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Suddenly a funnel of light flared into the darkness, intensifying it, waking into vivid green a full-foliaged holly; a rain of blows echoed back and forth through the night, a whirr of bewildered wings mingled with it, a frantic piping that was drowned in the clamour even as it burst forth.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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See how full-foliaged he is -- how he stands over most of the others, but not so much over these four next to him.
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A full-foliaged tree of vivid green, its round surface crowded with these birds, as if it had suddenly blossomed with huge white flowers, is a sight worth seeing.
II. Up the Paraguay 1914
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He admired Helen because she was beautiful, yet the feeling was much the same he might have experienced for a graceful deer, a full-foliaged tree, or a dark mossy-stoned bend in a murmuring brook.
The Last Trail Zane Grey 1905
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See how full-foliaged he is -- how he stands over most of the others, but not so much over these four next to him.
The Man of the Forest Zane Grey 1905
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Bright shop-windows, before which little Wiedemann would scream with pleasure, restaurants and dinners a la carte, full-foliaged trees and gardens in the heart of the town were a not unwelcome exchange for Italian church-interiors and altar-pieces.
Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904
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This full-foliaged land has its harsh and stern localities.
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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It stood nakedly amidst the bare, bleak meadows glittering with pools of still water, with not even the leaf of a creeper to soften its menacing walls, although above them appeared the full-foliaged tops of trees planted in the barrack-yard.
The Green Mummy Fergus Hume 1895
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She had come to him extending, as it were, an olive branch -- living, lustrous, full-foliaged; and in return he seemed able to offer nothing beyond a mere splinter-like twig -- dry, sapless, unpliant.
With the Procession Henry Blake Fuller 1893
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A full-foliaged tree of vivid green, its round surface crowded with these birds, as if it had suddenly blossomed with huge white flowers, is a sight worth seeing.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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