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As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty…
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Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields…
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Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and…
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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price;…
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Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,…
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Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regular, for much depends upon this; a one-sided…
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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet…
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The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all…
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
— Beck
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose…
— James Bryce
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There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and…
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Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.
— H. H. Asquith
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
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ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden.
— Ambrose Bierce
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