Sentences with phrase «willow by»

A practical but novel piece of furniture made from American willow by David Chipperfield Architects.

When I was young I enjoyed reading about the adventures of Toad, Ratty, Mole and Badger in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame.

Not exact matches

WILLOW GROVE, PA. — J.G. Petrucci Co. has acquired five properties totaling six acres in Willow Grove in separate transactions brokered by CBRE.

The fleeting pomps of the world are like the green willow trees, which aspiring to permanence, are consumed by a fire, fall before the axe, are upturned by the wind, or are scarred and saddened by age.

W.W. Norton, 480 pages, $ 39.95 The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Seth Lerer Belknap / Harvard, 288 pages, $ 35

Most of the congregation accepted their willow wands with equanimity, but there were a few older women, led by Mrs Dealey, who disdained the willows and held out for palms.

Even as he's evoking insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by a man.

-- Kenneth Grahame, THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The Sacred by Marilyn Sewell

We are not aware of any towns by the name of Tarkowski or Defour, there's not even a Hendrick or an Arfield, while Cork was too far away, so off we went to LOWTON close to Newton - le - Willows to a pub for some good beer and food, and guess what?

Your children might enjoy the «First Book of Nature» by Nicola Davies or Emily Gravett's «Tidy», as well as old classics that feature the great outdoors quite heavily, such as Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows or Beatrix Potter's «Peter Rabbit».

Once buttoned and bundled, they scattered toward favorite spaces: a crab apple tree made for climbing, a cluster of bushes forming a secret nook under a willow tree, a sandbox growing muddier by the minute....

I was immediately impressed by the adorable natural willow bassinet basket — perfect for items you want to keep close at hand in the nursery — and the sweet finishing touches.

Conservative Phillip Davies, - who, by the way, looks like he acted in Wind in the Willows in school and never quite got over it - tries to argue that Brown is responsible for the current crisis.

«Colonization by shrubs, for example willows, would have a cascade effect on the ecosystems in Svalbard as there are only very fragmented populations of shrubs [there] today,» Alsos says.

Outside, in the sprawling front plaza rimmed by palm and willow trees, young couples cuddle by the steps, vendors sell wrestling masks and tacos, and five men dressed in traditional Totonac garb slowly spin upside down in the death defying «Dance of the Flyers» for the tourists.

«We found that urban warming reduced carbon storage by all of Raleigh's willow oaks by 12 percent, or 27 metric tons per year,» Meineke says.

Many areas along the Lamar lack streamside willows and other woody plants because they were stripped away by elk and other herbivores, he explains.

For more than twenty years, scientists have known that aspirin and its natural relatives, prepared from willow bark, act by interfering with an enzyme called PGHS.

The port authority says willow trees near the port were also affected by what it believes to be an airborne pollutant.

At Argonne it will give way, over the next 20 to 30 years, to ecological restoration, as the pollutants are removed and the worker trees replaced by bur oaks and other hardwoods native to the Great Lakes region — trees that grow slowly and draw only a fraction of the water taken up by the hasty, thirsty poplars and willows.

Grazing by reindeer often results in a vegetation shift from tundra dominated by dwarf birch, crowberry and willows, to a meadow - like vegetation dominated by grasses, sedges and forbs.

It is well - liked by herbalists for its flexible medicinal applications, and has in fact been recognized in the last couple of centuries as a safer alternative to aspirin made from willow bark.

Ocimum tenuiflorum (holy basil *) water, aqua (water), olea europaea (olive) fruit oil bo, cera alba (beeswax *), glycerin *, salvia officinalis (sage *) extract, echinacea purpurea (coneflower *) extract, galega officinalis (French lilac *) extract, salvia haenkei (prawn sage) extract bo, daucus carota sativa (carrot) flower / seed extract bo, salix alba (willow bark *) extract, vetiveria zizaniodes (vetiver) root oil *, cananga odorata (ylang ylang) flower oil *, boswellia carteri (frankincense) oil *, pogostemon cablin (patchouli) oil *, linalool eo, farnesol eo, benzyl benzoate eo, geraniol eo [* certified organic herbs flowers and fruits; (bo) harvested by Bottega Organica]

White willow bark has been used for thousands of years by Romans, ancient China, and many other ancient peoples.

The same compound that aspirin becomes once it's been metabolized by the body, salicylic acid is believed to be the active compound in aspirin that relieves pain and inflammation, making white willow tree bark a viable natural alternative.

By the magic of marketing, they're not exactly wrong, in the sense that salicylic acid can be «sourced» from willow bark extract, but this leads to the unsuspecting consumer's incorrect conclusion that the willow bark extract in the product is the equivalent of salicylic acid.

Like Aspirin, white willow bark is a nonselective inhibitor of COX - 1 and COX - 2 (those enzymes targeted by pain killers), used to block inflammatory prostaglandins.

The first attempt to use the active compounds of a willow bark to successfully treat malaria was carried out by Edward Stone in 1763.

«Co-founder of Turning Green, Erin Schrode swears by Juice Beauty Blemish Clearing Toner Pads, made from 100 % bamboo and formulated with salicylic acid acid found in willow bark, for keeping oily pores in check.»

It may be an old joke, but this potent pill, derived from the bark of willow trees, was first recognized over 2,000 years ago by Hippocrates.

Don't forget to stop by the outdoor garden exhibit where the kids can (amongst other things) build forts and go through the willow tunnel.

This silk crepe de chine fabric boasts a digital print with horizontal stripes in peach and willow - green divided by bright floral ornaments.

Surrounded by elements of nature, the magical afternoon is created by the girls seating under a large weeping willow tree tuck perfectly into this setting.

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Sweet blossom come on, under the willow, we can have high times if you'll abide We can discover the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside

Her first American film was WILLOW for George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard, followed by the noir film KILL ME AGAIN for John Dahl, NAVY SEALS with Charlie Sheen, SHATTERED with Tom Berenger, THE GUILTY with Bill Pullman, THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE with Bill Murray, and A TEXAS FUNERAL with Martin Sheen.

He's evidently enchanted by the whomping willow, which screws up its gracefully relaxed limbs into a living scourge and thumps the hell out of any living thing within range (including a beatifically chirping bluebird), delighted by the marvelous hippogriff and singularly uninterested in the sporty pleasures of Quidditch.

The poem starts - «One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree»

WILLOWS, California — Porsche's GT products live a strange life, at least by Stuttgart standards.

Like Toad in The Wind in the Willows, I have always been fascinated by the open road, the road that goes ever on and leads away from the world of work and taxes.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (narrated by Anne Hathaway) Gulliver's Travels (narrated by David Hyde Pierce) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (narrated by Kenneth Branagh) A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (narrated by Simon Vance) Moby Dick by Herman Melville (narrated by Frank Muller) The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (narrated by John Lee) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (narrated by Elijah Wood) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (narrated by Simon Vance) David Copperfield (narrated by Simon Vance) The Wind in the Willows (narrated by Shelly Frasier Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (narrated by Nathaniel Parker) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (narrated by John Lee) House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (narrated by Wanda McCaddon) Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (narrated by Davina Porter) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (narrated by Scott Brick) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (narrated by James Langton) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (narrated by Simon Prebble)

Sadie finds solace in the one thing her real father, Sam Sugarspear, left behind: a book about an imaginary land, ruled by a king who grants wishes.One day, when her stepfather's cruelty reaches unimaginable depths, Sadie runs away and hides inside a crevice in her beloved willow tree.

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Together they live in The Willows, an old sprawling mansion which they share with the specter of his dead wife... John Middleton Murray famously described Vera as «Wuthering Heights by Jane Austen.»

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.Bruce Lee

There are many different types of willow or apple wood treats available that you can buy from pet stores like the Burns Rabbit Food 14 Willow Chew SticksWare Manufacturing Natural Willow Mega Munch Sticks Our rabbit likes the thinner sort as they seem easier to chew up and we found we could make them even more appealing by pushing them through the sides of a toilet roll tube.

Rabbits enjoy eating fresh willow sticks, starting by chewing the soft bark and eventually eating the soft wood inside.

Smooth, young wood from nontoxic trees, such as apple and willow, is readily used by most species in the genus.

The colourful paper lanterns, made from willow and coloured tissue paper, are made by families in workshops.

We hopped on a KD riverboat for a one - hour river cruise, gliding past mansions, framed by weeping willows, to Konigswinter.