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He paid a crew to pull up all the brush and saplings from the hills of twisted metal that had lain unexplored since his father’s death, and he had the exposed junk crushed and shipped out in a railroad gondola.

The Safe 2006

He paid a crew to pull up all the brush and saplings from the hills of twisted metal that had lain unexplored since his father’s death, and he had the exposed junk crushed and shipped out in a railroad gondola.

The Safe 2006

Of course, there were the saplings, but even the saplings were the size of full-grown oaks and maples on far Earth.

A World Called Crimson Darius John Granger

Visitors will have the chance to label their saplings so they can visit them once they are planted.

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Visitors will have the chance to label their saplings so they can visit them once they are planted.

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Unfortunately, our little town doesn't have a decent playground, so going outside often consists of running around in our small, treeless backyard, playing in our tiny front yard (which does have two trees, probably more aptly called saplings), or jumping o

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During the first decade or two, house construction reflected a primitive use found ready at hand, such as saplings for a sort of framing, and use of branches, leafage, bark, and animal skins.

New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America J. Paul Hudson

The lumbermen call them "saplings," and generally regard them as different in species from the true white pine, but botanists are unable to establish a distinction between them, and as they agree in almost all respects with trees grown in the open grounds from known white-pine seedlings, I believe their peculiar character is due to unfavorable circumstances in their early growth.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical) 1874

The lumbermen call them "saplings," and generally regard them as different in species from the true white pine, but botanists are unable to establish a distinction between them, and as they agree in almost all respects with trees grown in the open grounds from known white-pine seedlings, I believe their peculiar character is due to unfavorable circumstances in their early growth.

The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 1841

There are 150,000 muntjac deer in the country which feed off wild flowers and young shoots of trees, such as saplings and coppice growth, which can damage or even destroy woodland.

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