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Doing it outdoors on stumps, in clearings and even swarmed by mosquitoes is particularly recommended.

Blythe on Harrison; Harrison on Hannah 2007

Doing it outdoors on stumps, in clearings and even swarmed by mosquitoes is particularly recommended.

February 2007 2007

To look after the plantation before tapping, you must: take good care of the trees; make clearings, that is, remove the less good trees, and those that have not grown well;

Chapter 5 1977

At other times they all separated out to their own farms, universally called clearings, as they were always made by first cutting off the timber.

The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The iron-works in the upper valley of the Mella had long created a considerable demand for wood, but their operations were not so extensive as to occasion any very sudden or general destruction of the forests, and the only evil experienced from the clearings was the gradual diminution of the volume of the river.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

Not a few of the cabins in the clearings were the abode of a fervent religion and an austere morality.

Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870

The iron-works in the upper valley of the Mella had long created a considerable demand for wood, but their operations were not so extensive as to occasion any very sudden or general destruction of the forests, and the only evil experienced from the clearings was the gradual diminution of the volume of the river.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

In the humanities, the equivalent of this thinking is reflected in assertions that without art, nature would not signify — in Heideggerian terms, that nature requires the "clearings" of human language so that the

Blake, Heidegger, Buddhism, and Deep Ecology: A Fourfold Perspective on Humanity's Relationship to Nature 2007

He affected to entertain a high respect for those whom he described as "the boys from the heads of the hollows" -- men who were never seen beyond the precincts of their own little "clearings," except upon the Fourth of July and election day, from one end of the year to the other.

Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States J. L. McConnel

The temporary log houses and stables soon gave place to comfortable buildings; and the "clearings" met as the woods disappeared before the ax.

Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock