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The side of a hill.

Diamantina is built partly on a steep hillside overlooking a small tributary of the Rio Jequitinhonha (where diamond-washing was once carried on), and partly on the level plain above.

The tombs, which are chambers cut in tiers in the hard clay of the hillside, were used with few exceptions for repeated burials, and the ejected offerings had been scattered down the slope.

Across the creek, on the hillside, two elk grazed contentedly.

As the train continues down the valley, it hugs the steep hillside.

They rode out of the forest on the hillside above the guest house and rested the horses again.

Our corps was stationed on a hillside.

These are all to be found on the wooded hillside directly above the town.

On the better farms this is done with a spirit-level or compass from time to time and hillside ditches put in at the proper places.

These huts are sometimes made simply of straw and are surrounded by high thorn hedges, but, in the north, square houses, built in stories, flat-roofed, the roof sometimes laid at the same slope as the hillside, and some with pitched thatched roofs, are common.

It rushes out from the hillside and is received in a covered masonry canal, whence it flows in large iron pipes till it reaches five enormous reservoirs constructed just opposite to the entrance gates of the royal palace at Capodimonte.

The plan here too was roughly quadrangular with a central court, but owing to the erosion of the hillside a good deal of the eastern quarter has disappeared.

The extensive gardens which occupy the hillside behind the palace are adorned with fountains and cascades; the botanical garden contains manytrees from northern climates.

The glens and ravines on the hillside are often thickly wooded, and offer a delightful contrast to the open downs.

Compelled by the pressure of public opinion to attempt its relief, Edward crossed the border in June 1314,with an army of 20,000 foot and 4000 men-at-arms. He found Bruce prepared to dispute his advance on the hillside of Bannockburn, 2 iB.

The golf course is developed on a hillside and offers challenging and exciting golf on rolling fairways.

In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots.

He had no particular destination, but his meandering brought him to a hillside overlooking the new high school complex.

Crossing the creek and field to her house, she studied the hillside beyond for any sign of a deer.

More mobile and more searching than ice or rock rubbish, the trickling drops are guided by the deepest lines of the hillside in their incipient flow, and as these lines converge, the stream, gaining strength, proceeds in River its torrential course to carve its channel deeper and en- t trench itself in permanent occupation.

The city, a summer resort, lies on an undulating hillside, which rises from the water's edge to a height of more than 150 ft., and commands extensive views of the picturesque islands, headlands, and mountains of the Maine coast.

By tracing such indications up the stream or up the hillside the outcrop may sometimes be found, or at least approximately located.

The left of the Scots was ineffective, as was a part of their centre of foot on the upper part of the hillside, and the English commander proposed to deal with the remainder.

Enghien and Turenne had arranged that the Army of France was to move direct upon Freiburg by Wolfenweiter, while the Army of Weimar was to make its way by hillside tracks to Wittnau and thence to attack the rear of Mercy's lines while Enghien assaulted them in front.

Attractively situated on a hillside sloping gently to the Forth, its placid old-world aspect is in keeping with its great antiquity.

Views out to the surrounding hillside farmland above the close views of wooded gorge.

Quarries that cut great gashes in the hillside look romantic a hundred years after the workings are abandoned.

Park here and walk up the grassy boulder and rock strewn hillside to look for the 3 key birds of this area.

The path meanders from the valley floor, crossing several rivers, before ascending the hillside.

As darkness fell a few isolated lights dotted the opposite hillside but apart from that there was no evidence of other human activity.

The crag stands above a steep woody hillside, with a caravan site down on the right of the road.

On 14 October, the two armies faced each other over 400 yards of marsh and scrubby hillside.

The Emerson's house is ideally placed for sun on a south-facing hillside.

A local artist wanted to find a suitable location for a symbol of the 20th century on a chalk hillside.

Summoned silently to help them carry a keg of liquor, he drinks from the flagon, and falls asleep on the hillside.

The grounds include a kitchen garden, vineyard, formal garden, fruit trees and hillside meadow for sun bathing and walks.

After a couple of miles, a cluster of buildings appears on the hillside ahead, the round knoll bereft of its former crown.

Majorca is an island of contrasts with its rugged mountains to long streches of golden sand and pine forests to serene hillside villages.

A cozy, detached character cottage nestling on a peaceful hillside overlooking the market town of Belper.

There are several oak pollards on the hillside above the farm.

The legendary TV producer was laid to rest at the Hillside Memorial Park in west Los Angeles.

When the whole family had reached the ravine, they followed it up the hillside.

All have large windows overlooking the riverfront or the landscaped hillside gardens behind.

Cayke and her friends went to the edge of the flat tableland and looked down the steep hillside to the plains below.

The Var region holds treasures for anyone who enjoys the harmony of a hillside vineyard, ancient dry stone walls or small walking paths.

It is situated on a rocky hillside overlooking some waterfalls on the River Tywi about 12 miles north of Llandovery.

That they represent the Persepolis captured and partly destroyed by Alexander the Great has been beyond dispute at least since the time of Pietro della Valle.2 Behind Takhti Jamshid are three sepulchres hewn out of the rock in the hillside, the facades, one of which is incomplete, being richly ornamented with reliefs.

Wherever the planters have failed to guard their fields by hillside ploughing and terracing, these have been extensively denuded of soil, rendering them barren, and devastating other fields lying at a lower level, which are covered by the wash.

The four men followed them for some distance, and then lost them on the hillside.

Sitting beside her in the car, I describe what I see from the window--hills and valleys and the rivers; cotton-fields and gardens in which strawberries, peaches, pears, melons, and vegetables are growing; herds of cows and horses feeding in broad meadows, and flocks of sheep on the hillside; the cities with their churches and schools, hotels and warehouses, and the occupations of the busy people.

Sometimes, also, when the ice was covered with shallow puddles, I saw a double shadow of myself, one standing on the head of the other, one on the ice, the other on the trees or hillside.