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  • A path led through the center of the brush-pile, but it was narrow for the horses

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • The nest rested among the top limbs of a little brush-pile and was just two feet above the ground.

    The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

  • With a final sprint Jack reached the cover of the woods in safety, darted to the brush-pile and recovered his camera, and on, straight through the trees for the spot at which he had hidden his wheel.

    The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

  • A flicker of light broke out below which was not a lantern, and approached the dimly disclosed brush-pile.

    The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs

  • That was right behind him at the very edge of the old brush-pile, and every hair on Peter stood on end with fright.

    The Adventures of Paddy Beaver Harrison [Illustrator] Cody 1919

  • Claire had never expected to be so very intimate with a brush-pile.

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Nelly on the brush-pile, her hat in her hand, whirling to return, supple and swift, suddenly caught by the heel and flung headlong ... up again in an instant, and falling again, to her knees this time.

    The Brimming Cup Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • You seemed to have a notion that that was the only girl on God's green brush-pile.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • Cottontails hopped to the south side of the pond and, choosing a brush-pile, they crept under and snuggled down for the night, facing the wind but with their noses in different directions so as to go out different ways in case of alarm.

    Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • At the first onset he struck the squirrel square on the end of the nose, his weakest spot, and sent him reeling; he staggered and wriggled into a brush-pile, where he had expected to carry the little grouse, and there lay gasping with red drops trickling down his wicked snout.

    Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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