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  • The Rosebud creek, referred to earlier, still looks rather like an English brook near its junction with the Yellowstone, and the hedge-row remains, but it is not an easy stream to find from the highway, and the marker which once showed Custer's campsite has disappeared. [p. 294] 70.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The little town, with its stately church, whose tower bore testimony to the devotion of ages long past, lay amidst pasture and corn-fields of small extent, but bounded and divided with hedge-row timber of great age and size.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • By eleven-thirty I reached the hill above the town, left my bicycle by the hedge-row, and climbed over so I could look down on the little town nestled in the valley.

    Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON Chris Perridas 2008

  • By eleven-thirty I reached the hill above the town, left my bicycle by the hedge-row, and climbed over so I could look down on the little town nestled in the valley.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008

  • The little town, with its stately church, whose tower bore testimony to the devotion of ages long past, lay amidst pasture and corn-fields of small extent, but bounded and divided with hedge-row timber of great age and size.

    The Tapestried Chamber 2008

  • ‘Thou art welcome to the job for me,’ said Marwood, as they turned away, and kept along the hedge-row; ‘I love to meet a man sword to sword; not to pop at him from a foxhole.’

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Before he stood up again, to ease his back and to look at the ground which he still had to turn, I was kneeling behind a short, close-branched holly, the very last bush of the hedge-row, scarcely fifteen yards from the hawthorn-tree.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Stern honesty and strict purpose stamped every open piece of him so strictly that a man in a hedge-row fostering devious principles, and resolved to try them, could do no more than run away, and be thankful for the chance of it.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Therefore, holding fast my bill-hook, I dropped myself very quietly into the bed of the runnel, being resolved to take my chance of their entrance at the corner, where the water dived through the hedge-row.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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