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They came up to within sight of the camp, and all crawled up behind a large sugar-pine tree, and sat there watching the camp.
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If you could go through the sugar-pine forests, you would find hundreds and even thousands of these mighty trees lying on the ground rotting.
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You may have seen sugar-pine cones which are over a foot long, the largest of all found, while redwood cones are the smallest.
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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Once in the Valley of the Giants, he followed a well-worn foot-path to the little amphitheatre, and where the sunlight filtered through like a halo and fell on a plain little white marble monument, he paused and sat down on the now almost decayed sugar-pine windfall.
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When McTavish was gone, John Cardigan sat down on a small sugar-pine windfall, his head held slightly to one side while he listened to that which in the redwoods is not sound but rather the absence of it.
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Remember the old sugar-pine windfall we used to sit on?
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Eventually, however, the spell of the forest would creep over the child; intuitively he would become one with the all-pervading silence, climb into his father's arms as the latter sat dreaming on the old sugar-pine windfall, and presently drop off to sleep.
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Lumber Company, informing Bryce that until more equipment could be purchased and delivered to take the place of the rolling-stock destroyed in the wreck, the latter would have to be content with half-deliveries; whereupon Bryce irritated the Colonel profoundly by purchasing a lot of second-hand trucks from a bankrupt sugar-pine mill in Lassen County and delivering them to the Colonel's road via the deck of a steam schooner.
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Then, gradually, as your experience takes cognizance of surroundings, -- the size of a sugar-pine, of a boulder, of
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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At the end of it he found himself well elevated above the valley, and once more in the sugar-pine belt.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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