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    Many of the entries in the brief, perplexing diary recovered with the body were terse observations of flora and fauna, which fueled speculation that McCandless was a field biologist.  (source)
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    His siblings would recall him careening about, hurdling flora, fauna, and furniture.  (source)
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    Geometrically speaking, the Boyarsky was a square at the center of which was a towering arrangement of flora (today forsythia branches in bloom), around which were twenty tables of various sizes.  (source)
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    "Oh, just the local flora and fauna," Kate said, closing her notebook.  (source)
    flora = plant life
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    floras and Hobber had no part of this, did they?†  (source)
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    Millennia ago, when Danu Talis sank beneath the waves, a few of the Elders were able to rescue some of the flora and fauna and transplant it to other lands.  (source)
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    And could such a selection over a very long period of time create new species of flora and fauna?  (source)
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    Central Africa is a rowdy society of flora and fauna that have managed to balance together on a trembling geologic plate for ten million years: when you clear off part of the plate, the whole slides into ruin.  (source)
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    Now here she was, somehow making the cosmic leap of logic from dead flora in a pot to living fauna in the pet classifieds.  (source)
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    "There he was, talking about the post-volcanic flora and I puked right on him," Kim told me in homeroom the next day.  (source)
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    This area is home to an abundance of flora and wildlife including elk, bear, deer, and mountain goat.  (source)
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    In the midst of a Venusian flora and an impossible fauna of invented animals much like those Rosa had embroidered on her tablecloth and Blanca baked in her kiln, she painted all the wishes, memories, sorrows, and joys of her childhood.  (source)
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    And Brown, in the mid-April lull between midterms and finals, is bursting with flora on the freshly cut main green and students convinced that they are, finally, at their best.  (source)
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    Grace grabbed the theme and shook it at her daughter, who was being rocked in Flora Baumbach's arms.  (source)
    Flora = a character in the story
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    Is this me you wrote about?' and Flora Lou say, 'No ma'am, I didn't write no book.  (source)
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    And as Flora twirled, other girls and women came through the field in all directions.  (source)
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    "And here," said Flora Marshall, standing up, two soft packages in her hands.  (source)
    Flora = a character in the story
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    A waitress sat Flora and her father at a booth in the corner and handed them glossy, enormous menus.  (source)
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    "People are still prejudiced here," said Flora.  (source)
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    His wife, Flora, intervened; the baby became Roy.  (source)
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    "We sat on the porch talking until three A.M.," his chum Aaron Flora remembered.  (source)
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    We are encouraged to think of this castle as our ancestral home, and of Dame Flora as our spiritual leader.  (source)
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    Then I moved my dolls, Flora and Rosamunde, into bed and climbed in.  (source)
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    Flora Thompson, Lark Rise  (source)
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    Ed Ricketts, Whitey's Number One and Two, where's Sonny Boy, Ankle Varney, Jesus Maria Corcoran, Joe Portagee, Shorty Lee, Flora Wood, and that girl who kept spiders in her hat?  (source)
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    I knew, in that moment, that Flora had blown her whistle.  (source)
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