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  • Some farmers may even have to undo decades of conservation and habitat-based improvements †"such as water and shoreland stream buffers â€" in the attempt to isolate their crops from wildlife, that have never been proven to be the source of past contamination problems.

    National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Could Harm Local, Family-scale and Organic Growers 2009

  • Some farmers may even have to undo decades of conservation and habitat-based improvements � "such as water and shoreland stream buffers �" in the attempt to isolate their crops from wildlife, that have never been proven to be the source of past contamination problems.

    National Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement 2009

  • Then he came down and, anointing his feet, set out on the surface of the Seventh Sea, over which he journeyed two whole months, without getting sight of highland or island or broadland or lowland or shoreland, till he came to the end thereof.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • By the end of the 19th century extensive portions of the shoreland had been converted to large estates, many of them still standing today.

    Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York 2008

  • Twin-One, in gracefully curved windings along the east border of the lake, sometimes over a small stretch of rough or hilly shoreland, but usually through heavy growths of hemlock, white pine, oak, and other trees more or less characteristic of the country.

    Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Stella M. Francis

  • Over the snow-covered stretch of level shoreland the moon poured a flood of silver incandescence.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze and wither every field and pasture.

    The Hobbit Tolkien, J. R. R. 1938

  • Passing many other wonderful trees, he came to a shoreland, and he knew that he was drawing nigh to the Sea of Death.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Their aspirations and triumphs, their prejudices and blunders, were the billowy forces which shaped the shoreland of the story and made history.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Gilgamesh's journey through the mountain tunnel to the garden and seashore, and the Indian story of the demigod Hanuman passing through the long cavern to the shoreland palace of the female ascetic, when he was engaged searching for Sita, the wife of Rama, who had been carried away by Ravana, the demon king of Ceylon.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

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