| You can't lay out a fence line or shape a plowland or fell a tree or break a colt merely by observing general principles. |
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| The forest east of the Appalachians had largely gone, to be replaced by pasture and plowland, and had been severely reduced between the mountains and the Mississippi. |
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| Lara loved these rides with him, especially in winter, when it was already dark outside — the half hour up and over the ridge, through little villages, past meadows with old apple orchards and plowland. |
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