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He's not sure what an arbutus is, exactly, or where he ever heard the song, but the line spins and spins.— The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
After this we skirted a thicket of arbutus, and came upon the long volcanic ridge, with divinest outlook over Procida and Miseno toward Vesuvius.— New Italian sketches
He would not tell how that same delicate and brilliant atmosphere freshened up the pale olive, until the olive forgot its monotony, and its cheek glowed like the arbutus or beech of the Umbrian Hills.— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
I have many friends, many new ones, many dear ones, but there is only one Mother Bab The man's hands trembled among the arbutus--did the admiration touch Mother Bab's son?— Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
The dead lay where they fell in Barton's Woods, where the arbutus was in bloom and the purple violets The 21st swept forward.— The Long Roll

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