The jagged Caucasus reared above these lush hills and even before Mestia it was clear that Svaneti's fabled splendour was no exaggeration. |
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Yet with heavy weapons whining and thumping in the hills around us, nothing seems more distant than the prospect of a hearty meal. |
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Thousands of others remain trapped in the northern hills held by the rebels. |
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It stands in a valley amid green hills on the banks of the steel-blue Pichola lake. |
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They come here every year and spend two weeks at Inverey enjoying the hills and the birds and feeding hostellers with rock cakes. |
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At a young age he renounced the world and undertook a seeking journey to the hills of the mystic Himalayas in search of spiritual life. |
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I do believe that being able to breathe fresh mountain air, see the sea or green hills all the time does a lot for one's spirit. |
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She would rise early and wrap a thick cloak over her shoulders then proceed to watch as the sun drew itself over the crest of the hills yonder. |
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Throughout my childhood, the hills with the unique catsteps formations were simply a wonderful place to roam. |
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Even without British troops yomping across it, the lashing rain and hard hills make the Falkland Islands an unlikely promised land. |
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I stroll up the narrow path that winds around the small hills to the school. |
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Last May they started training again, yomping up hills carrying loaded rucksacks. |
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The sun always shines on this side of the hills but the beech trees give lots of shade. |
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But when he first arrived five years ago, the surrounding hills were as sere and brown as everywhere else. |
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Well, he's a man who loves being on the hills and what he ain't climbed ain't worth climbing. |
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The famous seven hills of Rome were healthy because mosquitoes, the vectors of malaria, only fly at low altitudes. |
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Our car thuds over the worn grass and hills alongside the road, jerking us up and down. |
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The lake, surrounded by wooded hills and heather moorland was beautiful enough. |
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Spot fires broke out on the hills and ridges ahead of the main front, and quickly spread. |
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They set up camp at Rwanda's main airport, surrounded by rolling hills and turquoise mountain lakes. |
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In the hills and valleys the memory of the echoes of the old anthem abides. |
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At some sites, corn hills have been carefully arranged in rows, while at others they show no such regular arrangement. |
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By the sixth day, the entire group was wandering through the hills without a sense of direction. |
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Journey on where flowers stay abloom until each lover has cast his kisses on longing lips-parted like hills with deep valleys. |
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The ground rises in hills on all sides, so that every spot is a sheltered nook. |
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Tall desert oaks grow in the swales between the dunes, and stately desert kurrajongs dot the rolling hills between the ranges. |
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The greater kudu is found throughout eastern and southern Africa, in mixed woodlands, bushlands, hills and mountains. |
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Crews have also been patrolling the hills above the Trans-Canada Highway, said McHale. |
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It will see a scientific centre of excellence created at the museum, which stands on the former airfield on the hills above Wroughton. |
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Giant wind turbines could be sited on hills above Todmorden if plans by Coronation Power Ltd get the go-ahead. |
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Some of the best times we had together were spent riding quad bikes off road, up hills and across rivers. |
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At nightfall you see the tiny miner's houses which line the hills glow warmly. |
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Jamie felt the cold wind blow past him as he rode through the hills faster than he ever had in his life. |
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The deciduous trees were already a riot of color, turning the hills rusty-gold in patches while the evergreens formed their own enclaves. |
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Since the 1980s, reefer madness in these rolling hills has grown as fast as a marijuana plant in the Appalachian spring. |
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A cool day and the distant ridge of the Ngong hills is pale against the washed-out sky, with a thin layer of cloud flat and hard over the city. |
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To the east is a range of hills with limestone and sandstone plateaux, and on the east bank of the Gulf of Suez is the Sinai desert. |
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And in the meantime, in all those hills surrounding those cities, sharpshooters are standing by in watchtowers. |
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Several clouds had blanketed themselves out across the hills and mountains in the distance, dark lilac over darker purple. |
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It flew in search of waterfalls that fell off the hills and flowed in serpentine paths on the plains. |
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With nothing much in the way between the watering holes, certainly no hills to speak of, we looked set for the perfect pub crawl. |
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Can you see high hills dappled in snow from your apartment or damp basement flat? |
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Behind it rear an assortment of rolling hills and mountains, dominated by Ben Lui. |
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The young men who'd been hiding in the hills filtered back into the town to greet their new protectors. |
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Its name 'Rhugrabh' is suggested by these hills which are bathed deep red in the sunset's afterglow. |
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Walking, whether on hills or on the flat, is a popular past-time in the locality. |
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The fine paintings of Kota bring alive the teeming life of the hills of Rajasthan. |
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The land is flat, and perhaps it's my imagination, but it appears stunted and less fertile than the hills and mountains to the north east. |
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The topography of the county ranges from low rolling hills in the north to very flat terrain or gentle sloping ridges in the south. |
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Far off, other mountain peaks descended into smaller whitecaps and waves of hills that broke against the base of Cadillac Mountain. |
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If you climb simulated hills on a stationary bike, you can wheeze up real ones on a mountain bike. |
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This range of hills was impassable for early settlers and stopped westward expansion. |
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It whizzes up steep hills with brio and remains stable as it passes coaches and juggernauts. |
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The steep hills and valleys also offer superb rivers for white-water rafting. |
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He even claimed to have fought with him in the hills and he threatened to show us his wound. |
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The sun rose just about the hills near the lake, which made the quiet lake reflect its light, adding more radiance. |
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I was born in these hills and, half a century later, found myself filled with both dread and relief. |
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We'd pulled the car up on the hills east of Rosedale and three yards the other side of the glass a cold wind quivered a lapwing's crest. |
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Major Hilary Evans was a prisoner of war escapee, who lived rough in Italy's hills and mountains to avoid recapture. |
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Looters hit a police station in Petionville, an upscale suburb in the hills above the capital. |
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In late evening, as the sun sets, the hills on the distant horizon tint to pink and deep rose. |
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In the hills are the nimble klipspringers which explore these hilly rocky outcrops. |
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Teams of rescuers scoured bush-clad hills in rain and mist yesterday searching for the missing trio. |
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The lower hills at left and at right are lava domes belonging to the Amiata complex. |
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As our flight of ten cleared the hills west of the airfield, we caused a panic at the field. |
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On either side of her rose hills covered with vineyards and the gently rotating white sails of the windmills used for crushing grapes. |
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The hills and narrowing canyon of this arm lure the paddler to explore quiet places, fish, and swim. |
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The eagles tend to roost in huge ponderosas in northeast-facing canyons among the hills that dot Wyoming's mile-high prairies. |
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The steep, rocky hills and narrow coastline have influenced architecture and urban planning in Monaco. |
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They would go and tell each other spooky stories on the hills and the house was always full of laughter. |
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What caused this dramatic change from rolling hills to such a ruggedly beautiful landscape? |
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Their achievements will be lauded in the hills around Killawalla for many years. |
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One thing I love about these rides is that they cover rolling hills over backroads. |
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The climate was temperate but windy, the terrain a mixture of downland, rocky hills and peat bogs. |
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The dip and roll of the country conceals low hills topped by historic towns. |
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Lightning forked the sky outside and the thunder rolled down the hills in a tumble. |
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Most of the route stretches through rolling green hills and intervening rice paddies underlain with rich red lateritic soils. |
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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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I want to put everything on hold and take off into the hills for a few days. |
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Farmers have been unable to bring in ewes for lambing after wintering them on hills and in fields, while calving has also been disrupted. |
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It was hard going up the hills when the temperature climbed in the late morning, but the downhill sections were all rideable, but demanded great care and concentration. |
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I turned onto a windy road up into the hills above our town. |
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I was thinking about this short-lived notoriety as I walked the hills with their scattering of sheep when I became aware of another fact about these woolly creatures. |
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These hills are then shaped into the typical aerodynamic shape of a yardang, while the troughs separating the yardangs usually have a U-shaped cross section. |
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The rolling hills stretched out before them, the grass waving in the wind. |
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European agrimony is found on dry, grassy hills and in woods. |
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All the information I received led me to believe that the hills were not as bad as first anticipated so I chose a full time trial bike instead of a road bike. |
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The scenery is beautiful, including green rolling hills and massive waterfalls and the ending will leave you scratching your head. |
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The wave-like shapes of the far hills were already indistinct. |
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When the burn is finished, the hills have a brown-green glow of fresh grass peeking from scorched earth. |
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After a brisk walk over the hills with the dogs, she has a second breakfast of hot milky chocolate, malted wheatgerm buttered bread with home grown hedgerow jam. |
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Dassies abound on the hills and there are also porcupines and antbears. |
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This beguiling little loch lies in the hills to the west of Ashkirk and north of Hawick, nestling between Belmanshaws and the Dod at a height of 320 metres. |
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The bleak, snowy hills of Scotland are the setting for a slicey, dicey Roman invasion against the dashing, plucky Celtic tribes. |
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There were none of the modern judder bars to slow traffic, but the corrugations in unsealed roads especially on hills and on corners could have the same effect. |
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A peal of thunder crashed through the hills and echoed resoundingly. |
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Twice divorced, he lives alone in an Italian-style estate near the sere hills of north Phoenix, where he is surrounded by citrus and pecan trees and paintings by Andy Warhol. |
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At the very least the existing buildings could benefit from some design revitalisation which could also allow them to connect more to the surrounding hills and riverscape. |
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The hills of Ibiza are covered in savine pine trees which are prized for their wood because it is immune to woodworm and therefore excellent in the construction of interiors. |
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In seasonally wet tropical areas, tower karst hills are often residuals from past wetter climates and tend to have their caves partially filled by secondary calcite deposits. |
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We continued reforesting the hills around Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. |
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Despite the conditions, they're as alert as ever, for stalking these hills are Patagonia pumas, cats that can pull down guanacos twice their weight. |
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Nestled in the hills are small market towns like Buleda, dominated by Baluch who make a living smuggling diesel and drugs. |
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Now a government minister has announced that readings will instead be taken from a Met Office weather station 12 miles away high on the hills at Wood head. |
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The Greeks held the pass but eventually a traitorous Greek led a Persian force through the hills to the rear of the Greek forces, who were subsequently massacred. |
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Imagine driving through the Scottish countryside, rolling through a vast landscape of green hills and cloudy skies. |
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Somewhere in the basalt hills a lion roared, the sound carrying through the night until another responded. |
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Much of the countryside is accessible too, with hundreds of long-distance paths and shorter, waymarked routes to help you discover woodlands, heaths, hills and moors. |
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Three years ago, Republican Guard soldiers came into the hills and killed a cleric accused of hosting Jundullah fighters. |
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She comes from a groovy village in the hills above Todmorden. |
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With a wonderful setting situated at the front of the glass dome, it affords unbroken views of the River Irvine, the church spires of the town and the hills beyond. |
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A shepherd leads his flock of 50 from the Tuscan hills back to the farm. |
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We hired a car and drove far away from the coastal tourist belt and up into the hills to the villages and monasteries in the Troodos Mountains to sample real Cypriot life. |
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For all any Union unit on the hills around Gettysburg knew, or any cavalry unit like this one out reconnoitering knew, the battle might go on for days more. |
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In the bluff countryside of Sparta, Wis., the hills roll, the barns are red, and Holsteins graze in the shadow of 11-foot-high pumpkins and 15-foot-long walleyes. |
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We used to chase those Scottish lassies up and down the hills at midnight. |
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They exist even in a different realm from the Central Valley of California, just over the hills and a world away. |
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This is an ambitious 18-track programme piece redolent of the history, mystery, and eloquent loneliness in the Border hills of the composer's childhood. |
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Almost 32, he pushes himself through one of the toughest regimes on the tour, dashing up and down hills before pumping iron and spending hours on the practice court. |
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High-grade ore is still refined in roasters and mills, but the low-grade stuff goes into leach heaps, huge hills of pulverized ore mounded atop plastic liners. |
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In every direction there were wide skies, gold grass hills and acacia trees. |
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The Brecon Beacons are one of four ranges of mountains and hills in South Wales which make up the Brecon Beacons National Park. |
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This leads to a landscape of hills and plains, as well as substantial meanders which have formed impressive river cliffs. |
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The landscaped gardens were formed by blasting away parts of hills to create vistas. |
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The exact significance of the name is unclear as there are no hills in the vicinity. |
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The whole bay is shut in by high hills and is thickly encircled with sands. |
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It was built in about 1067 by the Norman baron Hamelin de Ballon to guard against incursions by the Welsh from the hills to the north and west. |
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In the 1840s, the hills of Montgomeryshire included flocks from the low country. |
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These hills appear to have been formed during the last ice age under permafrost conditions dominated by sparse tundra vegetation. |
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In South Devon the landscape consists of rolling hills dotted with small towns, such as Dartmouth, Ivybridge, Kingsbridge, Salcombe, and Totnes. |
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Tribal boundaries were guarded by smaller lookout Nuraghes erected on strategic hills commanding a view of other territories. |
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This sport possibly evolved from the shepherd's need to occasionally get over an open area in the hills as they were tending their sheep. |
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Strong updrafts, downdrafts and eddies develop as the air flows over hills and down valleys. |
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The air along the hills becomes cooler and denser, blowing down into the valley, drawn by gravity. |
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The walls enclosed all the seven hills of Rome plus the Campus Martius and, on the right bank of the Tiber, the Trastevere district. |
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When Santa visits his paisans with Dominick he'll be, because the reindeers cannot climb the hills of Italy. |
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When he did, his voice shook the hills and made the water splash like crazy. |
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Grey rhebok are less commonly seen and are scarce, but may be observed along the beach hills at Olifantsbos. |
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The main habitat on these hills is calcareous grassland, with some arable agriculture. |
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The Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age people that occupied southern Britain built settlements on the hills and downland that cover Wiltshire. |
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The neck of the island between the two hills where the farm was located has an unusual flora. |
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These are high hills with steep slopes where they border the clays to the south. |
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The hills dip steeply forming a scarp onto the Thames valley to the north, and dip gently to the south. |
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Chalk deposits are very porous, so the height of the water table in chalk hills rises in winter and falls in summer. |
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Roman fortified hills can be found in the north of the area and Uckfield has a large architectural conservation area. |
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The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the Isle of Purbeck to the south, lie atop Western Europe's largest onshore oil field. |
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Most of the mountains and hills are found in the southeastern part of the state. |
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Above these pits, there are hills formed by the hot masses burst out from the ground as estimated by a logical reasoning. |
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Moldova's hills are part of the Moldavian Plateau, which geologically originate from the Carpathian Mountains. |
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The original settlement developed on hills that faced onto a ford beside the Tiber Island, the only natural ford of the river in this area. |
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The city of Beijing was rebuilt with new palace grounds that included artificial lakes, hills and mountains, and parks. |
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These hills are cut down to a kind of terrace which lies between them and the river. |
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The terrain consists mostly of grassy plains and wooded hills in the eastern region. |
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A new government center was to be built on the hills northeast of Manila, or what is now Quezon City. |
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Most of the peninsula is formed by a vast plain with few hills or mountains and a generally low coastline. |
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The dominant feature of Panama's geography is the central spine of mountains and hills that forms the continental divide. |
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It also has rolling hills and rugged mountain ranges traversing the northern and southern lengths of the island. |
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This land was especially suited to winter building because it had already been cleared, and the tall hills provided a good defensive position. |
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Oxystelma esculentum is a slender, laticiferous climber found in hedges near water courses throughout the plains and lower hills of India. |
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The steep gravelly slopes of the mountains and hills of the eastern slopes of the Southern Urals are mostly covered with rocky steppes. |
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To the southeast of the Benue are hills and mountains, which form the Mambilla Plateau, the highest plateau in Nigeria. |
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The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burnt at his presence. |
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The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall. |
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The northernmost part of the state is part of the Piedmont Plateau with hills and rolling surfaces. |
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Cecil Rhodes and other early white pioneers like Leander Starr Jameson are buried in these hills at a site named World's View. |
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The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif. |
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However, Worcester has more than seven hills including Indian Hill, Newton Hill, Poet's Hill, and Wigwam Hill. |
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Providence is one of many cities claimed to be founded on seven hills like Rome. |
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Both mark the beginning of a larger horseshoe chain of hills known as the Kentmere Round. |
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Creating passages for trains up steep hills and through mountain regions offers many obstacles which call for special technical solutions. |
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In 2013, a memorial toposcope was unveiled on the hills near his home town of Blackburn. |
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The view stretches from the Pennines in the east to a great arc of Lakeland hills filling the western horizon. |
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These are known locally as fells and range from low hills to the highest ground in England. |
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In these hills are many evidences of historic mining activity, a testament to the mineral wealth beneath. |
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Blencathra, also known as Saddleback, is one of the most northerly hills in the English Lake District. |
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It is the highest peak in a group of hills between the villages of Lorton, Braithwaite and Buttermere, and overlooks Crummock Water. |
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It is the highest of the group of hills north of Whinlatter Pass in the North Western Fells. |
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Travelling in this direction the principal hills are Kirk Fell, Pillar, Scoat Fell, Haycock and Caw Fell. |
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These are locally known as fells and range from low hills to the highest ground in England. |
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In this sector are Great Crag and Grange Fell, lower hills exposing more rock and popular as short climbs. |
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When I get the hills to line up, the lakebed is in the wrong place,'' Moore said, peering through the transparency. |
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It is the highest of a group of hills in the Eastern Fells, standing to the south of the Helvellyn range. |
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From Ambleside to the southwest the lower hills around Troutbeck are within easy reach. |
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Esk Pike is a fell in the English Lake District, one of the great cirque of hills forming the head of Eskdale. |
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The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. |
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The main spine of the ridge runs north over Swirl How and Great Carrs and south west to Dow Crag and the lower hills beyond. |
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Wainwright himself later relented and included these lesser hills in a supplementary volume, The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. |
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The low rolling hills of Low Furness are formed of glacial deposits, mainly boulder clay, above Triassic sandstone and Carboniferous limestone. |
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It is also likely that bluestone axes were exported from the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire. |
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See also List of fells in the Lake District for a full list in height order, and List of hills in the Lake District for more Lakeland hills. |
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Artificial hills may be referred to by a variety of technical names, including mound and tumulus. |
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In Britain, many churches at the tops of hills are thought to have been built on the sites of earlier pagan holy places. |
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The hills on the western side of the Forest of Bowland attract walkers from Lancaster and the surrounding area. |
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The centre and south west of the county, around Sherwood Forest, features undulating hills with ancient oak woodland. |
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The coastal hills of the east extend between San Benedetto del Tronto in the north and Torino di Sangro in the south. |
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They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills to the adjacent topographically higher mountains, hills, and uplands. |
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A range of sand hills in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, also share the name of Misk. |
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The Weaver Hills are a small range of hills in north Staffordshire, England. |
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Mickle Fell is a mountain in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England. |
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Fair Snape Fell is one of the larger hills in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, England. |
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You'll find Mr Drappier's chateau in the rolling hills of the Aube en Champagne region. |
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Iron Age fields and hut circles can still be seen in outline on the hills above Grassington and Kettlewell. |
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Additionally, many are placed so that nearby hills either mark or do not interfere with such observations. |
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To the west of the town lies the Cheshire Plain and to the east lie the hills of the Peak District. |
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The name 'Kielder Forest' is often also applied to the area of hills and remote moorland that surround the forestry plantations. |
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And yet the inhabitants were still expected to travel many miles to church each Sunday, over hills and rough terrain. |
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It seems likely that the hills of Dartmoor do affect the microclimate of South Brent. |
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And now hur prattle of Davie, I think yonder come prancing down the hills from Kingston, a couple of hur t'other cozens, Saint Nicholas' clerks. |
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Glad cam the dawn in rosy robe, Whilk day our Saviour rase, An' flang her scancing dewy veil Out ower the hills and braes. |
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It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon. |
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Bracketing the alluvial fans were the first low and rocky hills of the Andes. |
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Collier used to ratch about on his bicycle up into the hills and take wonderful pictures of farms and people. |
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Along the rocky hills behind Jon and Rosa Yearout's ranch, Nez Perce teens gallop on lean, spotted horses called Appaloosas. |
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River bottoms and draws between rolling hills of little and big bluestem are choked with cedars, cottonwoods and box elders. |
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Up and down them hills and hollers and out acrosst that Injun country, like the devil was after 'em. |
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A cow would find no joy in scampering up craggy hills to nibble nothing more than an agarita bush. |
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Over in the hills of Jamaica, William Melvin Kelley is finishing a bodacious novel in an idiom calculated to becringe the critics. |
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A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks. |
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The cantonments, it transpired, were singularly ill-sited for defence, being built on low, marshy ground, overlooked by hills on all sides. |
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There were outflankings and crownings of hills by numbers of thirteen and seventeen men, that made one hold one's breath. |
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But compared to the jagged, snow-covered peaks in the distance, the mountains back east were mud hills with delusions of adequacy. |
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England's terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. |
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The viceroy retreated hastily to the hills when defeated by a small British force. |
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Initially, Rome's immediate neighbours were either Latin towns and villages, or else tribal Sabines from the Apennine hills beyond. |
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They were also the first Europeans to cross the Chaco and reach the outer territories of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes, near Sucre. |
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This area includes the Derwent Fells above the Newlands Valley and hills to the north amongst which are Dale Head, Robinson. |
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More than 160 of the hills of Dartmoor have the word tor in their name but quite a number do not. |
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The Thames Valley is a floodplain surrounded by gently rolling hills including Parliament Hill, Addington Hills, and Primrose Hill. |
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He arrived at Toulon on 5 October, where he found that a large French army had occupied the hills surrounding the city and was bombarding it. |
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Nelson began to land guns from his ships and emplace them in the hills surrounding the town. |
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Ice covered almost all of what is now Scotland, most of Ireland and Wales, and the hills of northern England. |
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Two small but notable hills are within the historic core, Ludgate Hill to the west and Cornhill to the east. |
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The fictional lake resembles Windermere, but the surrounding hills and fells resemble those of Coniston Water. |
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It is therefore usually associated with hills and downland, and occurs in regions with other sedimentary rocks, typically clays. |
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During the Roman invasion the invaders were attracted to Derbyshire because of the lead ore in the limestone hills of the area. |
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In the north are the Cheviot Hills, a range of hills that mark the border between England and Scotland. |
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Further south, the hills give way to areas of rolling moorland, some of which have been covered by forestry plantations to form Kielder Forest. |
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The hills are sometimes considered a part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland as they adjoin the uplands to the north. |
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The southern Cheviot hills encompass the slopes running down to the valley of the river Coquet. |
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The boundary of the hills is clearly defined on the north west side by the scarp slope. |
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The Thames is a clear end point to the south west, whereas north east of Luton the hills decline slowly in prominence. |
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The hills have been used as a location for telecommunication relay stations such as Stokenchurch BT Tower and that at Zouches Farm. |
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The chalk that forms the hills can clearly be seen on both sides of the cutting when driving on the motorway. |
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The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent. |
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The roses on the collars refer to the Yorkshire rose and the compartment resembles the area's hills and dales. |
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The hills are largely made of carboniferous limestone, which is quarried at several nearby sites. |
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The greater sand hills increasingly do not migrate, but almost all lessers do. |
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The western hills are home to juniper, tamarisk, coarse grasses, and scrub plants. |
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The hills in the locality such as Bathampton Down saw human activity from the Mesolithic period. |
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Long after the city grew to the seven hills the Palatine remained a desirable residential area. |
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Giants are rough but generally righteous characters of formidable strength living up the hills of the Basque Country. |
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The elves of Norse mythology have survived into folklore mainly as females, living in hills and mounds of stones. |
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Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire. |
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The level of the lake rose until it was able to flow over the hills to the south. |
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This flow eroded a path through the hills forming the gorge and permanently diverting the Severn southwards. |
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The rocks of the central part of the anticline include hard sandstones, and these form hills now called the High Weald. |
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The western landscape mostly consists of rugged cliffs, hills and mountains. |
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The centre of Cardiff is relatively flat and is bounded by hills on the outskirts to the east, north and west. |
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The city expanded to the natural barrier of the hills that surround it, overwhelming other settlements. |
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The coastal plain of the Atlantic seaboard gives way further inland to deciduous forests and the rolling hills of the Piedmont. |
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Ranges of steep hills channelled the advance into three attacks each by an Indian or West African division. |
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East Anglia is the lowest area of England, having no high hills or mountains and hosting an area of the Fens, the lowest area of England. |
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There are ranges of gentler, rolling hills even in the central lowlands of Scotland. |
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Red deer are common on the hills and the grey seal and common seal are present around the coasts of Scotland. |
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Although reported from two other sites in the nineteenth century, it currently grows only on two serpentine hills on the island of Unst. |
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Sites visited included the Gaudalquiver Delta, Bonanza saltpans, grass lowlands and marshes, and also wooded hills and mountains. |
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In cold winters there is good ice climbing on the hills of Craignaw, Merrick and Cairnsmore of Fleet. |
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Spoil from the mine workings was piled on the hills close to the village which grew nearby. |
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The rust has gathered on the plough, The tide of Autumn here is high, The hills are at their reddest now. |
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In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world. |
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Smaller farms were also appearing on the hills and moors of Northern Ireland and England. |
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Bowie moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills to the north of Lake Geneva. |
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Observation Posts were located on hills that provided a good view of the surrounding area. |
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On February 14, 2008 a winter storm caused an unusual snowfall in the upper reaches of the hills of the city. |
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Cairn originally could more broadly refer to various types of hills and natural stone piles, but today is used exclusively of artificial ones. |
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Their eroding effects have left the Finnish landscape mostly flat with few hills and fewer mountains. |
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They are mainly composed of granite that has weathered into more rounded hills with many long scree slopes on their flanks. |
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The highest point of these hills is Glamaig, one of only two Corbetts on Skye. |
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There is a separate list of hills with Hampshire's highest and most notable hills. |
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Strathaird is a relatively small peninsula close to the Cuillin hills with only a few crofting communities, the island of Soay lies offshore. |
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The Red Cuillin hills are lower and, being less rocky, have fewer scrambles or climbs. |
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From Lossiemouth it is possible to see the hills of Caithness and the hills are easily identified, one being Morven and the other being Scaraben. |
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In the hills to the north of Borve, there is a large chambered cairn, sited in a prominent position. |
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It is closely followed by several neighbouring hills culminating at around 384 m above sea level. |
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The gently rising hills behind the town feature vineyards and olive groves, overlooking Port Phillip Bay. |
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The thickly forested hills and plateaux of the Ardennes are more rugged and rocky with caves and small gorges. |
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Where the earthwork encounters hills or high ground, it passes to the west of them. |
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Thus, the arms contain references to the hills and mountains, rivers and lakes, water supply and industry. |
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The Roman fort that replaced it was now the dim brown mark of an old archeological site on low hills off to the left. |
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Twin Peaks, a pair of hills forming one of the city's highest points, forms a popular overlook spot. |
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Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. |
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For hills with low prominence in Britain, a definition of 'parent Marilyn' is sometimes used to classify low hills. |
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To the north of the Mendip hills is the Chew Valley and to the south, on the clay substrate, are broad valleys which support dairy farming and drain into the Somerset Levels. |
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The Saddle Fell approach is as boggy as the hills to the north. |
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The Pennine chain of hills in the west is of Carboniferous origin. |
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We read Izaak Walton for his tone, for his perfect attunement to the quiet streams and flowered meadows and bosky hills of the Thames valley long ago. |
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Such a crosslight emphasizes and defines the forms of trees, buildings, hills and valleys and produces a picture with strong contrasts of darkagainst-light. |
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Who are those there in fine array on the top of Nelson's Pillar, and who is he with the domy brow, whose voice is pealing out over the green hills of holy old Ireland? |
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The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England. |
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I like to walk in the hills and drink in the wonderful views. |
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