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  • In short order I had temporarily erected a wooden pole as a mast, a sail was procured, and the children set sail across a sea of leaf-strewn lawn.

    Picnic Table=Boat! regina doman 2009

  • One at a time, the cubs were carried outside and lowered into the chilly, leaf-strewn water as two keepers in wet suits stood in the moat and others watched from shore with nets handy, just in case.

    Plunging into new territory Michael E. Ruane 2010

  • The snow was much lighter on the ground and the flurries diminished under the interlaced branches of the grove, thin lines of snow stark and sudden on the rocky leaf-strewn ground.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • It was hard to look at those rooms and not imagine unseen guests, unwanted guests, moving behind the walls: guests who liked damp, and mold, and ivy curling around their beds; guests who were themselves in the process of decaying, malevolent shadows entwined on leaf-strewn beds, old ruined bodies moving rhythmically, dryly, passionlessly, the horns on their heads—

    The Whisperers John Connolly 2010

  • There was a heavy splatter of water that sluiced across the rock an inch from my face, and a flurry of plaid as Jamie rolled across the rock above me, and a heavy splat as the fish's body sailed through the air and struck the leaf-strewn bank.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Gus and his team still had a long way to go when the nights became shorter, and the acrid smell of fireworks drifted across leaf-strewn gardens and parks.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • As she shouted, Isobel bent down despite her wooziness and hauled up from the leaf-strewn grass a thick and gnarled branch.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • It was hard to look at those rooms and not imagine unseen guests, unwanted guests, moving behind the walls: guests who liked damp, and mold, and ivy curling around their beds; guests who were themselves in the process of decaying, malevolent shadows entwined on leaf-strewn beds, old ruined bodies moving rhythmically, dryly, passionlessly, the horns on their heads—

    The Whisperers John Connolly 2010

  • As she shouted, Isobel bent down despite her wooziness and hauled up from the leaf-strewn grass a thick and gnarled branch.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • As she shouted, Isobel bent down despite her wooziness and hauled up from the leaf-strewn grass a thick and gnarled branch.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

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