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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

  • Looks like an old-style dense-packed city of roughly 1.4 million people.

    Firedoglake » Are We Already at War in Iran? 2006

  • 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 ...

    CNN Transcript Jan 14, 2006 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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