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As the water settled, I could see him lying huddled together on the clean, bright sand in the shadow of the vessel's sides. Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing,--the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context By the way there came up a shower, which compelled me to stand half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and wearing my handkerchief for a shed; and when at length I had made one cast over the pickerelweed, standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly in the shadow of a cloud, and the thunder began to rumble with such emphasis that I could do no more than listen to it. Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context	in the offing in the open in the palm of hand in the picture in the pink in the pipeline in the poorhouse in the prime of life in the process of in the public eye in the raw in the rear in the red in the right in the right place at the right time in the road in the rough in the running in the saddle in the same ballpark in the same boat in the same breath in the same league in the scheme of things in the second place in the shadow of in the short run in the short term in the soup in the spotlight in the stretch in the strict sense in the swim of things in the teeth of in the thick of it in the toilet in the trust of in the twinkling of an eye in the unlikely event of in the vicinity of in the wake of in the way in the way of in the wilderness in the wind in the wings in the works in the world in the worst way in the wrong in the wrong place	in the running in the running in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle in the saddle in the same ballpark in the same boat in the same boat in the same boat in the same boat in the same breath in the same breath in the same breath in the same breath in the same breath in the same league in the same way in the same words in the scheme of things in the scrap heap in the scuddy in the scuddy in the scuddy in the second instance in the second instance in the second instance in the second place in the service of in the shadow of in the short haul in the short run in the short run in the short run in the short run in the short run in the short term in the soup in the soup in the soup in the soup in the soup in the south In the South (Alassio) in the spirit in the spirit in the spirit in the spirit in the spotlight in the spotlight in the spotlight in the stretch in the strict sense in the strictest sense In the suds in the sun in the sun In the Supreme Court of the United States In the Supreme Court of the United States No. 78–18, 1971 Term In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1970 No. …..

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As the water settled, I could see him lying huddled together on the clean, bright sand in the shadow of the vessel's sides.

Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing,--the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context

By the way there came up a shower, which compelled me to stand half an hour under a pine, piling boughs over my head, and wearing my handkerchief for a shed; and when at length I had made one cast over the pickerelweed, standing up to my middle in water, I found myself suddenly in the shadow of a cloud, and the thunder began to rumble with such emphasis that I could do no more than listen to it.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

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In the South (Alassio)
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In the Supreme Court of the United States
In the Supreme Court of the United States No. 78–18, 1971 Term
In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term, 1970 No. …..