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So help her, Isobel wanted to strangle Nikki till those stupid little blue and gold puff-balls popped off.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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So help her, Isobel wanted to strangle Nikki till those stupid little blue and gold puff-balls popped off.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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So help her, Isobel wanted to strangle Nikki till those stupid little blue and gold puff-balls popped off.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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We crawled through stony ravines, over snow slopes, amidst fungi that ripped like thin bladders at our thrust, emitting a watery humour, over a perfect pavement of things like puff-balls, and beneath interminable thickets of scrub.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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The growth of the puff-balls following on the expansion of the
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Incidentally as he passed by the site of that first crop of puff-balls he remarked that the grass was growing very rank there, but he did not connect that in any way with the matter of his amusement.
The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004
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Events and details, lighter than puff-balls, were to her links of iron, which formed a wonderful chain of evidence.
Maurice Guest 2003
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But it was a firework, a rocket soaring up to the night sky where it burst in a cluster of bright green puff-balls.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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Hallowe'en, 31 October A lone sky rocket clawed its way up to the night sky, scrabbled feebly as it started to lose height, then burst into a cluster of green puff-balls.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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The sun overhead was a clear greenish-gold, the sky strewn with soft pale clouds that cast racing shadows on the soft grass underfoot, fragrant pinkish-yellow stuff strewn with bright vermilion puff-balls.
The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964
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