• Her coffin, topped with red and white flowers, arrived at the church as people stood in silence.

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  • Healthy Arabica plants grow 10-12 feet tall and have dark-green leaves, white flowers and red or purple beans.

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  • Abramson, who is fifty-seven, wore a white dress and a black cardigan with white flowers and red trim.

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  • It is recognisable from its broad, shiny leaves, white flowers and, above all, its fruits that resemble small pomegranates.

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  • The nine coffins were unloaded during a brief ceremony and bouquets of white flowers were laid on top of them.

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  • Blue-and-white flowers -- his school colors -- adorned his casket, and photos of Shaw over the years were displayed at the service.

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  • The odor of the hospital was so unforgiving that every so often she would bring the cloud of white flowers to her nose.

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  • After that first lunch at the Blairs' house, which had been decorated by Billy Baldwin, Romualdez sent over a veritable "coffin" of white flowers.

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  • As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.

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  • Emilio Malave, 49, a retired New York City police officer, drove to Lower Manhattan from the Bronx with a bouquet of white flowers in hand.

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  • Ms. Savage used pictures of the Hameau to redesign her backyard, adding a grill and seating area as well as delicate white flowers to complement the pool.

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  • In my yard I grow a type of bearded irises called 'Eternity, ' which puts out violet-scented white flowers not just in spring, like most irises, but again in the fall.

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  • The couple laid a wreath of white flowers at a new marble memorial to the 40 passengers and crew of the lost plane, before moving on to the Pentagon, outside Washington DC, where another wreath was laid.

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  • The field had been awash with May sunshine when they set out after lunch, their schoolmates returning to classes while they, buoyant in their truancy, gathered nameless blue and white flowers that they later scattered carelessly near the dock.

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  • Mourners placed yellow and white silk flowers at a quake memorial, sang the national anthem and a white jade carving of a clock that stopped at 2:28, when the temblor hit, with the date underneath, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

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  • Meanwhile, Ulupinar -- whose wife runs a cemetery garden business -- says the idea came to him after noticing a mix of Schalke pennants, flags, season tickets, player photos and blue-and-white flowers were already decorating hundreds of gravestones in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.

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  • But flowers are something the White House probably won't be sending Starr.

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  • Each April, the ornamental gardens that replaced the old moat produce yellow and white spring flowers a carpet fit for the burial of a king.

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  • Her offerings include a plum-colored halter dress covered in satin flowers, a more tailored dress in black wool with more sharply cut flowers, and a white sheer man-tailored shirt paired with black evening shorts and a full-cut long black coat.

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  • As the hearses came to a halt, relatives placed dozens of red, white and blue flowers on top of the vehicles and comforted each other.

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  • Almost ready for harvest, they hold threadlike, resin-frosted pot flowers, rust-and-white "buds" thickening in a base of green-and-purple leaves.

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  • Many laid bouquets of flowers at the foot of a white mailbox still standing in front of the rubble, still smelling of burnt wood.

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  • The thief also stole cash and a debit card, a tan purse, a small square white cigarette box decorated with flowers, and a lighter.

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  • Professor Cathie Martin from John Innes Centre in Norwich said red and striped flowers were visited significantly more frequently than white or pink blooms.

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  • But this Saturday, we all later agreed, was the first day of summer: the smell of plowed fields and first-cut grass, the river flushed by rains, its banks covered with ferns and May apples and early wild flowers, dame's rocket and white trillium.

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  • Table settings included Colonial-style silverware and, for a contrasting sense of playfulness, loose bouquets of American flowers, reminiscent of the prairie white garden roses, blue hydrangea, star-shaped tweedia, thistle.

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  • Add poetry to sundown and evening outdoor cocktails and dinners by including white, pale lilac and pale blue flowers throughout your garden.

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  • The still life depicts a blue-and-white vase holding a tight bouquet of yellow flowers atop a tablecloth of deep blue and pink.

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  • "I thought that this was my national duty, " said Masih, who was wearing a white and red turban and had garlands of flowers around his neck.

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  • The best TV shot mixing glam and government reform was of a grizzled Japanese rock star with flowing white hair and out-sized sunglasses handing flowers to her at a committee hearing, swooning in adulation over a clearly embarrassed Renho.

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