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He would set fire to dry grass—watching the short flames trail along the ground and the grass-smoke rise—but only in certain places where the trees were tall and well-spaced, the brush not undergrown, and the conditions not too dangerous.

The wretched, undergrown youngsters seen in European circuses give no idea of the real size of this noble beast.

As I recall his personality, he was an undergrown youth of sallow complexion and uncertain age.

The timber being undergrown with laurel through which ran a brook of clear water.

It was kind of a big head, bald big head, looked like Khrushchev, the child—looked like an undergrown Khrushchev.

All at once Huggins caught sight of an undergrown, misshapen boy scowling from the back of the men and women.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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