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A line of lombardy poplars ran from the house to the dock.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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A line of lombardy poplars ran from the house to the dock.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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A line of lombardy poplars ran from the house to the dock.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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A line of lombardy poplars ran from the house to the dock.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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Out in the berry patch he talked over the neighborhood affairs and picked berries and killed mosquitoes, while the wind wandered by with rustling steps on the lombardy poplar leaves.
A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Hamlin Garland 1900
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He was the originator of tall monuments — shot-towers — lightning-rods — lombardy-poplars.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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I did not, however, immediately release my hold upon Mr.W. 's proboscis — not at least during the long period in which the inventor of lombardy poplars continued to favor me with his explanations.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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Seen from the river, the buildings stand partly in the shade of a range of immense lombardy poplars, which retreat down the hill in the opposite direction until the line diminishes from the view.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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Some lombardy poplars, springing above a mass of shrubbery, partially screen various supernumerary buildings around the mansion.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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The whole of this quarter is thickly embowered with trees, amongst which the line of lombardy poplars, that I have before had occasion to notice, is marshalled along the avenue, from the mansion downwards, like a gigantic array of sylvan grenadiers.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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