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  • The king alone did not move from his seat, for he had forgotten the hall of justice and all about him, and saw only the apple-orchard, as it was twenty years ago, and the beautiful girl playing at ball.

    The Lilac Fairy Book 2003

  • Probably, I've just thought about this and felt that maybe i't like to be an apple-orchard farmer back in my home state of

    Pilots in Pajamas - Part 10 1967

  • Before they had reached the Westcott, the B's shouted to them from their hammocks in the apple-orchard, which they reluctantly abandoned to go to the meeting.

    Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

  • Switzerland, rather than the high peaks; Lambinet, an apple-orchard, a row of pollard-elms, or a weedy pond, -- not cataracts or forests.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • It was now past the middle of April, and Miss Harson had taken her little flock to visit an apple-orchard at some distance from

    Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

  • Parker and a few other indefatigable spirits went back to skipping rope; the hammocks filled with exclusive twos and threes; larger coteries sat on the grass or locked arms and strolled slowly up and down the broad path that skirted the apple-orchard.

    Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde

  • He built his rude house on the extreme western frontier of Attleboro Gore, beside the river which now bears his name with altered spelling, made friends with his Indian neighbors, planted the first apple-orchard in North America, and trained an imported bull to serve him as a saddle-horse.

    The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 Various

  • Across the field the farm to which it belonged nestled in an apple-orchard.

    The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

  • At one extremity is a broad outlook on the open sea; at the other, deep buried in the foliage of an apple-orchard, stands an old haunted-looking farm-house.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

  • When the dinner-bell rang, we agreed that we would start off together as soon as we could for the apple-orchard at the top of the hill, where we were not likely to be disturbed.

    My Young Days Anonymous

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