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    pith


    1. A tiny girl wearing a pith helmet pointed an SKS rifle with bayonet at the barefoot pilot


    2. The one with the wide grin under the pith helmet


    3. Remove the seeds and white pith from inside the peppers


    4. I thought of the son of Elvis as I removed the pith, separated the segments and ate each one as slowly as I could, enjoying the delicious, sweet taste on my tongue


    5. Among those theatrical creatures, wearing riding breeches and leggings, a pith helmet and steel-rimmed glasses, with topaz eyes and the skin of a thin rooster, there arrived in Macondo on one of so many Wednes-days the chubby and smiling Mr


    6. Cut the squash in half and remove the seeds and pith


    7. When he had awoken that morning, he had pulled off his slept-in suit and instead donned a safari outfit: khaki pants, a chambray shirt, the cowboy boots he ordinarily reserved for the Fourth of July parade, and a pith helmet


    8. The pith helmet had belonged to Harry S


    9. As the man in the pith helmet ran toward the school, the trolls gladly followed


    10. a lemon leaving as much white pith on the fruit as possible and blend it together with

    11. were meant to strip the pith from stalks,


    12. “There---that is the pith of the tree, do you see? It’s the very core of its being, surrounded by dark heartwood and then softer sapwood


    13. While the pith is not considered desirable when harvesting a tree for construction, our purpose here is quite different, and the core of this tree is essential to it


    14. For Miss Cartwright had come to the conclusion from Manby's answers to her questions, answers always whispered, always reluctant and having to be dragged out of her, but full of pith once out, that the late master of the house must have been exactly the sort of man she, Miss Cartwright, admired


    15. Oh, the blessedness of a bright spring morning without a lieutenant! And was there ever such a hopeful beginning to a day, and so full of promise for the subsequent right passing of its hours, as breakfast in the garden, alone with your teapot and your book! Any cobwebs that have clung to your soul from the day before are brushed off with a neatness and expedition altogether surprising; never do tea and toast taste so nice as out there in the sun; never was a book so wise and full of pith as the one lying open before you; never was woman so clean outside and in, so refreshed, so morally and physically well-tubbed, as she who can start her day in this fashion


    16. Traveling the pith of the ocean


    17. «men’s» pith is strong enough to control the total emotionality of all his


    18. The more business he got, the greater his power seemed to grow of getting at its pith and marrow; and however late at night he sat carousing with Sydney Carton, he always had his points at his fingers' ends in the morning


    19. The pith and marrow of our attribute


    20. And enterprises of great pith and moment

    21. Even on the pith of Life


    22. "Those are gifts to fit her to be not only a countess but a nymph of the greenwood," said he of the Grove; "whoreson strumpet! what pith the rogue must have!"


    23. It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities


    24. Next morning we had a note from Miss Smith, recounting shortly and accurately the very incidents which I had seen, but the pith of the letter lay in the postscript:—


    25. That was the pith of the information with which Holmes left the office of the AdelaideSouthampton company


    26. The method of his discourse and conversation was very precise, and his words were all set forth in a style of consequence, that took with many for a season as the pith and marrow of solidity and sense


    27. Previous iterations of the Hamilton-Sweeney line, apparently; beneath the accessories that dated them—a pith helmet on one, a pince-nez on the other—they had the same egg-shaped skull and prominent forehead as Regan’s father


    28. Vill Zombies” and a cover of the Nightmares’ “Horrors of the Black Museum” and a new bit of pith called “Make Me Sick


    29. Within a few years, they were packing up their pith helmets, hauling down their flags, and heading home


    30. Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures always turn on their peg

    31. What was the gallant grace of the Lynns, the languid elegance of Lord Ingram,—even the military distinction of Colonel Dent, contrasted with his look of native pith and genuine power? I had no sympathy in their appearance, their expression: yet I could imagine that most observers would call them attractive, handsome, imposing; while they would pronounce Mr


    32. The spongy, starchy inner pith of the trunk provides the sago


    33. For a spindle use a stem of hollow softer wood with a soft pith core


    34. Using each section as a trough, pound pith into a mash, then knead in a container of water (the bole of the trunk will do) and strain through a cloth


    35. The real pith to the Crazy Eddie story was the insiders


    36. Next morning, we had a note from Miss Smith, recounting shortly and accurately the very incidents which I had seen, but the pith of the letter lay in the postscript:


    37. That was the pith of the information with which Holmes left the office of the Adelaide-Southampton company


    38. The dried-up tree stands apparently as firm as before,—it even looks firmer, because it is rougher,—but it is already weakened at the pith and is getting ready to fall


    39. After the incident, Bill's attention was drawn to a bullet hole in his pith helmet


    40. This part, therefore, includes the pith of the resolution

    41. Randolph called for the yeas and nays on this question, considering it the pith and marrow of the business; and as the vote would show who were the navy and who the anti-navy men in the House


    42. The look that passed between Plug Ivory and Plug Avery carried all the pith of the quotation: “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small


    43. This is the pith of the theme of the story, very briefly put, for, as she is introduced to us in the opening chapters, she is, with all her beauty, as hopeless a termagant as can well be conceived, and when she bids us farewell at the end of the book, the transformation has been made complete


    44. He spoke with the pith and pathos characteristic of those from the Emerald Isle


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    Synonyms for "pith"

    center centre core essence gist heart heart and soul inwardness kernel marrow meat nitty-gritty nub pith substance sum compact forceful useful terse

    "pith" definitions

    soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants


    the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience


    remove the pith from (a plant)