew of to ever be captured. ‘Evolution Gone Crazy’: What Makes Sea Dragons So Strange 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “Good for a fruity botanical. Not too sweet, not too weedy. I would put a lime in the glass with that,” said one taster. 5 weed drinks for summer that taste so good they're dangerous 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z A bereft plot of weedy land gets globally connected absent any commercial draw, like the one at your neighborhood coffeeshop. Review: Artist Kevin Beasley wields resin like amber for trapping life’s transient flies 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z They planted seeds of the fast-growing, weedy plant thale cress, or arabidopsis. Plants grow in lunar soil brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “I’m so pale and weedy,” Townshend sings in “Rough Boys,” and viewing himself as an outsider often has powered his music. Pete Townshend on the state of the Who and creating a dream supergroup with Led Zeppelin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z They come in two groups of species, leafy and weedy. ‘Evolution Gone Crazy’: What Makes Sea Dragons So Strange 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “Doesn’t taste weedy. I would drink this regularly,” said another. 5 weed drinks for summer that taste so good they're dangerous 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z On Friday, Earth Day, hundreds of conservationists and legislators will gather on a weedy hill overlooking the Liberty Canyon Road exit to break ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. A cougar passage rises over a deadly Southern California freeway 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Nelson has a book of her own expected at the end of next year: a seasonally directed guide with recipes that gives weedy or invasive plants their close-up. New cookbook reflects mushroom mania but not foraging’s full community 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Steiner laments ever planting the “weedy” violet, then points out how a humble snail shell echoes the Fibonacci spiral of the unspooling fern. Artist Curtis Steiner’s Seattle garden blends passion for nature with a polymath’s curiosity 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Researchers sequenced the genomes of leafy and weedy sea dragons and compared them with other fish. ‘Evolution Gone Crazy’: What Makes Sea Dragons So Strange 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z “Sweet — not weedy — tastes like a juice. Desserty,” said one taster. 5 weed drinks for summer that taste so good they're dangerous 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z A: The weedy grass is annual ryegrass, sometimes called Italian ryegrass. Caring for a heat-damaged daphne, pruning tree roots and controlling slugs 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Often with education funding, the debates look like a weedy swamp, and as a parent, I know it can feel daunting to wade in. Column: Oakland hunger strike is a harbinger of looming California school funding crisis 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Or it could have blown in from a neighbor’s weedy yard. Garden Q&A: How to remove invasive grass, compost cardboard and more 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z He was weedy, artistic and withdrawn - with little in common with his sports-obsessed white classmates. Sir Antony Sher: A giant of the stage 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z They see their denuded hillside, now thick with blackberries and grasses, not as a flourishing ecosystem, but a weedy, unprofitable mess. Germany’s trees are dying. A fierce debate has broken out over how to respond 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Small, weedy islands appear in the Butte Creek flow here. California’s disappearing salmon He is often so focused on the weedy legal issues of the day, they said, that he failed to pay attention to the world around him. Behind the Texas Abortion Law, a Persevering Conservative Lawyer 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z They practiced in weedy public parks across Manhattan. ‘Looking Back, I am Glad We Played’ 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Backyard gardeners, once averse to milkweed due to its weedy ability to take over gardens, are planting more milkweed than ever before. Recognizing monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act may do more harm than good 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z It takes just two genes to transform the ordinary stems, stalks and flowers of the weedy, tasteless species Brassica oleracea into a formation as marvelous as this fractal, cloudlike vegetable. Cauliflower and Chaos, Fractals in Every Floret 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z He had classic cars and vintage signs locked inside long barns, and outside sprawled a weedy field cluttered with old bathtubs, wagon wheels, scraps of random junk, a rusted double-decker bus. A rebel lawyer accused California cops of corruption. Then they accused him of murder 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Gedan, for example, noticed that the first salt-tolerant plants to invade previously dry land are often weedy shrubs with few ecological or human benefits. This ecologist thinks coastal wetlands can outrun rising seas. Not everyone’s convinced 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Three power poles punctuate a flat, weedy lot, with a few piles of soil, remnants of the hulking mounds that were there a decade ago. Proposed asphalt plant near Cedar River sparks controversy as King County weighs permit 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Beginning a little after 5 p.m., several hundred people headed down a city street lined with churches, schools and once-grand old homes with weedy rose beds and crooked fence gates. Black residents of Elizabeth City, N.C., thought police violence happened elsewhere. Then it came to their town. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “I didn’t realize how weedy it is,” Tobin said. Couple move from Oregon to Iowa hometown, start organic farm 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Avoid swimming along big rock jetties, sharp barnacle-covered beaches or weedy marshland as you begin. How to get into open-water swimming in the Greater Seattle area 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But the rows of empty, decaying homes and weedy, barren lots, including those owned by the city - the largest landowner - represent a major roadblock. Neglect, frustration mark neighborhood revitalization effort 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z The reservoir is a weedy mess filled with submerged stumps but is still a draw for hardcore bass fishing, so some Putnam County residents still fight to keep the dam intact. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z He seems likely to be more of a figurehead, leaving the weedy work to others. After years of way too much Trump, White House reporters need to shift focus 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z On a warm day in December, Rina Sayeed Khan, the board’s new chair, strolled among the zoo’s empty enclosures and weedy pathways and described the ambitious plans ahead. With the departure of the world’s loneliest elephant, Islamabad’s zoo has closed — but its empty cages hold clues to its animals’ suffering 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z “A lot of the corals that are left are what we refer to as the more weedy species,” says Erin Muller, who specializes in coral health and disease at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida. 'Dire outlook': scientists say Florida reefs have lost nearly 98% of coral 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z “Honey bees also are very effective at pollinating certain weedy species, which changes the overall plant communities.” The Problem with Honey Bees 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z “I have never seen such a load of weedy liberal confirmation bias,” Johnson wrote. Lionel Barber: 'I enjoyed access to thugs and the very rich. It was my job to understand power' 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z It sprouts in the weedy patches between homes and is mixed with other colorful blooms in flower beds. ‘If There Were No Hashish Here, You Wouldn’t See a Single House’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Faced with these dilemmas, I decided to transform my neglected, weedy front yard into a permaculture vegetable garden. From miniature houses to a one-room schoolhouse, Seattle Times readers show off pandemic projects 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z But letting a weedy yard grow tall is not a wildflower meadow. Fall garden Q&A: Keeping out pests, pruning trees and lots of lawn care advice 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Many of those weedy species are also invasive, including Scotch broom, dandelions, Himalayan blackberry and Japanese knotweed, among others. The Problem with Honey Bees 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z Late August to mid-October offers the prime period for tackling thin and weedy lawns, repairs that progress from simple patching of small areas to overseeding to complete lawn renovation. It’s lawn-fixing season. Here’s how to renovate and reseed 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z As conditions became warmer and drier, the diversity of the EM fungi fell, and “weedy” EM fungi took over, Fernandez reported at the meeting. Hidden webs of fungi protect some forests from drought—but leave others vulnerable 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z A weedy plot bears the mangled bodies of eight children who were killed in 1976 when a war-era bomb exploded where they played. AP PHOTOS: Northeast India recalls ‘Stalingrad of the East’ 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Certain dogged and weedy creatures thrive in and around our homes. How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z We sat on our porch, drinking wine and watching the groundhog methodically move across our weedy lawn as it consumed clover blossom after clover blossom. Perspective | Groundhog day: You can add a woodchuck to the animals in our backyard 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z To understand why garlic mustard is so hard to control, consider its multiple tactics of weedy prowess. The Dirty Secret About Weeding 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z At daily news briefings, he relishes weedy statistics and invites experts and even political rivals to share the spotlight. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is the Democratic governor President Trump scorned before he praised 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Dead areas of coral reefs tend to get covered in algae, but Cantin says a weedy coral that can compete with the algae can then make room for slower-growing corals to also grow. Rescuing the Great Barrier Reef: how much can be saved, and how can we do it? 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z My former life ends on this weedy, concrete patch. How to stop a war: Why I risked prison by burning thousands of draft cards 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z What was once a forest brimming with diverse life, before becoming a denuded strip mine and then a weedy rubble pile, would be a forest again. Kentucky was devastated for decades by mountaintop removal. Now scientists have figured out a way to undo the damage — one tree at a time. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “It’s a very weedy species. It’s a habitat generalist,” Lewis said. World’s fireflies threatened by habitat loss and light pollution, experts warn 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Then he sent workers, guarded by riot police, to tear down banners, clean graffiti, and plant weedy shrubbery in Exarchia Square. The Attack on Exarchia, an Anarchist Refuge in Athens 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z When I was young you weren’t supposed to be weedy about losing, and you might get shouted at for giving up, but that’s not how we do things now. In the age of momsplaining it sometimes takes a child to cut through | Emma Brockes 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z He’s “weedy”: a gangly juvenile with a stringy mane and bad posture. Opinion | These Horses Are Too Young to Die 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z A woman bent over and searching a weedy lot. Unraveling an HIV cluster 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Furthermore, vacant homes drag down property values, with weedy sidewalks, cracked stoops, boarded-up windows and trees growing through collapsing roofs. Baltimore is furiously knocking down vacant houses — but barely keeps up as new ones go empty 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z The weedy Folds – then a budding percussionist – tried to hit back, only to slam his fist into a cinder-block wall. ‘I dreaded that song coming out’: Ben Folds on Brick, William Shatner and hitting rock bottom 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z But conditions in that area have disintegrated so much, with broken asphalt on the cart paths, weedy fairways and bare greens, that it is unsafe for golfers, Tinney said. For lease: Three historic public golf courses in the nation’s capital that need millions in repairs 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z By 2023, if all goes well, this weedy, dog-legged parcel will feature a community clinic, a public charter school, plus affordable spaces for local businesses and nonprofits. With Othello Square, a Rainier Valley community gets some help in the battle against gentrification 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z H Unit’s dining hall sits at the end of the recreation yard, past weedy patches bare of asphalt, a locked and fenced-off garden within which lush roses bloom, and punching bags twirling lazily from chains. In San Quentin, prison inmates are cooking up gnocchi and brighter futures 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z There are only two types of sea dragons, the leafy and the weedy, each representing its own genus. Sea dragon exhibit dazzles visitors at California aquarium 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The course had tall trees, weedy fairways, tiny greens and great views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Masters champion who couldn't read or write - Golf Digest 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Another recent study found that allotments, weedy corners and fancy gardens can all be urban havens for bees. Widespread losses of pollinating insects revealed across Britain 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z “I know it must seem like a strange idea initially, because physically, he is so absolutely unlike Manson, who was very small and weedy,” says Harron, who describes Smith as “kinetic.” Matt Smith leaves ‘The Crown’ behind for Charles Manson and Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Salmon and orcas are tough survivors, weedy even, surging to reclaim most any place returned to them. HUNGER: The decline of salmon adds to the struggle of Puget Sound’s orcas 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Agents pulled three men into the weedy yard. Patrolling a land of secret signals and signs on the Texas-Mexico border 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z It spreads over 15 two-story buildings on land that for a long time sprouted a few scattered sheds in weedy lots. More affordable art spaces becoming available in Austin 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Swings, seesaw, monkey bars jammed into a weedy rectangle of mulch, a cedar gazebo, three picnic tables, a scrawny maple tree casting a thin slice of adolescent shade across a water fountain. Fiction by Tony Earley: “Backpack” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “The aromas were “weedy, immature, bruised,” the appearance was “dull, murky brick-red,” and structurally the wine was “but a husk.” The Perverse Pleasure of a Truly Bad Bottle of Wine 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Lawns are greener and less weedy if fertilized four times a year. 5 ways to keep your lawn green — and still save water - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z They’re found in shallow, weedy areas, primarily in the St. Lawrence and Niagara rivers, Lake Champlain and eastern Lake Ontario. Record longnose gar caught in Lake Champlain’s South Bay 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Gulch” now includes parking lots, abandoned buildings, weedy lots and railroad tracks surrounded by Mercedes-Benz Stadium, CNN Center and government towers. With Amazon courting Atlanta, mayor touts “Gulch” project 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The game’s primary character is a weedy censorship bureau employee named Arthur Hastings, who goes off his Joy when a newspaper story dredges up old memories of his long-lost brother. We Happy Few is a creepy, fascinating game that gets lost in its own ambition 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z When the family drove in from New Jersey, they would park in a weedy junkyard at Chrystie and Houston, down the street from what is Whole Foods today. How the Bronx Became the Last Outpost of Acrylic Chic 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Other houses look half-finished, with exposed window frames staring vacantly across weedy fields. Once zealously controlled by a religious sect, a small town tries to rehab its image — with beer 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Indeed, a drive down any street leading away from the gleaming blocks along the ocean reveals a starkly different picture — aging homes with crumbling stone front steps and weedy lawns, vacant storefronts and tire-destroying potholes. A Bet That Luxury Can Be a Part of Asbury Park’s Comeback Story 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The character's own journey in the movie, which includes a dazzling sequence in which his party is ensnared in hunting traps left in a weedy marsh, eventually takes on a sort of resigned calm. Lucrecia Martel fuses the mystical and the historical with bold adventure in 'Zama' 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The closest wild relative is a weedy flower called Ipomoea trifida that grows around the Caribbean. All by Itself, the Humble Sweet Potato Colonized the World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Further work found that ethanol actually promotes the growth of the beetle's symbiotic fungus and kills off undesirable, "weedy" species that the insects don't eat, Biedermann says. These Beetles Use Booze-Soaked Trees to Farm Their Food 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The legislature’s technology unit spotted that he was looking at weedy websites and amassing files of fragrant data and shut down his computer account. Measuring Canada’s cannabis economy 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Babies born by Caesarian section tend to acquire a bigger diversity of less-specialized, perhaps more weedy bugs from the environment while vaginally-born babies, who acquire a much smaller microbial community dominated by the bacteria Lactobacillus. Chocolate Trees Shower Young with Disease-Fighting Leaves 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z The tunnel appeared as a hole in the ground in a weedy area north of a secondary border fence, not far from the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. 30 detained at cross-border tunnel in Otay Mesa 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The grocery store is a weedy pile of rubble. Faith remains strong in small Kansas town 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Whole streets have been boarded up against the junkies who hunker miserably on the weedy verges. Crime and despair in Baltimore 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z That is the case for rice, where weedy, natural varieties are a perennial problem because of the competition they bring to the cultivars farmers actually want to raise. How to get rid of weeds by crossing them with GM crops 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z I nibbled a small pie: it tasted like pumpkin, but with a weedy aftertaste, which brought back Proustian memories of high school. The Martha Stewart of Marijuana Edibles 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z His father, Prince Philip, thought him weedy, effete, and spoiled. Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z If you don’t do anything to solve the problem, before you know it, your lawn could become such a moss-covered, weedy mess, even the moles will be too embarrassed to live there. Brown lawns come back green, but with more weeds and moss. Here’s how to fix that. 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z It also creates green space — sometimes urban gardens, sometimes weedy lots. Life, death and demolition 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z That will mean any transfer of herbicide resistance automatically brings seed-shattering problems with it, stopping the spread of herbicide resistance within the weedy population. How to get rid of weeds by crossing them with GM crops 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The woman’s body was found Wednesday in a weedy area near Oyague’s apartment in Baldwin. Police: Woman found dead on Long Island was hit with hammer 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z The bird is known to forage in weedy stubble fields in winter and nest in hedges or scrub in the summer, when they rely on natural grassland to feed on grasshoppers. RSPB hails 'remarkable' recovery of threatened cirl bunting - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Brown pulls over across from a weedy vacant lot, and leaves the engine humming. 'Too black, too strong': The Woodrow Wilson Tigers' national anthem protest - BBC News 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z She said that two months later, he pulled her over for driving without a license, then led her to a weedy gravel lot. Can big data stop bad cops? 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z If a silencer-enhanced version does crossbreed with a weedy interloper, though, the offspring will end up carrying the silencer, too. How to get rid of weeds by crossing them with GM crops 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z One shot later, a search party hunted for his ball in high, weedy foliage. Troon’s wind and weather blow tea-time golfers off the British Open leaderboard 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z In an interview about Braid a few years ago, you steered into a weedy conversation about metaphysics and the nature of scientific inquiry. Interview With 'The Witness' Creator Jonathan Blow 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Harbin itself, now cleared down to its foundations, is nothing but a series of terraced voids and weedy lawns between pavements, spreading along both banks of the canyon’s creek a half mile or so. 'Keep the quirk': rebuilding a famed New Age resort, clothing still optional 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z Another challenge, two people who know her well said, will be to show how Hillary Clinton can tackle issues people care about without letting her wallow in weedy policy details. Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do? 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z In a rice-field, the consequence would be that the weedy grains get harvested along with those of the cultivar, removing them from circulation and thus suppressing the weedy population the following season. How to get rid of weeds by crossing them with GM crops 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z The rain falls on the just and the unjust — but mainly it falls on my lawn, my weedy, overgrown, very wet lawn. You wanna get to the top in New York City? You’d better have strong legs. 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Bob Fessler, of Lamar Advertising, says the cutout was found Friday morning in good condition in a weedy area near the billboard that had been searched previously. 14-foot Royals sign surfaces after theft from billboard 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Sterling's weedy day is down to a number of factors. Sterling’s had a weedy day – and it’s not all down to Boris Johnson - BBC News 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z “Jonathan wasn’t strong enough: when you have a very weedy, odd character you have to be careful that he doesn’t come across as whiny.” Meg Rosoff: 'It took 12 years for the hate to compost down into comedy’ 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Contemporary classical composer Nils Frahm pieced the album together alongside two childhood friends, and they used recordings dating back to the mid-’90s as bases for tracks that became dense, weedy, and cerebral. This is your next jam: Beyoncé, James Blake, and more 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z At an October debate in Colorado, Cruz talked up his support for Ron Paul’s original proposal to audit the Federal Reserve in a weedy disquisition about the dangers of “loose” money. Ted Cruz Embraces Ron Paul Liberty Voters in New Hampshire 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Squash has long been synonymous with prep school, with being weedy and twee, and the most heinous clubs maintain an all-whites rule that encompasses the skin tone of their members. Squash for the Midlife Slump 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z A separate $65 million development along the city’s riverfront will include more than 270 residential units as well as retail space in an area once blighted with old warehouses, crumbling narrow streets and weedy lots. Detroit shows improvement, promise 1 year out of bankruptcy 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z From the grass-topped roof of the main exhibition space, you can see the weedy tracks of an abandoned railroad line across the street. WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Fashion Innovator is still fully in control of her business. Now she has amplified her legacy with the new Fondazione Prada 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z One campaign devoted significant time to studying weedy topics like Federal Reserve actions, unemployment data and the proposed 12-nation Pacific trade deal, a campaign official said. Republican debate: Expect either Trump fireworks or a policy wonk's dream 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Your interaction is limited, the shooting is boring and weedy, and the enemies repeat themselves constantly. The 30 worst video games of all time – part two 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z And also, say, quite pale and weedy looking? 'Things get a little weird': meet the hunk who's on 414 romance novel covers 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z They would bow heads, hold hands and sanctify the weedy ground with a splash of water, in memory of those who have suffered from racial terror. Horror Drove Her From South. 100 Years Later, She Returned. 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z “It is the one beautiful spot in a sad and weedy downtown.” Could ‘weird things’ at county sheriff’s office be a ghost? 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z All this will seem impossibly weedy to some, but banking is risk-taking; without risk-taking, there is no investment and no growth. Willie Sutton Could Have Been a Regulator 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Some were a bit weedy and green, showing herbaceous notes rather than fruit. A Simple Summer Red Wine Right Under Your Nose 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The high-pitched whine you get from most powerful EVs certainly strikes a futuristic note, but sometimes the engines sound a little off-key or even just plain weedy. The future of motorsports sounds like a $20 RC car 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Today, many villages look like ghost towns, with houses crumbling and once-bustling schools standing in weedy ruins, windowpanes cracked or full of cobwebs. As South Korean Villages Empty, More Primary Schools Face Closings 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z According to the men, the overseer of the project, who called himself Carlos, was in his mid-thirties, with a thin, weedy mustache and a baseball cap pulled low over his brow. How El Chapo Builds His Tunnels 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The river already is beginning to get weedy in some spots, he said. Missouri maintains as state’s rivers heat up 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Along the banks, the roots of weedy tamarisk shrubs guzzle even more water, and sedges grow in depressions — a sign of moisture pooling where it isn't needed. Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woes 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The authors warn against expanding agriculture in saiga territory, noting that plowing or herbicide use would simply lead to mass growth of the weedy toxic species in the cleared area. Previous Mass Die-Offs of the Endangered Saiga Antelope Hint at a Warm, Wet, Weedy Culprit in Kazakhstan 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In the weedy grounds in the back, near dying palm trees, more people slept in tents. The Migrant Crisis on Greece’s Islands 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z There are mature trees and rows of early 20th-century clapboard houses, pretty, despite their peeling paint and weedy lawns. Reporter learns about Oklahoma City’s culture during walk 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Amid the weedy vacant lots, tired storefronts and roughened asphalt of Compton, crows and pigeons thrive. Bird L.A. Day to showcase Los Angeles County's avian abundance 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The breakdown in where this money would come from gets a little weedy. Higher Interest Rates Could Make Fixing America's Infrastructure More Expensive 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Because of a weedy legal issue, the U.S. FCC Votes 'Yes' On Strongest Net Neutrality Rules 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z There are lots of weedy plants growing at Christmas tree farms, said David Grimaldi, curator of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. An Uninvited Guest, Treated Like a Monarch, Gets the Spa Treatment 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z The multitude of newer housing developments halts abruptly on the south side of Memorial Road, where there are large stretches of weedy, undeveloped vacant lots. Reporter learns about Oklahoma City’s culture during walk 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z CUA, Venezuela — With an Iranian tractor, and two big subwoofers blasting salsa music across his onion patch, Ivan Lora says he is turning his weedy hillside into a building block of Venezuelan socialism. On Venezuela’s communes, idyllic future is just over the rainbow Cumming was always aware that he was “the weedy, arty one” compared to his sporty older brother. Alan Cumming: ‘I never felt I’d achieved enough because I was always told I was nothing’ 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z They’re positioned, however, on a weedy slope, which raises a question: Where are they, exactly? In 'Cosmigraphics,' Our Changing Pictures of Space Through Time 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z If I ever hope to be cool enough to live in Portland, I’m going to need something more substantial than two weedy sideburns. Surprise! In my eagerness to share everything, I almost ruined your party. It all gets rather weedy — and does seem like picking a nit to cure a plague — but so goes U.S. jurisprudence. Cry, your car’s on hidden camera In vacant lots they have ripped out ragged palms and cleared weedy brush. Saving Detroit, One Tree at a Time 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z “She’s being pulled under by what Shakespeare called ‘her weedy trophies,’ ” I said. The Genius Next Door 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Water from both healthy and weedy areas was taken to Prof Hay's lab, where fish placed in a special chamber were offered a choice between the two. Stench of decay turns coral away 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z But the rural address listed for its Texas headquarters is actually a weedy horse pasture. Texas governor’s startup fund is not all it seems 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Along the weedy riverbank, they stumbled across a massive, partially submerged cypress. 1800s-era sunken logs are now treasure; here are the men who find them 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z I was brought back to those still summer days in overgrown weedy patches in Brooklyn: Boys and Butterflies in Brooklyn 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z According to the Newsday piece, Taylor fed the victim whiskey and Coke, then drove his red Chevy pickup to a “weedy ravine” where the attack occurred. Conservatives are making hay out of Hillary Clinton’s defense of an accused rapist It's a quite inconspicuous, really quite a weedy little thing” But researchers say it is not good news for marine creatures further up the food chain. 'Weedy thing' thrives as Pole warms 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z If only, I found myself thinking, I weren't quite so lanky and weedy. Falling in love with medieval armed combat 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Take the opposite course and resort to the ritual diatribes - images of shaven-headed thugs taking orders from weedy racial theorists in Himmler spectacles - and you enter a lazy world of left-wing caricature. Are the fascists coming back to France? 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The founder of Manitoba Harvest has spent the past decade working to transform hemp—a variety of cannabis—from the butt of weedy jokes into a supermarket staple. Hemp Enters the Mainstream 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z She said she hesitates to hang pictures on the wall and her husband is not keen on tending to the weedy overgrown lawn. First Superstorm Sandy home buyout set to close in New York 2013-10-03T17:38:30Z Stretching away from us is the weedy airfield where the company does some of its test flights, and past that, the skyline of San Francisco. Johnny Heineken, Wind Engineer And Kitesurfing Champ 2013-09-18T13:08:00Z That leads to tending to your friend or follow list like a weedy garden, which can in fact help the situation, but there are other problems. Being A User In Mark Zuckerberg and Walter White's World 2013-08-27T14:10:00Z Besides, what was so bad, really, about a weedy lawn? Outgrowing the Traditional Grass Lawn 2013-07-29T15:15:03.733Z D.C. kids experience farm life at school Walker-Jones Education Campus turns weedy lot into thriving farm. Green school in Washington has its own farm with vegetables and bees 2013-04-08T22:20:31Z To be greeted by a weedy drive and a facade covered in peeling paint is a death knell. Selling a house in 2013 2013-02-15T07:00:24Z Financing is also not expected to be a problem for a development intended for a large, weedy lot at the southwest corner of Lenox Avenue and 125th Street. Square Feet: Big Retailers Attracted to Harlem’s Main Shopping Hub 2013-02-06T00:32:03Z I averaged 40 but I was a bit of a weedy girl. Sarah Taylor: men's cricket can only help my game. I would love to do it 2013-01-14T14:02:00Z What remain are a few patches of marsh grass, a Charlie Brown-like evergreen and one lonely, weedy mound just below a concrete wall. Steven Smith, Developer, Hopes to Restore a Fleeting Paradise in the Bronx 2013-01-05T15:46:53Z They transformed a weedy lot across the street into a thriving farm. Green school in Washington has its own farm with vegetables and bees 2013-04-08T22:20:31Z Or, shall we say, a stirrup hoe to the soil line saves your garden from becoming a weedy mess. Whack Weeds in Your Garden—and Your Life 2012-11-12T19:02:00Z It's a weedy specimen, only a few inches long. Why US drought could affect us all 2012-08-09T12:14:53Z The working-class characters in this sporadically lurid play inhabit several little trailers arranged around a weedy concrete patio. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘American Stare,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2012-06-23T00:10:08Z In June, my friends and I would roam the weedy suburban woods at the edges of playgrounds and parking lots in search of white mulberry trees and their prized dark fruits. City Room: The Last Day of Spring 2012-06-20T17:42:47Z He slunk through the decaying ruins of kindergartens and amusement parks in Pripyat, once a city of 50,000 but now a weedy, crumbling ghost town. Green Blog: The Darker Thrills of Ecotourism 2012-06-05T15:56:34Z I bitterly reflected in the melancholy, weedy, moss-infested walks of the garden. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z And although volunteers can collect huge amounts of material — botanists call it hay baling — they often bring back the weedy and introduced, rather than the rare and interesting. Superstars of botany: Rare specimens 2012-04-25T17:20:33.787Z There are just two species — leafy and weedy, named for their form of camouflage — and they live in the temperate waters off Australia. Farming aquarium species to save them 2012-04-15T18:51:00Z Mr. Houston, a farmer more prosperous and enterprising than his somewhat weedy appearance prefigured, beckoned Dr. Anna into the dining-room, where a sleepy but interested "hired girl" had brought hot coffee and sandwiches. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Being a weedy youth, not built for feats of athleticism, the long walk in a hot sun over difficult country had taxed his physique unduly. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z A mixed stand of grasses, with an obvious weedy component, can support a larger population of voles than can either a nearly pure stand of grass or the typical early seral stages dominated by weeds. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z To the poor, weedy, delicate thing, a cup of good tea, with something to eat that she could relish, was a real blessing. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Out of the darknesses beneath the shallow, weedy stream of his being rose a question, a question that looked up dimly and never reached the surface. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z All the rest of her life, that warm, weedy odour always brought back that humiliating experience like a keen pain. Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 2012-03-11T03:00:12.927Z Polygonum.—A large family, varying much in character, often weedy, but of easy culture in ordinary soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Voles were taken near the margin of a weedy field, fallow since 1948, but there was none in the middle of the field. A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas 2012-04-08T02:00:23.123Z We led our horses through a weedy garden up to the pillared portico. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z He was a weedy, pale young man, with thin lips and a false smile. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z A common error is that any weedy thoroughbred, too slow for racing, and without the "timber" and substance to enable him to carry a 10-stone man to hounds, is good enough for a lady's riding. The Barb and the Bridle A Handbook of Equitation for Ladies, and Manual of Instruction in the Science of Riding, from the Preparatory Suppling Exercises 2012-02-13T03:00:14.370Z In a short time the woodland beauty is exchanged for weedy hills and slopes strewn with boulders. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z What a contrast to the weedy, desperate, clinging on to the parental coat-tails displayed by G4 in their email – the craven faux-ironic desperation to impress, with achievements that were nothing to do with them. Time for these boy-men to cut the apron strings 2012-02-12T00:07:10Z I saw four oxen all pulling in different directions, while a plow occasionally disturbed the weedy surface of the ground and turned up irregular lumps of hard soil. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z But if you have lived a poor, little, mean, wasted, barren, weedy life—you get very little from that immortal man. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z More recently it was a site of old warehouses and weedy dereliction. In Stratford's Olympic park, you can smell the ambition for London 2012 2012-02-10T00:01:01Z Languid, but clinging yet to the sun world, the yellow lily dies on weedy streams. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z After that came the giant and dwarf, the former a weedy specimen of unwholesome overgrowth, while the latter looked as if he had been reared upon gin to keep him small. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z I ran over the little bright brook that came from the weedy, bottom pond. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z The garden was weedy and the lawn unshaven. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z We’re so proud of our ideas that we let ’em run up rank and weedy, till they seed before time. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The road that had conveyed us to this place of entertainment committed suicide on a weedy beach below, its last moments much embittered by chaotic heaps of timber, stones, and gravel. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z And when he came there Juhwertamahkai knew him and called him Toe-hahvs, because he was laid on the weedy bushes of that name. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The club was a funny mixture of rabbis and weedy old ladies, the "oversoul" and oysters. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Mr. Macmathers was an American--a Southerner--rather tall and weedy, with a heavy, drooping moustache, like his hair, raven black. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Yet how is it possible that such weedy, half-sterilised creatures as are so many of our modern mothers, should bear sound and sane and vigorous offspring? Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z "This has always been a weedy old place," replied Jean. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z But she had duties to attend to, to turn around and give light, so she made a place for the child by tramping down the weedy bushes and there left it. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z With so many other properties on the market, “For Sale” signs rusting in their weedy lawns, I was lucky to sell it at all. Harrisburg, Paris of my Youth, Hits the Skids: Margaret Carlson 2011-10-19T00:22:05Z Then he revived a weedy rail spur and now leases 210 rail cars to haul more waste containers. Hydraulic Fracturing Brings Money, and Problems, to Pennsylvania 2011-10-15T00:30:52Z One associates them with elemental strife—the white tide-surge across desolate sands and the pounding of the combers on weedy reefs—and not with domestic peace. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z I often thought that our garden must be sorry to be so crowded up, and that this was why it wouldn’t grow anything but weedy nasturtiums and evening primroses. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z Her glance scoured the weedy homeliness of the backyard. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z The elder coppice, banks of blooms, The spice-wood brush, the field Of tumbled clover, and perfumes Hot, weedy pastures yield. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z I would have thought no more of it, had I not recognised the troubled noise of the tide, and the sucking and lapsing of the flow in weedy hollows. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Eastern lubbers tend to prefer open pine woods, weedy fields and heavily vegetated roadsides, usually along drainage ditches, according to University of Florida researchers. Creepy-looking lubbers make short-lived splash in Southeast 2011-08-25T19:10:52Z Stooping o’er the ragged heath, Thick with thorns and briers keen, Or the weedy bank beneath, Have I cut my rushes green; While the broom and spiked thorn Pearly drops of dew adorn. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Among the weedy plants which have been intimately associated with mankind ever since his slow upward progress in civilization began, the nettle has probably played almost as important a part as the thistle. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z While she was thus engaged, a tall man in black—looking rather “weedy” himself, if the truth were told—came across the graveyard and stood beside her. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The ebb, sucking at the weedy extremes of the ledges, caused a continuous bubbling sound. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The real country lives in every-day clothes, and gets weedy and dusty, with roads full of ruts. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z He was somewhat sun-browned, but wore a broad-brimmed straw hat, and in addition, as he strode a very weedy, meditative-looking pony, he carried up a large gingham umbrella. Midnight Webs 2011-07-29T02:00:30.077Z The caterpillars of the American Copper feed upon sorrel, one of the commonest weedy plants of waste places everywhere. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z “He certainly must have,” observed Nyoda, straining her muscles to uproot the weedy homesteader, “haven’t you ever heard the slogan, ‘Omega Oil for Burns?’” The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z Oftenest he walks along the shore, or goes stumbling among weedy boulders, calling loudly upon the sea. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The hedges were beginning to lose their trim appearance, and the dust-laden leaves on the midsummer growths wore a mildewed aspect that somehow matched the lank, weedy grass of the road banks. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Out of weedy places, wherein the tide sobbed with long, gurgling moans, came at intervals the barking of a seal. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z All at once the biggest of them—a very powerful fellow of the costermonger type—dealt his opponent—a poor slim, weedy lad of the common shop-boy p. 72species—a tremendous blow. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z Almost immediately after in comes a large and assertive female with an eighteen-year-old son, a weedy, unlicked cub as ever you saw in your life, and both calmly took the other end seats. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z For Allen, whose weedy nag had gone lame, is now bestriding a mount which his host has provided for him—a youthful quadruped, given to occasional bucking. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z They inhabit door yards, and stun heaps down at the foot ov the garden, and piles ov old boards, and weedy spots, and grass generally. The Complete Works of Josh Billings 2011-07-01T02:00:13.387Z At the ebb he would wander across the weedy slabs or among the rocks, silent, and more like a lost duinshee than a man. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Aristotle speaketh only of the presence of the fish in the weedy ocean, as we see them before us. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z But this is an exceptionally weedy crowd, as Phil says,” he added, sticking up his eyeglass and taking stock of the same. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Blue tides may sluice and drench their time in caves and weedy creeks; Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Mind you, it had brought to life all those new rows of sugar cane marshalled down the hillsides, raising hope the planters might eventually settle their accounts in something besides weedy tobacco. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The wind of autumn ran steadily through the shrubby weedy lawn with a sigh that had in it the very essence of sadness. Hoosier Mosaics 2011-05-20T02:00:35.173Z Light alluvial soil near rivers or streams is adapted to melon growth, and many an old meadow now weedy and unprofitable might be used to advantage for one of these crops. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z A hut, and a tree, And a hill for me, And a piece of a weedy meadow. Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z But enough now of this over-careful dredging in such weedy waters; where nevertheless, at risk of breaking our net, we may at every dip fish up some pearl. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Up and down, in and out; now close under the cliff; now taking to the weedy rocks to avoid an overhanging mass that seems about to fall. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Then, as she opened up the coastline, he noticed the strip of sloppy beach sprinkled with weedy boulders, and the bare slopes of sand and stones beyond. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z The painting was of a grey-green pond, floored with a thin, weedy scum. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The farmer's sheep may scale the crumbling walls, and browse the weedy enclosure at will: give Lewin Murdock his meerschaum pipe, with enough brandy and water, and he but laughs. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z “I like this reedy, weedy part,” laughed Katherine, her feet dipping in up to her ankles. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z Being a weedy specimen, small and pasty-faced, with such short-sight that he had the greatest difficulty in seeing anything, he had been returned as totally exempt time after time by the army doctors. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z There was nobody about, but Jimmy caught a trailing rope abreast of a few steps where the water washed up and down, while the launch ground against the weedy timber. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Look how the laurels have grown gaunt, and weedy, and black, and bare, beneath; look at the house, covered with yellow wash and patched with green damp. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z She was permitted to be at peace; and she went away with Lady Gwendoline and the Earl to those fair foreign lands for which she had pined in the weedy garden at Camberwell. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Everywhere this Roman world was much more weedy and untidy than it had been. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z He remembered the drawn blinds, the weedy walks of Mandeleys; the hasty glimpse which he had had of silent, empty rooms and uncarpeted ways in the higher storeys of the mansion in Grosvenor Square. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Ravens croaked as they swung up and down; divers wailed from the weedy creeks. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z The farmer’s sheep may scale the crumbling walls, and browse the weedy enclosure at will; give Lewin Murdock his meerschaum pipe, with enough brandy and water, and he but laughs. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z After tea the two young men walked up and down the weedy pathways in the garden, while Isabel sat under her favourite pear-tree reading the volume she had been so loth to close. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Poor Prentiss looked at him as only a weedy Yankee can look at a man whose cheeks are rosy with arrogant health. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z In a paper in Science, they report that both the weedy and the bloated hydrogen atoms behave just as quantum theory predicts they should -- which is itself surprising. Artificial Hydrogen Tests Quantum Theory 2011-01-28T01:45:01.977Z The few seedy, weedy plants that stick up above the snow give to the birds the little they have; but the red-head’s vegetable fare is limited at that season and his animal food almost lacking. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z It now stands neglected in a weedy lot behind the Natural History Museum here. Exhibit Rouses Ghosts of Past in Zimbabwe 2011-01-24T01:19:56Z Look along roadsides, waste places, gardens, especially weedy ones, weedy lots, and grassy meadows and pastures.Crickets. A Guide for the Study of Animals 2011-01-18T03:00:14.913Z He threw himself upon the sands, with his back to a sandy knoll covered with weedy green grass, and with the murmur of the sea in his ears, he slept. The Golden Web 2011-01-15T03:00:38.007Z We have found that the pollen from weedy plants gives us a better picture of the local environment.” Learning From the Viking Age 2011-01-12T15:19:00Z If the tobacco is coarse and weedy, he forgets that it is cheap, and that he can roll his cigarette and smoke it between the courses. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z He was driving a score or so of weedy, straggling calves. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z It is a single-story structure with faded yellow siding, weedy, gravel parking spaces and a rusting light fixture near the door. In deals between Alaska corporation and D.C. area contractor, a disconnect 2010-10-01T02:01:00Z In the boat, she hopped up and down in the bow, leaned over the edge and made a theatrical speech about the cruel, cruel world and the weedy river’s irresistible call. David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure.” 2010-08-02T04:00:00Z Here’s what I haven’t found on the weedy strip between the street and the sidewalk: a plant able to survive that kind of punishment. In the Garden: Conquering the Strip Between Sidewalk and Street 2010-05-26T23:24:00Z They were melting away into the weedy grass. Allegra Goodman: “La Vita Nuova.” 2010-04-26T04:00:00Z He hurried to the doorway and stood in it, chewing his underlip, as he watched the road-weary, weedy beasts and their drovers trail out of the town. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Burning does a better job of killing honeysuckles and other nonnative weedy vines than cutting. Growers harness flames to prepare meadows for wildflowers 2010-04-19T04:00:00Z Genetic experiments on the botanists’ lab rat — a weedy little plant called Arabidopsis — have shown that you can make it grow wood by turning off a few key genes. Tree-mendous 2010-04-06T22:15:00Z The weedy legs at the bottom are Generations X and Y, the people born after 1964. Boomer blame 2010-03-29T12:31:00Z In the autumn it is found in hedgerows, thickets and weedy grainfields, rarely however, straying far from some thickety cover. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life The horses—a sturdy young sandy-grey mare and a raw, weedy, weather-worn bay—seemed as much part of it as its wooden frame, ironshod wheels, and awning of grimy sailcloth. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z It is common in most parts, and may be seen flying in weedy and waste grounds at dusk during June and July. Butterflies and Moths (British) His gladiators were a wretched, weedy, twopenny-halfpenny lot, who would go down at a mere breath. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Whether they were or not did not appear; but they all had a weedy look. In Jail with Charles Dickens The sunset was a sleepy gold, And stars were in the skies When down a weedy lane he strolled In vague and thoughtless wise. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy The weedy, brown nag that was Lassie's trace mate, during those first weeks in the hills had come down and got himself rather badly staked, and Donald had had to shoot him. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z Here the weedy youth put in his head again. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune Fifteen minutes later the plane landed and taxied across a weedy field to a lonely road that wound across the prairie. Jane Stewardess of the Air Lines Runs a tremor because of his dreams, I sink to the weedy ears and chant peace, unaffrighted, sure that no fret can withstand my song. The Unknown Sea Nobody knew exactly when or how it was made, but down at the weedy bottom of it lay the body of an Indian pony, and over that there leaned a very tall man. The Red Mustang This pretty species is much commoner than the last, being, in fact, the most plentiful of all the genus, and found everywhere, in gardens, by weedy road-sides and waste grounds, &c. British Butterfiles Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species "Mr. Chesterton hasn't come yet," said the weedy youth. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune In winter I feed also clover hay, oat straw, and weedy wild hay. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. Upstairs, the weedy young man with downy whiskers, who bore on his narrow shoulders the full weight of the Guardian's commercial affairs, was at work on the morning's letters. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life The annual cost of successfully fighting a weedy farm of 100 acres in Ontario has been found to be about $75. Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 "At the distance I'd back him rather than any weedy, greyhound stock." The Land of Strong Men "I've come about that money of mine from my uncle in——" "Name, Miss, please?" said the weedy youth. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The area in the neighborhood of the slough, where the frogs probably live, include fields of alfalfa and other cultivated crops, weedy fallow fields, and the marshy margins of the slough. Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog They were alike in a way, these two tall weedy men, both irresolute and undeveloped. A Bed of Roses V. "All night I lay hid in a weedy lake." Aubrey Beardsley On the right bank of the river, going up from the bay, is the old walled town, and around the walls are the weedy, moats or ditches. The Greater Republic A History of the United States He revealed himself as a long, weedy frame in limp linen. Where the Pavement Ends Not a weedy man myself, you know, eh? The Sapphire Cross You can tell your mates that even in that place, at that time, hanging on the wet, weedy edge of death, our Bishop, a Christian, counselled me, a heathen, to stand by my fathers’ Gods. Rewards and Fairies Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, They perhaps will make it sweet. The Bible Story These are weedy looking brutes, but three, or perhaps four of them, ain’t bad; and I suppose we must take what we can get. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley But every faculty has its own instinctive, wild growth, which, like the spontaneous produce of the earth, is crude and weedy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Tadpoles.—Eight tadpoles were collected from a weedy temporary pond near Chepo, Panamá, in early June. The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America I climbed over the fence with no more ado than in pre-flapper days, and walked across the weedy grass to the house. The Brightener Now I was taking my way along weedy rivers, which at first were the innocent shallow streams I once met and knew in Kent. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The horses were mostly weedy, leggy, tucked up brutes, all mane and tail, and worth about two pound ten each. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Ah, haste to the shore, brother angler, to-day, On the weedy, gray rock take your place, Where the surf, at its base, makes glorious race, And, like rainbows, glitters the spray. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 The males were calling from temporary grassy and weedy ponds in which Hyla microcephala also was calling, but the two species had different calling sites. The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America Umbels densely flowered; weedy plants blooming from summer to fall Wild Carrot, Daucus carota. 26a. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State There were any amount of them in the weedy courtyard of the Presbytery; they came out of the holes in the damp walls of the old church. St. Peter's Umbrella Though Summer walks the world to-day With corn-crowned hours for her guard, Her thoughts have clad themselves in gray, And wait in Autumn's weedy yard. Undertones About their peaks the shark, their eagle, floats, In the thick azure far beneath the air, Or downward sweeps upon what prey may dare Set forth from any silent weedy lair. Sea Poems A tail-wagging Warbler that frequents bushy places, weedy fields and open pine woods and gardens, living near the ground where it may be easily seen. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Leaves lobed, or irregularly pinnately cut or dissected; weedy plants with flowers in racemes 2, in COMPOSITAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State And where the wood-gnats dance, a tiny mist, Above the efforts of the weedy stream, The girl, October, tired of the tryst, Dreams a diviner dream. The Garden of Dreams Claude takes up this tradition, and, merely making the rocks a little clumsier, and more weedy, produces such conditions as Fig. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Sally did not answer, and there was a dead silence in which they could hear the tide gently dashing on the weedy rocks. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Over our beef and potatoes we discussed our new shipmates and agreed that they were a weedy lot for a long voyage. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea "I certainly remember sowing some seeds in this place; but that has a weedy look." Rossmoyne Two or three weedy lanes at right and left showed the poor cabins of the town's darker life shut and silent. John March, Southerner Ah! did any body ever try to clean a neglected carrot or beet bed, or bend his back in a hot sun over rows of weedy onions! The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings During the period of frost, from the first of December to the first of March, the weedy ground is thoroughly stirred several times. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century But the brook pickerel frequents the ponds as well, loving best those of weedy bottoms and shores and slight depth. Old Plymouth Trails Ah! did anybody ever try to clean a neglected carrot or beet bed, or bend his back in a hot sun over rows of weedy onions! Household Papers and Stories The girls sat on the weedy patch of ground outside, sewing sash curtains. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted Cut off all runners—that is, the long weedy stems which the plants throw out in spring, and water well if the weather is dry. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes In addition to workability of the soil, the presence of herbaceous plants, many of them weedy annuals, is probably the most important factor governing the success of pocket gophers in a local area. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado In either case they will soon mat the whole ground, if the land be not weedy. Soil Culture Look at this nervous, weedy, simple little bird in a low-necked shirt, and think of him wielding and directing interests so extended and seemingly incongruous! The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) The silver beak cleaves it fast,—it widens: the rank grass of the 357 banks sinks lower, and lower, and at last dies in tawny knots along an expanse of weedy shore. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Lucy uttered a little exclamation of disappointment, and then she perceived remorsefully another shadow, not like Sir Tom's, the long weedy boyish figure of her brother against the warm light. Sir Tom To see him, with weak and stumbling footsteps, expose himself to the pursuit of the surf, or the snares and pitfalls of the weedy rock, kept me in a perpetual terror. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI The boat was rowed to where a bottom of weedy stones showed through the water, then Allan began to explain to his guests the method of fishing. The Adventure League Near this pleasant river-side village he remembered to have observed an ancient, weedy houseboat lying moored beside a tuft of willows. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) A lawn runs about the house, and the lawn is in its turn surrounded by a system of little five-roomed cottages, each with a veranda and a weedy palm before the door. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) He had grown fast, and he was rather weedy and long, without strength to support it. Sir Tom Yes, he would rather have appointed tryst with a phantom abbess, or mist-pale nun, among the wet and weedy relics of that ruined sanctuary of theirs, mouldering in the core of the wood. Shirley She went up the weedy path to the house, and then for the first time noticed that all the shades were drawn and the doors and windows closed. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune Little girls who eat only cake grow up to be weedy and weak, and unable to do half the good things of life: they can't skate, and they can't dance, and they can't play games. The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice Daily he looks around for fresh victims, and finally decides that the weedy offspring of the hated superior classes are the easiest prey. Byways of Ghost-Land Jock, who had been the smallest of pale-faced boys, was now long and weedy, with limbs and fingers of portentous length. Sir Tom Black-headed chickadees, a robin or two, and finally swallows had appeared, following the wedges of geese returning from the south on their way to the great weedy shoals of James’ Bay. The Peace of Roaring River After threading their way along the weedy water-path, which was barely wide enough to give passage for the boats, they emerged at a slant into another stream. The Pathless Trail But to-night, as she emerged on the broad boulevard from the weedy outskirts of her father's garden, the clatter of horse-hoofs startled her into drawing back. The Side Of The Angels A Novel The ground was scantily covered with low bushy and weedy growths. Under the Maples They were not trees, these pale, weedy arms that reached towards the dark sky. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 The valley was narrowing, and the rich prairie grass was changing to a lank tangle of weedy tufts. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country They are abundant birds in eastern fields where their loud piping whistle is known to many frequenters of weedy pastures. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Kate stepped down through the doorway, and stood beside the officer, whose horse was grazing a few yards away upon a trifling patch of weedy grass. The Law-Breakers In a moment she drops down to the grassy and weedy bank of the roadside in front of me and disappears. Under the Maples The detail of a single weedy bank laughs the carving of ages to scorn. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) It is a weedy sort of exotic, thriving only by filth and forcing. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule It is the autumn breeze, That, lightly floating on, Just skims the weedy leas, Just stirs the glowing trees, And is gone. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition This was curiously black in contrast with the white surroundings, for no snow was upon its weedy branches and shrivelled, discoloured leaves. The Hound From The North She was, by nature, a poor, shallow, weedy thing; her education had been the worst possible for her. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. But the worried father pushed his weedy hair off his forehead with a troubled air. The Twins of Suffering Creek Athwart the weedy swirl Brilliant, the waves upon, Shine Cleopatra's pearl, And ring of Solomon. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems See, love, my boat is moored for thee By ocean's weedy floor— The petrel does not skim the sea More swiftly than my oar. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Clara hurried back to the hotel and found Charles in a great state of excitement, talking to a thin, weedy little man whom he introduced as Mr Clott—his secretary. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Tuman stayed at the front gate with his neuro while the others struggled through the weedy garden to the police ship in the alley, rejoining them as they were ready to rise. The Martian Cabal A few discouraged flowers grew weedily in one corner. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 There was a salt-water lake, bordered by a weedy scar, not far off, and he might find some brant geese or ducks. Partners of the Out-Trail Half an hour later, just before the first flush of dawn, the two men entered the weedy courtyard, and Ansell let himself in with his key. The White Lie The biggest brother kept the blue mare at a good gait, and the road, with its narrow strip of weedy grass down the center, flew by under the bouncing buckboard. The Biography of a Prairie Girl Then he slowly backed off down into the water where the weedy growths were thickest, till once more his whole form was concealed except the insignificant head. In the Morning of Time Each weedy field, each wire fence, the flat stretches of grass, the leaning Lombardy trees,—everything was significant rather than beautiful, familiar rather than picturesque. A Son of the Middle Border He was afraid of nothing on earth, or off it, but ghosts, and he despised the weedy young man who was in love with his daughter. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 11, 1914 The voices outside were now raised, and he could hear the tramp of several other men over the moss-grown stones of the weedy courtyard. The White Lie More easily thought than done;—the goose stoutly resists, and refuses to accompany the fresh-water shark to his weedy home. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches The traveller had apparently taken his direction with care before he started, however, for he made his way straight to another rock, weedier and more overhanging than the first. Kings in Exile It was an unprecedentedly dry season so that not merely the prairie, but many weedy cornfields burned. A Son of the Middle Border I was hardly out on the road when Excalibur was beside me, ambling uncertainly on his weedy legs and smiling up into my face with an air of imbecile affection. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman He made them all look weedy, flabby; pitiful, uninteresting things. The Combined Maze The garden was weedy and neglected, for the grass grew high on the patch of lawn, and the dead leaves of the tulips and daffodils of spring had not been removed. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London Lucyet went on up the hill, and turned into the weedy road. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories She colored as she met the glance of mingled mirth and admiration that he gave her, and hastily began to pull off the weedy decorations which she had forgotten. Moods Numberless summer insects mingled their discordant strains amidst the weedy herbage. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The Humming-bird, growing weedier and weaker, revived in her presence; he relaxed a little of his moroseness and austerity. The Combined Maze Untouched as yet by any town, the little river runs here over gravel and sand, clear and weedy. Highways and Byways in Surrey Burning suns, a weedy garden and potato blight may dismay the old, but such things do not fret the young mind. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm It was also a weedy one, this Paradise: a tangle of greenery spread underneath the oranges, hanging like yellow trimming on a green fabric, choking the vines and a few scarlet geraniums. In the Tail of the Peacock Then, these now moss-clad alleys, and this wild weedy garden, were the resort of the fashionable and the gay. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father His feet and legs were swollen; they were like enormous weights attached to his pitifully weedy body. The Combined Maze Mrs. Parflete is a beautiful creature, but quite a child, and therefore weedy as to figure. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange I was growing up tall and weedy, and most like my strength went into that. Rosin the Beau It seemed to me he'd always been weedy in the chest, but he'd been working waist-deep in an icy creek, building a dam at a mine, until his lungs had given out. Hawtrey's Deputy “The Coburn Reports must have helped to turn bare prairie and weedy boom lots into harvest fields.” Winning the Wilderness In this way we escaped the dust, the rough talk, and the temptations; now and again obtained a modicum of forage in the shape of coarse weedy grasses at the borders of sinks. Desert Dust The country-bred horse is undoubtedly a handsome-looking animal, but he exhibits a tendency to become weedy and razor-chested, and fails to carry a heavy weight from deficiency of bone. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore The dreary pine forest, the weedy marsh, and the muddy swamp were once more passed through. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians He is found throughout temperate North America, in the weedy swamps of the Atlantic states in great abundance, in the Middle states, and in California. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!—Carlyle. Pearls of Thought I looks up, to find myself bein’ inspected by a weedy, long legged youth. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe A door opened out of the court-yard into the weedy garden. Vixen, Volume III. A figure clothed in a long loose black cloak and slouched felt hat, and carrying a weedy umbrella, trudged sturdily around the curve, and came briskly towards the porch. Vixen, Volume I. Seek’st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocky billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 Has not he thickheaded ignorant boors; lazy, enslaved farmers, weedy lands? Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. It was beside the parsonage path, a flat stone, fenced by a low iron border, enclosing likewise a small flower-bed, weedy, ruinous, and forlorn. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Her thin gray hair was shaded by a black lace cap, decorated with bugles and black weedy grasses. Vixen, Volume III. It seemed to me he had always been weedy in the chest, but he had been working waist-deep in an icy creek, building a dam at a mine, until his lungs had given out. Masters of the Wheat-Lands They were a pure race, and as such presented for the most part fine, characteristic faces; but in body they were undersized and weedy, showing that their stock was running out. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] For of all the stagnant ponds I ever beheld, it is the greenest and weediest. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 If anything was for pulling and clearing it was this weedy thicket of messy ideas in a landscape heavy in leanings toward sleep. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais They found Miss Skipwith pacing the weedy gravel walk in front of her parlour window, with a disturbed air, and a yellow envelope in her hand. Vixen, Volume III. Do not chew the hemlock rank, Growing on the weedy bank; But the yellow cowslips eat, That will make it very sweet. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes She took out her handkerchief, and, pulling up some weedy grass, put the handkerchief on one spiked bar and the grass on the other, and thus protecting herself, made a light bound over the fence. Betty Vivian A Story of Haddo Court School A huge crustacean, of uncouth proportions, stalks over the weedy bottoms, or burrows in the hollows of the banks. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science It would be there, to them, from which wafting scents of dirt, rice, and wildly lush and weedy greenery, lost molecules from the whole, would pour into open windows. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Of course, "youths," and all the "weedy ones," were in the first instance rejected by the army doctors, and were never permitted to go to the front. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The pinnace drifted with the tide and stranded on a weedy shoal while the blue powder smoke hung over it like a fog. Blackbeard: Buccaneer "Nobby" was a weedy little Cockney who became my "batman," or servant. Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France He was an undersized man of not more than thirty, but already somewhat withered; a specimen of the unwholesome, weedy breed of the settlements. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Beneath it all I know there is a strata of the Magnificent, but the surface-ground is weedier than ever. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends |
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