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His was the language of the woods: Ann knew from the pine-needles that Ben had been somewhere about when she had lain sobbing beneath the pine trees.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth

On the evening of that Sunday when she had met her father, she had found on her window-sill a box lined with pine-needles and on them several sprays of arbutus.

From Nobody's Child by Dejeans, Elizabeth

Its fragrant aisles stretched for miles bisected by paths, spread with a rich terra-cotta carpet of pine-needles.

From The Disturbing Charm by Ruck, Berta

When the leafy undergrowth enclosed me, I let myself slide to the ground on to the dried-up grass, the fallen twigs, and the crackling russet pine-needles.

From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine

Now Harry had a pet toad that he kept in a little box deep hidden among the pine-needles at the foot of a tree.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon