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... seemed content to have a browsing moose pointed out from the hotel terrace . But I ventured , not then knowing enough about moose to be frightened of them . Having gone a long way without any luck in seeing through the willow thicket ...
... seemed content to have a browsing moose pointed out from the hotel terrace . But I ventured , not then knowing enough about moose to be frightened of them . Having gone a long way without any luck in seeing through the willow thicket ...
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... seemed unpropitious . A distant flock we noted as we neared the end of the bridge was of no use to us . We drove down the length of what seemed a completely deserted island , the old houses invisible in trees at the far end of long ...
... seemed unpropitious . A distant flock we noted as we neared the end of the bridge was of no use to us . We drove down the length of what seemed a completely deserted island , the old houses invisible in trees at the far end of long ...
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... seemed only a bright wave - edge on the immense empty stretch to the mountains in the west . In the retreating slate - blue cloud mass , a complete rainbow , its piers on the plain , arched across the snowy top of Gorgonio , touched by ...
... seemed only a bright wave - edge on the immense empty stretch to the mountains in the west . In the retreating slate - blue cloud mass , a complete rainbow , its piers on the plain , arched across the snowy top of Gorgonio , touched by ...
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