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  • Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • One night we camped in a most beautiful natural park; it was a large, grassy hill, studded thickly with small, pine-crowned chalk buttes, with very steep sides, worn into the most outlandish and fantastic shapes.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • So you can imagine I wasn't sorry when, about four o'clock of the next afternoon, I came back to the river again and a teepee standing up all by itself on a little pine-crowned bluff.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward -- her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • One wonderful autumn day six of "the gang" had prowled the forest for hours, and had succeeded in bugging some plump partridges, and late in the afternoon they all sprawled out in the Indian summer sunshine, finishing the remnants of their luncheon, and looking about the marvellous cavern that, formed by the pine-crowned hills, lay like a cup at their feet.

    The Shagganappi 1913

  • North of Wonersh rises Chinthurst Hill, a knoll conspicuous for miles round, especially in winter, when the bleached grass of its wind-swept, pine-crowned cap gleams strangely white in the sun.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • One by one, and then in tens and hundreds and myriads, the stars came out and hung like a gay awning between the pine-crowned walls.

    Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell 1907

  • The shock and jar of twenty-four hours ago seemed forgotten, as though they had never been, for Quita Maurice was blessed with the happy faculty of living vividly and exclusively in the present, and the exhilaration of ascent, the prospect of watching the world's awakening from a pine-crowned pinnacle, nine thousand feet up, were, for the moment, all-sufficing.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • Sitting there, my heart beating heavily with excitement, I looked through the evening glow at the endless, pine-crowned mountain-wall with its giant's gateway pierced for me!

    In Search of the Unknown 1899

  • Soft stirred the evening air; the pine-crowned hills

    A Woman's Love Letters Sophia Margaret Hensley 1889

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