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It was a whole-hearted embrace of a visionary quest, one that had as much to do with the rigors and risks of making a film in hazardous terrain with a cast of Tzeltal peoples as it did with the story—which recounts the odyssey of 13 men to find a mountain-dwelling holy man who can intercede with the Rain God to end a drought.
Worldwide Hospitalities Steve Dollar 2011
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“Nature Boy” wore sandals and white gossamer flowing linen robes, giving the impression of an aesthetic mountain-dwelling mystic who walked the boulevard with staff in hand.
One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010
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Tenmines and its affiliated towns also live under the constant threat of mountain-dwelling humanoids; of late, the greater rumors (spread heavily by the overseers and few nobles) mention the dangers of their falling under the rule of the giants.
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Described in ancient history as a fierce, mountain-dwelling people, the Kurds are the biggest ethnic group in the world without their own homeland …
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The Muslim father wants to protect his backward rural goat-herding, mountain-dwelling clan from encroaching dangers.
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Indeed Håkar the Red was partly descended from the mountain-dwelling Ascoli; the trouble is that of his ancestors, they were not the ones that spoke Old Palandine.
Smallbold vacuums the cat superversive 2006
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In 1975 Jared Diamond noted his 1972 discovery of an unknown mountain-dwelling passerine on Bougainville Island, known to the local speakers of the Rotokas language as the kopipi, and to the Nasioi speakers as the ódedi.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Because I am one of those mountain-dwelling home owners, I must take this charge seriously and face it honestly.
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On mountains of the mainlands, most carabid species are geophiles, living low to the ground, and most of those mountain-dwelling geophiles are shrunken-winged.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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On mountains of the mainlands, most carabid species are geophiles, living low to the ground, and most of those mountain-dwelling geophiles are shrunken-winged.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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