woods

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My neck of the woods is the woods, there's nothing out here.

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  • He worshipped, as he often said, the Great Spirit—for the woods were his books and his temple; and the creed of the red men naturally became his. —  The First White Man of the West
  • But in this case the thing out in the woods is also a celebrity, particularly for the children of baby boomers who grew up fearing Bigfoot, the go-to bogeyman of the 1970s. —  Unexplained Mysteries
  • Yes, lying to her and leaving her in the woods was a little excessive but so is the possibility of her dying on her birthday because of a drop of her blood —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • My neck of the woods is the woods, there's nothing out here. —  dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan
  • Also out in my neck of the woods are a family who will not have their kids vaccinated against common childhood diseases because of their fear of the little precious snowflakes being poisoned by the vaccines, despite almost no evidence indicating such is any sort of common occurrence. —  mgk: Machine Gun Keyboard
 

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