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It is typically used to refer to a small island in a river or lake, often in a historical or geographical context. Example: "The village was situated on a holm, surrounded by the tranquil waters of the lake." Alternatives include "islet" or "small island."
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The holly.
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Wind cross-hatched its long grasses to gleaming filigree as I climbed through scattered holm oak and Corsican pine to the ridge.
Once he allowed a rambler rose to get so out of hand that it killed two holm oaks and made a gap in a hedge; but Mr Lloyd so liked what he saw through the gap, the twisted trunk of a crab-apple tree framed in ilex leaves, that he made a feature of it, underplanting the crab for good measure with bright yellow Epimedium pinnatum.Certain flowers he loved especially.
In the south the Alentejo still has extensive matorral and charneca, uncultivated land dominated by cistus or groves of cork oak, often managed in estates, and holm oak.
From such records, one can track the course of the Laki cloud literally day by day (see map).On June 10th wrote Sæmundur Magnusson Holm at the University of Copenhagen, falling ash coloured black the deck and sails of ships travelling to Denmark.
Freedom of bodily expression should come before the feelings of prudes.Filip Holm Svendborg, Denmark SIR – Bagehot's dismissal of Benny Hill's comedy as "puerile" is a shameful misreading of a nuanced master of the form.
At the same time in Germany, Mary Wigman, Hanya Holm, and others were also establishing comparably formal and expressionist styles.
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Bernard Ashley, author of Dead End Kids and Johnnie's Blitz My favourite, in order, are: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, I Am David by Anne Holm, Carrie's War by Nina Bawden, The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier.
The sentimental comedy Come to the Stable (1949), adapted from a Clare Boothe Luce story, cast Young and Celeste Holm as transplanted French nuns trying to raise money for a children's hospital in the New England town of Bethlehem.
The gaps in the southeast coast were filled in by naval expeditions under L.A. Mourier (1879), Gustav Holm (1883 and 1885), and C.H. Ryder (1891 92), and the rest by Lieutenant G.C. Amdrup in the Antarctica (1898 1900), the duke d'Orléans in the Belgica (1905), and Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen in the Danmark (1906 08).
Bette Davis played an aging theatre star who befriends an aspiring actress (Anne Baxter), only to discover that the young woman ruthlessly manipulates those around her. Others in the cast included George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe, and Thelma Ritter.
She remained undefeated until 2015, when she suffered an upset loss to countrywoman Holly Holm in UFC 193.
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