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Examples
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They must have had to dig the grave, for I waited near the road in a clump of cherry-trees, with my feet in two inches of mud and water, till I felt chilled to the bone.
Greenmantle 2005
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In that isle groweth mastick on small trees, and out of them cometh gum as it were of plum-trees or of cherry-trees.
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The trees between the walks were all cherry-trees — old standard trees of a variety of sorts; but they all bore fruit of some description or another, some sweet and some bitter; some large, some small, and some perfectly diminutive; some black, some red, and some white.
La Vend�e 2004
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He was kind to every one, and, unless the birds were disturbed, the cherry-trees injured, or the figures upset, he was never angry even with a servant.
La Vend�e 2004
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And as soon as it was in sight he was to climb up all the cherry-trees and sprinkle the ashes on them, and they would soon blossom as they had never blossomed before.
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The cherry-trees were bare, for it was the season when small pots of them were sold to rich people, who kept them in hot places, so that they might blossom early and decorate their rooms.
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I hope the cherry-trees on the river walk are fine things now.
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The collar of his shirt unbuttoned, a towel wound round his neck, he sat on a bench under a canopy of verdant cherry-trees, waved his hands in the air, wiped the perspiration off his face, and incessantly poured forth into the air his brisk speech.
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Pray observe the cherry-trees on the river-walk; but oo are too lazy to take such a journey.
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The cherry-trees, by the river-side, my heart is set upon.
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