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The pathway ends at a circle, where an American sweet-gum is planted and three larger slabs of blue granite stand.
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On a recent Saturday morning, as he leads 25 parents and schoolchildren along a street next to Taipei's Ta-An Forest Park, Jerome Su stops before a flowering sweet-gum tree.
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Later he came on a grey-headed man sitting in the shade of a sweet-gum tree.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Later he came on a grey-headed man sitting in the shade of a sweet-gum tree.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Our road wandered in and out among the prostrate victims of many a summer tempest: now we were winding around dark "bays" of sweet-gum and magnolia; now skirting circular ponds of delicate young cypress; now crossing narrow
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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The sweet-gum leaves looked like blood-colored stars as they floated slowly to the ground, and brown chestnuts gleamed satin-like through their gaping burs; while over all there rested a dense stillness, cut now and then by the sharp yelp of a dog as he scurried through the bushes after a rabbit.
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I had been in the woods getting sweet-gum when I seen him.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration
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As we walk up from the station through, first a wood of water-oak, sweet-gum and hickory, then an open glade with scattering persimmon trees upon it, and lastly, a fine park of postoaks draped with Spanish moss, we approach the old southern "Mansion," which was the only building of any account upon the ground when the Association purchased it in 1869, and which is still the handsomest one.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888 Various
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Black-haw root, sour dock, bear grass, grape root, bull nettle, sweet-gum bark and red-oak bark boiled separately and mixed, makes a good blood medicine.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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North-American forests; for, while the plane-tree and the liquidambar - (sweet-gum) tree sometimes measure more in diameter near the ground, they are usually hollow, and consequently bulged there, while the tulip springs boldly out of the ground a solid shaft of clear, clean, and sweetly-fragrant wood, sixty or seventy feet of the bole being often entirely without limbs, with an average diameter of from three to five feet.
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