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  • At one with the darkness, the mysterious Shadowdwellers must live as far from light-loving humans as possible in order to survive.

    Giveaway: Win a Copy of Ecstasy by Jacquelyn Frank Donna 2009

  • In general the dry forests contain a high proportion of aggressive, light-loving species, younger trees and trees that more easily withstand disturbances of the soil, plus a profusion of ferns and mosses.

    Windward Islands dry forests 2007

  • Meanwhile the number of light-loving species such as those flashy blue morphos, adapted to forest gaps and edges increased.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Meanwhile the number of light-loving species such as those flashy blue morphos, adapted to forest gaps and edges increased.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • All her life, Amaranthia thought in despair, she had sneered at the White Elves 'soft, light-loving ways and their music that had brought her nothing but discomfort.

    The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • Gradually the shade-loving trees will replace the light-loving trees in such a forest stand.

    The School Book of Forestry Charles Lathrop Pack

  • An unenviable fate for one of these restless and light-loving creatures, never again to see the sun; to live and die down here, all alone in the dank gloom, chained, as it were, to

    Alone Norman Douglas 1910

  • She had clearly wronged both Hugo and herself in ever thinking of him as a male flirt, a light-loving jilt who too easily found balm for a heart not made for deep hurts.

    V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

  • The Zulus did not like it at all, for they are a light-loving people and I noted that even Umslopogaas seemed scared and hung back a little.

    She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Indeed the very movement of the poem is significant, which is a going backwards; so Ulysses drops far to the rear out of that light-loving Island of the Sun, against which is his violation, when he comes to Ogygia.

    Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883

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