The soil abounds with hot springs, and this singular appearance is a pure white concrete substance, generated by the water flowing over the steep, and leaving behind a chalky deposit.
Over the summit of this chalky cliff appear the remains of Hierapolis.
This culinary condiment is made with Sweet Fennel, cultivated in our kitchen gardens, and which is a variety of the wild Fennel growing commonly in England as the Finkel, especially in Cornwall and Devon, on chalky cliffs near the sea.
The malic acid of ripe Apples, raw or cooked, will neutralize the chalky matter engendered in gouty subjects, particularly from [28] an excess of meat eating.
This plant is found growing in dry pastures, especially on a chalky or limestone soil, but it is not common; it has very narrow leaves, and tufts of lilac flowers.
This is a Solanaceous plant found native in Great Britain, and growing generally on chalky soil under hedges, or about waste grounds.
It grows abundantly in our dry chalky pastures, bearing terminal umbels of white flowers.
Though growing commonly in dry pastures, in woods, and on chalky cliffs, yet the Centaury cannot be reared in a garden.
We find it occasionally in railway cuttings, and in rubbish on waste places, chiefly on chalky ground, and particularly near the sea.
The strong rush of the chalky waters swept the boats along.
The milk-white current, laden withchalky washings from the land, swept by in a mighty flood.
The hills are chalky and steep, and come close to the water side without a plain intervening, as it is upon the side of Syria; so that Beer stands on the side of a hill.
Thus far it resembles the Jibbah find: on the other hand, it is not plutonic, but chalky like those of Makná and Sinai, the crystals being similarly diffused throughout the matrix.
A handsome native climbing shrub, common in limestone or chalky districts, and unusually abundant in the southern English counties.
It is a beautiful but uncommon shrub, and succeeds very well in chalky or calcareous soil.
It prefers a dry, warm soil of a sandy or chalky nature, and may readily be increased from cuttings or suckers, the latter being freely produced.
The English chalk and the chalky modern mud of the Atlantic sea-bed, are precisely similar in origin to the Eozoic limestones.
They talked of George and the hard, chalky earth Bob had to dig through in the hot sun.
Not infrequently he would find other information at the water hole if there were boulders about, or chalky cliffs upon which the Indian could place his picture writing.
They roamed the Downs by Box Hill and other chalky places, and are still to be found there.
It consists only of a few cottages, shy and red-roofed, deep among high hedges, bushy dells and reedy meadows, with wheatfields and barleyfields clothing the chalky slopes above.
It is two or three hundred yards long and perhaps eighty yards wide, slopes gradually from the sides over a chalky bottom, and is of an intense clear green.
Near Weirakei is another valley, where the stream which flows through it is a boiling creek, fed by tiny tributary streams of boiling water, all of chalky white.
Before the war, the region was rich and fertile, the chalky ground having a covering of alluvial soil of variable thickness.
Trenches had been dug all about, in the chalky soil.
I went up a chalky road, until I had a good outlook over the place.
I mounted the hill yet farther by a rough staircase ofchalky footholds cut in the turf.
About seventy-five years ago Stephens used to obtain specimens on a chalky ridge near Hertford, and recently the moth has been found at Hitchin in North Hertfordshire.
In the sunshine it is active on the wing, but in dull weather it hides under herbage, in clover fields, chalky slopes, and rough places where its food plant occurs.
Always local, and except in the east, where it is found in the Breck-sand area, most frequent in chalky localities.
At Folkestone and in other chalky localities on the Kentish coast, the bulk of the specimens are pale grey inclining to whitish, usually with the black cross lines showing more or less clearly.
This vegetable is found wild in meadows all over Europe, and, in England, is met with very frequently on dry banks in a chalky soil.
The drainage of their chalky soil was such that their surface could not hold much moisture, and outside the Downs the world was as yet a closed book to Finn.
Half an hour later, to his great delight, Finn found himself clear of roads and houses, and on the warm, chalky slopes of the Sussex Downs.
They are mostly found in Sussex, on dry chalky downs producing short fine herbage, and arrive early at maturity; in which respect they are equal to the Cheviot, though inferior to them in quantity of tallow.
There is no indication of any organ or secretion which could produce a chalky coloration.
In a recent nest the zone of issue is surrounded by a layer of finely porous matter, of a pure matt, almost chalky white, which contrasts distinctly with the remainder of the nest, which is of a dirty white.
It is a chalky white, and shows a growth of moss like that of moss agate.
On their right spread the blue waters of the English Channel, in front towered the chalky heights of Gris-nez, while behind lay the red-tiled houses and grey walls of Calais, with the semicircle of tents that marked the English lines.
The clear portions of this frit were powdered and washed with boiling water, and the working clay was compounded by adding to such powdered frit a small quantity of chalky clay or marl and sometimes pure chalk as well.
Sometimes it is of a very soft, almost chalky consistency.
Her health appeared excellent, notwithstanding her slim frame and chalky color.
Mrs. Diggs did, however, sipping three or four, until she lost her chalky wanness of tint and almost got a touch of actual color.
Mrs. Diggs was in a flurry, like the weather; her great wrap could not warm her; she looked more chalky of hue than ever, and the bluish line at her lips had grown purplish.
It was a slopingchalky field or rather corner of a down, covered with very short grass and thistles, which defied all the attacks of Uncle Roger and his sheep.
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