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    pollard


    1. Pollard - and a Libyan National Police officer by the name of Zayud – and, another in the


    2. She would insist on its observing the storks standing in their nest on the stable roof and how the light lay along their white wings, and how the red of their legs was like the red of the pollard willows in March


    3. Remember the problem we had at CIA with restricting Jewish employees from access to sensitive information about the Middle East? After Bush the First took such heat about the Jonathan Pollard scandal, you and I decided that we wouldn’t worry about employment discrimination laws when national security was at stake


    4. Only at one point--it may be Acton, Holloway, Kensal Rise, Caledonian Road--does the name mean shops where you buy things, and houses, in one of which, down to the right, where the pollard trees grow out of the paving stones, there is a square curtained window, and a bedroom


    5. At last she got away, and did not stop in her retreat till she was in the thicket of pollard willows at the lower side of the barton, where she could be quite unseen


    6. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it


    7. Just before the window was a row of pollard trees, looking black on one side and with a silvery light on the other


    8. When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse’s hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on


    9. I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life—my genius for good or evil—waited there in humble guise


    10. Pollard: Shakespeare’s Fight with the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of his Text

    11. First: In the year 1820 the ship Essex, Captain Pollard, of Nantucket, was cruising in the Pacific Ocean


    12. Being returned home at last, Captain Pollard once more sailed for the Pacific in command of another ship, but the gods shipwrecked him again upon unknown rocks and breakers; for the second time his ship was utterly lost, and forthwith forswearing the sea, he has never tempted it since


    13. At this day Captain Pollard is a resident of Nantucket


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    Synonyms for "pollard"

    pollard poll

    "pollard" definitions

    a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage


    a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed


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