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upland
1. the upland days of
2. "It's probably a lot like the Dos basin, rather upland and hilly," Byia began
3. It could be that his parents didn’t know how to mat a good wrap and he was used to brittle ones? Or maybe the upland thesh didn’t hold?
4. Almost half the network nodes on the planet, over eight thousand, were within the single upland basin around the twelve thousand mile long series of lakes
5. gloom - entered a world of upland pastures
6. eventually left the tree line and entered a wild upland
7. Tramping the hills and breathing upland air,
8. She gave into his hands a wooden dish heaped with dried fruits, cheese and barley bread, and a great pot of the heady upland beer, brewed from barley grown in the high valleys
9. When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
10. upland game and waterfowl
11. The rams had defended themselves better than the ewes and some would be able to perform their vital role as sires of his new breed of Dorset upland sheep
12. Although the light was still clear, Hawkbit was not to be seen anywhere on the upland
13. I was on the central boss of a huge upland country, and could see everything moving for miles
14. The upland just goes on and on, open, dry and lonely
15. When they came out of the woods, all his attention was engrossed by the view of the fallow land on the upland, in parts yellow with grass, in parts trampled and checkered with furrows, in parts dotted with ridges of dung, and in parts even ploughed
16. Marta upland and the Valley of Sulaco
17. Thence he passed to the huge and ferocious bird, the phororachus, and to the great elk which still roams upon this upland
18. Heavens, didn’t they realize that if they hadn’t been silly enough to fire the shot that And the Charlestonians took so much upon themselves about Fort Sumter! Good started the war some other fools would have done it? Accustomed to the brisk voices of thought if she ever again heard voices that said “paams” for “palms” and “hoose” for upland Georgia, the drawling flat voices of the low country seemed affected to her
19. It had come—appearing suddenly from behind the forehead of the nearest upland, and stopping beside the boy with the barrow
20. At the moment of speaking her hat had blown off into the road, their present speed on the upland being by no means slow
21. Immediately he began to descend from the upland to the fat alluvial soil below, the atmosphere grew heavier; the languid perfume of the summer fruits, the mists, the hay, the flowers, formed therein a vast pool of odour which at this hour seemed to make the animals, the very bees and butterflies drowsy
22. She might have added besides: "On an Australian upland or Texan plain, who is to know or care about my misfortunes, or to reproach me or you?" Yet, like the majority of women, she accepted the
23. She had preferred the country west of the River Brit to the upland farm for which she was now bound, because, for one thing, it was nearer to the home of her husband's father; and to hover about that region unrecognized, with the notion that she might decide to call at the Vicarage some day, gave her pleasure
24. They had a low and unassuming aspect from this upland, though as approached on the other side from Blackmoor in her childhood they were as lofty bastions against the sky
25. After this season of congealed dampness came a spell of dry frost, when strange birds from behind the North Pole began to arrive silently on the upland of Flintcomb-Ash; gaunt spectral creatures with tragical
26. But both the young women were fairly cheerful; such weather on a dry upland is not in itself dispiriting
27. Thus absorbed, she recrossed the northern part of Long-Ash Lane at right angles, and presently saw before her the road ascending whitely to the upland along whose margin the remainder of her journey lay
28. Having already traversed about five miles on the upland, she had now some ten or eleven in the lowland before her journey would be finished
29. Though they had started so early, it was quite late in the afternoon when they turned the flank of an eminence which formed part of the upland called Greenhill
30. Thence he went along the verge of the upland overhanging the other Hintocks, and, turning to the right, plunged into the bracing calcareous region of Flintcomb-Ash, the address from which she had written to him in one of the letters, and which he supposed to be the place of sojourn referred to by her mother
31. Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St Catherine's Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon was lost in the radiance of the sun hanging above it
32. The little upland lawn was open upon the East and was filled now with the early sunlight
33. Slowly they passed through the short heath and upland grass, speaking
34. ‘And Nicholas? Where is he? By the Lyadov upland, isn’t he?’
35. To expiate his huntsman’s offense, Ilagin pressed the Rostovs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares
36. Accordingly they found themselves in possession of a few extra coins, for when they felt an urge to slake their thirst with something other than water, or pass a night at a country inn, out of the sometimes-chilly upland weather
37. What can be plainer than that the webbed feet of ducks and geese are formed for swimming? Yet there are upland geese with webbed feet which rarely go near the water; and no one except Audubon, has seen the frigate-bird, which has all its four toes webbed, alight on the surface of the ocean
38. The webbed feet of the upland goose may be said to have become almost rudimentary in function, though not in structure
39. Thus, we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose, or of the frigate-bird, are of special use to these birds; we cannot believe that the similar bones in the arm of the monkey, in the fore leg of the horse, in the wing of the bat, and in the flipper of the seal, are of special use to these animals
40. But webbed feet no doubt were as useful to the progenitor of the upland goose and of the frigate-bird, as they now are to the most aquatic of living birds
41. Hence we can understand, bearing in mind that each organic being is trying to live wherever it can live, how it has arisen that there are upland geese with webbed feet, ground woodpeckers, diving thrushes, and petrels with the habits of auks
42. On every continent, in proceeding from north to south, from lowland to upland, etc
43. How strange it is that a bird, under the form of a woodpecker, should prey on insects on the ground; that upland geese, which rarely or never swim, would possess webbed feet; that a thrush-like bird should dive and feed on sub-aquatic insects; and that a petrel should have the habits and structure fitting it for the life of an auk! and so in endless other cases
44. "Could you cut Mashkin Upland too?—what do you think?" he said to the old man
45. The last of the mowers were just ending their rows while the foremost snatched up their coats onto their shoulders, and crossed the road towards Mashkin Upland
46. The sun was already sinking into the trees when they went with their jingling dippers into the wooded ravine of Mashkin Upland
47. “And Nicholas? Where is he? By the Lyádov upland, isn’t he?”
48. To expiate his huntsman’s offense, Ilágin pressed the Rostóvs to come to an upland of his about a mile away which he usually kept for himself and which, he said, swarmed with hares
49. " The prices of upland cotton are stated at 12d