All the more prominent eminences were measured and ascended, the Kenia not excepted.
Where the careless picture makers of the Rookery were content with assurances that he could turn out marketable "stuff," Teevan showed him far and lofty eminences that he might scale, had he a spirit for the feat.
Here there opened before them a rich and beautiful prairie, bordered with gentle eminenceson the north and the south.
Hence, the idea of warning him of such proximity by beacon-fires placed sometimes on natural eminences and sometimes on towers built expressly for the purpose.
In ascending one of the larger valleys, we enter it where it is wide and where the eminences are gentle on either side.
Projecting eminences of rock are smoothed and worn into the shape of flattened domes, where the glaciers have passed over them.
It is possible, also, from a number of these eminences to follow in a fascinating fashion the progress of artillery duels, and, with a good pair of glasses, even to see infantry advancing to the attack.
It is one of those plateau-shaped eminences which are mentioned in geographies as distinguishing the Vosges from the Alps and the Pyrenees.
These stand up as eminences simply because the rock-material which once surrounded them has been gradually broken up and carried away.
From the peculiar rocks and eminences along the shore, reflections are cast into the water of an almost indescribable character.
On the one side there are lofty mountains, with eminences and peaks of various formation and height, while in the distance the great Electric Peak can be easily seen.
The great mining resources of Montana are shown by a miner's pick and shovel, and in the rearground the sun is setting behind eminences of the Rocky Mountains.
The eminences on this side, as we advance, become very precipitous, and along the ridge of one of them appears a wall of rocks with turrets, resembling a mighty fortification.
Those peasant travellers out of sight, we go on over the same rocky ground, snowy pikes and craggy eminencesstill bounding the prospect.
From thence it was extended over the ridge called Green Hill, and farther to the companion eminences of Cingolo and Monte Cristo, and the nek that united them.
In fact, they moved to some strong eminences that commanded either side of the river, the centre of the position being at Poplar Grove Farm.
As usual, these eminences were well ribbed with shelter trenches, and embedded everywhere were Boer sharpshooters, ready to pit cunning against courage, and sniggle at the victory of one over the other.
At the Pole I had been thin, but now my skin was contracted over bones offering only angular eminences as a bodily outline.
With overwork and insufficient food, our furs hung on bony eminences over shriveled skins.
I delight to make him scramble to the tops of eminences and to the foot of waterfalls, and am obliged in turn to admire his turnips, his lucerne, and his timothy grass.
For this purpose the eminencesbeyond the village of Lindenau were occupied.
On the eminences where the hostile cannon were planted the number of dead was much smaller, and these were apparently not artillery-men, but infantry, who were probably engaged in covering those batteries.
Hence various eminencesin the Highlands are known as "the hill of the fires," just as in Germany some mountains take their name from the Easter fires which are kindled upon them.
And in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark huge bonfires are kindled on hills and eminences on Midsummer Eve.
In the year 1826, Red River overflowed its banks, and flooded the whole settlement, obliging the settlers to forsake their houses, and drive their horses and cattle to the trifling eminences in the immediate vicinity.
So assured was his stand upon these eminences that all the wisest and most refined of the section spontaneously and involuntarily did him obeisance, recognizing in him their ideal of wisdom and counsel befittingly expressed.
Several eminences bear the name of Pen yr Orsedd, i.
The first view of this body of water was obtained from one of those eminences situated at the influx of the west Savanna River.
And whenever the visitor gets on eminences overlooking the lake, he is transported with sublime views of a most illimitable and magnificent water prospect.
We disembark near Fort William; the dying twilight, the fading red rays on the horizon enable us to get a glimpse of a desolate country; acres of peat-bog, eminences rising from the valley between two ranges of huge mountains.
Higher still are large patches of evergreen wood, and, as soon as the mountain is approached, a brown circle of barren eminences may be discerned toward the horizon.
If it were desirable to them to deny that there are mountains upon this earth, they would record a few observations upon some slight eminences near Orange, N.
The hill upon which the hacienda stood was one of those singular eminences known in Spanish-America by the name of mesa (table).
As already observed, such eminences are not uncommon throughout the plains of America, where they are generally termed mesas, or cerros de la mesa (table hills).
In Kedú, where the most beautiful eminences have been selected for this purpose, and where the cambôja tree grows with the greatest luxuriance, they form very interesting objects in the landscape.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eminences" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
