I think you are using enormous engines to effect a small purpose—in fact, you are using a steam hammer to crack afilbert.
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If the clerk had proceeded to explain what chocolatefilbertis, then it is possible that the customer would have asked for some.
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Media most likely to have paint applied to by afilbertare oil, acrylic and decorative surfaces.
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Filberts are particularly effective in blending work, usually of a figurative nature.
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Many artists agree that natural fibers work best for filberts because the hairs stick together better when wet.
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It appears most commonly under oaks, but also under beeches, chestnuts, horse-chestnuts, birches, filberts, hornbeams, pines, and spruces.
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Some cultivars are of hybrid origin between common hazel andfilbert.
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Afilbertis more elongated, being about twice as long as it is round.
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She worked nights in a cannery, fished to feed her cat, and lived in afilbertorchard while studying physics, mathematics, and journalism.
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A boy puts his hand into a pitcher of figs and filberts and grasps so many that he can not withdraw his fist through the narrow opening.
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