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nettle as in: beware of nettles near the river
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I ran into some stinging nettles.
nettles = a type of plant that has fine irritating hairs
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Stay on the trail in that area to avoid nettles and ticks.nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs
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…wine, Three of us are killers, waiting bidden in line. Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore, To help you in your choice, we give you these clues four: First, however slyly the poison tries to hide You will always find some on nettle wine's left side; Second, different are those who stand at either end, But if you would move onward, neither is your friend; Third, as you see clearly, all are different size, Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their… (source)nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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Then, using the loader, he lowered a thousand-gallon tank into the pit and buried it with a shovel, carefully planting nettles and sow thistle in the freshly tossed dirt so they would grow and conceal the tank. (source)nettles = plants with stinging or irritating hairs
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for the congested passages you made a paste of boiled flour and nettles, wrapped it in a rag, and slapped it, sizzling, on the chest. (source)nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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By any chance, is it nettle?† (source)nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead. (source)nettles = irritating hairs from certain types of plants
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He put the paperweight down on the ground that had once been a nettle-patch, placed it in the place that he estimated her head would have been, and pausing only to look at his handiwork for a moment, he went through the railings and made his way, rather less gingerly, back up the hill.† (source)nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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There were just nettles and thistles and weeds and half-bricks and lumps of stone. (source)nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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Holly grabbed the remains of a nettle smoothie from the cooler and drank it in the tunnels.† (source)nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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The worst time was July—then they shredded nettles into the pot. (source)nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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"We could get robbed blind," Nettle agreed.† (source)Nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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Nettles make the best greens, but have little tiny hairs on them that sting you all over when you're picking. (source)Nettles = a type of plant that often has fine irritating hairs
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My mother brewed us scotch tea, strong, with milk, the way she used to when I was tomboying around and someone would push me in the nettle patch or I'd fall off my bicycle.† (source)nettle = a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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nettle as in: my nettlesome little sister
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Her superior attitude really nettles me.
nettles = annoys -- especially with minor irritations
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"Well, then, to end the matter at once," said Goodman Brown, considerably nettled, "there is my wife, Faith." (source)nettled = annoyed
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"I Don't go looking for trouble," said Harry, nettled.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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His scorn of commerce — invigorating to me — nettled a lot of the more vocal kids in Honors English.† (source)
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My tone nettled him.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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And because the mainland police couldn't collect Martin's body until the seas calmed, the townspeople were left with the nettlesome question of what to do with his body.† (source)nettlesome = annoying -- especially with minor irritations
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"Of course not," Ullman said, nettled.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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That doesn't happen often in red-light districts, any more than farmers kill producing assets such as good milk cows, but from time to time a prostitute becomes so nettlesome that the owners kill her as a warning to the other girls.† (source)nettlesome = annoying -- especially with minor irritations
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I've never heard of that before," Alec said, nettled.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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The flagon of mulled wine that Satin delivered helped them settle the more nettlesome points.† (source)nettlesome = annoying -- especially with minor irritations
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As I feared it would, my lack of "cooperation" nettled the driver.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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He was a physician and a teacher and a practicing politician, so nettlesome in opposition to Germany's imperial ambitions that Bismarck once challenged him to a duel.† (source)nettlesome = annoying -- especially with minor irritations
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But at the moment, his words nettled her.† (source)nettled = annoyed -- especially with minor irritations
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The prison authorities refused permission for me to go, which nettled the nurses, and as a result, they decided to hold their party in my room, insisting they could not have their party without me.† (source)
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