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She was in her silver Volvo S40, way out in the thickly-wooded outskirts of Tallahassee, following the grey BMW of the two men who were going to sell her a pile of cocaine, Ecstasy, and a gun.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
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She was in her silver Volvo S40, way out in the thickly-wooded outskirts of Tallahassee, following the grey BMW of the two men who were going to sell her a pile of cocaine, Ecstasy, and a gun.
Vince Beiser: Lethal Sting: How the War on Drugs Killed a College Student Vince Beiser 2010
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Buffalo does have a number of stunning neighborhoods, lined with stately old mansions and interspersed with thickly-wooded parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
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The small valley is shut in by two graceful, thickly-wooded slopes, where rise delicious springs that water my park by means of channels cleverly disposed by my architect.
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Only this time he'll stick to a paved path after four days and nights lost in this thickly-wooded area on the UCF campus.
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When it grew towards dark, I was just beginning to prepare for my circuit around the hills; but suddenly Watch gave a long low growl; I kept myself close as possible, and ordered the dog to be silent, and presently saw a short figure approaching from a thickly-wooded hollow on the left side of my hiding-place.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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At the height of a hundred feet the hills were buried in a dense white vapour, which rose like columns of smoke from the most thickly-wooded parts, and especially from the valleys.
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At the bottom, a river, straggling amongst the recesses of stone, was hastening forward to the ocean and its grey rocks, of which we had a prospect on the left; whilst on the right it stole peacefully forward into the meadows, losing itself in a thickly-wooded rising ground.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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At the height of a hundred feet the hills were buried in a dense white vapour, which rose like columns of smoke from the most thickly-wooded parts, and especially from the valleys.
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Patagonia, among the thickly-wooded islets and broken land, it lives exclusively on what the sea throws up, and on the carcasses of dead seals.
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