She presented him with a mate gourd and straw for drinking traditional Argentine tea.

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The instrument has calabash gourd resonators of varying sizes, arranged beneath the frame proportionally to the keys.

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The baobab fruit or pod basically resembles an oval gourd, or a slim downed version of a watermelon.

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But Li accepted his new appearance, and Laozi rewarded him with an unbreakable staff and a gourd of healing potion.

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"I entered the match green as a gourd, " he says.

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Two wooden blocks, as any toddler knows, work fine as a percussion instrument, and give any Neanderthal half a gourd and a bit of animal skin and you've got a proto-Ringo.

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Likewise, when the men take a pinch of coca and ground seashell, which they prepare in a poporo gourd, it represents the balance of female (the gourd) and the male (the chewer).

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But the hapless pasha was decapitated, his severed head being duly placed in a gourd full of honey and exposed at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, after he was implicated in a plot to overthrow the sultan.

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The designer's modern, minimal creations furnish the narrow, two-storey cafe, and a few of his works are also on sale, including a ceramic coffee roaster shaped like a gourd that works on an ordinary gas range, should you be inspired to brew your own perfect cup.

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Liz would ride her bike up and down the driveway, waiting for her father to call her, to tell her to come quick, to come see the misshapen gourd, or the earthworm, or the potato bug before it got too dark, and she would, before it went black as pitch.

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