How To Use Aspidistra In A Sentence
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More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
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Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see.
On being a father
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These were recorded in 1949, and are excellently performed, although, as far as the music goes, they belong next to the potted aspidistra in the front foyer.
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He watched proceedings from the aspidistra side, while they watched from the pillars.
Worldshaker
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We do not know what it showed - but something more exciting than two frozenly rigid, ceremonially dressed adults alongside an aspidistra.
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But even a potted aspidistra or two can make difference by oxygenating your workspace, whether you work at home or not.
Green Your Home Office | Lifehacker Australia
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If you had to name one item that might symbolise the Victorian drawing room, you might opt for the aspidistra plant, seen in most Victorian households.
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Line vases with aspidistra leaf and focus attention on the flowers by hiding the stems.
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Knocking over two delicate tables and an aspidistra, he covered the floor between them in two strides and pulled Harry into a hug that nearly cracked his newly repaired ribs.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Not a few of these are also lilyworts, such as asphodels, fritillarias, day lilies, funkias, or plantain lilies, phormiums, yuccas, and aspidistras.
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As a rule of thumb, it's hard to go wrong with classics like the parlour palm, dracaenas, rubber plants, aspidistra (I've always fancied a variegated one), cacti, succulents and the umbrella plant.
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More than 26,000 people made the trip to inspect the acers and aspidistras at what is fast becoming one of the best, and best-loved, horticultural events in the North of England.
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Maybe it would be better to put an aspidistra on it and call it a feature.
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The office was small, windowless with cinderblock walls, minimally furnished with a battered desk, a few chairs, a repellent aspidistra.
Audrey Niffenegger | Moths of the New World
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A single aspidistra gleamed in one corner in a lime-green ceramic pot.
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The Cabinet Room looked like a war zone - pie crusts everywhere and Frank sobbing quietly into the aspidistra.
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You might have thought that I was actually getting out of the lift to inspect the aspidistra in the hallway.
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Aspidistra, araucaria, Pandanus and the rubber plant are exceptions; two of them being remarkable for their hardihood under neglect and ignorance.
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
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Ivy and aspidistras make excellent hall companions, as do bowls of spring buds that can later be transplanted outside.
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_Aspidistra_ -- The aspidistra is the toughest of all foliage plants -- if not of all house plants.
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse
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Damian had to carefully move a large aspidistra in order to squeeze into the room behind Hans-Raoul, and Sally glared at him as he did so.
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He said that, once, no home would have been complete without an aspidistra in the living room.
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There are those on bicycles and charabancs, in schoolrooms, around maypoles, and beside aspidistras.
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The proper pastoral response would have been to accept it and drink it happily, or (if that was really impossible) pour it on the aspidistra.
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He reeks with emetic language that can only make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief, and the old heave-ho.
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He watched as Alicia left the restaurant, then he rushed out into the foyer and hid behind a large potted aspidistra from where he could see the road.
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In the far corner, against the washbasin, stood a large aspidistra.
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As a rule of thumb, it's hard to go wrong with classics like the parlour palm, dracaenas, rubber plants, aspidistra (I've always fancied a variegated one), cacti, succulents and the umbrella plant.
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As English as an aspidistra in the bay window of a bungalow, Orwell grew to love and loathe his heritage in equal measure.
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This was furnished only with a dark wood stand, topped by a substantial aspidistra.
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Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see.
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