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  • The quaint rural village is hardly Mr. Woodrell's turf; his Ozark landscape evokes Sophocles' bloody highway, Lear's blasted heath, Faulkner's burned-down barn.

    And Then There Were Ten Tom Nolan 2011

  • The street looked like a cemetery: a few burned-down homes and every other house had a vacant lot next to it.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • At the Hotel La Fenice et des Artistes, beside the burned-down opera house, I checked into the honeymoon suite.

    My Perfect Honeymoon (That I Spent Alone) Jennifer Belle 2011

  • He'd have to sow the burned-down Sweden with salt.

    Around the World brian warfield 2011

  • The street looked like a cemetery: a few burned-down homes and every other house had a vacant lot next to it.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • Recently I met and spoke with a few members of the opposition, including members of the National Democratic Action Committee, whom I interviewed in their recently burned-down headquarters.

    The Bahraini Experiment Marian L. Tupy 2011

  • King showed a picture of burned-down trees after the fires of 1988 and a picture of a "thriving area now" in the park.

    Charles Warner: CNN's John King Panders to Deniers 2010

  • She had left his body at their burned-down house in southern Kyrgyzstan while fleeing ethnic riots that reduced much of a major city to ruins.

    100,000 Uzbek Refugees Flee Deadly Chaos, Bound For Border 2010

  • King showed a picture of burned-down trees after the fires of 1988 and a picture of a "thriving area now" in the park.

    Charles Warner: CNN's John King Panders to Deniers 2010

  • King showed a picture of burned-down trees after the fires of 1988 and a picture of a "thriving area now" in the park.

    Charles Warner: CNN's John King Panders to Deniers 2010

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