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  • I understand cedar's attention span no longer extends to the bottom of the page, but consider the title of Ann's post: Buy American.

    "Buy American. I Am." Ann Althouse 2008

  • The memory-of the storm and my refuge among the red cedar's roots, the skull buried with the stone-and the dream; the light on the mountain and the man with his face painted black-making no distinction between them.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The wind that was rolling up to check a show of sunshine had taken away the cedar's dignity of solid blue shade, had set the black firs beating their arms together, and had filled the sky with glaring gray clouds that dimmed the brilliance of the crocuses.

    The Return of the Soldier 1918

  • She sat down just outside the doorway of the cave, hat, gauntlets, glasses and camera at her side, her knees clasped in her hands and stared away through the cedar's intricate, rustling needles and across the tops of the forest sweeping away from the cliffs across the verdant miles, and day dreamed.

    The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912

  • This incident of the cedar's breaking up was actually so unimportant, and yet her husband's attitude towards it made it so significant.

    The Man Whom the Trees Loved Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • He does not build a house, because a den under a cedar's roots is as safe and warm.

    Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909

  • The vapid talk at dinner, poor little Mrs. Porcher's misplaced advances -- the fact of which it appeared to him equally idle to deny and fatuous to admit -- the dreary scene with his unhappy fellow-lodger, the good deed done which just now appeared fruitless -- all these contributed to make the complaint of the exiled cedar's tormented branches an echo of the complaint of his own heart.

    The Far Horizon Lucas Malet 1891

  • He dwells in "the cedar's top" and "dallies with the wind and scorns the sun."

    Shadows of the Stage William Winter 1876

  • And the strong and subtle river, rippling at the cedar's foot,

    Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. Edwin Arnold 1868

  • The green lawn sloping to the shore, and the dark cedar's storeys of flattened foliage, tier above tier; the green osiers of two eyots: the light-leaved aspen; the tall elms, fresh and green; and the green hawthorn bushes give their colour to the water, smooth as if polished, in which they are reflected.

    Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867

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