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Meanings of noxious weeds in English

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Usage of noxious weeds in English
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From this rank soil of secrecy, repression, and unveracity sprang noxious weeds.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
2
Such things as anger, sloth, lying and cheating, are noxious weeds.
The Pearl Box / Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for You...
3
Heresies, like noxious weeds, grow without cultivation, and thrive best on barren soil.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
4
It's good to see farmers and local authorities ignoring that namby-pamby noxious weeds legislation.
The Irish Times
5
They were as a few fragrant flowers amidst a dense accumulation of noxious weeds.
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
6
Can the thistle produce grapes, or the noxious weeds corn?
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
7
They grow here as noxious weeds in a hot-bed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 / A Magazi...
8
Fair and even beautiful outcroppings are sometimes indications of noxious weeds hidden below the surface.
Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
9
Some have a bad atmosphere, like the rank poisonous odor of noxious weeds, breeding malaria.
Friendship
10
I can cultivate a field free of all its noxious weeds and touch never a food-plant.
Blind Man's Lantern
11
Are you killing the noxious weeds, young chap?
Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual / Issued for the ...
12
Cobb, too, was more or less a victim to his mother's zeal for uprooting noxious weeds.
The Jamesons
13
Many houses would be deserted, and fields became 'over-run with briars, nettles, and other noxious weeds.'
Yorkshire
14
As a result, our hard-working park rangers have fewer resources to fight feral animals and noxious weeds.
The Guardian
15
Allowed to lie waste, the product will be only noxious weeds and vicious growths of all kinds.
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
16
The modest violet may exhale its fragrance through an overgrowth of noxious weeds-andhumanity bears out the simile.
Bucholz and the Detectives
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