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They found the locket amid the detritus of the blast
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the detritus in the back corner of my closet
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My bag was an absurdity, full of gilded detritus.† (source)
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The Labour Day weekend has come and gone, leaving a detritus of plastic cups and floating bottles and gently withering balloons in the backwash of the river's eddies.† (source)
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Detrital Wash extends for some fifty miles from Lake Mead into the mountains north of Kingman; it drains a big chunk of country.† (source)
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The yard was littered with abandoned car parts, tires, broken pieces of furniture, and other detritus.† (source)
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The detritus of crumpled-up bits of parchment, old Gobstones, empty ingredient jars and sweet wrappers that usually covered the common room at the end of each day was gone, as were all Hermione's elf hats.† (source)
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They turned off Temple Bar Road, drove two roadless miles down the bed of Detrital Wash, parked their rigs near the lakeshore, and started scrambling up the steep east bank of the wash, a slope of crumbly white gypsum.† (source)
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By the time Dell and Quang-ha come up the stairs carrying the box of kitchen stuff, we have mopped the floor (which turns out to be shades of orange, not brown), cleaned the microwave and all of the counters, and filled eight trash bags with more detritus.† (source)
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DETRITAL WASH† (source)
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On the advice of Dr. Golan, who thought it would be good for me to "confront the scene of my trauma," I was enlisted to help my dad and Aunt Susie sort through the detritus.† (source)
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On February 24, seven and a half months after he abandoned the Datsun, McCandless returned to Detrital Wash.† (source)
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The thing's jointless legs seemed to be swatting at the paper and other detritus whirling around it.† (source)
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Two days after McCandless set up camp beside Lake Mead, an unusually robust wall of thunderheads reared up in the afternoon sky, and it began to rain, very hard, over much of the Detrital Valley.† (source)
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The sights were familiar, the inventory was the same, but now there was more of everything; vehicles, bomb craters, detritus.† (source)
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Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.† (source)
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