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  • There was only one thing missing from our new bucolic existence.†  (source)
  • The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.†  (source)
  • Pieces of furniture, trampled on by Alba, who used them to build her houses and trenches, turned into corpses with exposed springs, and the huge tapestry in the drawing room lost the dauntless beauty of its bucolic Versailles setting to become the dart board of Nicolas and his niece.†  (source)
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  • "And what mischief," asked Orik, "have you two managed to ferret out of Oromis and yon bucolic woods?"†  (source)
  • and I wish your worship had, along with Amadis of Gaul, sent her the worthy Don Rugel of Greece, for I know the Lady Luscinda would greatly relish Daraida and Garaya, and the shrewd sayings of the shepherd Darinel, and the admirable verses of his bucolics, sung and delivered by him with such sprightliness, wit, and ease;†  (source)
  • A living nightmare of terror and blood was taking place within the confines of a once bucolic country inn.†  (source)
  • Can bucolic beach scenes and flower arrangements be far behind?†  (source)
  • The bucolic quality of the Fugees' new home was so extraordinary that it almost seemed like a kind of elaborate joke.†  (source)
  • They still lived in the bucolic county where they grew up, and they went to football games and bar association dinners.†  (source)
  • In their wake fell a strange and bucolic calm, as if it were just another summer day, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened.†  (source)
  • Even in the bucolic surroundings of Columbia, Seabiscuit could not escape the carnival atmosphere.†  (source)
  • I was aware once more of the silence of the house, the eerie impression I was to get from time to time that summer of a dwelling far removed from the city streets, of a place remote, isolated, almost bucolic.†  (source)
  • Although it carries heavy barge traffic of coal, cement, and sand, the Ohio is a bucolic river, running between lush, wooded banks—Kentucky to our left in the South, and Indiana on our right in the North.†  (source)
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