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In the sad suburban subdivision with its cul-de-sacs and broken curbs and its longstanding Cavaliers and Escorts the brown grass overgrows the sidewalks and limbs of token Bradford Pears planted when the brick-faced

December and a Former Cotton Field Gary Hardaway 2011

As our economy expands it overgrows its market size and goes offshore.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: A JUST WORLD AND A BETTER AFRICA IS A POSSIBILITY 2007

Lactic acid fermentation also plays an essential role in the production of Indonesian tempe, a vegetable (soybean) protein meat substitute the texture of which is provided by mycelium of Rhizopus oligosporus, which overgrows and knits the soaked, partially cooked cotyledons into compact cakes that can be sliced thinly and deep fried or cut into chunks and used in soups in place of meat.

1 Upgrading Traditional Biotechnological Processes 1992

In cases where the stock is of much slower growth than the graft, or the graft is inserted upon a stock of some other species, the descending cambium does not inclose the stock, but makes layers of wood on the stem of the graft, which thus, as is frequently seen, overgrows the stock, sometimes to such an extent as to make it unsightly.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Dress overgrows and smothers every other feeling in a woman's heart.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

MR. WHITFORD: I have Gerardi and McAllister hybrids growing on pecan, and the Downing overgrows the pecan.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952

It do make a young feller weak-like when he overgrows his strength.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

It overgrows the plum stock, but this does not seem to inhibit its bearing, the fruit growing to greater size than that of the mother tree.

Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933

The reverse graft, i.e., black walnut on butternut should never be practiced for although successful, the black walnut overgrows the stock and results in an unproductive tree.

Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin Carl Weschcke 1933

Within the court a great herd of thoats and zitidars moved restlessly about, cropping the moss-like ochre vegetation which overgrows practically the entire uncultivated area of Mars.

The Gods of Mars 1913