There are some fertile valleys enclosed in the bare hills of the Salt Range.
Low hills usually form a feature of the landscape, pleasing at a distance or when softened by the evening light, but bare and jagged on a nearer view.
It is on a bare limestone rock with very scanty vegetation and is hot in summer in the daytime.
A line of lowbare hills known as the Solasinghí Range divides it from Kángra.
It contains itself the fine Kálachitta range in the north, the small and barren Khairí Múrat range in the centre, and a line of bare hills running parallel with the Indus in the west.
If, leaving the railway, he crosses a river by some bridge of boats or local ferry, he will find still wider expanses of sand sometimes bare and dry and white, at others moist and dark and covered with dwarf tamarisk.
For ninety miles below Attock the river is confined between bare and broken hills, till it finally emerges into the plains from the gorge above Kálabágh, where the Salt Range impinges on the left bank.
Between these two basins lies the maze of bare broken hills and valleys which make up the Kohát district.
The highest point in the Marwat hills is Shekhbudín, a bare and dry limestone rock rising to an elevation of over 4500 feet.
The former will often be clothed with forest while the latter is a bare stony slope covered according to season with brown or green grass interspersed with bushes of indigo, barberry, or the hog plum (Prinsepia utilis).
Under Indian rule the Rája's share was often collected in kind, and the proportion of the crop taken left the tiller of the soil little or nothing beyond what was needed for the bare support of himself and his family.
The bare Gandgarh Hills run south from Torbela parallel with the Indus.
The rest of Gurgáon consists mostly of sand and sandy loam and low bare hills.
It contained a depressingly large number of windows, and it seemed to her that they were at once bare and dirty.
Beneath them her columnar calves werebare as an infant's.
She had rounded the corner of the store, when, happening to glance towards the Success to Commerce, moored under the bank a bare twenty yards away, she halted, and with a gasp shrank close into the shadow.
Then she opened a door, and, by the candle she held, Geoff saw a very small, very bare room.
It is too bad," he sobbed to himself, late at night, alone in his bare little room.
This grimme barone, 'twas our harde happe, But yester morne to see; When to his bowre he bare my love, And sore misused me.
Exceeding was the love he bareto him, His heart, and his heart's joy!
He dissected the human heart, laid bare its meanness, its uncleanliness; made men and women turn on each other with sudden understanding and loathing, and walked away smiling at the evil he had wrought.
The letters meant Fer and Soufre--the secret of the generation of gold was thus laid bare before his eyes.
And, yet, he had recently published Inferno and Legends, and laid bare his soul's misery and delirium in throbbing pages, over which the reviewers had poured acrid contempt.
The keen salt breezes which sweep round the bare and uninhabitable rocks whisper of a no-man's land, where the soul is tossed by elements neither friendly nor hostile, but restful.
By applying successive layers to the spots which are bare from the defect of the fibres, and beating them till they unite, an uniform thickness is attained.
The udder of a Javan cow is sometimes not larger than that of a sheep, and seems to afford but a bare subsistence for the calf; yet the buffalo gives a larger quantity, and butter or ghee might equally be prepared from it.
The population being equally at the command of the feudal lord, whether in time of peace or war, agricultural pursuits, beyond a bare subsistence, are but little attended to.
The bare relation of the fact excites feelings of horror in the mind of the ordinary chief.
Got it sure, plump through the centre, and a bare foot above their heads," cried Tomkins, dropping his rifle.
Tom held out an accusing finger, and gripped his comrade by thebare arm; for, without shadow of doubt, Sam's eyes were blinking.
Troop D of Kenneth Landor's squadron had unquestionably the finest site on the reservation; a wooded knoll stretching down into a field of grass--green when the troopers came but worn down tobare earth in the first month of their encampment.
Mrs. Lennox sank into a curiously carved old ebony chair, against which her bare arms and shoulders gleamed white.
Men and women threw dust on their heads and faces, and the women ran to and fro wailing with bare breasts.
The centre of their land, which stretched from the coast to the Jordan, was formed by the bare and stony mountains round Hebron.
At last she heard the old creaking, rattling buggy, and as soon as she saw Ormond's bare head, and knew he was all right, she ran up to her room and shut herself in.
They put their hats in the front of the buggy, and went about in their bare heads.
Who shall set me as a seal upon his heart, As a seal upon his arm made bare for fight?
The shadows grew deeper, night settled down on land and sea and Amos went fast asleep again, with his bare feet almost within reach of the waves that rolled so softly up over the smooth sand.
On the north of this valley stood a bare hilltop, whose crest was a limestone rock, rising from the heather about twenty feet.
A bare hill may be more to me than a garden of Damascus, but I love them both.
Nancy shot hither and thither on her bare feet like a fawn--you could not say she ran, and certainly she did not walk.
Knowing his father in want of a new bonnet, did not Rob with his bare hands seize an otter at the mouth of its hole, and carry it home, laughing merrily over the wounds it had given him?
Behold, the Balance in the sky Swift on the wintry scale inclines: To earthy caves the Dryads fly, And the bare pastures Pan resigns.
No longer may she struggle--now for all time she must bow her neck to the yoke, and bare her back to the rod of the oppressor!
So, in cold clear words, I laid bare all my shame, keeping back nothing.
Bare and half furnished as was the room, the girl had contrived to impart to it a certain air which removed it from the common-place.
The sun shone brightly in at the windows of a little bare studio next morning, as if to atone for the gloom of the darkness and storm of the night.
By the time the fellows had got breakfast, the hull of the barque astern was out of sight; nothing showed of her but a little hovering glance of canvas, and the sea-line swept from her to ahead of us in a bare unbroken girdle.
It's only a-letting go a rope an' you're under bare poles.
For my part, I could find no more than what the French call badinage in the Captain's speech, with nothing to render it significant outside the bare meaning of the words in his looks or manner.
But for that fluctuating green light, showing so illusively that one needed to look a little on one side of it to catch it, the ocean would have been as bare as the heavens, so far as the sight went.
It was supposed that most of the purchasers in the market preferred slang and bare shoulders, and so she favored them with plenty of both.
She felt for the poor human beings who toiled so hard for such a bare and unlovely existence.
The house, so bare and so desolate-looking in its exterior, had struck her painfully as she went up to it.
After mocking him with the bare imagination of a feast, you know the Barmecide in the Arabian Tales gave poor Shakabac a substantial dinner, a full equivalent for the jest.
For who can forbear to laugh at the bare idea of an Irish bull?
To secure this, they were content to earn a bare subsistence by a life of frugality and toil.
Without a common sympathy to bind them together, was it strange that they should fall off from him, like leaves in winter, and leave him exposed, a bare and sapless trunk, to the fury of the tempest?
The bare room was filled with the sound of Musa's fiddle and with the high musical culture of Mr. and Mrs. Spatt.
The early morning sun shone on the bare limbs of the trees and made them glisten.
And it was strange that the eglantine of the Grotto did not even hurt her adorable bare feet blooming with golden flowers.
And on her bare feet, on her adorable feet of virgin snow, flowered two golden roses, the mystic roses of this divine mother's immaculate flesh.
Between its wooden walls, bare and yellow, under its white-painted panelled roof, it showed like a hospital ward, with all the disorder and promiscuous jumbling together of an improvised ambulance.
