Anton Lesser read it with a crisp Bloomsbury quack that the author would probably have approved of and almost certainly emitted. |
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She will also turn her attention to Irish ducks, which presumably quack with an agreeable brogue. |
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Ducks wake up and quack and swim away as we pass on the narrow walks, little packs of 20 or so ducks. |
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As we took off, I could hear a faint quack of relief from Archie's new acquaintances. |
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You are drawn to the plight of the bird in the air pump, the sad and frightened girls and the wild eyes of the quack scientist. |
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It helps if you can whip the populace into a panic like some snake oil salesman, then sell them the quack cure. |
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A lifestyle guru is a modern sort of mountebank, selling quack advice instead of false medicines. |
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An alternative medicine quack reckoned he could cure Faulkner of his twitching with a six-month course of treatment. |
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My comments on quack medicine have brought on challenges from some readers. |
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They are saying they do not want the project to go ahead, full stop, because it is quack medicine. |
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One's senses were assaulted by news vendors, shoeblacks, quack doctors and the like and their specimens of cajolery. |
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It is to help those who have fallen for the lies and deceit of quack medicine and pseudoscience. |
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Depressed by the abundance of absurd claims for quack alternative therapies, he had set up the site as a credulity experiment. |
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My worst weeds are the perennials that spread with runners, like quack grass. |
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We should be looking at changing our lifestyles, not stuffing ourselves full of quack medicine. |
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However, many people have different kinds of thick bladed grass in their lawn such as quack grass. |
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The dominant forage is orchard grass, with some quack, brome, blue grass and assorted other species. |
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The amendment was designed to control the sale of illegitimate products invented by quack doctors. |
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In his pasture, edible weeds like dandelion, chicory, quack grass and even stinging nettles are allowed to thrive. |
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Fast-growing fall cover crops outcompete late-season weeds like quack grass and chickweed. |
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Among the modern evils to fall under Ince's scrutiny was quack alternative medicine. |
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One theory is that the sound of the quack tails away, which makes the echoes difficult to hear. |
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Quacks or quack salvers are named from quicksilver ointment peddlers who treated syphilis in the 16th century. |
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It pains us to see people buying quack nostrums that we can't touch because of the way the law is written. |
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But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck. |
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Some of those crazy quack docs had me taking plenty of these at one point in time, let me tell you! |
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These sounds, called clicks, can be produced in such rapid succession as to sound like a buzz or even a duck-like quack. |
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Some of these remedies have been closer to quack concoctions. |
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Both brothers like their father, musically speaking, are rather erratic instant effect with quack, ornamental flourishes that be tied down to ponderous vistar. |
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The French know it as la méthode Coué, after an early 20th-century quack who touted the curative value of autosuggestion. |
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I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck. |
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I heard a thump and a quack, and guessed that he'd run into the wall. |
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But similarly, a new-age quack healer would disagree with a brain surgeon. |
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A recent example is a cross with bread wheat and quack grass. |
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The family has built the quack makers into a substantial business via some decidedly unbusinesslike practices. |
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There is a lot of quack grass on this field and I feel it's the only way I'm going to get on top of the situation. |
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This suggests that the presence of quack grass in a barley field may help protect it from aphid attack. |
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Anybody who suggests that you can lose weight without at least a bit of self-denial is a food quack. |
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In the garden, he grew medicinal plants from which he made and distilled different therapeutic tinctures, ointments and so-called theriacs or quack remedies. |
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Don't worry – whatever you've done, The Simpsons' quack doctor has done already and worse. |
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I tried using a mulcher last year as an experiment on fallow ground as a soil building strategy, but the quack grass just seem to take over. |
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The underground rhizomes of quack grass must be cut up thoroughly so that four or less nodes remain on a strand. |
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Anybody who tries to convince you that you need ultra-special food recipes to lose weight is a food quack. |
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A lovely little breed of duck known as the Call Duck was used by hunters to lure in wild ducks because she had a very load and frequent quack. |
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These extracts are exuded from quack grass roots, and can be picked up by the barley from the soil. |
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Fearing that her parents would not let her continue her studies if they learned of her pregnancy, Claudine went to a quack to obtain an abortion. |
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The call of female American Black Ducks is a loud quack or series of quacks, indistinguishable from the call of female Mallards. |
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Supplementary row cultivation will be required to improve quack grass control. |
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Humor and historical distance allow me to illustrate how a quack operates in a way that I could not with a contemporary example. |
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In addition to control of Poa trivialis, the evaluations will include control of yellow nutsedge, tall fescue, quack grass and several other grassy weeds. |
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He compared Tull to a quack who claims one medicine could cure all manners of diseases. |
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David's expression changes. A quack? All this act is about some quacky, pseudo science, right on, I know something you don't cult thing. |
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Control will be reduced in well-established beds where quack grass rhizomes have not been fragmented by tillage or if application is made at an inappropriate stage of growth. |
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In that case, you would consider quack doctors, witch doctors, faith healers, and medicine men to be in the same category as real physicians who graduated from recognized medical schools! |
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His hands-on exhibit demonstrates vintage Mutoscopes, Edison Reproducers, quack medical devices and more. |
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And however the resurrectionist began life, by the 19th century he had become a quack doctor, a common figure of fun in village communities. |
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I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg. |
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Building a set of values demands that we go behind the slogans and the easy phrases of quack reformers and look at ourselves as we are and not as we wish we were. |
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The female has a soft quack and the male's clucks and whistles. |
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They form an inescapable interrogation, with biologists, neuroscientists, quack therapists, wack columnists and a flotilla of bigots holding the lamp. |
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The tines of the finger-weeder will plug easily by corn stalks, quack grass rhizomes, or clumps of turf, and will drag this residue along damaging the crop. |
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In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere. |
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Pekins come in a close second on the quack scale. |
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This was not just another quack cure. This was on sale exclusively from the duty-free trolley on Continental Airlines. What was it? Liquid oxygen, that's what. |
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I cannot omit a subtility of one of those quack operators, with which he gulled the poor people to crowd about him, but did nothing for them without money. |
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