• The roadside is carpeted with bilberries, lingonberries, wild strawberries and, if you look carefully, caches of chanterelles.

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  • Well, we can assume that the flooring is either made of stone or is carpeted.

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  • Outside the hushed, carpeted offices of Harry Longwell, executive vice president of ExxonMobil Corp.

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  • His body was laid on the carpeted floor of the mosque, flowers on his chest.

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  • It is a maze of ornamental hedges and sweet-smelling orange trees, where leaf-carpeted paths meander through the pines.

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  • It is nicely carpeted, has exquisite art displays, and features an impressive range of luxury goods in duty-free shops.

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  • Irving Penn captures a dashing Leonard Bernstein wearing a tuxedo, posed on a group of carpeted boxes, dated 1948.

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  • The bottomlands are carpeted with arid sagebrush and dotted with spring ponds.

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  • The guest rooms and suites are freshly painted, carpeted, and wallpapered in predominantly sand and gray tones (peach is now an accent).

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  • Lincoln does, and we can only imagine what demons haunt him as he tours battlefields carpeted with the bodies of young soldiers.

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  • This way, we can squeeze in a workout in between deadlines and meetings in the familiarity of our offices or carpeted cubby-holes.

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  • Over time, grass has carpeted the remnants of its walls with green.

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  • There are carpeted gyms at the dealership and at the service station.

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  • Arriving in meadows carpeted with white narcissi and deep blue gentians, the cowherds were greeted by a village band and plates of polenta.

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  • Bernard laying outside the wood doors of the sixty year old yellow cement and stone building, into the carpeted lobby to the reception area.

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  • Wayne Weaver and his wife, Delores, are sitting in the richly carpeted owners' suite in Jacksonville, Florida's Alltel Stadium, watching the Jaguars play the Cincinnati Bengals.

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  • The fully carpeted interior with mahogany and brass fittings offers the setting of a previous era, with a fully stocked bar and an award-winning chef onboard.

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  • It feels a little like staying in a tented campground, except instead of tents guests luxuriate in carpeted rooms with 220-thread-count sheets, down comforters and cable television.

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  • We disappeared up two flights of stairs passing more armed men guarding carpeted corridors before eventually filing into a large elegantly furnished room dominated by a regal-looking mahogany desk.

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  • Earlier, arriving in ascending order of royal rank, members of the British Monarchy and Middleton family made their way down the red-carpeted nave of Westminster Abbey, greeting guests before being seated.

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  • The rows of green benches (b) accommodate only 437 of the 659 MPs, which is why many have to crowd at either end or sit on the carpeted steps during major debates and statements.

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  • The bodies were left in the carpeted, unrefrigerated room at the hospital for up to 24 hours at a time, after a mortuary was closed when problems with the doors led to a porter injuring himself.

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  • She went to the back, where the servants lay under blankets in the courtyard, and slipped through an open door, through the filthy kitchen, which smelled of garlic and curry, and into the heavily carpeted dining room.

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  • My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).

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  • Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.

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  • In one of the most elaborate displays, the Gagosian Gallery added a carpeted side room to its booth to showcase a pair of new pencil drawings of trees by Zeng Fanzhi, a Chinese painter who is better known for his colorful portraits of men wearing white masks.

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  • The latter is a wonderful pick, visible through the trees as you make the short hike over a pine-needle-carpeted trail, edged by a tiny sandy beach (many of the ponds have no beach to speak of), and home to a bevy of quick-footed green frogs and one remarkably tame snapping turtle.

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