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Its kind of creepy when you here the corn stalkes getting louder and louder then you see the bear passes you!!!
The talk about Maine have a chance to hold the world record buck got me thinking. 2009
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You've eather hunted centerfire for as long as you can remember, or you are just starting and want to jump right to the chase. wich do you think is beter: your centerfire beter accuracy, longer shots, or your Muzzloader, longer stalkes, testing your hunting ajility at shorter range.
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Its kind of creepy when you here the corn stalkes getting louder and louder then you see the bear passes you!!!
The talk about Maine have a chance to hold the world record buck got me thinking. 2009
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Gentlewomen generally (guided by unreasonable appetite) will hold the heads of them in your hands, and feede upon the blades or stalkes: which not onely are not good for any thing, but also are of very bad savour.
The Decameron 2004
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This prouince of Rezan is more fruitful then any other of the prouinces of Moscouia: Insomuch that in this (as they say) euery graine of wheat bringeth forth two, and sometimes more eares: whose stalkes or strawes grow so thicke that horses can scarsely go through them, or Quayles flie out of them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Moreouer, if great trees be caried into it by force of streams, and after with the ebbe be cast out againe, the ends and boughs of them haue bene so beaten, that they are like the stalkes of hempe that is bruised.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sneesewoort hath many rounde and brittle braunches, beset with long and narrowe leaues, hackt about the edges like a sawe; at the top of the stalkes do grow smal single flowers like the fielde Daisie.
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Parkinson gives a very neat description of it: "This small borage shooteth forth many leaves from the roote, every one upon a long stalke, of a darke greene colour; the stalkes are small and slender, not above halfe a foote high, with very few leaves thereon, and at the toppes come forth the flowers, made of five blew round pointed leaves, every one upon a long foote stalke."
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Garland of diuers leaues, fruites, and stalkes, foulded vppe and wrapte together of a greene stone knitte in foure partes, the byndings of the selfe same stalkes, holden by two Mermaydes, the vpper parts of them of
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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When you gather any Cherries to preserue, you shall gather those which are the greatest, the ripest, you shall pull them from their stalkes one by one, and vse them at furthest within xxiiij. howers after the time they are gotten.
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