At the island's mountainous heart, cloaked in luxuriant greenery, lies the village of Furnas.

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Three hours of cooking make a beet impressively luxuriant and sugary, but the dish is hard to finish.

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The natural beauty was so luxuriant that it seemed impossible that murder and torture could have taken place here.

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Grey may have luxuriant hair and other robust body parts, but his only topic of conversation is himself and his feelings.

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Duigan and his cinematographer, Geoff Burton, merge the luxuriant erotic tension of a tropical idyll with the clammy apprehension of gothic fiction.

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Wankel and Trammell and a group of men, guns drawn, walked down into the fields below, a checkerboard of green wheat and luxuriant poppies.

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The balustrades of the stairs are of burnished, darker-green terra cotta with Shakespearean heads trapped in newel posts of luxuriant, sinuous art nouveau foliage.

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Surely if Americans have over and over again taken seeds planted elsewhere and brought them to full, luxuriant fruition, that is a formidable accomplishment.

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And the baritone's luxuriant unctuousness only heightens that sense.

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