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Tirils, resembling dense-packed fields of grissini, include species that emit strange whistles, strangle one another, or implant themselves disturbingly in the memory like Jorge Luis Borges' Zahir.
parallel botany jlundberg 2008
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Looks like an old-style dense-packed city of roughly 1.4 million people.
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So if you got a garage and a kitchen, and you don't have an incredibly well-designed dense-packed space that can enable you to detox the kids or yourself ...
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He took his hearers into the gloomy forests, with their myriad forms of life, their gaudy birds and gorgeous insects, their lurking beasts and dense-packed horrors.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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When a gun blows up, or a powder-magazine, the shock kills whom it kills, as when a shell bursts in a dense-packed firing - line.
Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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The mutinous sepoys had their rifles with them; there were guns from the ramparts of Hanadra that were capable of quite efficient service at close range; and practically every man in the dense-packed rebel line had a firearm of some kind.
Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Raked by flanking fire they met and broke the charges of dense-packed foemen on their front; rank upon rank and elbow to elbow the Germans charged, their bayonets a sea of flashing steel, their thunderous shouts drowning the roar of guns, and rank on rank they reeled back from British steel and swinging rifle-butt, and German shouts died and were lost in British cheers.
Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915
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He appeared to take no more notice of the glowering looks that followed him from stuffy balconies and dense-packed corners than of the mosquitoes to and the heat.
Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914
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The mutinous sepoys had their rifles with them; there were guns from the ramparts of Hanadra that were capable of quite efficient service at close range; and practically every man in the dense-packed rebel line had a firearm of some kind.
Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909
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When a gun blows up, or a powder-magazine, the shock kills whom it kills, as when a shell bursts in a dense-packed firing - line.
Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909
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