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The liberty epitomized by the clear-flowing Blackfoot River gives hope to Hawaii residents facing their final days.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Hawaii: The Latest State Where Doctors Can Provide Aid in Dying Barbara Coombs Lee 2011
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For example, clear-flowing rivers of the Canadian Shield have higher biodiversity at lower trophic levels (e.g., invertebrates) than very turbid rivers of the lowlands of Siberia and the Interior Plain of Canada [32].
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High-gradient, clear-flowing streams in entrenched valley meanders are also common.
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None strayed farther than an arm's length from his favored sword or bow except when they went, in shifts, to wash themselves in a clear-flowing branch of the river; even then some stood guard while others dunked and splashed.
Spirit Gate 2006
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All down by the banks of some clear-flowing stream
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To a man, they loved the wild life, the scenery, the game, the swift and clear-flowing streams, the untouched prairie and forest, the flowers and trees, the birds, the opportunity to ride across an unfenced country.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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To a man, they loved the wild life, the scenery, the game, the swift and clear-flowing streams, the untouched prairie and forest, the flowers and trees, the birds, the opportunity to ride across an unfenced country.
Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000
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So the two men walked off together, up the banks of the clear-flowing Reuss, and Mr Palliser felt the comfort of having a companion.
Can You Forgive Her? 1993
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It will soon comb itself with the fingers of the west wind -- that tent-like tree its toilette -- its mirror that pool of the clear-flowing Tweed.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 Various
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How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mud-swamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river, there it runs and flows; -- draining off the sour festering water gradually from the root of the remotest glass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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