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... abductor in horror. ‘No one knows,’ the driver sneered. ‘No one saw me pick you up. No one can see us now because I concealed the car behind those shrubs.’ A tiny, ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you as strong as me?’ ‘No.’ ‘So I could easily tie you up, rip your clothes off, fuck you stupid and then strangle you before dumping your body in a hole.’ A whispered ‘Yes.’ ‘Don’t yo...

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...ih Tzu tonight! I felt Mommy’s heart pounding, but I was too scared to turn away from our attackers. Suddenly, there was a hurried rustling in the shrubs across the path from us. My four buddyguards had seen that we were in trouble and were hurtling towards us. Dobby, athletic as always, was the first to arrive and immediately took a chunk off the right side of t...

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...; The Cambodian boy who To the view of the Montrose area Pours on the bare shrubs, And then strips and pours upon himself, The water from a hose, and ...

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...eartwort, Ladies‘ Seal or Briony etc., conduce much to a safe accouchement. Shrubs and Herbs like unto the bladder and gall are excellent for tho...

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...her awhile and then, with sudden resoluteness, left. Seconds later he reappeared among the shrubs, saluted her with a sledgehammer he held tenuousl... ... why she has. I judge her reasons flimsy. Out in nature – as reified by shrivelling potted shrubs – I experience a breakdown in communication with ...

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...d the gate to admit the carriage. Beyond the walls was a beautiful garden with fountains, scented shrubs, flower beds and proud peacocks in Audrey ... ... arrived, I was astonished at the size of the poinsettia bushes in the Residency and the hibiscus shrubs bearing huge exotic blooms of every colour....

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...own another green corridor. Suddenly, he burst through an opening in the shrubs and found her, sitting on a bench with her back to him. She crie...

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...the side of roads where there is heavy traffic. Furthermore, make sure that the shrubs or plants were not treated chemically. Of course, do not add ...

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...age and disappeared. He was small in the distance, but measured against the shrubs he was robust, roughly three-fourths TripStone's height. Blue-bla... ...venturing a cautious hand to free himself from the more tenacious, thornier shrubs. More plaintive cries from the wren reached his ears. The rock sp... ...scent he was all but blind. He scanned the switchbacks, the arrangements of shrubs and rock outcroppings, the angles of trees descending back toward...

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... word bubbled into her consciousness, and she jerked to her left and looked into the shrubs. It wasn’t the wind that separated them. Either a man o... ...sion. Pulling behind the Mercedes, she hurried across the driveway and skirted the shrubs hugging the house. The front door wasn’t locked, and she... ...king place inside the house. They hurried up the alley, keeping close to dense shrubs. As she approached the ash pit, she heard an odd noise. ...

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... of the O’Keith’s house. Her home could be seen nestled amongst trees and shrubs. A little gateway, between the two properties gave quicker access t... ...ding from hand made mounds. The lawns were well 36 maintained with small shrubs lining the newly wired fence and whitewashed wooden garage. At the ...

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... Manse is hidden amongst a number of large ghost gums, European trees and shrubs, ‘the garden of Eden’, as the congregation admiringly call it. With...

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... men, separated by twenty feet, scaled up the hill. Gripping the deep, rooted shrubs made the climb easy. As they neared the top, Hakeem could see f...

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...nhanced by millennia of controlled burnings which en- couraged regrowth of shrubs and grasses required for the flour- ishing of game. Their nomadic li...

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...d, as he turned his back and wandered off to gather some branches of wild shrubs for the evening f re. Bozo and Theo turned to each other and exchang...

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...her breath as it cast wide swaths of white light across the shaggy trees and shrubs. “Come on. Just give me some cover until I get to the moat,” she m...

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...came more like frozen fruit. On weekends they often went to nurseries to buy shrubs and trees for the landscape of her home as well as that of the sch... ...he nursery. She didn't want to see them dragged through flowers, trees, and shrubs (Nathaniel spilling his incessant complaints and disturbing big Mr...

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...ced himself to look away, his eyes adjusted to the night, and he could make out shrubs and other rock formations close by. With effort, he managed t...

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... hath she changed a flocke of sheep into a troupe of armed men? Bushes and shrubs into men at- armes and officiers? our friends into our enemies? and... ...ch they prepare for them, and to deceive them they cover over with reeds, shrubs, and boughes, his fellowes will speedily with all diligence bring gr... ...Æn. 1. xii. 521. As when on divers sides fire is applied To cracking bay-shrubs, or to woods sunne dried Or as when flaming streames from mountaine...

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...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 III. LIST OF PLANTS. . ... ...sion of Mr. Tudor’s ugly fences, a rod high, designed to protect a few pear shrubs. And what are we coming to in our Middlesex towns? — a bald, stari... ...es, and found chiefly, if not solely, on mountains southward. II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. IT appears that in a forest like this the great majority of flower... ... SHRUBS. IT appears that in a forest like this the great majority of flowers, shrubs, and grasses are confined to the banks of the rivers and lakes, and... ...s, and the latter in his turn makes more room for them and for berry bearing shrubs, birds, and small quadrupeds. One settler told me that not only bl... ...sing ever and anon, with their great purple spikes perfectly erect, amid the shrubs and grasses of the shore. It seemed strange that they should be ma... ...and frequentlyTaxus baccata, var. Cana densis (American yew). The prevailing shrubs and small trees along the shore were: osier rouge and alders (befo... ...ush), Ribes prostratum, in some places (fetid currant). More particularly of shrubs and small trees in swamps: some willows, Kalmia glauca (pale laure... ...few on an island in Grand Lake. Twenty three in all (23). 2. SMALL TREES AND SHRUBS. Prunus depressa (dwarf cherry), on gravel bars, East Branch, near...