pine-needle

• Every little pine-needle expanded and swelled with sympathy, and befriended me. —  The Quest of the Simple Life
• He twisted and slid off the rock onto the pine-needle carpet. —  The Order War
• To the north where the storms came from, I could view from the windows in the minister's study a line of tall, thick-trunked evergreen trees and, as though I were on a moving train, catch glimpses of a crumbling wall and some of its fallen stones lying on the pine-needle-strewn ground. —  Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
• As Brill pondered her words, she cut and ate several more slices of melon and even had another sip of the pine-needle tea. —  The Soprano Sorceress
• From that moment she knew what she and Dieter must do, and next day she asked her husband to cut her a heavy walking stick from a sapling, and using this to knock aside brush, she explored the entire plateau until she found an almost perfect spot: sloping land that could be converted into a German-type wooded area with pine-needle base, cliff to protect the area from below, broad vista to delight the eye, and most important, tall, stout trees to give shade. —  Space

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