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    1. Berith is derived from a root word which means "to cut," and hence a covenant is a "cutting," with reference to the cutting or dividing of animals into two


    2. You must look at yourself as the root cause of your life


    3. Lawns love compost; top-dressing lawns once per year with a good rich compost will keep the soil alive and allow for deeper root systems and a pest-free lawn


    4. Larorlie couldn't root in this sandy soil but the rails were hung with a summer's growth of blue noonbloom that was just opening


    5. · The false belief of men to have all the power to take advantage of women’s weaknesses is the root cause of them feeling oppressed and getting angry


    6. This provides for deep watering, encourages root development, provides oxygen to the soil


    7. They help to soften the soil and allow deeper root systems


    8. When the forests again take root, they absorb the carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis, and the ice age diminishes


    9. Word of God strikes into the root of the problem like a sword, in a com-


    10. just revealed to me, to root itself in my mind

    11. root of disease, the sin- is destroyed, the disease itself will be destroyed as


    12. square root of our own experience or by accepting that there is an absolute version of


    13. will have to root out everything that has been sowed from this world


    14. 'Move, you lazy slob! Get off your ass and drive around', and then she remembered she had root control of the You


    15. The root of all diseases is sin, and it lies in a spiritual world,


    16. In many cases the root belief goes something


    17. What was out there before Big Bang? The question is answerable only by an apparently endless circling of the square root of our own experience or by accepting that there is an absolute version of an almost impossible conceptual device; nothing


    18. The Roman world had at its root a governmental system that denied God


    19. Laws were put in place to uphold peace, but when morality and law is subjective, and pride and conquest are the root of your nation, peace is impossible


    20. Because I think that I am a secondary beneficiary of the Gospel instead of the primary, I will never boast against the natural branches (or root) lest I be cut off (Romans 11:18-20)

    21. We have been grafted into that root


    22. We read in Romans 11 that we as Gentiles are grafted into that root


    23. He grabbed long root sticking out of the side of the mountain


    24. He almost lost his grip on the branch root he was holding


    25. He stretched out his hand and found another root and held on for dear life


    26. will my labours cease, but I have no curse to lay upon the root


    27. Meanwhile Alan beat the rest of it to paste with the root end of the club


    28. There was a pilot in a little strap-sling out in front of the sedan, the sedan domed into the root system of this lighter-than-air mobile plant


    29. At one farm the Lord stripped down to his work pants and helped a farmer pull out a rather nasty root that was trying to take hold in his field


    30. Both men struggled to remove it; Tarak’s muscles rippled in his arms and upper shoulders as he pulled and tugged the massive root free

    31. Even at Lucy’s tender age the seeds of cynicism had begun to take root, especially now that hope seemed so far away, and she mentally went “whatever” as the DJ waxed lyrically about the new voice on the block


    32. 'Busy? Never heard a bloke too busy to root, mate,' Roger said


    33. Root meant, well, whatever


    34. She scanned the interior and ‘saw’ the short-wave radio set; the rifles on the wall; the crossbow; and a well stocked root cellar beneath the floor


    35. 21Yet hath he not root in himself, but endures for a while: for when tribulation or


    36. 29But he said, nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with


    37. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have


    38. the seeds of cynicism had begun to take root, especially now that


    39. His spade struck something solid and, expecting another tree root, he


    40. Rather than the thud of a root, the blow created a sharper sound,

    41. “About as long as these trunks have sunk root here,” he said while looking around


    42. gunny sacks so that the root crop could be stored for the winter


    43. ’ He said, indicating the root he is working on


    44. ‘What will it do to them?’ she asked, perching on the bench near where he is working, watching as he scrapes the surface off the roots, revealing a white, tasty looking root beneath – much like a parsnip


    45. other bushes had taken root in sheltered spots in the vicinity


    46. I pushed the square root of


    47. ‘what’s the square root of seven hundred and eighty-three


    48. “My husband was sure that whoever would come round, 'if' they came around he qualified, would most certainly focus on the appearances of the damage and pay no heed at all to the root and cause of our current distresses, he said


    49. Also, there’s the obvious fact that the amount of energy required to give animalistic intelligence to a tree would require a magnetic monopole super-imposed within a super-massive black hole isolated within a Higgs Field times the density of a weakless universe divided by the sub-particle wave length of the root square of an isosceles triangle subtracting the para-statistical metadata equal to the maximum level of sub-atomic exotic particles, then acting under the assumption that in the event of the self-intersection of cosmic strings triggered by inordinate radiation, there would exist somewhere an object that was both simultaneously larger than the entire universe and smaller than an atom, blatantly violating the Law of Conservation of Energy


    50. They hate sex, they think it’s the root of all evil










































    1. All except for the enormous tree rooted at the center of Eden


    2. Monkeys are strongly rooted in the “right side up,” but they have no qualms with using the “upside-down” to their advantage


    3. ) Your soul transformed according to the word, which rooted


    4. rooted and grounded in love,


    5. We defeat the devil when we are rooted in the foundation of the Word of


    6. However, as soon as we reach the threshold at 9:00 o' clock, suddenly Helen stays still as if she were rooted to the spot


    7. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    8. What does it mean to have faith? What does it mean to love? What does it mean to be sanctified? What does it mean to be godly? All of the words are rooted in the character of God


    9. that rooted in the brown earth


    10. Those same nations that are rooted in pride and exultation shall be brought low and be submissive

    11. Suzanne was rooted to the floor, and she supported herself by leaning on the counter


    12. Dumping his bag on a chair, he rooted around in it for his wallet, counting the limited cash at his disposal … bugger it! Glancing up at the list on the wall he calculated carefully, concluding with a sigh that even if he could afford nothing else, he would blow some of the cash on a coffee


    13. Andy stared at his foot then, unsurprisingly, reached for his bag and rooted about for socks


    14. man they rooted against not hours ago


    15. “After a few decades in Yoonbarla, I was convinced that Rendrak was rooted permanently and I had a baby with him


    16. being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend


    17. We will be rooted and


    18. They are rooted here


    19. rooted for, huh?”


    20. After all, with a baby to tend to, you find yourself rooted at home most of the time and not being able to go out as much

    21. His human mind wanted to stay, rooted in fear to the spot where he stood


    22. Susan stood rooted to the spot swaying like a tree, at that moment, completely unable to respond


    23. It is important to note that genuine channeled messages are rooted in messages of unconditional love, harmony and peace


    24. Maureen was rooted to the spot


    25. I sat there rooted to the spot and horrified at what I was witnessing and then the screeching started in earnest a long drawn out wail that seemed to go on and on


    26. He was rooted to the spot by indecision


    27. Thus: „Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in an admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes, who are convinced that their son"s or daughter"s hardships can be relieved


    28. Raven froze, rooted to the spot, looking wide-eyed at the floor – shocked and strangely moved


    29. Some stayed rooted to the spot, glaring or looking bemused, as if she’d lost her sanity


    30. firmly rooted in her past

    31. But again, he was rooted to the spot, afraid and uncertain


    32. Rooted in pleasure, Human Nature‘s inordinate capacity for consumption, having gone unchecked, losses all sense of moderation and proportion


    33. fundamental to Christian Theology; otherwise, we would all be left with an uncertain notion that everything that is good, decent and worth pursuing is the arbitrary by-product of good intentions rooted in customs and manners rather than inspired by the Word of God


    34. Dawn stood rooted to the spot, unable to move, watching the waves break along the shore


    35. It does not permit unselfish feelings or affections because such ―designs‖ are perceived as being deeply rooted (or motivated) in the individual (alone)


    36. ‖ Our unwillingness to reconsider them as they actual are rather than how they appear to be by testing our (presumptive) assumptions is rooted in intellectual arrogance or fear which are hard to overcome


    37. But Broshee, too shocked to move, stood rooted to the spot, her heart thumping in her chest


    38. The phenomenon of public opinion, or its volatility, I should say, is rooted, in part, in the (composite) uncertainties of a society‘s moral, spiritual and intellectual positions that are often unclear, if not incomprehensible to individuals who have never been properly instructed to learn or to think critically about what they have learned or make proper sense out of what they have learned; whose


    39. Evelyn was rooted to the spot, and still looking at the floor she moved her head to look at him and then she nodded


    40. I agree that these predators should be summarily rooted out, defrocked and thrown in the can for good measure

    41. I stood rooted to the spot next to Dena while Dr Preston moved over to the machines


    42. Homes are populated by ‖ghosts‖ who are not specters in any ordinary sense of the word however haunting impressions firmly rooted in our memories


    43. In retrospect, the Vietnam Syndrome is no more or no less a symptom rooted in an ideological disease that has gradually blended into the American mindset


    44. For that reason, we resumed our travel towards Ponferrada to attend the very deeply rooted festivities of the Assumption and of San Roque in Fuentesnuevas


    45. Then he kept pulling the trigger, rooted to the spot as the huge monster waved its body over him


    46. The tingling was rooted in his feet and pulsed upward through his legs and into his crotch


    47. It seemed impossible that it could be so, though everyone seemed to stop in his tracks as if he had been rooted there


    48. The reason is that ideas and notions like these are deeply rooted and established since childhood


    49. Creator, the Sustainer and the Destroyer are ultimately rooted in the


    50. of this bond we have so far studied are firmly and deeply rooted in













































    1. could hear nothing buzzing, nothing rooting, nothing snuffling


    2. walls, but the soldiers marched on, rooting these potential assassins


    3. I left the Aussie rooting stories and moved to Ish


    4. Nathaniel was rooting through the boxes when he heard something


    5. I saw my kinsmen rooting in the dirt


    6. He had been tasked with overseeing the rooting out of such persons in Markarth


    7. Raven knew he should be supporting Carter, knew he should respect that strength and courage, but no matter how hard he tried, he found himself rooting for Millicent


    8. Setting off again across the hot shale, tripping on the occasional clump of cat grass that crept across the ground in search of moisture, rooting where it could, the adventurers moved onward


    9. He would be rooting for the Leafs for all of eternity, and hanging onto his own set of core values


    10. She had been rooting through their parents’ closet, trying to see if they had already bought Manda’s birthday presents

    11. “It matters to me,” he said, touching her face, rooting her in place with his gaze


    12. The drilling and inserting took around 8 hours they all expected the sniffer to be rooting around finding cells amongst the decaying 2500 year old teeth for hours


    13. The huge shadow finished rooting the moist, peaty soil at the edge of the palmetto flat and vapidly headed back to the cool depths of the hammock to lie up during the intense heat of the day


    14. His efforts at rooting and lifting were more frenzy than purpose


    15. “Sisters and Brothers, as you know, Tabitha has been instrumental in rooting out spies and traitors in our midst


    16. And don’t forget the crowd: bettors enthusiastically rooting for the horse of their pick, exhorting the jockey to “make his move” that will guarantee victory


    17. It was a time Mitchell cherished, everyone in one room rooting on their favorite team, with happiness abound


    18. Thirty five years later, still rooting for our team


    19. He was rooting through his refrigerator hoping for anything edible


    20. In a way, she was rooting for the rebels

    21. “I got excited about the game and was jumping around on the bed rooting for my favorite team, that’s all


    22. Rooting for the Patriots of course, Blake had changed the Eagles theme song


    23. to be that she would bother rooting around beneath his robes later on


    24. When you are rooting the cuttings or growing the seeds for transplanting outdoor, then the jiffy peat cups and seedling starter kits become available in the indoor gardening supplies


    25. Its constant rooting with its snout also caused it to be seen as a guardian of the underworld


    26. An armadillo came close, rooting and snorting


    27. This feeling, now, that belt of magnetic electricity which leaps out to stay in contact with you wherever you are, that mind that feels like we are sharing a global consciousness rooting in the sky our hilarity makes, that glow that never leaves but only sweetens to the peace of a child quietly suckling insight, that body mirroring where my entire electric charge is connecting, sharing, amplifying yours – I feel always upon me the lifeprint of your ecstatic force


    28. ’ Father’s head popped up from behind his chair, where he was rooting through piles of papers and old sketchbooks


    29. “What number we rooting for this time?” He squeezed his large hands into a pair of black, latex gloves and poured several capfuls of ink


    30. While the two men rushed out to play hero, Mary and McGuire found themselves distracted by Caesar, who was rooting around behind the bar

    31. Williams turned and began rooting around in the back of the van


    32. While like the rest of the nation I’m rooting for that gold medal


    33. Could it be that the spectators are only vicariously living through their athletes and teams? And the spectator’s investment in rooting for someone has nothing to do with that individual’s life or happiness? What can you do with a win? Unless you make money from it: it is worthless


    34. It is rooting for underdog


    35. Just as their fans… all rooting for them at the end of the stadium; are called: hogs… Because of all the pork, all the greed, that Washington politicians are guilty of


    36. The main interest of history is still in finding out who won… and then rooting for them


    37. Becoming so popular that books were actually printed, and bought and sold: just for a chance to read about flouting the hated laws and conventions of these killers… as reading these romantic tales: the lower classes vicariously had a chance to spit in the eyes of their oppressors by rooting for two elite rebels who defied the entire sacredness of the customs of the day


    38. Explain the one-sided fan loyalty of people rooting for years for their favorite team


    39. Fans rooting for different players each year


    40. Rooting for an imaginary abstract symbol of a Greek polis or American city

    41. Dip cuttings that you will plant in soil, in a rooting hormone before you actually plant them


    42. It is a method of rooting and propagating plants


    43. Therefore when the President said (else had his own head quivered on his shoulders), that the good physician of the Republic would deserve better still of the Republic by rooting out an obnoxious family of Aristocrats, and would doubtless feel a sacred glow and joy in making his daughter a widow and her child an orphan, there was wild excitement, patriotic fervour, not a touch of human sympathy


    44. IN THE PREVIOUS 2 PHOTO'S AND THIS ONE THIS DEVELOPS THE SHOULDERS YOU LIFT THEM STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN CONCENTRATE WITH THE MIND POWER TO USE ONLY THE MUSCLES IN EACH EXERCISE THAT IT SUPPOSE TO DEVELOP IN THIS CASE THE SHOULDERS IN OTHER WORDS LIFT THE WAITS WITH THE MUSCLES OF YOUR SHOULDERS AND NOT YOU HANDS STAND AS THE PICTURE KNEES SLIGHTLY BENT AND CONSENT-RATE IN STICKING THE STOMACH IN FOR ISOMETRIC TENSION TO ALSO WORK THE STOMACH IN ALL EXERCISES NOT JUST THIS ONE WHEN I BEGAN TO DO MY FULL WAITS AND EXERCISE IT TOOK ME AROUND 1H I STILL PUSH TO DO THE FULL ROOTING MIND YOU I WAS ALREADY TRAINING FROM 7 YEARS OLD BEFORE I BEGAN WAITS I BEGAN WAITS MUCH LATER IN TIME AROUND 25 YEARS OLD OTHERWISE IT WOULD TAKE ME MUCH LONGER ESTIMATION TIME MY RATING NOW AT 48 YEARS OLD RECORD TIME AROUND 11 MINUTES NOW THAT'S SPEED TRY TO REST IN-BETWEEN SETS WHEN YOU NEED TO EVENTIOLLY REST LESS UNTIL YOU GO FAST AS YOU CAN CONTROLLED TO NO REST AT ALL WORKING THE STAMINA ALSO AT THE SAME TIME AS WAITS AND ISOMETRICS COMBINED TO A FULL WORKOUT AS FOR ME IN ABOUT 11 MINUTES MOST BODY BUILDERS WOULD TAKE AT LEAST 3H TO COMPLETE THIS YOU ALSO DO NOT COUNT REPS YOU DO SO IN THE START YES ABOUT 10 REPS EACH BUT ONES MUSTERED YOU INCREASE IT TO NO COUNT OF REPS UNTIL YOU ARMS OR LEGS DROP DOWN TIED BUT IN RELAXING NOT PAIN AS NO GOOD FEELING PAIN AS IF IT IS NO PAIN AT ALL NO BIG DEAL BUT THIS TAKES MANY YEARS I BEEN TRAINING


    45. She had been rooting for him to win the audition


    46. Normally that would bother me so much I’d go rooting around in my memory, but at the moment I have more pressing issues to deal with


    47. And, says Mr Dixon, if ever he got scent of a cattleraider in Roscommon or the wilds of Connemara or a husbandman in Sligo that was sowing as much as a handful of mustard or a bag of rapeseed out he'd run amok over half the countryside rooting up with his horns whatever was planted and all by lord Harry's orders


    48. might have been hanging up too on the line on exhibition for all hed ever care with the ironmould mark the stupid old bundle burned on them he might think was something else and she never even rendered down the fat I told her and now shes going such as she was on account of her paralysed husband getting worse theres always something wrong with them disease or they have to go under an operation or if its not that its drink and he beats her Ill have to hunt around again for someone every day I get up theres some new thing on sweet God sweet God well when Im stretched out dead in my grave I suppose 111 have some peace I want to get up a minute if Im let wait O Jesus wait yes that thing has come on me yes now wouldnt that afflict you of course all the poking and rooting and ploughing he had up in me now what am I to do Friday Saturday Sunday wouldnt that pester the soul out of a body unless he likes it some men do God knows theres always something wrong with us 5 days every 3 or 4 weeks usual monthly auction isnt it simply sickening that night it came on me like that the one and only time we were in a box that Michael Gunn gave him to see Mrs Kendal and her husband at the Gaiety something he did about insurance for him in Drimmies I was fit to be tied though I wouldnt give in with that gentleman of fashion staring down at me with his glasses and him the other side of me talking about Spinoza and his soul thats dead I suppose millions of years ago I smiled the best I could all in a swamp leaning forward as if I was interested having to sit it out then to the last tag I wont forget that wife of Scarli in a hurry supposed to be a fast play about adultery that idiot in the gallery hissing the woman adulteress he shouted I suppose he went and had a woman in the next lane running round all the back ways after to make up for it I wish he had what I had then hed boo I bet the cat itself is better off than us have we too much blood up in us or what O patience above its pouring out of me like the sea anyhow he didnt make me pregnant as big as he is I dont want to ruin the clean sheets I just put on I suppose the clean linen I wore brought it on too damn it damn it and they always want to see a stain on the bed to know youre a virgin for them all thats troubling them theyre such fools too you could be a widow or divorced 40 times over a daub of red ink would do or blackberry juice no thats too purply O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh sweets of sin whoever suggested that business for women what between clothes and cooking and children this damned old bed too jingling like the dickens I suppose they could hear us away over the other side of the park till I suggested to put the quilt on the floor with the pillow under my bottom I wonder is it nicer in the day I think it is easy I think Ill cut all this hair off me there scalding me I might look like a young girl wouldnt he get the great suckin the next time he turned up my clothes on me Id give anything to see his face wheres the chamber gone easy Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode I wonder was I too heavy sitting on his knee I made him sit on the easychair purposely when I took off only my blouse and skirt first in the other room he was so busy where he oughtnt to be he never felt me I hope my breath was sweet after those kissing comfits easy God I remember one time I could scout it out straight whistling like a man almost easy O Lord how noisy I hope theyre bubbles on it for a wad of money from some fellow 111 have to perfume it in the morning dont forget I bet he never saw a better pair of thighs than that look how white they are the smoothest place is right there between this bit here how soft like a peach easy


    49. He began to sound like he was rooting for the Allies


    50. He walked quite a few back nines, changed his rooting interests from the Sox to the Cubs, and spent whole days just sitting in silence











    1. He went thru the list again, but if he wanted them here, they had roots of their own


    2. For best results, spray your lawn monthly with a liquid seaweed such as Superseaweed or Agri-Gro’s Turf Formula, or with Gardeners Supply’s Roots Plus for Lawns


    3. Pour boiling water on to the leaves, flowers, roots, seeds and place in a cooking pot or container with a lid


    4. Decoction: This is made by simmering the part of the plant (usually roots, twigs and bark) in a nonmetal container, in boiling water, for 1/2 hr or more depending on the material(s) and its use


    5. From the roots


    6. Make an infusion of the leaves or a decoction of the roots


    7. The amount of water used depends on how deep the roots are of the grass you are growing


    8. If there is a drought, it is better, rather than sprinkling lightly, to water twice a week, soaking the soil to a minimum of 4 inches, or not at all, for shallow watering causes roots to spread out near the top where they will be baked by the sun, becoming unable to withstand drought


    9. cause damage to the lawn by leaving yellow or brown patches (roots of lawns are eaten)


    10. Tahlmute stood up and preceded him back up toward the house, but went between the house roots and across his marshaling yard while doostEr stopped at the shop under the roots for his measure and level

    11. When this word roots and


    12. The drive lay broken and twisted, with roots breaking through the once


    13. More importantly he was the only independently elected figure we had in town and I knew he had a strong reputation for local grass roots community work


    14. Even those who move still have links with their traditional roots and maintain these connections in the Moko


    15. When it roots


    16. The glass was embedded in a network of roots instead of lead, the columns of the door were carved in sensuous curves, but the window provided a small alcove that Herndon could back him into


    17. With Byram Hermosa from the shop, he cruised down the narrow canal between the thick roots of towering apartment trees and into the open lake, bound for the Yakhan, determined to cover the fifteen hundred miles in a native week


    18. Hair - long, tangled, dark, hardly showing the dried blood staining it - wafted across the nearside rail, one moment draping the black-grey smoothness with deep brown tendrils, the next flying back whence it came, its roots firmly attached to the scalp that engendered it


    19. Most of the time the banks were a tangle of roots from the trunks leaning way out over the water


    20. Angie has no family here now, her parents having died in an accident, and she is keen to pursue her Errdian roots, and perhaps find family there

    21. And her roots ran deep in the modern age, and intersected with Vyinga's so ancient in her own past


    22. ‘It means a great deal to him that he’s found his roots … family … and he sees you as part of that, Karalintze


    23. They dug the ground with gusto and dined on the roots


    24. The stream fusses on through twisted roots


    25. I admit I sometimes fantasized about older women, but not about women older than the roots of my ancestral civilization


    26. "I wish we had something better than these rocks to mash these roots down on


    27. Settling down has never appealed to me – I have no roots now - I live fast


    28. They found some roots that needed a cook pot so they had to leave them, but they also found plenty of wild thesh


    29. snagging around the roots of peeling plane trees,


    30. Being distracted like that, it was then that I surprised a mystical pomegranate tree, her bold round fruit already ripening amongst long, glossy leaves and she actually tried to trip me amongst her roots, lying like stiffened serpents around her base

    31. Nerves and ligaments of the spine arc subjected to a healthy pull, and the spinal nerve roots and sympathetic system are toned so that this posture beneficially affects the entire organism


    32. The annual village festival would be held in five days time and I just wasn't in the mood but if that wasn't enough, there was a special event in the afternoon of the day after next, an annual occasion usually organised every year by father as a kind of reunion for those born in the villagers and all those who had returned to their roots for the festival


    33. Some had lost their roots


    34. “I guess with the war on I’m ashamed to delve into something that esoteric when we should be looking for the roots of that doomsday device


    35. ' He was pointing to a trickle of muddy water leaking from between two boulders into a mossy puddle moistening the roots of a self-conscious adolescent pine tree


    36. Higher, yes at the roots


    37. This is a tale with roots that run deep into the


    38. expression, but with its roots in the common


    39. A certain one-finger salute must have very ancient roots, especially when done under the guise of scratching one’s ear


    40. shallow roots falling into decline as the breath of winter touched

    41. Jorma thought he was probably afraid Venna would tear his out by the roots if she had another chance at him, Venna agreed that was a likely assessment


    42. tree roots and sharp jagged rocks, threatening to grab his feet from underneath him


    43. They stayed a while longer, but what they talked of had even less to do with finding her roots and more to do with the yaag he made


    44. The main trunks were at least thirty feet thick, the lumps in the bark on the coils of it’s roots were big enough to sit on


    45. Cut stone steps went up a whole story between the massive intertwined roots, the blocks had grown in a century ago and had to be periodically chopped clear


    46. ‘What will it do to them?’ she asked, perching on the bench near where he is working, watching as he scrapes the surface off the roots, revealing a white, tasty looking root beneath – much like a parsnip


    47. Petr tried to scamper away but got stuck in the roots


    48. Belle had taken Tania and Poly on a walk to gather certain plants and roots to restock her pantry and medicines chest


    49. very roots of the hairs that cover your body to feel


    50. He couldn’t see her, the brush of branches and roots effectively blocking his view of the top of the cliff














































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    Synonyms for "root"

    root base radical root word stem theme etymon solution beginning origin rootage source ancestor antecedent ascendant ascendent settle settle down steady down take root rootle rout basis footing cause motive grounds reason root-stock tuber bulb rootlet

    "root" definitions

    (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground


    the place where something begins, where it springs into being


    (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed


    a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number


    the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation


    someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)


    a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes


    the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair


    take root and begin to grow


    come into existence, originate


    cheer for


    plant by the roots


    dig with the snout


    become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style


    cause to take roots