As we began descending from mountains into the desert, I saw agaves, cacti, and ocotillo thriving on the dry, rugged slopes. |
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On the other side of the mountains there were, no doubt, journalists in Indian villages too, also trying to calm small shattered children. |
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It had high mountains where dragons slept in dark caves and low valleys where tiny sprites slept under toadstools. |
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The often steep and rugged lower slopes of the mountains are dominated by cacti, agaves, yuccas, and thorn-bearing shrubs. |
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The mountains are heavily forested, with numerous streams fed by heavy rainfall. |
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I believe if people work together, we could move mountains and we need a vision for the future. |
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They can move mountains with their enthusiasm and energy and light a fire under almost anything. |
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Alvarez produces thousands of trees that go towards repopulating the surrounding mountains and valleys. |
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We ordered them to come down from the mountains fearlessly and peacefully, reinhabit the country and rebuild their houses. |
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In the mountains rain fell, misty gray, feeding clear streams that ran in the bottoms of canyons. |
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Yesterday, a group of us went up to the mountains to pick waxberries, which are a local delicacy. |
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He reached down again, this time to scatter the animals, and they ran for the lakes, forests, mountains and trees. |
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Deserts were crossed, mountains were scaled, forests were traversed, icebergs were negotiated. |
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During the early 1850s he repeatedly crossed over the mountains and disappeared for months at a time, exploring and living off the land. |
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I've been in the mountains and luckily there's been no snow so I'm in very good condition. |
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Unfortunately, whatever mojo he worked in the mountains has reversed the Earth's cool polarity and Superman is temporarily cooler than Batman. |
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We are looking at the Aberdare Ridges, a chain of mountains that is covered with green gold. |
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The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world. |
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Sure, coyotes howled during the night, their yips and yowls bouncing off the mountains and across the valley. |
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Ahead of us the greys, cool greens and off whites of the Corsican mountains spread out toward the horizon. |
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Crustal thickening under the Himalayas reached a maximum during the Pliocene, although the mountains continued to grow. |
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This week I make the swap from climbing the banks of the track to climbing the mountains in California. |
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The clouds were threatening to come in from the mountains and that meant rain and inside activity for the next day or so. |
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West, across the rugged mountains and canyons of the southern Rockies, hung threatening cloud formations. |
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As the construction of the huge vessel approached completion, transport firms hauled the mountains of food to the site. |
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Dr. Barry, who moves mountains for her patients, is doing all that one doctor can do. |
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Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness. |
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For three hours we snaked our way through soaring mountains covered in pine forests. |
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We will move mountains to try and ensure the medal comes back to Ballynahinch and not end up with some private collector. |
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This is the kind of enthusiasm that moved mountains in postwar Europe and Japan. |
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The noble river Severn takes its rise from the Ellennith mountains and falls into the sea a few miles from Gloucester. |
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It's hard to fight off the sense of vertigo as the ground drops away on takeoff and mountains rush beneath your feet during low-level flying. |
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The nineteenth-century prospector had been a rugged individual who explored wild mountains to plumb the mysteries hidden beneath. |
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Open-ocean travelers-such as whales, tuna and sharks visit the underwater mountains on their migratory routes. |
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Higher and farther to the west the contrails of the aircraft bent around the mountains and merged with the clouds, pointing north. |
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And nearly all the village used to wave them off as they tromped down to the station with mountains of luggage, skis and snow boots. |
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It's a modern house, commanding magnificent vistas of Clew Bay and the mountains of Mayo as well as a bird's eye view of jetty goings-on. |
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By morning, though, the storm had lifted, revealing snow-capped mountains with their toes dipping into the rolling Pacific breakers. |
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Speeches of Marcos, a Zapatista leader, are transmitted by internet while he remains in hiding in the mountains of Chiapas. |
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For this reason, the builders must dig through the mountains where there is amianthus and other harmful substances. |
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There's no doubting that the might and grandeur of big mountains can make you feel very humble. |
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In a house in Burley-in-Wharfedale a woman beavers away on her sewing machine in the early hours, surrounded by mountains of cloth. |
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There are plenty of beautiful mountains and stunning views to be found at much lower altitudes. |
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It is surrounded by mountains and scattered olive groves and embraces a peaceful reed-fringed lagoon. |
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The rocks sit between the Thessalian plain in the east and the Pindos mountains in the west. |
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The Aoudad, also known as the Barbary Sheep, is a goat-antelope found in the rocky mountains of North Africa. |
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By 1941, the only way the western Allies could assist China directly was over the mountains through eastern India and north-east Burma. |
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Their objective, the mountains in the distance, was barely visible to them. |
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He waged war against the mountains of unintelligible gobbledygook that is regularly dumped on schools by government bureaucrats. |
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Mara smiled slightly as they entered the broad bowl of mountains and beheld the lake of clear water at its centre. |
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It would easily take a week, if they had no problems, to climb those mountains and reach a halfway mark. |
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The island is crumpled by mountains and creased by deep ravines just begging to be explored. |
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They demolish vast mountains of food, and it's only when that's gone that the party begins to wind down. |
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Her wings had long since begun to ache when she finally crossed the circle of mountains into the natural bowl beyond. |
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I have discovered that those mountains are the only ones that show the Northern Lights at its brightest, constantly throughout the year. |
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Rainfall is often heavy especially in the interior near the mountains and on the windward sides of the large islands. |
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The mid-ocean ridge is two chains of mountains separated by a large depression that form at a spreading center. |
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This narrow route carved into the side of the mountains winds its way through Logan's Pass and across the Continental Divide. |
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Ministers face legal action by a local authority for excluding a range of mountains from the Cairngorms National Park. |
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You may be heading for mountains or beaches or an amusement park but you want to have a break from the ordinary grind of life. |
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They will follow the tiny paths over the mountains and through the famous vineyards of Rioja before skirting the cities of Burgos, Leon and Lugo. |
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Wolf, roe deer and wild boar roam these mountains and in the spring the capercaillie, king of the forest, screams his mating call. |
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Digging out creates a natural parking space, a rectangular black patch squeezed fore and aft by white mountains tossed up by plowing. |
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Cars from near and far converged in the night to watch the mountains glow red. |
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It features everything from snow-capped mountains and river canyons to the lowlands of the Amazon basin. |
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Most of the resistance fighters were peasants who traditionally wore kaffiyehs and lived in the mountains or small villages. |
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She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys. |
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It took me a couple of hours, crunching down a steep rubbly track with a panorama of mountains ahead no matter which way the path twisted. |
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Then there is the loch sprawling on two sides, the old-world charm of the buildings, the encroaching mountains and the 40 acres of woodland. |
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Big rivers, formidable mountains and jungle-like rainforest were among the physical challenges. |
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The coolest thing I experienced in 2003 were the mountains of eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Iranian border. |
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Since the mountains of Appalachia were rich in anthracite, a superior grade of coal, the industry grew rapidly. |
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High mountains surround Loch Ossian, and the edges of the loch are softened by woods. |
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Here the land slopes down to the sea, forming complicated estuaries with the towering mountains of Achill Island just offshore. |
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Every student of the academy, and most people in the realm, knew that this area of mountains was teeming with an uncountable number of creatures. |
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Most headed to big resorts on the Black Sea, but some traveled to the mountains to ski or hike. |
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We will climb as high as 4,200 feet in the mountains and have to cope with the humidity of Andean rainforests. |
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And so they came in Christmas, muffled up in furs and with mountains of luggage, and were pleasantly surprised. |
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The mountains are massive red sandstone lumps, their vertical faces rising to table-tops or dropping sheer into canyons. |
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As soon as we arrived at Frankton the sight of Lake Wakatipu and the mountains gave us a lift in spirits. |
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One was a species of Euphrasia, or eyebright, endemic to the peaty heathlands and mountains of the Port Davey area and never before described. |
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I was in the Dolomites with, you know, huge, soaring mountains and the locals were in awe of some of the famous routes in Scotland. |
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It was a beautiful warm and calm day, and the view of mountains and lakes were magnificent. |
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The cluster of dive boats in the water stands in stark contrast to the jagged Sinai mountains and Bedouin tents on the land. |
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Green Valley Ranch is surrounded by dramatic mountains and canopied by a brilliant blue sky. |
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A group of six local people will attempt to climb the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales in as short a time as possible. |
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He points left to face the closest mountain range and says that the mountains are in Ethiopia. |
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The ancient Ural mountains barely poke their summits above the taiga, Siberia's vast conifer forest. |
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The Pennines are a range of mountains running up the middle of the northern half of England. |
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Eastwards the ridge opened out in a series of bumps, dips and peaks, more like a small range of mountains than one single hill. |
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They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris. |
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With her two children on board and oil streaming over the windshield, Margie searched the mountains for a place to put the airplane down. |
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The two were fencing on top of a grassy knoll, with mountains in the distance. |
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We will spend quality time on the sunny side of the Alps, with craggy bright-white mountains jutting out of smooth grassy meadows. |
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The reward was a view of a reed-edged lake, snow-capped mountains and a brilliant green mossy floodplain where wild horses grazed. |
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From dazzling mountains and hillsides to lush, subtropical grounds, these hip-hotels offer the perfect respite for both young and old. |
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He was facing the pine forest, the mountains hardly visible in the distance. |
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The landlocked country is dominated by the rugged Hindu Kush mountains that sweep from the west to the east. |
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Jutting mountains and low basins form a range of habitats suitable for a broad spectrum of terrestrial and freshwater species. |
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Her secret to keeping her energy up is quinoa, a grain from the Andes mountains in Peru which was one of the staple foods of the Incas. |
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Otavalo is a small town nestled up in the mountains some two hours drive from Quito, and Saturday is its famed market day. |
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I felt annoyed at the closeness of the mountains and the calmness of the village. |
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On up the Sweetwater they progressed, timbered mountains miles off on their left, bare-granite rocks rising close and steep on their right. |
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Go in search of feathered beasties in the deserts, mountains and oases of southern Morocco's kasbah country. |
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Previous data have shown that, in the ice age, glacial ice built to quite high elevations in the mountains just inland from the Ross Ice Shelf. |
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The sugary flanks of the mountains sit out with startling clarity across the valley. |
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Ephemeral stream channels are organized hierarchically on the bajada slopes from the mountains to the valley bottoms. |
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For me, it's all about the schwag, the mountains of junk companies spend thousands of dollars on in order to draw innocent passersby in. |
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The present distribution of mountains and rivers, of fields, of meadows, of steppes, of forests, and of seashores, cannot be considered final. |
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The feeling of solitude in the mountains was incredible as we settled down to dinner, wine and yet more schnapps. |
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In the Adirondack mountains of New York, an attempt to reintroduce lynxes failed, with 18 of 37 mortalities attributed to road kills. |
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It's surrounded by mountains lush with greenery, bordered with wildflowers and dotted with water lilies. |
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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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These lingams come only from the Narmada River, high in the mountains of Mandhata, one of the 7 sacred holy places of pilgrimage in India. |
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It depicted the five sacred mountains of Taoism in sort of symbolic form, with the five peaks at the top. |
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The harsh environment of the Anatolian mountains above Turkey's southern coast traditionally takes a high toll on competitors. |
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So, after Everest, she resolved to climb the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. |
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It passes steel-blue waters, deep green forests and craggy mountains rising up to 2,500 feet, and you may see golden eagles. |
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Folklore has it that several siddhas and athmas had graced these mountains centuries ago. |
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I stood up and went to the north window looking towards the mountains of my birth. |
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He had been hiking near his family's cabin in the mountains when a storm came in and it started pouring down rain and hail. |
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If I could have shielded them from this hurt I would have moved mountains to do so. |
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Down below he could see a rider galloping away from the town and towards the mountains in the distance. |
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Also known as Barbary sheep, aoudads are horned sheep that exist primarily in the mountains of Africa. |
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The tundra and vast expanse of snowy waste is used for decorative backdrops, like the mountains of Afghanistan. |
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The area consists of steep mountains rising to around 1,500 metres with flat valleys, and the area is peppered with sand dunes and dry lakes. |
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Then take advantage of the surrounding landscape of mountains and waterfalls to spend a few days hiking. |
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I was impressed by the dryness, the openness, and the mountains that broke from the plains. |
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At dusk tonight, somewhere in Afghanistan's blasted and baked mountains and deserts, a small group of men will face the setting sun and kneel. |
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It also started a trend which saw the country as the mist-covered heather-clad mountains of home, peopled by well-meaning rustics. |
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Men dig the raw material in the mountains and transport it to their homes where women apply it to the house walls as whitewash. |
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But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live. |
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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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Mist fills the middle ground, and the background mountains appear to be far in the distance. |
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Massive arcologies looming in the distance, like small mountains covered in billions of tiny lights. |
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When walking in the mountains be sure to wear stout boots with a good grip. |
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The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders. |
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The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River. |
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The performances included 5 separate acts by Madame Jim, with full costume changes, which earned mountains of applause. |
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Birds common to the mountains include rosefinches, Guldenstadt's redstarts, Himalayan monals, raptors, and vultures. |
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This gorgeous coastline of ragged bluffs, sea stacks, and mountains could become home. |
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They can bring learning alive and help young people through jungles of confusion, over rivers of problems and up mountains of challenge. |
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The Slieve Bloom mountains and a number of forest parks are within easy reach. |
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Causey nosed his mount into the meadow and headed for the low range of mountains in the east. |
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Stars began to speckle the light sky, clouds shrouding the mountains in the east. |
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The stages we set in small pockets of space within the forest, with a back drop of wooded mountains shrouded in low cloud. |
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Low, rugged mountains criss-cross the desert and are home to argali sheep and Siberian ibex. |
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Be awed by the untouched vastness of some of the oldest mountains on the planet. |
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I feel unable to breathe in this paradise, crushed by the mountains that aren't here, scared I won't be able to survive in my asphalt jungle. |
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Difficult mountains can seem hostile, haughty and mocking, wanting very much to lure in climbers, to tempt them to painful deaths on jagged rock. |
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This means my kit has supplies and equipment to handle local emergencies as well as the extremes found in the mountains and desert. |
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There is snow on the ground, and through the murk over Kabul the flanks of the surrounding mountains occasionally shine gold. |
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Lance Armstrong trained to win a record-breaking seventh Tour de France by cycling up and down mountains in the Canary Islands. |
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Waiting to jump from the boat, I gaze up at the snow-capped mountains surrounding the fjord. |
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Black, rugged mountains towered majestically at the horizon, adding savage grandeur to the solemnity of the landscape. |
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By the end of May the nearly saturated soil in the mountains could absorb little additional moisture. |
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She was a short, plump perfectly average looking womyn who lived in a small farm town a big city the mountains a town in America. |
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Where particularly heavy rain falls on mountains with steep and narrow channels, it can cause some of the worst flash floods in the world. |
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We stayed there in the mountains eating what we could find, while living in makeshift shelters. |
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It is surrounded by mountains with sheer cliffs several hundred feet high which make it popular with walkers and climbers. |
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On the Continent the removal of the grain mountains and wine lakes is taken as meaning the system is working. |
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She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window. |
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He used that phrase with reference to only two other mountains on this mountainous coast. |
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For miles, as far as the eye could see, the surface of the big loch was like a mirror, reflecting images of mountains and wooded slopes. |
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She could hear leaves crackling underfoot as she and her father walked through the mountains in autumn. |
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This led Harriet and me to delve into the mountains of newspapers that, mingled with Christmas wrappings, were destined for the recycler. |
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With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times. |
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A grey drizzle filled the valley, obliterated the mountains and separated the receding regiment of trees into saw-edged platoons. |
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The awesome majesty and power of these mountains is breathtaking and I look at them every day. |
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On to Redlands Quarry where oystercatchers wheeled around gantries and mountains of gravel. |
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With no collection system, mountains of empty plastic bottles pile up in sand dunes behind its white sand beaches. |
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I've got two Yorkshire terriers at home and I take them on 10-mile walks, but up here in the mountains my legs just gave way. |
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The system led to vast overproduction and the creation of so-called butter mountains and wine lakes. |
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Forests covered the planet with natural formations of mighty mountains tipped with snow. |
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Once the ski season is over, Andorra's mountains are still frequented by hikers, mountaineers, and rock climbers. |
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Then read the mountains of judgment, scorn, bragging, critiquing, and defensiveness that each debate seems to produce. |
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There is no reliable written record of Lenni Lenapes marrying or living with the people who eventually settled in the mountains and became known locally as a distinct group. |
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They seemed like a permanent part of the mindscape, the way mountains or rivers are part of the physical world. |
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Fog covers the mountains like a shroud and hides sudden drops. |
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He had spent the last two days lost in the Sierra Nevada mountains enduring subfreezing temperatures, with only a crudely built lean-to shelter and no food. |
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We have the crime of the century, willing defendants, mountains of evidence, uncoerced confessions. |
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Links lead to arnica, otherwise knows as Leopard's bane, a daisy that is a narcotic and stimulant used to treat bruises, found in the mountains of Europe. |
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Twenty-nine years ago, its tanks and troops stormed into the country, fighting in the mountains and descending on the capital to restore order to a city ravaged by civil war. |
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So, Schmidt followed the gold rush to the el Paso mountains and claimed an area of mining land. |
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Tinle, the man's father and a proud old chief, refuses to grant another young herder leadership of the annual yak caravan across the mountains to exchange salt for grain. |
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When he was dying, he told his family to spread half of his ashes on the mystic mountains and the lake in China he had called home for so many years. |
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He took advantage of the opportunity to record echo-sounding profiles across parts of the Pacific and discovered several flat-topped submarine mountains or seamounts. |
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There is more rainfall in the mountains than along the seacoast. |
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Much of the trading between the lowland Nepalis and Tibetan peoples of the mountains takes place at markets such as the Saturday market in Namche Bazaar. |
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Scientists at the base hosted members of the ship's company taking them up into the mountains for an afternoon of winter sports, skiing and tobogganing. |
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Deserts and mountains divided China from the Buddhist heartlands. |
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To assess the current state of play, my wife, Rosy, and I spent three months crossing Russia, from the mountains of the Caucasus to the volcanoes of Kamchatka. |
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The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands. |
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But to enter the expansive dale it must climb over 7,000 feet, wending its way through snowcapped mountains cut from the Alay and Tian Shan ranges. |
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But in the mountains of Afghanistan often all it takes for insurgents to take to their heels is the appearance of a Harrier jump jet screaming overhead. |
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The village is noted for the colours of its villas and their roofs, luxuriant foliage, the beauty of the surrounding mountains and the blue of the water and sky. |
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The team will then set up several base camps before beginning the ascents up the mountains in the wildest and least accessible part of Scandinavia. |
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In addition, there's likely to be heavy snowfall accumulations in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming that feed that Platte River drainage basins. |
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Like a sea the waste stretched out before her, ending only as the jags rose to breathtaking heights to become the rigid range of mountains called the Crown of Thorns. |
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The bell boys and concierge are overrun at times with mountains of luggage and shuttle bus responsibilities and so can be forgiven their occasional terseness. |
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In the west, the fiordlands and alpine terrain of British Columbia attest to vigorous glaciation of high-relief mountains in a snowy, maritime climate. |
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Our driver for our weekend jaunt into the mountains was right out of central casting. |
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In the Harz mountains the Walpurgis night is always a happy festival. |
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It was supposed that, wherever mountains are divided into parallel chains, the intermedial or central ridge must be more elevated than the others. |
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Somewhere in the darkness, the faint echo of a terrible drawn out scream was carried on the breeze from the mountains and the three adventurers froze in place. |
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The birds in the mountains and forests might include ring ouzels, alpine accentors, wallcreepers, nutcrackers, and we will find alpine flowers and butterflies. |
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Birding can mean sitting on your deck with a pair of binoculars and an iced tea or trekking through rugged mountains trying to identify scores of species in a single day. |
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Canals draw water from far inside the mountains to guide them towards the fields which have been terraced to facilitate the work of the precious liquid. |
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The highest mountains were cloaked in mantles of snow and ice with glaciers perched in the hanging valleys as though suspended by some invisible thread from the summits. |
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You can't spend a week out in the mountains and not have hair conditioner. |
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This king chose to disappear in the mountains permanently rather than cede to a colonial power. |
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Through the power of monopoly and sharply cutting royalty payments, Chesapeake Energy is now sitting on mountains of money. |
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Only the tops of a few mountains were left above water, and some of these became the Balearic Islands, with limestone caves full of stalagmites and stalactites. |
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This is a beautiful part of the mountains with some lovely scenic views. |
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His supporters are moving mountains to allow him to enter the race. |
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis now stranded in the mountains are awaiting the outcome of those battles. |
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It is also home to some of the world's finest spa resorts, making a perfect location for relaxing against a backdrop of hazy mountains and the desert. |
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Collen is an accomplished mountaineer, rock climber, alpine skier, and has several years experience guiding in the mountains of Vancouver Island and coastal British Columbia. |
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Here there are fewer Mercs and more ponies and traps are required to haul entire families of up to a dozen, cartloads of household appliances or mountains of hay or grass. |
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Democratic presidential nominee candidate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts says he would move mountains to improve the economy if he were elected president. |
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For winter sports enthusiasts, the southern and northern Japanese alps and the mountains of Hokkaido are home to some of the very best powder snow in the world. |
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I see hip hop as a powerful genre of music that can positively and productively move mountains and make this world a better place to live in, if utilized correctly. |
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As a counterpoint to the latter, mountains rise in tiers against a hirameji ground, suggesting twilit distances in the manner of landscapes in Yamato-e style paintings. |
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Snow-capped mountains emerge gently into view in the distance, covered in pine trees at the highest elevations. |
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The converts among the merchants and nomadic rulers built temples, pagodas and cave sanctuaries carved into the canyon cliffs and mountains along the Yellow River. |
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The words have been scrawled into the concrete footing of a makeshift dwelling in the mountains of New Mexico. |
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A delightful cast battles over a will and a stolen painting as a horde of pseudo-Nazis scour the mountains for fugitives. |
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Eastern birds may migrate south, but western populations are more often altitudinal migrants, moving from the mountains into nearby lowlands in winter. |
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During this meeting, the provincial assembly drew up a detailed plan for reforesting the mountains of Fujian and adhering to the national forest policy. |
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Earlier in the week they met villagers who had trekked across the mountains to meet aid trucks carrying blankets, bedding, food and water carriers. |
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The high mountains support typical evergreen forests of firs and cypress, whilst on the lower slopes are to be found such trees as pines, chestnuts, and cork oak. |
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My first impression of Woolrich came not from hunters, but woodcutters atop pine tree forested mountains when I was a young U.S. Forest Service firefighter. |
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Chile's rich store of folklore, sayings, and supernatural beliefs is derived from its European and Indian past, as well as its relation to the mountains and the ocean. |
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Temperatures throughout the Himalayas are, on average, rising, and the mountains are falling apart in the warming atmosphere. |
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The inland mountains are also said to have potential for ski resorts. |
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The one last night was pretty mild, and mountains pulsate less than alluvial land, but no matter how many times you're shaken, you never get used to quakes. |
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The Russian takeover instigated numerous revolts against tsarist authority, and many Kyrgyz opted to move into the Pamir mountains or to Afghanistan. |
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Many Tibetans believe that in ancient times Jiuzhaigou suffered such disasters that its mountains collapsed, trees and flowers withered and inhabitants fled. |
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Early in the morning the mountains are usually sheathed in clouds of mist. |
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Each huge clap of thunder reverberated round the mountains for so long that its noise would be interrupted by the next, causing a continuous rumbling for hours on end. |
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On the landward side it was now white-capped mountain ranges, ranks of huge mountains that joined with the chain running down the centre of the continent. |
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Your village is small and remote, extremely difficult to reach because it is isolated from the world by the treacherous currents offshore and the high mountains landward. |
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Differences in high-elevation transpiration rates between equatorial and middle-latitude mountains are greater at low lapse rates than at high ones. |
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Nearby mountains and lakes offer a full range of outdoor activities. |
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Here in northern Idaho, near where the deluge began, I survey the rounded mountains and river deltas, trying to imagine the force of such a catastrophe. |
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Similarly, the big polluted river that snakes its way like a mudflow through the coastal industrial city started out high in the distant mountains as a pristine stream. |
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It could be the beautiful autumn sunshine glistening off mountains of green and red apples which has brought about this unusual state of contemplation. |
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The year before, I had begun getting her used to the mountains by carrying her on lifts and skiing down gentle slopes, holding her in my arms like a baby kangaroo. |
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The Skyline Drive allows tourists to motor through the 105-mile stretch of paved road that winds along the crests of the mountains through the length of the park. |
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A ramble through Waterford's scenic countryside, mountains and coastline will never be the same again once you have read a new book about 15 of the county's great walks. |
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These will include the halting of further development along the main fracture zones, along the foothills of the Auas mountains in the main recharge areas of the aquifer. |
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As you walk there are views down Bowenvale Valley, and across Christchurch to Pegasus Bay in the east, and the Kaikoura mountains to the north-east. |
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Beyond it, the Cumbrian mountains rear, an impenetrable barrier. |
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In the first year Manning planted sixteen boxcar loads of rhododendron, mountain laurel, wild ginger, and ferns, all dug from the mountains of Virginia. |
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As we meandered through the mountains north of San Jose, we passed through endless coffee plantations, the rows of dark plants heavy with berries. |
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Although the year of Geronimo's birth remains obscure, he was born a Bedonkohe Apache around the headwaters of the Gila River in the mountains of southwestern New Mexico. |
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Its original castellated red walls, souks and the backdrop of the Atlas mountains to the north are exactly what its inhabitants have been surrounded with for centuries. |
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I now live in the mountains and could use the extra low gears. |
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After almost two hours waiting in their trucks, drivers finally put them into low gear to make the long pull into the mountains out of coastal Rijeka. |
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The sun's rays kiss the body of the mountains as the frosts on the grass melts and the dew drops on the flower sparkle like a diamond to the glitter of light. |
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We see herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains, elephants romping in the distance, and breathtaking shots of mountains and valleys. |
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Autumn hits hard here and the windows are blurred in the cool of the night but over the mountains there is blue sky and promise of a warm day to burn away the mist. |
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For the previous several hours we had caught fleeting glimpses of the faint outline of a range of mountains shimmering through the heat haze that obscured the horizon. |
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They gorged themselves in their mess halls, tossing away mountains of food as starving locals looked on. |
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To a skeptical reporter he insisted that he had flown his ornithopter in the California mountains years earlier but was still perfecting it. |
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The majestic blue mountains of the Maloti run from northeast to southwest of the country. |
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Frazier has a lot of fun evoking the loquaciousness of his mountains at Bud's expense. |
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Few vehicles traverse the narrow dirt road to Barranca Bejuco, an indigenous Tlapaneco community high in the mountains of southern Guerrero. |
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Others trekked north over windswept mountains through wolf and boar-filled forests to find the fertile straths that grace these lands. |
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It gets surprisingly hot in the bowl between the three mountains that include Lhotse and Nuptse. |
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He said braving the risks on the mountains does not mean that you are stonehearted. |
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She has based her work on cloudscapes, mountains and water movement, as well as sacred sites. |
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The work by artist Heather Charnley is based on meditations, dreams and all aspects of nature such as cloudscapes, mountains and water movement. |
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Looking beyond them, I was able to see the snow-capped mountains and the rimrock above the treeline. |
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You can spend two weeks exploring the second-smallest Canary Island, La Gomera, from rocky mountains to cloud forest. |
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Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo are in the Rhaetian Alps, where they discover how tough life in the mountains was during the war. |
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The verdant mountains and coastal breezes of Santa Cruz County nurture redwoods, banana slugs, and. |
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Seven itty-bitty, brightly colored frog species have been found among the leaf litter in cloud forests and nearby mountains in southern Brazil. |
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The South Wales electricity distribution area includes areas of very high sparsity such as the Cambrian mountains in Mid Wales. |
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Into the Culebra Cut, a gorge carved 100 years ago by dynamite and steam shovels through the mountains of the continental divide. |
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The quake, with a depth of 10km, was centred in the mountains that divide Qinghai province from the Tibet Autonomous Region. |
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And I am a green walnut, and you a fish, and those mountains are made of roasted sheepshit! Have it your way. Speak the truth and hear the truth. |
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On the road again, just before Bateman's Bay, I turned off the freeway and switchbacked up the mountains through a forest to Braidwood. |
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Valdensian communities took to the mountains of Savoy, and would defy the authorities in the best Burgundian manner for centuries. |
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The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. |
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They had mists both above and below them, but the sun shone through and their views extended from the Scottish mountains to the sea at Cartmel. |
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Forty miles to the west of the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, the Taurus mountains are covered in snow December onwards. |
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They built forts in the mountains which are studied today, as are the ruins of a large Samnite temple and theater at Pietrabbondante. |
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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 Sierra Central is a series of low, gentle mountains in the center of the state which are part of the Sierra Madre Occidental. |
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The mountains were theirs by right, by dint of deed and hefty mortgage. |
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Sea hollies are much lauded although the majority are from the mountains of Europe and the Near East. |
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In the Wicklow mountains NP feral goats can be seen in the surroundings of Glendalough. |
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Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most mountainous in Europe. |
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The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that once constituted an extension of the mainland. |
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Dungarvan is a seaside market town beneath the mountains in the centre of the Irish south coast. |
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In my woodlot in the western mountains of Maine, snowshoe hares are a big problem. |
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The Paiutes wove tall wild grasses into baskets and collected obsidian rocks from the nearby mountains to shape into arrowheads. |
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The mountains are dry and brown and so remote that not even helicopters fly overhead, spraying their poison over papaverous hillsides. |
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Though majestic, the view also captures the history of mountains under siege since the first axmen invaded the pristine forests. |
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