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Unlike the hazel catkins nearby, which release wind-wafted puffs of lemon pollen when I touch them, the alder's seems altogether meaner.
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The alder's purple buds and dripping gold of catkins, the red knobs on larches, the sticky, brown chestnut-buds, the green buds of the sycamore, are all brilliant and warm with sleeping summer.
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In grassy hollows late dandelions starred the green with gold, the red alder's scarlet berries flamed along the road-side thickets; beyond, against the sky, acres of dead mullein stalks stood guard above the hollow scrub.
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Receding up the eastern slope of the coombe the sunlight left the dark alder's foliage in the deep shadow of the hollow.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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We've seen several articles about ward 1's candidates, and there never seems to be any outrage or problems with the fact that new haven have gift wrapped and alder's spot - an actual lawmaking, decision making post - exclusively to a yale student. the ward has been drawn specifically to NOT include any non-yale citizens of our town.
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"I believe it is the Ward 1 alder's responsibility to embrace Yale's broad vision of the Yale-New Haven partnership."
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