Example sentences for: heath

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  • Each of the sixty-two Heath Robinsons—Rube Goldbergs to you Americans—here illustrated conceals a miniature harmonica (diatonic and with the range of a full octave).

  • Though there are three other (two very rare) relatives of heath in Scotland and two very local heaths found mainly in Dorset and Cornwall, the overall picture for the common experience in Gaeldom is one heather and two heaths in Scotland, and one heather and four (or possibly five) heaths in Ireland.

  • On the unraveling of the Ressam case, see Bernton, Carter, Heath and Neff, "The Terrorist Within," June 23-July 7, 2002 (part 15,"Puzzle Pieces").

  • In southern England it is heath (also giving heathens , it appears, for those who lived there).

  • In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.


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