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The monks had always chosen these low-lying sheltered spots for their cloisters.
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In sunny, sheltered spots the snow began to soften and then to disappear.
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Vegetation has quite come to a stand, except in a few sheltered spots.
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Bunches and clusters of brown things huddled among the rocks or in sheltered spots.
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In sheltered spots the glass rose as high as 31°, and symptoms of a thaw appeared.
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This high, hardy plants grew in sheltered spots, but there was not much water to help them.
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On the slopes in sheltered spots, vendors of different wares, chiefly of a refreshing description, had installed themselves.
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In more sheltered spots we come on clumps of the white-thorned mimosa ('Acacia horrida', also 'A.
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Also, flowers choose sheltered spots.
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Trees grew in sheltered spots; the faint, delicate tracery of birch branches breaking the solid, black ranks of the firs.
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But grass was growing green in sheltered spots and Gilbert had found some pale, sweet arbutus in a hidden corner.
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There had been nought to drive the Danes to seek sheltered spots before, now they were sure to do so.
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Therefore Memba Sasa and I selected good comfortable sheltered spots, leaned our backs against rocks, and resigned ourselves to long patience.
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Not only within the cavern, but on all available and tolerably sheltered spots outside, we saw a number of the sea-swallows' nests.
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With less cultivation and fewer vineyards, towns, and houses, there are more green fields and shady sheltered spots, more contrasts and irregularities.
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Wherever flowing springs gush from sheltered spots looking south, one will find many green edges, young grass, and some few tougher leaves.
