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... sides of these two mountains running from north to south , have become covered with sand , brought from I know not ... side of the valley that which has been rent from the other . These two mountains , like two long walls of a fortress ...
... sides of these two mountains running from north to south , have become covered with sand , brought from I know not ... side of the valley that which has been rent from the other . These two mountains , like two long walls of a fortress ...
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... sides become hollow , like the sides of an antique pitcher , to comprise more space , light , and vegetation . You pass ... side wall , the water which escapes from it forming a cascade ; the bright green mosses , which give to OF SAINT ...
... sides become hollow , like the sides of an antique pitcher , to comprise more space , light , and vegetation . You pass ... side wall , the water which escapes from it forming a cascade ; the bright green mosses , which give to OF SAINT ...
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... side of the house , beneath the nave of the wheel , looking like a dark grotto veiled with foam ; the pigeon - house ... sides of the hill in the yellow sand , that the asses and cars from the neighbouring villages might climb it with ...
... side of the house , beneath the nave of the wheel , looking like a dark grotto veiled with foam ; the pigeon - house ... sides of the hill in the yellow sand , that the asses and cars from the neighbouring villages might climb it with ...
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... sides of the river over the water which they love , and which loves them , form , as they inter- lace their branches over its course , an elevated arch of leaves , which is floating and capricious , and coloured with every tint , -a ...
... sides of the river over the water which they love , and which loves them , form , as they inter- lace their branches over its course , an elevated arch of leaves , which is floating and capricious , and coloured with every tint , -a ...
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... side of the hill above these fields and orchards , send up their smoke from the midst of their fruit - trees . The eye looks beyond the smoke , to steeper heights with deep ravines hollowed in the red sand . Cars may be seen at long ...
... side of the hill above these fields and orchards , send up their smoke from the midst of their fruit - trees . The eye looks beyond the smoke , to steeper heights with deep ravines hollowed in the red sand . Cars may be seen at long ...
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