They are a genteel type of folk, and many of them are living at this moment in their genteel poverty behind the oldaspidistraplant.
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Now we have got, if we did not know it before, an expert on aspidistras.
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Finally, the time has come to remove the aspidistras and the odour of mothballs from the negotiating chambers.
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All they want is anaspidistrain the window.
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It is no good doing it for once and then slackening off, because forms grow even faster than aspidistras.
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One cannot, by means of a statute or even an enormous schedule setting out typewriters and aspidistras, try to legislate between the parties.
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It will now be a section 1 criminal offence to have a shell case in which one is growing anaspidistra.
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Theaspidistraused to be a very strong convention.
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A characteristic of this tree is that the growth of the trunk is delayed, so that, when young, it lacks a tree-like stem and bears some resemblance to anaspidistra.
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Then we have theaspidistra.
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They have it on record that the head of one civil service department prefers theaspidistra, rubber plants and yucca plants to a disabled person in a public place.
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Hall also established and maintained an extensive garden of live oaks, bamboo, camellias, azaleas, aspidistras, and other plantings, in the former plantation house's remaining grounds.
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