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Half-way here we camped at a river, now only a series of mud holes, and I fell asleep under the imperfect shade of a cotton-wood tree, dreading the thought of waking and jolting painfully along over the dusty prairie in the dust-laden, fierce sirocco, under the ferocious sun.
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It stood close to the water among some cotton-wood trees.
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A stream fringed with cotton-wood runs through the park; low ranges come down upon it.
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We saw quantities of young cotton-wood and aspen trees, with stems about as thick as my arm, lying where these industrious creatures have felled them ready for their use.
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The shallow Platte, shriveled into a narrow stream with a shingly bed six times too large for it, and fringed by shriveled cotton-wood, wound along by Denver, and two miles up its course I saw a great sandstorm, which in a few minutes covered the city, blotting it out with a dense brown cloud.
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There is, first, this beautiful hill-girdled valley of fair savannas, through which the bright St. Vrain curves in and out amidst a tangle of cotton-wood and withered clematis and Virginia creeper, which two months ago made the valley gay with their scarlet and gold.
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The soil was thickly studded with cocoa-nut, papaw, and cotton-wood trees, above which the balloon seemed to disport itself like a bird.
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About ninety lodges were scattered irregularly along the banks of a small stream, well-shaded with cotton-wood just budding into green.
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An Indian lament over the death of a warrior arrested our attention, and mingling with the plaintive cry of the "Whip-poor-will," in the ghostly branches of the cotton-wood near by, lent a melancholy tone to the close of the day.
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The trees thinned a little, and changed from cotton-wood to low alder and silver-green bushy things with dark berries the Druid said were good to eat.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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