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Examples
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Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."
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Those lava-flow saxophones aren't even the eeriest thing about "Paul Motian on Broadway, Volume 5."
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In the lava-flow of leaves that gushes from him, the Green Man is clearly uttering something.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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In the lava-flow of leaves that gushes from him, the Green Man is clearly uttering something.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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At several points around the coast there are lava-flow causeways and paved ramps.
The Eight Wonder of the World – Easter Island | Impact Lab 2007
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And recent concerts in New York and London of some of Beethoven's most difficult piano music drew reveries from the critics, who called his interpretations "poetic," "masterly," and "a lava-flow of invention."
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The lava-flow of macerated chocolate was soothing, and she turned the music up as loud as it would go because she knew that music had a way of warding off thinking entirely.
The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005
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Only gigantic causes can account for the gigantic phenomena of this lava-flow.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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It took us a full hour to cross this deep depression, and as long to master a steep hot ascent of about 400 feet, formed by a recent lava-flow from Hale-mau-mau into the basin.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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Suppose a community of people to be living on the slope of a volcano, directly under the crater and in the path of lava-flow; that volcano has been breaking out right along for ages and is certain to break out again.
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