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

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

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

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