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  • Upturned chairs and musical instruments were scattered under an outdoor tent where the party had been taking place.

    Gunmen Kill 17 in Mexico 2010

  • Upturned nose, freckles, a classic Little House on the Prairie face.

    Break No Bones Reichs, Kathy 2006

  • Upturned earth stretching as far as the eye can see.

    CNN Transcript Jan 7, 2005 2005

  • Upturned eyes, painted with a laugh, emitting a radience that doesnt exist.

    delicategirl Diary Entry delicategirl 2003

  • Upturned roots bled mud and worms as it crashed to the ground.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • Upturned barges, black with men clinging to them, were dashed against each other, rolling over and over to be lost in the spray or flung onto the mudbanks; for the first time above the din of the firing I could hear human sounds, the shrieks of wounded and drowning men.

    Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

  • Upturned shakos full of cartridges lay beside the men at the firing positions.

    Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

  • (Virgin Soil Upturned), 1932 and 1959, deals in part with the collectivization of the Don area.

    Mikhail Sholokhov - Biography 1965

  • Sholokhov's more recent work, for example, Podnyataya tselina, 1932 and 1959 (Virgin Soil Upturned) - a novel describing compulsory collectivization and the introduction of kolkhozy - has a vitality that never flags and shows us

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1965 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • The Soil Upturned/translated by Stephen Garry; edited by

    Mikhail Sholokhov - Bibliography 1965

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