For mulaelig there are, and formulaic verses, but no repeated gnomes.
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Perhaps there is more creativity in these poems than we have been willing to credit, or perhaps there was a guiding hand which either avoided or edited out duplicated gnomes.
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At that fair, hardly a flower appeared; it was mainly devoted to the selling of garden gnomes and fountains.
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That is what it is all about and it has nothing to do with gnomes or speculators or anything else.
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The driver goes off to argue with the gnomes.
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I discovered recently a tendency among my friends to regard me as a "gnome".
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It is important that the needs of everybody in the industry should be met, whether they are supplying garden gnomes or other products.
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This nice touch that somegnomein some department thought up, "a reproduction silver inkstand", was very interesting.
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I am thinking of soft cases, such as a drunk old man staggering across my open-plan garden and knocking over agnome.
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It is governed by political gnomes busy jealously guarding their small treasure.
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Certainly, the experts, the dealers in foreign exchange, "the gnomes", the dealers in commodities, are not going to be put off and confused.
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But, briefed carefully by gnomes from the civil servants' office, he is told just how far he can or cannot go.
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He would wrap up thegnome, take the customer's details, sort out the money and label up the package.
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Whatever arguments are advanced in the debate, surely we need not go into whether garden gnomes or seeds come within the term.
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We should not extend the debate to cultural arguments about plastic gnomes and so on.
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