Mining is only of slight importance, small quantities of coal and iron-ore being extracted in the Alpine foothill region; graphite is found near Mühldorf.
To the north of these mountains, stretching towards the Danube, is the Alpine foothill region, composed partly of terraces and partly of swelling undulations, of which the most important is the Hausruckwald.
Every Saturday morning during the summer that she had been thirteen, Jenny, high on the buckboard seat, had driven old Dobbin up and down the long winding tree-hung lanes in the aristocratic foothill suburb of Santa Barbara.
When his "gal" disappeared from sight, up one of the tree-shaded lanes leading toward the foothill estates, Farmer Si turned and walked slowly back to the kitchen.
I think that it is wonderful to be so high up on a foothill and have a sweeping view of the ocean from one side of the school and a view of the mountains from the other side.
The girl soon turned out of the canon on to a foothill road and after a short climb came suddenly upon a low built white house that had a wonderful view of the ocean and islands.
So the question occurred to me, why should it not be a profitable pasture for the dry summers on the coast or foothill ranges of the State?
The foothill elevation you mention is only a starting to elevations of 6000 feet and more to which cattle are driven every season.
In the foothill and mountain regions, however, apple trees are irrigated and first-class fruit produced by the process.
We have 3,000 acres of foothill land and hope to be able to irrigate some land this spring and wish to know the best forage crops, for sheep and hogs, especially.
Will walnuts grow well in the foothill country; elevation about 600 feet, soil rich, does not crack in summer and seems to have small stones in it?
Bermuda grass as pasture for summer to supplement burr clover and alfilaria in winter on the cheap hill pasture lands along the coast or the foothill ranges of the Sierras.
In the preceding autumn he had developed typhoid, nearly died, and been sent to a relative in the higher land of the foothillfruit farms.
It was one of those mornings that deck with a splendor of blue and gold the foothill spring.
Before long the children's spirit of enthusiasm and love for others had spread throughout our small foothill world, and everywhere we went we were greeted with smiles, significant nods, and occasional whispered conversations.
Peaks of the fourteen thousand class, belted with sombre swathes of pine, rise almost directly from the bench lands with nofoothill approaches.
The Sierras may be divided into five different belts, of varying altitudes along the length of the range, beginning with the foothill region, which may be termed the chaparral region.
The valley floors and foothillslopes lie thirsty and cracking under the ardent sun, and a thin cover of fine dust lies on all the leaves of the live-oak and eucalyptus trees.
So Mary and I left the dry foothillslopes and their many silk-lined holes with a big black hairy tarantula sitting quietly at the bottom of each, and took the gently dropping dusty road to the marshes.
On the foothill adobe slopes none was trapped, nor have any been taken in most of the chaparral habitats.
Coyotes catch many jack rabbits and regularly forage around the foothill borders of the citrus groves for cottontails and jack rabbits.
Their parties in town were as select as their picnics in the foothills, and the foothill picnics were the occasions where Cougarville society really came out.
It was a foothill picnic which brought an end to all relations between John Gray and Miss Molly Fleming.
Casey looked at the orange and the grapefruit and lemon orchards that walled the Foothill Boulevard.
The vestiges of another ruined village, known as Shitaimuvi, are found in the vicinity of Mashongnavi, occupying and covering the crown of a rounded foothill on the southeast side of the mesa.
Matsaki is situated on a foothill at the base of Tâaaiyalana, near its northwestern extremity.
In fact the portion of the city inhabited by the main colony of miners' families was built on the sloping ground that formed a foothill of the mountain.
He lives out on the Foothill pike near the quarries.
Here is what he read: "I will bring Old Stanlock along the foothill pike.
Thet's only a foothill or so of Penetier gone up in smoke.
Moreover, I might climb a foothill or bluff from which I could get my bearings.
Monroe, realizing the beauties and natural advantages of the foothill country, developed water where the town of Monrovia now stands, and laid the foundations of the enterprising city of that name.
Presently far up the gray hollow along a foothill she saw dust, and then the dark, moving figure of a horse.
At the base of the long slope of the foothill Link cut the speed more than half.
This trail we were on led along the foothill valleys.
But MacLeod was out in the open with the winter coming on and no shelter from the blizzards that blow at times even across that foothill country.
These men were of the same calibre as the young constable in the foothill country who was caught in a blizzard while out on duty, and on whose body, as already quoted, was found a paper with the words: "Lost.
The reference is to the "Old Man's River" in the foothill country in December.
All the foothill folk pleaded in extenuation of the robber that he wrote a copy of verses, embalming his adventure, which he used to pin to the nearest tree.
I have been told that he was the first of the foothill settlers to irrigate abundantly, the first to plant out an orchard and vineyard, the first, certainly, to create a garden out of a sage-brush desert.
Mrs. Panel looked at Leveson with an expression which I have seen in the eyes of foothill mothers, whose children run barefoot, when they have found a rattlesnake.
She'll keep a foothillschool in order just about two minutes--and no longer!
Oh yes, indeed," she answered; "and I know something of your foothill folks.
I love my boys, my foothill boys; and if they are rough, brutal at times, they're strong.
But, not for the first time, I was struck by the heroism and self-sacrifice of these rude foothill folk, whose great qualities shine brightest in the dark hours of adversity.
As fate would have it, Riles selected as the base of his homestead operations the very foothill town to which Beulah Harris had come a few weeks before.
With Beulah's letter was a short but earnest note from Lilian Arthurs, assuring the mother of her daughter's welfare, and pressing an invitation to spend the autumn in the glorious scenery and weather of the foothill country.
The girl stretched her spread fingers to the limit of their reach, and with extended toes sought the iron bars at the foot of the bed, filling her lungs with the fresh foothill ozone.
So Beulah quickly got her foothill sense, and in a week was riding, care-free and exultant, across the ranges as her heart listed or her horse preferred.
There was no Big Thompson route then; instead, the road ascended Bald Mountain, climbed the foothill range, crossed the top, then dropped into Rattlesnake Park.
The erratic foothill wind, which a few minutes before had been coming down the valley, was now blowing back up again.
The storms of the foothill country, which occasionally sweep out of the mountains and down the valleys on the shortest notice, had no terror for him; he had sat on horseback under an oilskin slicker through the worst of them; but to-night!
The sun was capping the Rockies with molten gold when the rancher and his daughter swung down the foothill slopes to the camp on the South Y.
The knowing animal at once set out on a trot to stir the lazy heifers into movement, and presently they were trailing slowly up into the foothill country.
Influx of ready money and of those who follow it had created considerable activity in a neighboring centre which for twenty years had been the principal cow-town of the foothill country.
The foothill rancher makes hay by horse power, and almost without the aid of a pitch-fork.
He seized her in his arms, crushing down her weak resistance; he drew her to him until, as in that day by a foothill river somewhere in the sunny past, her lips met his and returned their caress.
There is no sleugh hay in the foothill country; the hay is cut on the uplands, a short, fine grass of great nutritive value.
As he entered the foothills he found all the advantages of the plains below, with others peculiar to the foothill country.
The centre of distribution for this species seems to be the foothill country of the Appalachian Mountains, in Tennessee and North Carolina.
The digger pine is a western California tree of the semi-arid foothill country.
The old village of Walpi, on a foothill below the mesa point and the site of the village at the time of the Spanish conquest, presents an appearance of great antiquity, although it was partly occupied so late as fifty years ago.
The fight began when Braithwaite located the dam here at Elbow Canyon in the foothill hogback.
The porch outlook commanded a view of the foothill canyon, and of a limited area of the bowl-shaped upper valley.
But these matters became quickly subsidiary when he began to examine the curious geological formation of the foothill range through which the river elbowed its tumultuous course.
It was only a little more than a mile in the direct line from the house on the knoll to the point where the river broke through the foothill hogback, and the night was fine and starlit.
A rippling wave a foot high came sweeping down the glassy surface of the reservoir lake, crowding and rioting until it doubled its depth in rushing into the foothill canyon.
Then the others came up, and the buckboards sent down from Castle 'Cadia to take the party home were seen wheeling into line at the upper end of the short foothill canyon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foothill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
