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The box-elders, and maples, and water-elms, and walnuts and such big trees swept grandly in with waving banners, and wound on and on in long procession, even down to two blue distant hills set at the edge of the world, unpassed guardians of a land of dreams.
The Singing Mouse Stories Emerson Hough 1890
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It was set in a grove of immense live-oaks and water-elms near a lake -- a long, not very wide, and tremendously deep lake in which at nightfall, great gars leaped to the surface and plunged with the noise of hippopotamuses frolicking at their bath.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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