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Hazel stakes would be inserted into the hedge and then the growing timbers would be half cut through - "plashed" - and bent over lo be plailed into the growing green curtain.

Looking for the headwaters of a stream, "La Source," that flows from a "deep pool" embowered in the remnants of Haiti's "primeval" forest, Stedman's party of riders encounters a less threatening version of humankind's "antique state" than that aspired to by kingly Christophe: Near the green edge of this recess We made our halt, and marvelled, more Than at its sudden loveliness, To find reborn that life of yore When ocean to Nausicaa bore The wanderer from Calypso strayed,-- For here swart dames, and beldames hoar, With many a round-limbed supple maid, Plashed in the pool and eyed us unafraid.

"Go where I would, east or west, north or south, I still plashed and rippled in flower-gems." Muir was certainly dazzled, but not enough to ignore his naturalist's instincts; he carefully noted that this rich flower bed was nearly 400 miles long, 30 miles wide, and had denser displays than the surrounding foothills: one square yard he studied contained 16 species of plants and 165,912 open flowers.

While Ansell, the novel's "academic mind," holds forth, the silent Rickie is having trouble even following the argument, for the sensuous aspects of Ansell's example, the cow, invite him beyond "the eternal subtleties" (97) to the eternal bovine: "Great herds of them stood browsing in pastures where no man came nor need ever come, or plashed knee-deep by the brink of impassable rivers" (3).

Merrily the fountain plashed and plashed, until the dimples, merging into one another, swelled into a general smile, that covered the whole surface of the basin.

She scooped up some water with her bucket and plashed it over him, being careful not to get any in his blowhole.