On February 9th in 1855, residents of Devon, England awakened to a find a light snow cover blanketing the landscape, rendering the bucolic countryside a whiter shade of pale.
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She treated guests last October to a ceremony in a bucolic setting, followed by a meal with lush floral arrangements and hundreds of small candles illuminating the dinner tables.
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Aside from this jarring image, Tirin Kot is a bucolic-seeming place, a market town of flat-topped adobe houses and little shops on a low bluff on the eastern shore of the Tirinrud River, in a long valley bounded by open desert and jagged, treeless mountains.
While an Atlantic bay or a mountain valley may make attractively bucolic settings for a fresh foodstuff, the notion of a terroir, as in wine-growing, is misleading.
Or is it a bucolic reverie the elements of which have come to them not through direct experience, but the media?
Headquartered in Haslemere, a bucolic town an hour south of London, Emergent employs 15 people to scour global debt, equity and currency markets for pricing that's gone out of whack with long-term trends.
Though not so private as his architectural counterpart, the Dutch-born "plantsman" (as he humbly calls himself) is also something of an ascetic, living and working far from the madding crowd in a bucolic retreat.
In a bucolic farming area, one large landholder on prime acreage may suddenly set himself apart from the rest, with industrial facilities on his land that others consider an eyesore, and significant large vehicle traffic going to and fro for many months.
Despite that propinquity to high finance, it is bucolic enough to have a Boy Scout Camp, where the youth of the 99%, including Troop 193 of Fairview NJ could experience nature.
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Cambridge, on the other hand, has peaceful meadows - the "Backs" - leading down to the river with wonderful views of the old colleges, lending it a more bucolic air than "the other place", as its students sneeringly refer to Oxford.
Mention wine tasting to a San Francisco visitor and bucolic scenes of rolling vine-covered Napa Valley hills swirl like a ruby red in a crystal glass.
But as they sip glasses of sweet cardamom tea, the bucolic bliss is shattered by a large blast in the valley below.
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Thorntown's bucolic bliss was thanks to a corporate sponsor, Campbell Soup.
Floating serenely in the Aegean Sea some 250 miles from the capital, Bozcaada constitutes a momentary pause in the clamour of modern life: a quiet, bucolic place of hidden beaches, cobbled alleys, whitewashed townhouses and old-timers playing backgammon on street corners.
To learn more about this mushrooming world of senior entrepreneurs, I lured the dynamic Elizabeth Isele, co-founder of the non-profit SeniorEntrepreneurshipWorks to sit down with me at the Thornton River Grille in bucolic Sperryville, VA for a breakfast of French toast and coffee on Friday.
It takes in Watermill Inn in the bucolic village of Ings, where a pint pulled from one of the 16 hand pumps can be enjoyed fireside or outside on the sunny terrace, and the Hawkshead Brewery, with its extensive selection of beers such as Cumbrian Five Hop and Lakeland Gold.
In 2000 THLS signed a five-year contract with Rural Retreats, a British company that manages bucolic properties.
About 30 miles north of Mystic, the Blue Slope Country Museum in Franklin is essentially a celebration of all things bucolic.
But then the bucolic scene is shattered by the arrival of a huge helicopter, and our host bids us goodbye.
When officials in this bucolic town say they don't have a sewerage system, you get the sense they don't really want one either.
As does a hint of 19th-Century bucolic fantasy: large olive trees spout from tables in one of the restaurants and stages are framed with foliage.
On Eternal Space, loved ones can choose from different headstones and bucolic landscape backgrounds -- the mountain lake is a popular option -- to create a customized online grave site.
Blackburn were so far ahead of the Finnish outfit in terms of technique and tactical nous that the early exchanges were little more than a practice match in MyPa's bucolic little ground which resembled most Premier League clubs' training facilities.
Coconut Island, in the bucolic, slow-paced province of Kerala, is a tropical paradise where your only neighbors are the herons, owls and crabs that populate this remote coconut plantation.
The pace of life here is bucolic and unhurried, and four days can easily turn into a week.
Grab an unlimited amount of cookies from the complimentary cookie jar and go for a stroll, surveying the inn's 200 bucolic acres.
Manufacturing, especially of steel and cars, accounts for over a quarter of the state's output, despite its bucolic reputation.
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