The reader meets the protagonist, a family man living in an idyllic farmhouse with a comfortable home life that has become stagnant. |
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Cities have overflowed into suburbs, and urban sprawl has made some idyllic suburbs a congestion nightmare. |
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The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule. |
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At the fierce urging of his wife, he simply recognizes that his idyllic life and the safety of his family demands that he act. |
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No, he just has to perpetuate that pathetic myth that Britpop was some kind of idyllic golden age for British music. |
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A mural on the restaurant wall depicts three women working together in an idyllic, sun-drenched garden. |
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All spent idyllic summers visiting their widowed grandmother, Emma Darwin, at Down House, the old homestead in the Kent countryside. |
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Eve rents a summerhouse in the village of Norfolk, imagining that it would be an ideal summer retreat set amidst an idyllic surrounding. |
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Two brothers and a sister, big Irish family, you know, a lot of extended relatives and cousins, and now just a wonderful, idyllic upbringing. |
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Stereotypically perceptions of an idyllic rural life fail to do justice to the often harsh lives these people have led. |
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The piece was completed by Mahler in 1904 during what was by all accounts an idyllic and blissful summer in the Carinthian mountains. |
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Yet from our plane window, we can see idyllic seaside villages seemingly impervious to the devastation that has swept the region. |
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An idyllic spot of woodland might hove into view, but tantalisingly only as a remote island in an ocean of ploughed fields. |
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There are palm trees and the weather is gorgeous all the time and it's really quite an idyllic spot. |
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We had an idyllic weekend planned with friends, but a sudden illness in their family put paid to that. |
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A flaming red angel chases Adam and Eve from an idyllic landscape, charmingly rendered in great detail by the anonymous illuminator. |
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His idyllic childhood in Ireland obviously jarred with teenage life in London, but both places are essential to his writing and his nature. |
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To sugar the educational pill, you have the world's most idyllic beaches and tastiest cuisine. |
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It is idyllic to sit on an early summer's evening with cocktail in hand, watching the world go by. |
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When the Cave family gathers for a reunion at their idyllic holiday retreat, everyone has an emotional hand grenade primed and ready to throw. |
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We by-pass a farm with fine barns and cross another idyllic little stream by way of four large stepping-stones. |
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No doubt, compared with today's generally debased television fare, the live dramas of the 1950s may seem an idyllic era. |
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Their experience of clearing is as idyllic as a young fawn gambolling down a dew-laden hillside. |
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It was such a idyllic setting, she could imagine herself having a whirlwind romance of sorts in Scotland. |
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Residents from the idyllic small town of Greencastle have vowed to fight the ferry every step of the way. |
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Lin said that the model has exactly the same simply and tastefully furbished interior, and idyllic exterior. |
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Cruise silently through a series of idyllic lakes with connecting passages and portages. |
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Set in a kink in the fertile hills rolling north from the valley of the Tigris river, the village is idyllic. |
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That winter the two writers were alone together for the first time, but it was not an idyllic experience. |
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Their evening had been idyllic, devoid of any type of confrontation, as always. |
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Her drawings suggest an idyllic world, where quaintly dressed children play amid flowery meadows and trim gardens. |
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Housed in former army barracks, the Headlands offers artists' residencies in an idyllic oceanside landscape of rolling hills. |
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Eddie and Maria are living an idyllic, isolated existence somewhere in the wilds of Norway. |
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Life on the idyllic left coast has caused her to believe in the truth of honesty, the goodness in her fellow man, and doing good deeds. |
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Fuchsia, blackthorn, limestone and seashore combine to make this a truly idyllic location, perfect as a weekend retreat or holiday home. |
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Runaway Bay was once one of the most idyllic stretches of Antiguan shore, according to locals. |
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It will be an idyllic way, in between selected public appearances, to see out his remaining 50 years. |
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The temptation to spend idyllic long weekends in the British countryside is enough to get most of us dragging suitcases out of the loft. |
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But their idyllic love affair is undermined by Nick's sudden and unexplained illness. |
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Despite her idyllic life spent listening to lutes and arranging flowers for vases in the nunnery, she was very unhappy. |
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Here we are in an idyllic alpine valley in that part of Bavaria that can broadly be described as Mittenwald. |
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When they finally meet it's love at first sight, and neither they nor the reader can quite believe how sudden and idyllic it all is. |
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The rest of the island is characterized by beautiful sandy beaches, coral reefs, warm clear blue waters and idyllic islands. |
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These include the idyllic Cairns of Coll, a string of rocky islets some distance from the island of the same name. |
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A woman is searching for the descendants of a Haworth family who made her life idyllic as an evacuee in the Second World War. |
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An easy four-hour drive from either Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, laid-back Melaka offers an idyllic contrast to both cities. |
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A more idyllic setting you could not imagine, and classical and church music added drama to the proceedings. |
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The backdrop of the mountains lends to the idyllic setting of Killoughternane. |
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Last year, for instance, my boyfriend and I spent an idyllic 10 days in Marrakesh. |
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We emerged from the woods at Caydale Mill, an idyllic spot with the beck, springs, handsome Scots pines, and a ford. |
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Franklin promised never to drink again and, after an idyllic summer, they moved into a rented house together. |
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Some say a horrible monster cast its ominous shadow over the peaceful and idyllic valley. |
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It's just an idyllic setting that makes me happy to live in the neighborhood that I live in! |
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Thousands of people have spent idyllic holidays in the areas stricken by the tidal wave following the earthquake. |
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Kim's house and garden are quite beautiful and it put in mind of an idyllic French farm house. |
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What has so far been described is the idyllic situation where the bookshop owner is congenial. |
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The idyllic setting is made more perfect still when, on our first night, a full moon lights up the night sky. |
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An idyllic vision of green water and blue pine trees shimmers in the distance. |
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City dwellers are flocking to South Lakeland to snap up farms as they try to buy into an idyllic rural life. |
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Citing the idyllic visions of our ancient texts, he drew attention in that address to the deviations from the ideal. |
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They have this idea that it's Utopia, but the lifestyle is in no way idyllic. |
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His life seems set towards one of idyllic village life and oppressive bondage to his masters. |
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Funday Sunday was the bucolic and idyllic climax of the Kells heritage festival. |
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However, as with the rest of the world, things are changing fast on this idyllic coastline. |
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After long travelling, foul weather and false starts, the picture before us is not nearly so idyllic or clear cut. |
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For starters, the idyllic town near the Jersey Shore already has a Walmart. |
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Rodgers hails from chico, Calif., an idyllic pristine town in Northern California about a three-hour drive from San Francisco. |
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Ishiguro's latest work, Never Let Me Go, presents a portrait of a fictional English boarding school that seems idyllic but leaves us rather queasy. |
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The idyllic, mild climate and transparent sea makes it the most attractive area for underwater and surface water-based activities including sailing and diving. |
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Set in idyllic surroundings, with the sound of the Barrow flowing gently over the weir in the background, the studio is the perfect location for an artist. |
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Look a little closer at the well-groomed kids with innocent, idyllic faces in school blazers or the teens that look identical to their parents except for their age. |
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This portrait of a beautiful, lighthearted child was key to representing the idyllic Ralph Lauren lifestyle. |
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Frantically clutching his terrified daughter, Heppell found an air pocket in a basement and sheltered for two hours as the idyllic resort around him was destroyed. |
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Alexander at one time had toyed with the idea of renouncing his rights to the succession and going with his wife to live an idyllic life on the banks of the Rhine. |
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By recalling the idyllic past, the poetic imagination can, by bringing forth the image of that apparently lost Utopia, promote its future restoration. |
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Send Becca funny emails with pictures of places we'd like to go, with exes marking the spot on the idyllic beach where we'd sit drinking mai tais. |
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We never have, and almost certainly never will have, that idyllic outdoor meal on a checked rug by a babbling stream, because as they say, it's all in the mind. |
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Caring for livestock or tending the land seems an idyllic lifestyle. |
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The result was strange, a sort of jerryrigged Eden with a laugh track, somehow both idyllic and lunatic all at once. |
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The picturesque Umbrian hill town of Perugia may have seemed an idyllic setting for cultural and linguistic enhancement. |
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Surrounded by plum, mango and cashew trees laden with fruit, the idyllic settlement with a spectacular view of the valley and sea seemed an unlikely stage for an action drama. |
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There's something about the friendly nature of the place, the predominance of music, and the idyllic beauty of the shores and the surf, that heightens the joy of living. |
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I had spent an idyllic summer on Mayne Island which takes its name from a lieutenant on a Royal Navy survey ship that charted these waters a century and a half ago. |
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Renvyle House Hotel has an idyllic setting, with its own stretch of beach, superb grounds including a croquet lawn, and rambling but beautifully maintained gardens. |
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Gravel pathways winding over humps in the landscape, idyllic wooden bridges crossing twinkling streams here and there, all clothed in colourful vegetation. |
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An idyllic pastoral quality is evoked by two men enjoying the view from the shore of Rocky Neck in the foreground, while a third walks by with his dog and two sheep. |
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In an ideal world we can fantasise about replicating the idyllic childhoods of the past, but the horrible truth is that we can no longer afford that fantasy. |
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The unhappiness of others somehow besmirches their own idyllic picture. |
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But the break seemed falsely idyllic with an undercurrent of doom. |
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But the idyllic rural landscape is interrupted every few miles by vast industrial plants which rear up on the horizon, pumping toxic waste from multiple grey chimneys. |
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My childhood was idyllic in a kind of 1970s, pre-digital way. |
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While some paint an idyllic picture of pre-industrial or early industrial society, the reality for the masses of working people was anything but idyllic. |
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Having gate-crashed and disrupted an idyllic island community, he then proceeds to muscle in on the French girl, ousting her nice harmless boyfriend from her affections. |
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We are sending a lucky winner and a friend to the idyllic spice island of Grenada. |
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Brian Laudrup was scunnered in Italy but when he came to Rangers, his family life became idyllic. |
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My fellow-creatures, from whom I was thus separated, began to assume idyllic virtue and beauty in my memory. |
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It has all the beauty of an idyllic tropical island without any of the nasty, bitey stuff. |
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His antiauthoritarian streak shines through as he chronicles his idyllic youth in New York City and his discovery of love. |
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Although it was not a great incentive by itself, the conditions at New Lanark for the workers and their families were idyllic for the time. |
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Sometimes it refers, whether with appreciation, nostalgia or critical analysis, to idyllic or enigmatic aspects of the English countryside. |
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Life was not idyllic for all residents though, among whom there were great disparities in wealth. |
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Elms occur often in Pastoral Poetry, where they symbolise the idyllic life, their shade being mentioned as a place of special coolness and peace. |
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However, his idyllic lifestyle is threatened by the arrival of a brash American trickster eager for a piece of the action. |
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She describes an idyllic country life in which each family can have a farm that will just suit its needs. |
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Undoubtedly, but then idyllic fairly describes Kalymnos, as yet an unspoilt and largely undiscovered Greek island in the Dodecanese cluster. |
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Morris was a caring father to his daughters, and years later they both recounted having idyllic childhoods. |
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He could retire to the idyllic with the knowledge that he had not been wanting when Romance called. |
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Landscaping and groundskeeping workers create and maintain idyllic outdoor settings. |
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Her words unanticipatedly take us to an idyllic moment out of the realm of perennial turmoil. |
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As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic. |
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Where the love stories are romantic but real, idyllic yet flawed. |
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Only agile snorkellers with waterproof cameras tucked into their swimming trunks can capture the idyllic spot. |
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Cornwell appears to live an idyllic life in Cape Cod, taking two months off from writing every year to spend most of it on his 24ft Cornish Crabber, Royalist. |
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In more recent years, New Urbanism has set the stage for new cities, with places like the idyllic Seaside, Florida, and Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida. |
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They find not just a portrayal of the idyllic or treacherous environment during a particular period of US history, but a central component of the American mythos. |
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In the musicalized Belz, Spring springs eternal, childhood is recalled as playful laughter, sweet dreams and idyllic Sabbath strolls along the riverbank. |
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The first half would have been the idyllic remedy for those plagued by insomnia, as both set of players did their utmost to deliver a spellbindingly dour performance. |
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A housesitter invites a couple of strangers to spend summer in the idyllic country home shes watching, but their pasts soon begin to catch up with them. |
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Showing a young couple with their two children and pet dog relaxing on a small sailing boat the poster paints an idyllic picture of the Tyneside town. |
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Set in the idyllic tropical paradise of the Cayman Islands, the film was written and directed by music video director and native Caymanian Frank E Flowers. |
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A more homely programme Gwlad y Gan was produced by rival channel TWW which set classic Welsh songs in idyllic settings and starred baritone Ivor Emmanuel. |
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Despite mounting evidence that life after mergers is less than idyllic, no one in Corporate America seems willing to challenge the old adage that bigger is better. |
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In culture, animal husbandry often has an idyllic image, featuring in children's books and songs, where happy animals live in attractive countryside. |
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The idyllic beach, popular for windsurfing and kitesurfing, is also just a few miles east of Constantine Bay, where Margaret Thatcher used to holiday regularly. |
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Beginning in 1874, the city of Mainz assimilated the Gartenfeld, an idyllic area of meadows and fields along the banks of the Rhine to the north of the rampart. |
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But his idyllic life was turned upside down when Vanuatu was ravaged by the 155mph winds of Cyclone Pam, which killed 14 and left thousands homeless. |
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