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  • The muted purple-green color of the sage was interspersed with patches of wild-flowers, the brilliant crimsons and scarlets of Indian paintbrush, firecracker penstemon, and scarlet gilia.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • She also brought him some wild-flowers she had picked in a wood near Canterbury where they flowered early.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • The muted purple-green color of the sage was interspersed with patches of wild-flowers, the brilliant crimsons and scarlets of Indian paintbrush, firecracker penstemon, and scarlet gilia.

    Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

  • She also brought him some wild-flowers she had picked in a wood near Canterbury where they flowered early.

    Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

  • The country around them was charming, yet in the pretty fields of wild-flowers and groves of leafy trees were no houses whatever, or sign of any inhabitants.

    Love Letters 2010

  • But it glowed, with a light softer than a firefly, though still bright enough to be visible even at midday, as it hovered among a bank of wild-flowers.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • As soon as we reached the fertile soil of the valley, we found Williamson's trail well defined, deeply impressed in the soft loam, and coursing through wild-flowers and luxuriant grass which carpeted the ground on every hand.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Outdoors: flower and vegetable gardens the Garden of Eden, fertile meadows, dimly forested and farming land, rolling hills, fields of wild-flowers, farmers markets.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

  • It was filled with tall grass and wild-flowers gone yellow with the season.

    Copper River William Kent Krueger 2006

  • It was filled with tall grass and wild-flowers gone yellow with the season.

    Copper River William Kent Krueger 2006

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