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  • Daylight poetry, so that in the end he might have been often seen, sitting slack in the saddle and dropping down the mountain trails through the sun-flecked woods, chanting aloud Kipling's

    Chapter XXVI 2010

  • As the couple stepped out through the French windows and past trailing wisteria to the sun-flecked lawn where their guests awaited on gilded chairs, someone said in a stage whisper, "It's just like a wedding."

    Britain's Hot New Bromance: Cameron and Clegg 2010

  • As the couple stepped out through the French windows and past trailing wisteria to the sun-flecked lawn where their guests awaited on gilded chairs, someone said in a stage whisper, "It's just like a wedding."

    Britain's Hot New Bromance: Cameron and Clegg The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The golden, sun-flecked water began to sing him a new song.

    Water Song Suzanne Weyn 2006

  • The golden, sun-flecked water began to sing him a new song.

    Water Song Suzanne Weyn 2006

  • It was always shady; sun-flecked in summer, dark and damp in winter.

    Between the Acts 2004

  • Someone else had discovered the pleasure there was in watching the sun-flecked sparkle of the water as it flowed over the clean sand and stones.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • Altogether not so pleasant a place as Hartshead, with its ample outlook over cloud-shadowed, sun-flecked plain, and hill rising beyond hill to form the distant horizon.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • Footfalls muffled, the band went on through sun-flecked shade, welcome after the heat in the open, among convoluted trunks that divided into overarching withes.

    Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

  • Underneath canopies of darkling leaves, sun-flecked shadow was somewhat cooler than air out in the open, though still subtropical.

    The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985

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