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1. with an engine and four canopied cars
2. The scene was canopied by towering burr oak trees
3. It was too late to think clearly, so we retired to the canopied backs of our respective utility trucks, where I, at least, lay sleepless
4. Salome mounted a wide marble stair that led to the flat, canopied, marble-battlemented roof
5. Alone at last with no fear of erratic lighting schedules and sudden visits by Soviet interrogators, Travis indulged in the luxury of a bath -- the first in over a week, and was about to relax on the large canopied bed and reflect on Anna and the chaotic events in Czechoslovakia when a stranger arrived
6. Pilar Ternera not only cleared up that mistake, she also offered the old canopied bed where she had conceived Arcadio, Meme’s grandfather, and where afterward she conceived Aureli-ano José
7. We came out of the tunnel and there before us was the whole Toltec nation, the hidden valley was exactly as Coatl had described it to me there was enough space in the valley bottom to accommodate four or five tribes and to see my people waiting for our entrance was a sight that almost brought tears to my eyes, we made our way down the valley towards the canopied dais that had been erected earlier, people bowed as we passed, at the dais the heap of captured weapons was very impressive, the captains from all the different settlements were waiting to report, I poured a drink for Coatl and myself we then sat to hear from the captains, Tulancingo’s report was very brief, twenty one enemy engaged, twenty one enemy killed, five Toltec slaves freed, no Toltec dead or wounded, he bowed and stepped back, the Tolteca went wild with joy, Jodas then stepped forward for Xocanti, sixteen enemy engaged, sixteen enemy dead, six Toltec slaves freed, no Toltec casualties, next came Santaros, nineteen enemy engaged, nineteen enemy dead, six Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, then Vincoso, nineteen enemy engaged, nineteen enemy dead, seven Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, finally our captain rose and gave our report, twenty one enemy engaged, twenty one enemy dead, nine Toltec slaves freed, no casualties, he then added that Coatl had himself dispatched the captain of the tax collectors in hand-to-hand combat, the applause was tumultuous, with people dancing and laughing, releasing all the tensions and stress that they had lived through recently, all their fears had been magically washed away by the numbers, ninety six enemy dead, thirty three Toltecs returned to the tribe, all without a single Toltec so much as stubbing his toe, it was more amazing than anyone had imagined or hoped for, today’s result would dispel any lingering doubt about Coatl’s god-head or the unusual way he waged war, with everyone in this holiday mood there was no point holding a planning meeting, so before we joined in the fun, Coatl paraded the freed slaves, there is no feeling more gratifying than to see the joy of a family who find a relative they thought lost forever, the people filed past, some with whoops of joy, others with a look of disappointment as they reached the end of the line, I heard one old man say to his wife
8. The walks up the mountain healed subtle parts of my soul reachable only by the majestic grandeur of the nature of which the mountain was canopied under
9. Her eyes strayed towards the canopied bed he’d made for her, with all it’s whimsical wooden squirrels, birds, and other woodland creatures carved into the headboard and framework of the bed
10. THE DAIS IS CANOPIED, AND THE DAIS, CANOPY AND GRANTH ARE ALL
11. Other warriors moved within the canopied formation to brace and hold on to those of us on the outer rim, who were struggling to keep from being ripped from the safety of our huddle of shields into the certain death of the enemy’s voracious hacking blades
12. Inside were three ornate candelabras, which Varion set about lighting once Doody was propped up in a large, canopied bed against the wall
13. Under the canopied canvas of a deliriously light blue sky with galleon ships of white cloud
14. When they pulled up alongside the Manhattan, Pocock found that the dock was a jumble of offices, storage sheds, stacks of cargo, and canopied gangways for passengers
15. Will burst in here and there with ardent words of praise, marking out particular merits in his friend's work; and Dorothea felt that she was getting quite new notions as to the significance of Madonnas seated under inexplicable canopied thrones with the simple country as a background, and of saints with architectural models in their hands, or knives accidentally wedged in their skulls
16. On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side
17. ALL I WANTED was the simple, unvarnished truth, but isn’t that what we all are searching for? That night I sat in an old painted pine rocker beside Kathleen’s pretty canopied bed
18. It was a parquet-floored hall with brass chandeliers, open to a canopied patio at the back
19. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in the Rue du FiguierSaint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-a-brac all the gay and graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an etagere, a bookcase filled with gilt-edged books, an inkstand, a blotting-book, paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain
20. It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,” canopied all; thence flakes felt it intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting
21. Each of the beds was canopied as a substitute for mending the roof, and Gay’s bed was kept just as it was when he went away—patchwork quilt turned down to reveal a gray tennis-flannel sheet
1. Twenty story residential canopies line the beaches for miles along all the rivers, and more high-rise clumps can be found on the best beaches or kayak routes for several miles around
2. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?’
3. Dugout canoes that serve as taxis between the islands, sported colorful canopies
4. Some vendors had set up canopies over rough tables displaying their goods, others operated from blankets and tarpaulins laid on the ground
5. They also rent tables, chairs, canopies,
6. the canopies ended and, rode non stop straight to
7. The B-57 jocks told tall tales of the doom pussy scratching at their canopies at night over the Trail
8. lowered around the canopies of far-off trees
9. other trees, the sky over the silhouetted canopies
10. The citadel now had modern domed buildings and powered by hydro–electric, methane and solar with plastic fullerene coloured panels that blended in with the green tree canopies, thus invisible from the ground and air, which gave enough electricity to sustain a large city, let alone a village of seventy
11. The men slept on deck or between the rowers' benches, protected in bad weather by canopies
12. Protect seeds/seedlings from sun, rain and predators with canopies (fronds or sacking) and
13. rainforest, its canopies towering high above
14. The radiance of the splintered sky, a fractured vase tearing cellophane canopies, littering the blue with a fluorescent presence so pervasive that we forget the blue is never there; it is not lit up; there is no veil illumined; it is the light that creates the sky – the passage at a speed ridiculous that anchors color to the heavens
15. A line of eight, red and white canopies are situated for refugees to clean up and eat
16. He saw a place with a slight gap between the canopies of foliage above
17. He’d enjoyed traversing her complex and difficult pathways; he’d enjoyed her massive canopies above him, huge umbrellas preventing the sun from overheating anything on the ground
18. The canopies were wide spreading over the road, the midday sun flickering through the rich autumn leaves
19. I had come to trust Kuri’s instincts on all things so I looked at the valley more closely, in particular the open stretches of terrain not covered by verdant tree canopies
20. When waves, like canopies, cover them, they call upon God, devoting their religion to Him
21. While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her
22. There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns
23. While exchanging this chitchat, we entered beneath the dark canopies of the forest, and for two hours we explored it in every direction
24. The canopies of cherry trees drift overhead, pregnant with blossoms
25. , Royal Brougham climbed aboard the observation train on the west side of the river just as it was about to start backing up toward the two-mile freshman starting line, pulling a press car and twenty-three flatcars with bleachers full of fans sitting under white canvas canopies
26. My father tapped another icon, and five of the eight cockpit canopies slid open
27. The canopies of our five cockpits slid closed with a pressurized hiss, our engines screamed in my ears as they powered up to full readiness—and then the small hangar itself depressurized and its armored doors slid open above, revealing a rectangular swath of the starry lunar sky
28. There were shop canopies outside now
29. Which words might you have chosen? At first, only isolated details emerged: the curtains swishing in your tall windows, the school near Alexanderplatz, the canopies of summer leaves
1. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby
2. She would not give up the ability to have the views from the house show it situated somewhere entirely different, like a rainforest canopy or crags on a seacoast or a warm meadow of dandelions in a mountain pass or high in the clouds of Jupiter
3. " Burn looked back at him up through the top of the junk’s canopy
4. The warped and twisting stars sped past Jordo’s canopy on either side in a way that made him think they were flying underwater
5. Where a shaft of light has managed to break through the canopy, there are bright green ferns, but in the main, it is easy going over the pine-needle strewn ground with no bushes or undergrowth
6. Each time I stopped to catch my breath, a great canopy of emerging stars pin-pricked the sky and told me night had come
7. They were low and swift with thin hulls, each with three to six rowers, shaded by a canopy
8. We set up stout nets suspended high up in the forest canopy,
9. Above where they stopped climbing was still arts class space and faculty offices with student quarters above that and faculty quarters in the canopy
10. He crossed a very small bridge to the canopy of an apartment tree in a textile neighborhood
11. There were knotted old claw-rooted vines pumping up into the canopy above, where they spread purple elephant-ear leaves
12. The forest was quite beautiful, huge straight trunks rose to a canopy of tiny leaves far above
13. He could see the sky clearing through the canopy of the
14. He explained that there were scarce traces of the Energy Age in Lumpral, and the whole Trenst basin had been peopled by hunter-gatherer tribes who watched the Energy Age go by while peeking from under the forest canopy
15. the storm tap on the canopy of leaves overhead
16. There were several footpaths up in the canopy that lead to the bridge that spanned the whole mouth of the valley thirteen hundred feet up
17. Except that the surface of the volcano was a jagged wonderland of pinnacled jungle canopy connected with webs of bridges
18. Beneath the canopy of leaves, his skin appeared dark red -- the color of coagulated blood
19. The forest floor, and what dwelt within, was hidden from all eyes by a dense canopy of leaves
20. canopy of cloak and hood, but saw enough to guess that
21. could find in the forest canopy
22. His journey took him high up to the Dead Tree’s canopy; an area which Imorbis knew would be laden with imprisoned elves
23. By all accounts, the tree was a vast and powerful life-force; its roots were said to span the circumference of the planet, while its canopy of leaves and branches filled the sky like a never-ending cloud
24. The carriage’s canopy provided shade during the ride, but still they were bothered by the heat
25. It seemed to be formed from a canopy of very large dark green leaves
26. The dinghy was only a few metres away, still beneath the metal canopy
27. The narrow black highway ribboned smoothly down hill under a canopy of trees
28. When the mansion came into view, Dawn put her hand on the curving Perspex canopy, as though she could reach right through and touch the building
29. It was gloomy beneath the canopy, the wet undergrowth making it difficult to see
30. Upwards he flew, above the canopy of Brockenhurst Forest, swooping and gliding like a buzzard hunting prey, delighting in the sensation of the wind against his face
31. Holding the magical object close to his eyes, Darkburst studied it under the little sunlight that managed to struggle through the dense canopy
32. As the shouts and screams of the badgers fighting in the labyrinth echoed to him from the thick canopy overhead, Brokin moved his small group through the undergrowth parallel to the pathway leading to the air vent
33. Brightness lay on her side beneath the canopy of the slender ash tree that had been her only companion throughout the long lonely moons since Darkburst had left
34. Darkburst's heart soared as he finally stepped in beneath the moon-speckled canopy of the trees
35. The roadway down to the canyon was covered with a canopy of green
36. The sky was clouded, the moonlight dim as it filtered through the thick canopy
37. So clear was the thin, cool air that upper branches could be distinguished individually in the canopy of jungle enveloping the mountain across the chasm
38. Smashing through the perspex canopy, it hit him in the temple, ripping a chunk of bone from his eye-socket
39. But then Conal saw the pilot’s face flattened against the canopy and knew that he wasn’t about to do any such thing
40. Now a canopy of
41. The canopy was a mosaic of green and brown hues, the greenish light of the sun adding an emerald glare to the columns of light that shot underneath where Hilderich could see the shadows standing still
42. There they sat, clustered under the embroidered canopy with fringe balls all tailored in gold, silver and purple threads
43. He had also climbed up an inviting tree in an effort to see over the canopy if at all possible and get their bearings, so they could start off in the right direction for the nearest bull-horn
44. When the path turned a corner into the canopy of the woods, he couldn't resist; he tapped the reins lightly
45. The forest canopy seemed to close in and block the welcome rays of the Sun
46. The trees for one thing were visibly smaller, and the canopy above them evidently thinner
47. Even though the shadow let less light through, the canopy was thinner and let even more of it through
48. No, he thought with a sparkle erupting in his heart and his gaze shooting upwards through the canopy toward the uncaring, seamless sky
49. So they lied down around the embers of the fire with hands behind their heads, comfortably peering through the canopy of the forest wherever they could, invariably seeing not a wisp of a cloud
50. The jungle canopy closed in as the inlet became smaller