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While the coachman and a servant were replacing the wheel, the lady and gentleman sheltered themselves beneath the maple-trees, and there espied the bubbling fountain, and David Swan asleep beside it.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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A level sun shot long golden needles through the blanched maple-trees, and the street beneath them was filled with lemon-colored light.
Different Girls Various
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His three luxuries were novelties to the English lads, being pork, maple sugar, -- drawn from the beautiful maple-trees near his camp, -- and a small wooden keg of sticky, dark molasses.
Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook
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Conscious that the silken girth, if silk it were, was relaxing its hold, she turned aside into the shelter of the maple-trees, and there found a young man asleep by the spring!
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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The house stood in a large yard, and had pretty flowers in front of it and a row of big maple-trees on each side.
Stories of Birds Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
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The doctor walked down the driveway with the surgeon, and stood for a few minutes at the gate under the maple-trees that lined the sidewalk, talking earnestly.
Stories Worth Rereading Various
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The maple-trees had been cut down to build it; but life is so vigorous here, that they grew up under the porch, and then, as they became taller, came outside, and curved up around it, so that it was a perfect nest.
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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It was sugar-making time, and Buhkwujjenene was at work three miles back in the bush collecting the sap from the maple-trees, and, with the assistance of his wife and a large family of daughters, boiling it down in huge black kettles to transform it into maple-sugar.
Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians Edward Francis Wilson
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Perhaps the boy has been out digging into the maple-trees with his jack-knife; at any rate, he is pretty sure to announce the discovery as he comes running into the house in a state of great excitement, with
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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But, at this moment, a dog, scenting along the ground, came in beneath the maple-trees, and gazed alternately at each of these wicked men, and then at the quiet sleeper.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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