large cane
Americannoun
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“The situation in some areas, as in northern Sao Paulo, is critical. I don’t remember seeing such a prolonged dry weather,” Vitor Campanelli, a large cane farmer and supplier to French group Tereos in Brazil, said.
From Reuters
In January, Badawi was taken in handcuffs and shackles to a square outside a mosque in Jidda, where a first round of 50 lashes were administered with a large cane, according to the London-based rights group Amnesty International.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s no detectable air conditioning, and while I stagger in from the street puce of face and clammy of brow, Stone, as befits a pampered scion of Hollywood, is sitting calmly in a breeze that wafts through the window, peering around the wing of a large cane armchair.
From The Guardian
A crowd gathered as a security officer approached from behind and started to beat Badawi with a large cane, according to an unidentified witness quoted by the London-based rights group Amnesty International.
From Los Angeles Times
These negresses lived on another plantation about four miles away, but a short cut led across a large cane brake.
From Project Gutenberg
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