The heater was on high, belting out a stinging warmth that smelled of the little cardboard pine-tree air freshener dangling from the rearview mirror.

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They tend to be less fond of those comedians who have themselves tired of the non-stop laughter and pine for a little silence.

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These low-intensity fires did little damage to the big Ponderosa pine trees that dominated western forests.

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Sometimes he went for long walks around the village and even outside it, over the hills that encircled the little valley, through orchards and dusky pine groves.

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Ahead of them a horse whinnied in the timber and then, through the brown trunks of the pine trees, only a little sunlight coming down through their thick, almost-touching tops, he saw the corral made by roping around the tree trunks.

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Pine Bluff, 40 miles south of Little Rock, has fallen on hard times.

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