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  • He learned where the wild deer, in their season, were to be found; when they raided the prune-orchard, the vineyards, and the apple-trees; when they sought the deepest canyons and most secret coverts; and when they stamped out in open glades and on bare hillsides and crashed and clattered their antlers together in combat.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • His land was undeniable, his rentals steady; excellent plantations had been made; the tenants paid for repairs, rates, and taxes; the apple-trees were thirty-eight years old; and, to crown all, his father was in treaty for two hundred acres of woodland just outside the paternal park, which he intended to enclose with walls.

    The Deserted Woman 2007

  • It seems simple; but at the root of all apple-trees and apple-growing, it is really as simple as that.

    G.K. Speaks - Reflections on a Rotten Apple 2007

  • It seems simple; but at the root of all apple-trees and apple-growing, it is really as simple as that.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

  • The nests here were placed in the tops of mangrovetrees, which were about the size and shape of large apple-trees.

    History of Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge 2007

  • On each side of the latticed gate stretched the crooked arms of two stunted apple-trees.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • His land was undeniable, his rentals steady; excellent plantations had been made; the tenants paid for repairs, rates, and taxes; the apple-trees were thirty-eight years old; and, to crown all, his father was in treaty for two hundred acres of woodland just outside the paternal park, which he intended to enclose with walls.

    The Deserted Woman 2007

  • Mr. Forrest told me that his house was near, and, from the appearance of the country, I expected to come upon a log cabin; but we turned into a field, and drove under some very fine apple-trees to a house the very perfection of elegance and comfort.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • The bread-tree is taller and more bulky than our common apple-trees; its leaves are black, its fruit is yellow, and equal in dimensions to the largest apple.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Wherever apple-trees were planted they seemed to flourish, and the size and flavour of their fruit evidences a short, hot summer.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

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