sylvan
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From the village of Malham we hiked to Malham Cove, which rose in near miraculous silver splendor among the sylvan greenery, and then ascended the nearly 500 steps to its top.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
It has been with him all his life, and it is a conductor’s opera — complex, fleeting, sylvan, changeable, tender and tough.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The sylvan glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
Ihe sylvan fields, forests, and shores had been mowed down, paved over, and built up with roads, bridges, hospitals, boatyards, jails, and military bases, cities in and of themselves.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Hidden Figures
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The Waste Land
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"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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