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• We followed the route from "Riviere du Loup" overland by stage, or rather in sleighs, for the ground was already covered with snow, and the steamers had stopped running for the season, upon the beautiful picturesque St. John's River; and our way lay through a cheerless and sparsely populated country for nearly the whole distance. —  The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
• Bruce immediately contrived the means of his escape; and as the ground was at that time covered with snow, he had the precaution, it is said, to order his horses to be shod with their shoes inverted, that he might deceive those who should track his path over the open fields or cross roads, through which he purposed to travel. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III.
• They camped at night beneath the firs (for the ground is always dry under a fir), where a fire is easily built. —  The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
• He had told the carrier that he would have no trouble with it, and to discover that he had not boasted he slid down the rock, and, putting his shoulder to it, found he could move it, for the ground was aslant, and if he were to remove some rubble the stone would itself roll into the entrance of the tomb. —  The Brook Kerith A Syrian story
• When the truth of the gospel begins to appear then the great enemy, Satan, sows his tares, for the ground is then broken up Robert Davis' debates at the schoolhouse, his confession, and his private conversations on the Scriptures, were like rays of light shooting through the rifts in the clouds of the sky. —  Around Old Bethany A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary Davis

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