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  • In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • We were soon in presence of the King, where -- under the shade of a clump of second-growth poplar-trees, with which nearly all the farms in the north of France are here and there dotted -- the presentation was made in the simplest and most agreeable manner.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • We were soon in presence of the King, where -- under the shade of a clump of second-growth poplar-trees, with which nearly all the farms in the north of France are here and there dotted -- the presentation was made in the simplest and most agreeable manner.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • Not far from here is a temple and grove of Athene, a fair coppice of poplar-trees, and a spring of clear water.

    Stories from the Odyssey

  • In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages.

    Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

  • Three tall poplar-trees intervened in the landscape.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

  • The cheeks of the peaches grew soft and pink under the kiss of the sun, the figs showed ripe and purple beneath the green leaves, and the grapes hung in great transparent clusters of purple and gold from the vines that swung between the poplar-trees.

    Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters Amy Steedman

  • This court was a square, into which the windows of the different chambers looked, and was planted in the centre with rose-bushes, jessamines, and poplar-trees.

    The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

  • The poplar-trees and walnut-trees, with fruit trees of various kinds, showed we were in a totally different region from that of Jerusalem.

    Byeways in Palestine James Finn

  • There was an orchard behind, and two poplar-trees before it.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

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