Do we say bole or boll

bole 41 occurrences

At the top of this magnificent bole, long, curving branches sweep gracefully outward and downward, sometimes forming a palm-like crown, but far more nobly impressive than any palm crown I ever beheld.

Wherever the young trees are at all sheltered, they grow up straight and arrowy, with delicately tapered bole, and ascending branches terminated with glossy, bottle-brush tassels.

Every wind is fretted by his voice, almost every bole and branch feels the sting of his sharp feet.

Then he would shift his position and cut a corresponding notch further round, so making painful circuit of the bole.

Listen very carefully, and you will hear the hoofs of fauns rustling among the fallen leaves; they are watching us, Patricia, from behind every tree-bole.

The spin of a coin gave him first shot, and he missed the mark and cut the bole of the tree.

and Fidelis sighed in deep and troubled fashion and so fell to silence, what time Beltane, cunning in wood-lore, glancing hither and thither at knotted branch and writhen tree bole, viewing earth and heaven with a forester's quick eye, rode on into the trackless wilds of the forest-lands.

The lowest and inmost leaves next the bole are, as usual, of the most delicate yellow and green, like the complexion of young men brought up in the house.

Its bark was smooth and trim, its bole well set and solid.

There is a noble old wreck of an elm at Hatfield, which used to spread its claws out over a circumference of thirty-five feet or more before they covered the foot of its bole up with earth.

In spite of these inharmonious tendencies in Browning, his poetry at times shows a lyric lightness, such as is heard in these lines: "Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In Englandnow!"

Look at the single long straight air-root which it is letting down by the side of the tree bole.

and when the bole thereof is growen round as bigge as an Orenge, then they take care onely to gather them.

bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages^; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part &c (importance) 642; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

He likewise collected a number of herbs and simples; as Virginian snakeweed, contrajerva, pestilence-wort, angelica, elecampane, zedoary, tormentil, valerian, lovage, devils-bit, dittany, master-wort, rue, sage, ivy-berries, and walnuts; together with bole ammoniac, terra sigillata, bezoar-water, oil of sulphur, oil of vitriol, and other compounds.

" "May be the Highland tyke is right, cummer, (said one o' the red coats) and the fallow is jumpit thro' the bole, but harkye maister gudeman, an ye hae ony mair o' your barns-breaking wi us, ye'se get a sark fu' o' sair banes, that's a'.

It dips its bole in the salt tide, and will not thrive removed from its beloved sea.

The cache contained six 9-inch howitzers, two hundred thousand rifles and a million rounds of ammunition, and was skilfully concealed under the bole of a tree.

" He looked at her keenly, then leaned against the bole of a tree, listening.

Markham sat for a long while, his back against the bole of a tree, pipe in mouth, gazing into the embers of the fire.

To make this definite she sat upon the bole of a felled oak beside the path while Patricia jiggled up and down in eloquent objection to the untimely halt.

Our men, in clearing away the forest for our tents, left several very tall and slender accashy palms; the bole of this palm is as straight as an arrow and is crowned with delicate, gracefully curved fronds.

"At every tree-bole a tethered horse awaits us; and a ship awaits our party at Fécamp.

A few of them were of Catholic origin, and one, entitled Post-Bole, (The Express,) is quite as good as anything issued by the opposite party.]

I leaned against the beach-bole there, all wrapt in shade, and looked at them where they inadvertently stood in the full gleam of the lighted windows: 'twas Angus, and 'twas Effie.

boll 49 occurrences

If it were laid upon the leaf, as was usually the case, it might be three days before the worm reached the boll; but were the eggs laid upon the involucre the worm pierced through within twenty-four hours after hatching.

The newly hatched boll worm walks like a geometrical larva or looper, a measuring worm as it was called.

I have often watched the newly hatched boll while in the cotton fields.

When hatched from an egg which had been deposited upon a leaf, they invariably made their first meal on the substance of the leaf, and then wandered about for a longer or shorter space of time, evidently seeking a boll or flower bud.

As the boll worms increase in size a most wonderful diversity of color and marking becomes apparent.

By the Swiss Writer JOHANNA SPYRI Author of Heidi, Chel, and many other stories Translated by HELENE H. BOLL 1921 Affectionately dedicated to MRS.

Through her knowledge and love of the country about which Madame Spyri wrote, and speaking her language, the translator, Helene H. Boll, appreciates her thoughts, and has faithfully reproduced them in this absorbing little story. THE PUBLISHERS.

And so far at least as the increased supply is concerned, this must necessarily be the effect, "other things being equal"; though, to be sure, it might be outweighed and obscured by other influences such as the boll-weevil.

Take two-thirds of a cupful of water, bring to a boll, add one-half of a level spoonful of tea, and then let it stand or "draw" for three minutes.

Let come to a boll and then pour the water off.

Take about two-thirds of a cupful of water, bring to a boll, add four heaping spoonfuls of rice, and boil until the grains are soft enough to be easily mashed between the fingers (about 20 minutes).

I boil it down and strain it, then boll it down, put camphor gum and fresh lard in it, boil it down low and pour it up.

CARSON, JOHN. Dixie boll weevil.

The boll weevil gentleman.

© 16Sep43; A175453. Eunice Blake Bohanon (W); 3Feb71; R499021. BOLL, ELEANOR S. Family situations.

BOSSARD, JAMES H. S. Family situations; an introduction to the study of child behavior, by James H. S. Bossard & Eleanor S. Boll.

Barbara Bossard McGinley & Constance Bossard Congdon (C of J. H. S. Bossard) & Eleanor S. Boll (A); 10May71; R505623.

CARSON, JOHN. Dixie boll weevil.

The boll weevil gentleman.

De ballit of de boll weevil, new words and new music adaptation by Huddie Ledbetter.

In the autumn you see the pod or boll which contains the cotton.

[Illustration: "YOU SEE THE POD OR BOLL.

BOILED SWEET POTATOES.Choose potatoes of equal size; do not pare, but after cleaning them well and removing any imperfect spots, put into cold water and boll until they can be easily pierced with a fork; drain thoroughly, and lay them on the top grate in the oven to dry for five or ten minutes.

XIII THE TELEPHONE AT THE CENTENNIAL Boll's Impromptu Trip to the ExpositionThe Table Under the StairsIndifference of the JudgesEnter Don Pedro, Emperor of BrazilAttention and AmazementSkepticism of the PublicThe Aid of Gardiner HubbardPublicity Campaign.

The operation of ploughing breaks up the soil, while the rough clods may be broken by hand mallets or by the use of the "hengha"a piece of tree boll harnessed at the ends to a pair of bullocks.

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