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  • After all, snow (and the blizzard-transformed alpine landscape) is as much a character in this novella as are its ostensible protagonists, a brother and sister who lose their way in a Christmas-eve storm.

    Previews 2009

  • “Fire!” yelled a wag in the surging crowd that was gathering to celebrate a southern Christmas-eve; all laughed and ran.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • After all, snow (and the blizzard-transformed alpine landscape) is as much a character in this novella as are its ostensible protagonists, a brother and sister who lose their way in a Christmas-eve storm.

    A Different Stripe: 2008

  • After all, snow (and the blizzard-transformed alpine landscape) is as much a character in this novella as are its ostensible protagonists, a brother and sister who lose their way in a Christmas-eve storm.

    Oh, the weather outside is frightful... 2008

  • In the context of this story, why did you not mention the American Christmas-eve drone strikes sanctioned by the Yemen government at Al Qaeda in Yemen?

    New year brings new threats in war on terror 2010

  • On a cold and starry Christmas-eve within living memory a man was passing up a lane towards Mellstock Cross in the darkness of a plantation that whispered thus distinctively to his intelligence.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • Poor Dick was astonished: he had never seen her look so distractingly beautiful before, save on Christmas-eve, when her hair was in the same luxuriant condition of freedom.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • That battle of the mistletoe had been fought on the morning before Christmas-day, and the Holmeses came on Christmas-eve.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • This is a snug little harbour, not far from Cape Horn; and here, at Christmas-eve, we anchored in smooth water.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

  • This is a snug little harbour, not far from Cape Horn; and here, at Christmas-eve, we anchored in smooth water.

    Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

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