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Literally, in Amleth’s case, as he hacks, stabs and cudgels his way over ramparts and through muddy dooryards and alleyways.

I want the rebirth, the renewal, the rejuvenation, the dewdrops and showers, the first cuckoos and ascendant larks, the dooryard lilacs and budding twigs.

Plus, many Vermonters have - for more than a century now - taken great pride in the ingenuity and resourcefulness of dooryard junkers.

A great wartime president had died suddenly — just short of the victory for which he had worked so long — and it was April again, when lilacs in the dooryards bloom.

Sounder panted faster, wagged his tail, whined, moved from the dooryard to the porch and back to the dooryard.