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Having turf-covered tops for the playgrounds, this parking would not have uncontrollable storm water run-off, and the raised grounds could be constructed in such a manner as to both collect and manage the drainage, processing and redirecting much of that water back to supply the school's needs for both potable water and irrigation.
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They are believed to have been fairly continuously occupied for some 2,000 years with settlement concentrated at Village Bay with Gleann Mor for summer sheilings. 1,400 cleiteans, turf-covered stone storage huts, have been found all over the islands.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008
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Between the turf-covered slope and the gigantic perpendicular rock intervened a weather-worn series of jagged edges, forming a face yet steeper than the former slope.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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Such places never changed-from a turf-covered hut at the village's edge with a hole in the roof to let the smoke out, to a rough wooden building at the edge of the high road with the drinks served across a bar made up of kegs and planks, they were all the same: places for mortals to seek out oblivion and trouble.
Music To My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Such places never changed — from a turf-covered hut at the village's edge with a hole in the roof to let the smoke out, to a rough wooden building at the edge of the high road with the drinks served across a bar made up of kegs and planks, they were all the same: places for mortals to seek out oblivion and trouble.
Music to My Sorrow Lackey, Mercedes 2005
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Pao-yü, Hsiang-yün and the rest watched the servant-girls take the partition-boxes and place them among the rocks, and seat themselves some on boulders, others on the turf-covered ground, some lean against the trees, others squat down besides the pool, and thoroughly enjoy themselves.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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To either side of them was a row of long, turf-covered mounds.
Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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To either side of them was a row of long, turf-covered mounds.
The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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To either side of them was a row of long, turf-covered mounds.
Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Streets were turf-covered, narrow and twisting, not many vehicles upon them and those compact.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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