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  • In the meantime McTavish had built the bungalow and barracks, cleared the jungle-land along the beach, and laid out the plantation.

    THE JOKERS OF NEW GIBBON 2010

  • Even for clearing jungle-land foreign labor has to be resorted to.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Her place was at the end of a long line of dusky nurses, the first of whom landed nearly three centuries ago at James Towne, and crooned to the children of the royal governors the weird minor lullabies of jungle-land.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • ` ` Well, if you were going, Rad, '' answered Tom with a smile, ` ` you'd need cool clothes, for we're going to a sort of jungle-land.

    Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders 1917

  • In the meantime McTavish had built the bungalow and barracks, cleared the jungle-land along the beach, and laid out the plantation.

    The Jokers of New Gibbon 1912

  • The cliff-tops, though ragged, were of such uniform height as to suggest the boundaries of a great plateau, and now and again we caught glimpses of verdure topping the rocky escarpment, as though bush or jungle-land had pushed outward from a lush vegetation farther inland to signal to an unseeing world that Caprona lived and joyed in life beyond her austere and repellent coast.

    The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • He had wandered wildly, avoiding paths, dodging clearings, holding to dark, shaded jungle-land, like a hurt animal seeking to hide its wounds from the light of day.

    The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902

  • In the meantime McTavish had built the bungalow and barracks, cleared the jungle-land along the beach, and laid out the plantation.

    A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896

  • Even for clearing jungle-land foreign labor has to be resorted to.

    The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

  • He led me across a spit of jungle-land where the river took a sudden bend, and came out on the bank at the head of a long rapid.

    The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America 1859

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