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...Growth of the Soil (Markens Grøde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in ...

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...and grew up on a small, bottom-land farm that bordered Bighorn Lake where the soil was rich and the winters hard. We grew potatoes, wheat and barle...

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...-Noncommercial magazine "Macedonian treasury." The magazine will primarily be used for topics of Macedonian history, but only one that this is our soil occurred long ago in the past , but one that by Macedonian gatherings, celebrations and honor continues to exist to this day. It will be a separate facility for the Macedonian culture and arts, as well as events and p...

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...pulates their judgement, proffers plausible scenarios to account for his indiscretions, soils the opposition, charms them, appeals to their reason, ...

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...ther than at Africa or Asia. Both World Wars were colonial wars fought on European soil. Moreover, Nazi Germany innovated by applying prevailing ra... ...es their judgment, proffers plausible scenarios to account for his indiscretions, soils the opposition, charms them, appeals to their reason, or t...

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...ore seeds you plant, the more fl owers will grow and bloom given the right soil and nutrients. T e continual watering of these seeds is of a repetiti... ...le: Let’s plant a seed in our garden. We take special care to prepare the soil for our seed to take root. We water it and nourish it with our love, ...

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... That drained surplus water from lands otherwise unusable and readied the soil for planting sooner by drastically cutting the time needed to plow a f... ... millennium to become a powerful Information Technology. It watered the soil of Western democracy. Bloody revolts against nobility and the church...

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...t) land beyond some terracing and irrigating in dry areas, stirring up the soil with sharp sticks to receive seeds, clearing trees from time to time t... ...round her, of the energy-powers of the living animals, plants, stones, and soil, that healed her and warmed her with the knowledge that she was not al... ...ings, Bandicoot and Native Cat, he mixed this blood with ochre and the red soil of anthill for ritual daubing of their bodies. The unity of life essen...

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... do the job. Still, a living tot is nothing like the abstract concept. Babies cry, soil themselves and their environment, stink, and severely disru...

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... out acreages where the water supply was poor and absorbed her comments about soil and rainfall. But his conscience wouldn’t shut up. She believ... ...is shoulders. “Wha’cha looking for?” The man creaked to his feet, peeled off soiled gloves and wiped a liver-spotted forehead. “Olympic Hill,” Ku... ...viously Otto hadn't been around for a while. The stall was filthy, filled with soiled straw that even a starving horse wouldn’t eat. A cracked water ... ...s he helped her back into the truck. He turned the heat up and unbuttoned her soiled shirt. She made a garbled protest—not understanding—but he ease...

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...grated into the group of French high officers. One can think that the name of the British general expressed his destiny to be a commander on French soil. Now some words about “Franchet”. This first name contains the name of France, his homeland, and “Franchet d'Espèray” bears an allusion to “L'espoir de la France” (“The hope of France”) or “La France espère” (“France ...

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...le underbrush and mushrooms lined the bottom of many of the trees. Huck-leberries, blueberries, and blackberries were growing out of the soft, tender soil. The trees got thicker the further he trod. In ten minutes, he had seen enough. He headed back to the clearing so he could erect his tent for the night... ...

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...Indian nation for countless generations. At the bottom, the bones of thousands of buffalo from centuries of these hunts mixed with the sandy prairie soil. A half mile upriver would find the remnants of once-mighty Brickburn. In the 1920’s, Brickburn boasted a dozen kilns, and produced hundreds of thousands of red clay construction bricks, shipping them hundreds of mil...

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...l, genuine. We have relearned that it also means to come from the aina, the land, and to return to the aina. Aka (yet), aina is more than lepo, the soil, for aina means “that which feeds. ” No laila, aina is Papa, our Earth Mother, including wai (all waters), kai (all seas), Ka Moananui (Oceania), and beyond. Aina is also Wakea, our Sky Father, ea (air), lani (all heav...

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...ist of Acronyms xii Forward by Ismail Serageldin xiii To The Reader xv Chapter 1. NATURAL RESOURCES 1 Concern 1 The Underlying Resources 3 Land and Soil 3 Water 7 Atmosphere 12 Biodiversity 15 Forests 17 Management of Natural Resources 19 Chapter 2. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 23 The Development of Modern Agriculture 23 Population and Food 27 Future Food Demand 30 The Agricul...

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...f the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress, the walls of which were about one hundred and twenty cubits high, having numerous angles and ornamental towers that stood out like jewels in thi...

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... the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fort...

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...hey had never disputed about it nor analyzed it. Such a nature is a virgin soil, conscience has not been tampered with, feeling is deep and strong; re...

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...and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stratum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet coming to view,—may it not be good to protest against such a Life,... ...ain a name. Mountainous Auvergne re- elects her Romme: hardy tiller of the soil, once Mathemati- cal Professor; who, unconscious, carries in petto a r... ...uit- ism, that the whole race of Bourbons should be marched forth from the soil of France; this Prince Egalite to bring up the rear. Motions which mig... ...count of the faith that is in him. Persons Suspect had as well depart this soil of Liberty! And yet departure too is bad: all Emigrants are declared T... ...et Aristocrats, Federal- ists, Monsieurs vanish, and all men tremble: ‘The Soil of Liberty shall be purged, ’—with a vengeance! Neither hitherto has t... ...tte and her little Son,—wherewith Hu- man Speech had better not further be soiled. She has an- swered Hebert; a Juryman begs to observe that she has n... ...d of Patriotism, smiting Cimmeria back to its own borders, from the sacred soil. In fact the Government is what we can call Revolutionary; and some me... ...hymns,’ forces Austria be- hind the Sambre again; has hopes of purging the soil of Liberty. With hard wrestling, with artillerying and ca-ira- ing, it... ...er Fleurus in the Netherlands, where General Jourdan, having now swept the soil of Liberty, and ad- vanced thus far, is just about to fight, and sweep...

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...nd firm by honor: We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, When we have soil’d them, nor the remainder viands We do not throw in unrespective sie... ...y to myself The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; But I would have the soil of her fair rape Wiped off, in honorable keeping her. What treason w... ...e merits well to have her, that doth seek her, Not making any scruple of her soilure, With such a hell of pain and world of charge, And you as well to... ...ather think this not Cressid. ULYSSES: What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers? TROILUS: Nothing at all, unless that this were she. TH...