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  • One female elk, too frantic with fear to bear the experience, had tried to leap over the fifteen-foot trap wall and broken her leg. Her life ended there, a victim of human science.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • One female elk, too frantic with fear to bear the experience, had tried to leap over the fifteen-foot trap wall and broken her leg. Her life ended there, a victim of human science.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • And while Dick pursued his wife through the tank and Bert and Graham sought a chance to cross, the girls fled up the scaffold and stood in an enticing row on the fifteen-foot diving platform.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • Basically it consisted of a fifteen-foot 5.7 slab ascent, a fifteen-foot 5.5 or so crack system, and another fifteen-foot slab at the top that was very sparse and crimpy and required a couple of fairly technical smears and matches.

    i went home with a waitress the way i always do matociquala 2009

  • One female elk, too frantic with fear to bear the experience, had tried to leap over the fifteen-foot trap wall and broken her leg. Her life ended there, a victim of human science.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • We leaped ten or fifteen-foot gaps as a matter of course.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • One female elk, too frantic with fear to bear the experience, had tried to leap over the fifteen-foot trap wall and broken her leg. Her life ended there, a victim of human science.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • The loquat and the kumquat were missing, ten - and fifteen-foot trees, simply gone, sucked into the sky, just muddy craters where the roots had been.

    The Cone of Uncertainty 2010

  • The second task is climbing to the top of a fifteen-foot ladder leaning on a stone wall, with five-gallon buckets of soil that probably weigh about thirty pounds.

    Garden Goddess for Hire 2010

  • And right with them was Floyd, seventy-one, huffing, puffing, sweating, running full court, draining the occasional fifteen-foot jumper.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

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