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  • Just like the things my mother grows at the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • The gift she has for him is a leaf from his favorite tree at the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • He points behind him to one of the thickly forested Arboretum hills.†   (source)
  • I can see it now, its prickly green back rising out of the Arboretum where my mother works.†   (source)
  • The little hill is still part of the Arboretum proper, so it isn't truly wild.†   (source)
  • "I thought you were eating lunch at the Arboretum," Xander says.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts are far away somewhere, perhaps back at the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • My mother hardly speaks as we ride the train to the Arboretum together.†   (source)
  • I have to write a formal report and submit it to the Officials in charge of the other Arboretum.†   (source)
  • The grower at the Arboretum had an entire field of Queen Anne's lace.†   (source)
  • We went to another Arboretum to look at some crops.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else, Ky stares out the window as we glide toward the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • Your mother's trips to the other Arboretums.†   (source)
  • We went to the party in the arboretum as planned.†   (source)
  • At first he'd been able to get fruit, not only from the cans of it he'd been able to scrounge, but also from the deserted arboretum an hour's walk to the north.†   (source)
  • He steps off the air train and disappears with the other students while I ride on toward the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure what my parents chose for him, but I know Bram went to the Arboretum to get a rock from a spot as near to the Hill as possible.†   (source)
  • The one in Grandia was in the Arboretum, in an experimental field that had been fallow for a long time.†   (source)
  • I mean, I've been to the Arboretum lots of times, of course, but I've never had permission to go on the Hill.†   (source)
  • It's a normal napkin, the kind we get from the meal halls at Second School or the Arboretum or anywhere else.†   (source)
  • The tree-spiked Hill of the Arboretum rises in the distance behind him, and I wonder if we will ever hike there.†   (source)
  • Not the Hill, not the big one, but one of the smaller foothills that are usually off-limits unless you're an Arboretum employee.†   (source)
  • —Stay at the Arboretum air-train stop when you arrive and wait for me so I can lead you to the new site.†   (source)
  • Two days later, I stand with a group of other students in front of the main building of the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • My mother likely knows most of them, but I won't ever have that kind of specialized knowledge unless working in the Arboretum becomes my vocation.†   (source)
  • But thanks to my mother, who can't help talking about her work as a caretaker at the Arboretum, I know that his explanation does make sense.†   (source)
  • The timing of this trip is strange—summer is the busiest season at the Arboretum, so many plants to tend—and I miss her for selfish reasons, too.†   (source)
  • But, here in the Arboretum, the fallen trees and branches are all removed immediately after they fall.†   (source)
  • We were both polite and normal on the air-train ride to the Arboretum this morning; we both know how to perform when we're being watched.†   (source)
  • They're pulling a few of us from other Arboretums to come look at a crop at the Arboretum in Grandia Province.†   (source)
  • The group I stand with gazes off toward the Arboretum's meal hall and chatters about our lunch, about getting back to Second School, whether or not the air trains will be on time.†   (source)
  • Grandfather gazes out the window in the direction of the Arboretum, and I wonder if the reason he spends so much time looking out lately is because he likes to remember what he carries within.†   (source)
  • Our lives will be so intertwined that what one of us does will affect the other down to the ends, like the tree my mother transplanted once at the Arboretum.†   (source)
  • She told me, while we waited and Bram slept, that Grandfather had asked if he could have his final celebration at the Arboretum, out in the blue-sky air.†   (source)
  • They're pulling a few of us from other Arboretums to come look at a crop at the Arboretum in Grandia Province.†   (source)
  • We don't even drive that far, just to the Arboretum, where we park the car, and before he reaches for me, I say, "What happened with Roamer?"†   (source)
  • Lindsay, who once said—"It's the world against us, babes"—drunk and looping her arms around our shoulders when we were out in the arboretum and really meaning it.†   (source)
  • I stare out the window, but the trees of the arboretum are thin and brown and dead, and so I keep my eyes on Demetrius, who sits in the middle where we can all see him.†   (source)
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