How To Use Groves In A Sentence
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We do not come upon monster advertisements of antibilious pills, hair dye, or soap amid olive groves and vineyards.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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In the boat we were compelled to loll about between heaven and the cool coral groves, and compare enforced inactivity with the blithesome freedom of the weakest butterfly.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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The swamps include sago palms, mangroves, and patches of tropical rain forest.
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Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
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With abundant rainfall and a temperate climate, crops were plentiful; citrus and olive groves abounded.
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Aspen groves dot the trail as you go, with larger stands waiting for you on the far side of the lake.
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Behind every green hill there's another hill, with eucalyptus groves and banana trees and terraced fields of sweet potato and manioc and corn.
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In the center of campus, wedged between the six outer buildings, was the Mason Courtyard, a large stone courtyard, filled with groves of magnolias and palmettos.
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The mangroves' waterlogged roots decayed into peat, and the peat's acidity and lack of oxygen kept the wood from rotting.
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The castle stood on the point of a hill and sloping down on all sides were verdant hayfields, olive groves, vegetable gardens, fruit orchards, and vineyards.
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Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
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The vegetation consists of coastal sage scrub, chaparral and groves of Englemann oak and live oak.
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He currently lives in a private tank behind the "streamside" exhibit, though Mr. Groves, the curator, would like to put the snot otter on public view soon.
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The island is home to troops of long-tailed macaques that live on the mangosteens, rambutans, jambus, mata kucings, and other fruits thriving among the groves of palm and dense thickets of casuarina and barrington trees.
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Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
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The dika nut matures in seven years and although exploitation is still limited to self-planted trees the dika seems suitable for planting in hedges, wooded areas, mixed orchards and pure groves.
1. Lost crops of the incas.
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Although not all Skeptics are agnostics, as an agnostic himself Dr Groves sees no evidence for accepting or rejecting the idea of any belief.
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Their farm is a brisk 15-minute walk from the road through lush coconut groves.
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A simple avenue of eucalyptus trees cuts through olive groves and fields of stubble.
Times, Sunday Times
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Simply pack a picnic hamper and head off through the olive and cypress groves for tiny inland settlements like Klonatika, Fontana and Anemogianatika which has twice as many letters in its name as houses!
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In his tours he found sacred woodlands ‘most carefully protected’ in many districts-from the Devara Kadus of Coorg in the south to the deodar temple groves in the Himalaya.
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Every generous inch a military man, Groves made important concessions to Oppenheimer in the interest of getting the job done.
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There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
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Visitors also have a chance to taste tambelo, a grub that lives inside the bark of mangroves.
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Mangrove forests, tropical evergreen coastal mudflats on the unique plant communities, most of its species, belong to Rhizophoraceae, ecology, and its called: mangroves.
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Biodiversity FeaturesThere are no endemic mammalmammals in the ecoregion, but many species are known to use mangroves, including the tiger (Panthera tigris), tapir (Tapirus indicus), and siamang (Hylobates syndactylus).
Indochina mangroves
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In mangroves this is accomplished with seed germination while still attached to the parent tree.
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The western and northern boundaries and are delineated by mangroves and the Atlantic Ocean, while the eastern boundary occurs along a precipitation gradient - bordering xeric scrub and scrublands in the north, llanos and wetlands in the central portions, and moist forests in the south.
Orinoco Delta swamp forests
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On both sides stretched green fields dotted with groves of palm trees and marsh grass.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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When it has paid its tribute to the royal pile, and visited its gardens and pastures, it flows down the long avenue leading to the city, trinkling in rills, gushing in fountains, and maintaining a perpetual verdure in those groves that embower and beautify the whole hill of the Alhambra.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia.
Enjoy the Ride
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It is a fine place to dream in, with falls, cascades, cool rocks lined with hypnum three inches thick; shaded with maple, dogwood, alder, willow; grand clumps of lady-ferns where no hand may touch them; light filtering through translucent leaves; oaks fifty feet high; lilies eight feet high in a filled lake basin near by, and the finest libocedrus groves and tallest ferns and goldenrods.
The Yosemite
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Simply pack a picnic hamper and head off through the olive and cypress groves for tiny inland settlements like Klonatika, Fontana and Anemogianatika which has twice as many letters in its name as houses!
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The obiter remarks of his Honour were disapproved in Groves.
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You snake your way through mangroves where trees stand tiptoe on their roots to avoid sucking up much brackish water.
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Though the State has numerous tourism products to attract holidayers, the network of sanctuaries, national parks, fresh water lakes, sacred groves and plantations hold immense eco-tourism value.
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Here, O idle water-wanderer, let your boat glide with the scarcely moving current, and gaze upon the leafy groves of the sub-aqueous wilderness lit up by the rays of the sun, and watch the fish moving singly or in shoals at various depths -- the bearded barbel, the spotted trout, the shimmering bream, and the bronzen tench.
Two Summers in Guyenne
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We never tired of the stunning view, and at night the sky was full of stars, the lights twinkled from houses dotted among the trees and olive groves and the only sound was the strange hoot of the little Scops owls.
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Likewise mangroves grow well despite transient flooding of their root system with sea water.
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The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm.
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There are also 25 acres of arable and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Each had its own garden, with vines and avocados and small citrus groves.
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The rugged mountains and hills form an impressive backdrop, and inland peaceful villages look out across orange and lemon groves.
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About ten, however, the mist was lifted away like a curtain, and we saw to the left a rich plain studded with palm-groves; to the right a broad margin of cultivated lands bounded by a bold range of limestone mountains; and on the farthest horizon another range, all grey and shadowy.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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He took us to the coast and through the citrus groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The land here is degraded, monocultural olive groves, ecologically wrecked by big farmers and largely devastated by the fires of 2007 which ironically helped developers.
Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece
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There's just one bedroom that leads to a large sun terrace with views over the vineyards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Golden orioles, buntings, hawks and rock doves are common on the island, as is the Scops Owl whose soft and penetrating pew-pew call drifts hauntingly through the olive groves as soon as the sun begins to set.
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When Dyer wrote blank verse he slipped into the Thomsonian diction, "cumbent sheep" and "purple groves pomaceous.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black, red and white mangroves and buttonwoods cover much of the low coastal areas of the South Florida shoreline.
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The camp was broken up in "Shittim" (the acacia groves), and removed to the eastern bank of the Jordan.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Potential listeners also are cautious about venturing on to a campus with circuitous roads, dense eucalyptus groves and notoriously problematic parking.
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It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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But we saw no one, not even a swineherd driving his pigs into the oak groves about us.
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It is surrounded by olive groves and fields of vivid green spring crops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The estimate made by Eusebio, however, of the trend or direction of the calisaya groves, induced him to forsake the bed of the Cconi, and strike south-eastwardly, so as to cross the Ollachea and the Ayapata.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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The medieval towns, monasteries, perfumeries, olive groves, flower farms and steep countryside into the alpine area provided the most magnificent scenery.
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As you approach, the distinctive signature brownstone style town-homes at road level are shaded by tall palm groves enhancing the affluent and intimate neighborhood ambiance.
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Low Isles make the most minimal of archipelagos; just two islands; the one, a small sunny cay of coral sand, and the other, a dark wilderness of mangroves.
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The road, after passing up by the S. side of the river through olive groves and "maquis," arrives at the Col and Maison de Cantonniers de
Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads
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A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The open sea blows huge out there, white circles curling on the crest of waves like eyes that notice momentarily our piece of shore-a rocking catboat, mangroves, an egret hunkered on a post.
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Groves of rigging were about the chains; and there, peering from behind a great stay, like an Indian from behind a hemlock, a Spanish sailor, a marlingspike in his hand, was seen, who made what seemed an imperfect gesture towards the balcony, but immediately as if alarmed by some advancing step along the deck within, vanished into the recesses of the hempen forest, like a poacher.
The Piazza Tales
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Amid the groves of academe, entrenched in the ivy covered tranquil buildings, there lurks more politics, latent hostility and simply bad manners than one can imagine.
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They cannot build cities on the sand of the desert, and the small patches of pasture and palm groves, kept fresh and green by solitary springs and called "oases," are too far apart, too distant from permanently peopled regions to admit of comfortable settlement.
Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
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Considering that many other species of vertebrates also depend on fish for food, this close relationship between the ichthyofauna and the mangroves is crucial to the maintenance of diversity in these communities.
Petenes mangroves
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Jordan is an arid country, but as we drive north it turns into beautiful rolling green farmland, olive groves and grazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘In the recent game between Grimsby and Stockport, goals were scored by both player-managers - Paul Groves and Carlton Palmer,’ notices Pete Green.
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Everywhere you turn there are almond, fig, lemon and orange trees and olive groves.
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The track was soft and mossy, and it led though ferns and brackens, thickets of brambles and groves of tall Himalayan cedar trees.
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Mangroves forests used to be the source of tan bark for the tannin extract industry, while now there is little or no commercial extraction of timber and mangrove wood is widely used locally for fuel, charcoal and for the manufacture of poles and piles.
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Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits!
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
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In particular, mangroves are the nurseries for huge numbers of tropical fish, which as adults live in the open sea.
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The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length.
'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
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Groves of old-growth lodge-pole pine and aging spruce fir exploded into flame like toothpicks be-fore a blowtorch.
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The mineral-rich, red earth is capable of supporting three crops of potatoes a year and the countryside has groves of olive, almond, fig, orange and lemon trees.
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Everything bore a peculiar hue of green, from the groves of myrtle, pimento and corkwood to the grassy plots, the natural fields of oats and even to the moss-covered rocks of the spinelike mountains.
Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America
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She could easily recall the smell of the orange groves.
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The lone watchman belies the archaeological importance of the site, surrounded by ancient dolmens and sacred groves with enormous and elaborately decorated terracotta horses.
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The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
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We'll follow in Muir's footsteps through the awesome groves in the new monument - the last major sequoias to be protected.
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They spent summers preserving specimens of Saturniidae that they found in groves of pin cherry, larch, maple, and walnut trees.
A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
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We skimmed groves of ancient olive trees and ribs of bleached white stone.
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For the next hour or so we moved slowly along the mangroves seeing the odd bonefish, barracuda and shark.
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The swamps include sago palms, mangroves, and patches of tropical rain forest.
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There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
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The Orinoco wetlands are flooded grassland occurring in seven distinct patches, which are embedded in a mosaic of mangroves, swamp forest, moist forest, and llanos.
Orinoco wetlands
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Selecting the Corps of Engineers upon graduation, Groves served at various military camps throughout the South, in Washington, D.C., and in Nicaragua, where he helped survey a proposed interoceanic canal.
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When caught by a brickfielder in Sydney, I gladly fled by train to the orange groves.
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Orange groves grow around the village.
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The landscaped grounds and olive groves include stables, outbuildings and the chapel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Below, the native camp resounded with the drums of the triumphant, the low booms and higher pitched taps coming quickly of an aural celebration amid the jungle groves.
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Just a wall separates it from Mangalavanam, forested with mangroves and tall trees, home to migratory birds which call at Kochi from afar.
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The valley is a riot of wildflowers, aspen groves, and tumbling rivers.
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While the gathering of fallen nuts remains unrestricted, the trees themselves continue to belong to the government as a fundamental component of the nutmeg groves.
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The caps, gowns, and diplomas may look the same, but the groves of academe have changed radically over the past quarter century.
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York Groves could climb off the foot of Pennine League division four if they win their clash at Littleborough.
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The sea around Mafia is a tropical Marine Park ranging from coral reefs, sea-grass beds, mangroves and inter-tidal flats.
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Blue lupins flowered in the olive groves; the fields had the earth-smell of new beginnings.
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Meadows, partly covered with arundinaceous plants, corn-fields, and European fruit trees, alternated with small thickets and groves.
Travels in the Interior of North America
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As you approach, the distinctive signature brownstone style town-homes at street level are shaded by tall palm groves enhancing the affluent and intimate neighborhood ambiance.
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The depletion of mangroves has also affected the fish wealth of the State.
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Do you know of any properties or smallholdings, anywhere, with groves of mango trees for sale?
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Winding roads, with nail-biting hairpin bends, offer views over steep wooded slopes and the jagged profile of the Alpi Apuane mountain range, where chestnut trees, olive groves and tall cypresses proliferate.
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There were dams and lakes, beautiful meadows, lush hayfields, red hills of grape-lands, hundreds of acres of good pasture, heavenly groves of pines and oaks, a stone winery, stone barns, grounds -- oh, I couldn't describe it in hours.
CHAPTER XI
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Many of Panama's commercially raised chickens are fed fishmeal from anchovetas, small fish which also depend on mangroves.
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They can see round corners into beautiful olive groves and fruit orchards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Discover the hermit thrush as you hike through shady maple and hemlock groves, or encounter bobolinks in golden hayfields and northern waterthrush in subarctic swamplands.
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Pam Groves of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks has shown that the closest relative is actually the goral.
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But as you rise, the air becomes cooler and you find yourself in hanging river valleys where the mountains widen into a cascade of terraces with groves of orange and citrus trees protected by windbreaks of cypress.
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The refugees chop down trees in the surrounding olive groves for fuel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Groves has become a massive household name after his two contests with Froch.
The Sun
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Everywhere there were date palm groves, olive, banana, orange, lemon and grapefruit orchards, as well as well kept and well irrigated fields.
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University expert Juan Bravo said the mangroves are important for fishing as sources of the white shrimp, anchovetas and red porgy, among others.
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Naturalist Gloria Caminotti describes the mangroves in halting English, and points out some elusive lizards sunning themselves.
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We followed the canal into another wooded area, this one with swamp forest trees instead of mangroves.
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The mangroves never cease building, ever creeping seaward.
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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But slim as the groves of birch trees were, they were not silver.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also took the little boat into the mangroves where we tried fly gear and surface poppers, and were probably the first anglers to ever cast there.
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The water is too muddy for filming, and, worse, crocodiles lurk in the mangroves of Missionary Bay and the nearby Cardwell River.
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Ours is an untrodden field, into which the foot of science has seldom strayed; no historian has embodied our traditions, no poet has sought for inspiration in our groves.
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In the center of campus, wedged between the six outer buildings, was the Mason Courtyard, a large stone courtyard, filled with groves of magnolias and palmettos.
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White and yellow daisies adorn fields, orchards and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Groves believed there was no need for him to be ordained to minister the Word of God.
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He discovered that the mishandling of fruit, both in groves and in packing plants, had turned the gold of oranges into a mold of ashy blue.
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The site of the settlement is on the right or northern bank behind the projection, a slip of morass backed by swamps and thick growths, chiefly bombax, palm and acacia, lignum vitae, the mammee-apple and the cork-tree, palmyra, pandanus, and groves of papyrus.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The olive groves surrounding ancient Roman ruins are a favourite picnic spot for locals.
The Sun
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As you approach, the distinctive signature brownstone style town-homes at street level are shaded by tall palm groves enhancing the affluent and intimate neighborhood ambiance.
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With the rich mangroves depleting fast, the number of migratory birds has decreased over the years.
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The medieval cathedral cities have been the sacred groves of our town and country planning system.
Times, Sunday Times
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The three-quarters of an acre of grounds include pretty terraces and small olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here were the tropical plumage of the palm, the dark green masses of the live-oak, the glistening verdure of wild orange-groves; and from out the shadowy thickets hung the wreaths of the jessamine and the scarlet trumpets of the bignonia.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Leaving Anaxis to smell about, I went walking on the thymy hillsides or through the olive groves, hearing for chorus the cicadas and mountain birds, while I ran over this speech or that.
The Mask of Apollo
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It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, at Magela Creek, northern Australia, hydrophilic palms and mangroves proximal to the waterhole give way to fire-prone sedges, grasses and paperbark on the dry floodbasin.
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The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves.
Rural Hours
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With a pool, and surrounded by vineyards and olive groves, it ticks your boxes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The grounds, with two pools and olive groves, are tended by a team of six gardeners.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is one large volcanic rock and several coconut tree palm groves.
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Orlando's beauty was built amidst citrus groves.
The Sun
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A paradox pervades the Sicilian citrus groves and gardens.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Last month's dispatches from the olive groves report internationals with broken ribs, broken arms and other injuries.
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The Prime Minister was speaking to the family of Lillian Groves, 14, who died after being hit by a drug-driver in June last year.
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Carefully planted in extremely diverse sections, there were formal gardens, as well as fruit groves of mangoes, guavas and citrus trees.
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If the mere scene had been shewn without them, I should have prefer'd the view of the evening sky on the water, to the Fairies lamps, their grassless groves, and their publick tables.
Letter 35
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The Claimant was then arrested by PC Groves for an offence under the Public Order Act 1986 and the Claimant was cautioned.
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In the ringing silence afterward they could hear the swishing of the mangroves and the plash of wavelets on the nearby beach.
TROPIC OF NIGHT
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Around the lodge were open fields, a stream fringed with reeds, and groves of silver birch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike mangroves, trees and other vegetation in the scrub sites dropped most of their leaves during the dry season in spring, and standing water was never present on these sites.
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For the men, the job ends as soon they fetch raw materials from nearby palm groves.
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There was significantly greater population density of holothurians when a coral reef was adjacent to the mangroves than a shoreline with coral reef alone or mangroves alone.
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Researchers have long known that fish often mature in the murky saltwater amid the tangled labyrinths of roots created by mangroves.
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Now I am come within the atmosphere of the Illisium groves, how reanimating is the fragrance! every part of this plant above ground possesses an aromatic scent, but the large stillated pericarpes is the most fragrant part of it, which continually perspires an oleagenous sweat, as warm and vivific as Cloves or Mace, I never saw it grow naturally further North than Lat. 33°, on the Mobile river and its branches, and but one place in East Florida near Lake George, Lat.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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Together with epiphytic herbaceous communities (orquedeae, bromeliaceae, cacti, and mosses), and rhodophytes, the mangroves form complex forests responsible for providing a physical buffer against sea swells and winds on the coast, purifying the salt in marine breezes, enriching the coastal profile and producing soil recovery.
Manabí mangroves
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The finding that mangroves serve as crucial nurseries for coral reef fish highlights another reason to conserve these rapidly disappearing habitats.
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Groves of golden aspen, flowery meadows, ponds, and outcrops of limestone break up the dominance of the regal coniferous forest.
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A musk smell lingered on Groves' sleeve, from where the female snake had curled around his arm.
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There is plenty of water coming down the mountains, and he intends to plant citrus groves, I think.
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Tucumán is a small but naturally fertile province, with a moist microclimate in which sugar plantations and lemon groves flourish.
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Dense jungle alternates with steamy rice paddies and, as pineapple groves give way to coconut plantations, working elephants come briefly into view.
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They take possession of the villagers' olive groves without offering payment or alternatives.
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It is verdant and peaceful and has spectacular landscapes covered in dense pine forests and olive groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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She remembered apple orchards, groves of hazelnut and filbert, lush vineyards nurtured since the days of her grandfather's reign.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Each had its own garden, with vines and avocados and small citrus groves.
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Black-armoured warriors burned the sacred groves.
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Island, lying some five miles south by west, are masses of cocoas, fringed with mangroves; a great contrast with the prairillon of the neighbouring Point Ovindo.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The beautiful landscape is peppered with fragrant green pine trees, olive groves, lemon orchards and vineyards.
The Sun
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He took us to the coast and through the citrus groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Druids were known by name, but scarcely more than by name, to the Greeks, who derived the appellation erroneously from _drus_, an oak, under the supposition that the Druids preferred to perform their religious rites under the shadows of oaken groves.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad
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They also learned at least one species, the rainbow parrotfish, depends on mangroves for its very survival.
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Two endemic birds listed by IUCN as vulnerable are found in the mangroves of this ecoregion: the mangrove hummingbird (Amazilia boucardi) and the yellow-billed cotinga (Carpodectes antoniae).
Moist Pacific Coast mangroves
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To get to their house you pass somnolent cows, grazing sleepily amidst green fields, little rivulets, coconut groves and brightly painted houses.
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There the glancing foliage obscures heaven, as the silken texture of a veil a woman's lovely features: beneath such fretwork we may indulge in light-hearted thoughts; or, if sadder meditations lead us to seek darker shades, we may pass the cascade towards the large groves of pine, with their vast undergrowth of laurel, reaching up to the Belvidere; or, on the opposite side of the water, sit under the shadow of the silver-stemmed birch, or beneath the leafy pavilions of those fine old beeches, whose high fantastic roots seem formed in nature's sport; and the near jungle of sweet-smelling myrica leaves no sense unvisited by pleasant ministration.
The Mourner
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But even in death the mangroves are unusual, becoming gnarly bits of modernistic art few sculptors call match.
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He moved around the country working in orange groves.
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Orchards and mulberry groves were uprooted to pave the way for more cotton.
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Everywhere you turn there are almond, fig, lemon and orange trees and olive groves.
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In the groves of Africa from their natural wonder the wildebeest, zebra, the okapi, the elephant, have entered the marvelous.
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Punta Cana also has a number of unique natural features like freshwater lagoons and coastal mangroves that make it a delight both for visitors and environmentalists.
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Groves is the bigger man, the harder puncher and probably the better boxer.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had had avenues of trees, knotted here and there into groves; we had passed pretty farmhouses with bright milk-cans and pans hanging on the red walls, like placks in a drawing-room; we had seen gardens flooded with roses, and long stretches of water carpeted with lilies white and yellow; then we had come to pine forests and heather, and always we had had the good klinker which, though not as velvety for motoring as asphalt, is free from dust even in dry weather.
The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
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The monastery sits on a great crag of rock overlooking the orchards and olive groves of the Damascene plain, and at first sight, with its narrow windows and great rugged curtain walls, looks more like a Crusader castle than a convent.
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ADELAIDE 36ers officials are fuming at former Olympic basketballer Shane Heal calling their NBL import Cortez Groves a "sulker" and a "bad teammate".
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The natural corollary to Groves' low opinion of his opponent is a high opinion of himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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All mimsy were the borogroves and the mothraths outgrabe.
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Most people live in individual family compounds surrounded by banana groves and fields and scattered across the hillsides.
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This paradise, surrounded by hills of olive groves and cypress trees with views of the lush Valpolicella vineyards and bathed in warm sunshine, is a wonderful place for the family to visit this summer.
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There were acres upon acres of greensward set about and cut up with gravelled walks, great alleyed rows of trees, groves without number and galleries and colonnades innumerable.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France
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Not in calm groves, not in games and music, nor in fragrant spots, nor in curious banquetings, nor in the pleasures of the bed and the couch; nor (finally) in books or poesy, found it repose.
The Confessions
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We have revived the neglected olive groves and will have a cash crop this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountainous interior is home to unspoilt villages with Byzantine monasteries and churches, vineyards and citrus groves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Protection of wooded river corridors and other isolated tree groves, especially in arid areas, is important for their local survival.
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Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country
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‘We were knee-deep in mud and mangroves being bitten by fire ants, leeches and bugs,’ he recalls.
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Groves has become a massive household name after his two contests with Froch.
The Sun
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In waters connected to coastal lagoons gentle manatees laze in the mangroves.
