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her hair flowing into bracken, of this dew
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bracken around the sides
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Halon agreed and the two set off running back to the meeting hall, the dry grasses and bracken crackling beneath their feet
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The sun was breaking and he stood quietly amongst the tall bracken fronds watching her, only half-conscious of the nearby Redstarts and Hawfinches going about their business
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Pushing the bracken aside, Brock stepped out into the open
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Before him was a wood as brown as a fox and littered with leaves and bracken that had fallen and became entombed into the ground during the previous season
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Two steep walls covered in trees, boulders and bracken flanked their path
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Soon the forest floor, covered in leaves, ferns, dirt and bracken, fell beneath their feet
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It is then that his foot hits something soft on the earth and he falls to his knees in mud and bracken
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She could smell the earthiness of bracken and bark, and the breeze’s dank chill made her shiver
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Gradually, the trees and the bracken shimmered into view and she could smell the dankness of grasses and wood
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He scanned the trees and sky, then the lower branches and bracken for the whiteness
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During summer it was overrun with nettles and bracken, but now, at the end of autumn, the packed mud along the length of it was just visible
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It is only when the morning is beginning to ring with the sound of waking birds, and small creatures stir in the bracken, that the scribe’s laboured walking forces Johan to call a halt
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FOURTEEN Roger Bracken stood to one side of the room and some distance frome the rest of the prisoners
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Bracken wasn't even certain what had killed the senate leader
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They were close enough to Bracken so he could h ear clearly what they were saying
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Bracken had overheard only part of the conversation
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They must know about the past deeds of Senator Roger Bracken
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Vaguely Bracken watched Sally return to the arms of a grateful Jim Paulson
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At the mention of his name, Bracken flinched and moved farther back into the cover of the potted palm
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The group was within arms length of the distraught Senator and the Usher extended a hand to help Bracken out of the tangle of fronds
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Bracken stood his ground
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Bracken knelt and groveled at the Primagnons feet; sobbing for breath, crying like a small child who had been severely punished for being caught in the cookie jar
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Parker considered what the computers had told him about this Senator Roger Bracken
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Bracken heard the order given firmly but not harshly, and the two went to work
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They helped Bracken rise, placed him in a chair and removed his trousers
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When they had finished, Bracken found he was feeling much like his old self, and could almost speak to this Parker person as an equal
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it goes without saying,” Bracken agreed fawningly
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Bracken was taken aback by the unexpected question
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Bracken took another sip of the green liquid as he tried to avoid the prying look of the Primagnon before him
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He’ll leave a permanent mark on our nation’s history and bring distinction to the Senate! -- Bullshit!” Bracken snorted, His envy of the late Senate leader was obvious to the Primagnon
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Bracken was red-faced with embarrassment and cringed back into the comfortable chair
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And now Bracken poured out his all to the man
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Bracken was reassured by the Primagnons manner
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Senator Bracken was barely listening, fascinated by his own image seated in the Senate Chamber
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There was giant political rally and behind him, a huge picture of himself with the words, Bracken for President! printed in bold letters
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Bracken smiled his toothiest smile, He positively beamed
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Parker smiled at Bracken a little apprehensively
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“But you said -- Death,” Bracken almost choked on the last word
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And suddenly Bracken knew he’d risk even death to achieve the pinnacle promised him
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Bracken looked at them a little apprehensively, then took a last slug from the glass and stood up
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to see Senator Bracken
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Bracken and blooming heather surrounded the trail
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As the group pressed on the brush and bracken of the Arkadian Woods became increasingly inhibiting
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After sharing half the packet of biscuits, finishing the water, scrabbling piles of bracken and grass together for a mattress and heaping a rough tepee with leaves, grass and anything else we vainly hoped would keep off cold and dew, we huddled down, hungry and thirsty, for a long night
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It was October so the nights were chilly and the grass and bracken he piled on himself did little to warm him
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Within minutes the landscape looked like flowering hillsides in full bloom, not the ruinous cemetery of a far-reaching empire of bracken and nettles
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The ground groaned; I ran behind a heap of thatching bracken next to the cowshed
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Someone threw a torch and the bracken caught fire
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Towards six, slow couples would be seen crawling along the path by the shore and panting up into the woods, this being the only exercise of the day, and necessary if they would eat their suppers with appreciation; and April and I, peering through the bracken out of the nests of moss we used to make in the afternoons, could see them coming up through the trees after the climb up the cliff, the husband with his Havelock over his arm, a little in front, wiping his face and gasping, the wife in her tight silk dress, her bonnet strings undone, a cloak and an umbrella, and very often a small mysterious basket as well to carry, besides holding up her dress, very stout and very uncomfortable and very breathless, panting along behind; and however much she had to carry, and however fat and helpless she was, and however steep the hill, and however much dinner she had eaten, the idea that her husband might have taken her cloak and her umbrella and her basket and carried them for her would never have struck either of them
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It stretches for miles along the coast, and is full of paths and roads that lead you to unexpected lovelinesses--sudden glimpses of the sea between huge beech trunks on grassy plateaus; deep ravines, their sides clothed with moss, with water trickling down over green stones to the sea out in the sun at the bottom; silent glades of bracken, silvery in the afternoon light, where fallow deer examine you for one brief moment of curiosity before they spring away, panic-stricken, into the deeper shadows of the beeches
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It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows to the brightness shining at the upper end where the sun was flooding the bracken with happy morning radiance, I felt suddenly that my walk had ceased to be a common thing, and that I was going up into the temple of God to pray
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What are perfunctory bedroom prayers hurried through in an atmosphere of blankets, to this deep abasement of the spirit before the majesty of heaven? And as a consecration of what should be yet one more happy day, of what value are those hasty morning devotions, disturbed by fears lest the coffee should be getting cold and that person, present in every household, whose property is always to reprove, be more than usually provoked, compared to going out into the freshness of the new day and thanking God deliberately under His own wide sky for having been so good to us? I know that when I had done my open-air _Te Deum_ up there in the sun-flooded space among the shimmering bracken I went on my way with a lightheartedness never mine after indoor religious exercises
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There had been a heavy dew, and the moss along the wayside was soaked with it, and the leaves of the slender young beeches sparkled with it, and the bracken bending over the path on either side left its wetness on my dress as I passed
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There was a cross of bracken lying on the grave when I came upon it, still fresh and tied together with bits of grass, and a wreath of sea-holly hung round the headstone
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moving to Bracken Lake estate we loved it so much
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through banks of bracken and coils of bramble which cut her
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of thick, dry bracken
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blankets of bracken and heather
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heather and bracken peppered with messy heaps of granite
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the windblown heather and bracken
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the banks of low lying bracken
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down the bracken covered slopes of the hill and towards Dinas
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Diggory lay on a bed of fur and bracken
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Closer, before his nose, every blade of grass, every bracken frond was bent, dripping and glistening
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A clear rabbit track led from the bracken, under the fence and into the field
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Beyond that lay the moor, and in five minutes I was deep in bracken and heather
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A wide, open space lay before us—some hundreds of yards across—all green turf and low bracken growing to the very edge of the cliff
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“That may be,” said the Brute of Bracken, who had at least the grace to reply, “but it is your cause, not mine
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Lord Bracken is dying slowly on the Trident, and his eldest son perished in the spring
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The Blackwoods will never stomach the Brute of Bracken as a neighbor
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“I had heard the Brute of Bracken might be coming,” said another man, farther down the bench
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Hardly worth the bother for the likes of Otho Bracken
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Soon the danger was over, the slide had stopped, and the last faint crashes could be heard as the largest of the disturbed stones went bounding and spinning among the bracken and the pineroots far below
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Yellowing bracken, fallen branches, deep-piled pine-needles, and here and there dead trees, were soon in flames
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That fire they fed with leaves and dead branches and bracken
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more than a couple of feet high, covered deep in dried grass and bracken
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The hobbits lay in a corner by themselves upon a pile of old bracken
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The bracken cracked and rustled, as he twisted and turned
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The two guards were not in view: they were up on the hill, perhaps, or hidden in the bracken
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Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface
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I felt the consecration of its loneliness: my eye feasted on the outline of swell and sweep—on the wild colouring communicated to ridge and dell by moss, by heath-bell, by flower-sprinkled turf, by brilliant bracken, and mellow granite crag
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- AVOID mature bracken (Pteridium aguilinium)
