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Example sentences for "landslip"

Lexicographically close words:
landscapists; landside; landsknechts; landslide; landslides; landslips; landsman; landsmen; landt; landward
  1. The coming in of the tide has made the landslip settle!

  2. This landslip (which had taken place since she had left home for her moonlight walk) had changed the shape of the cove into a figure something like the Greek epsilon.

  3. Have you not seen the great landslip at the churchyard?

  4. To return round the corner of the landslip and call Winifred was the work of an instant, and, quick as she was in answering my call, by the time she had reached me I had thrown off my coat and boots.

  5. When I returned to the landslip the people were still there, and still very excited about it.

  6. The number of people collected round the landslip seemed greater than ever, and many of them, I think, came from Graylingham, Rington, and Dullingham.

  7. VIII I walked along the cliff to the gangway behind Flinty Point, and descended in order to see what havoc the landslip had made with the graves.

  8. It was his yell of despair amid the noise of the landslip that Winifred and I had both heard.

  9. Some fishermen passing below the old church were attracted, first by a shriek of a peculiarly frightful and unearthly kind, and then by some unusual appearance on the sands, at the spot where the last landslip took place.

  10. She told me that it had not, and was not likely to be found, for if he had really fallen with the landslip his body lay under tons upon tons of earth.

  11. A new find was made in 1839, when a complete mammoth was uncovered by a landslip on the shore of a large lake to the west of the mouth of the Yenisej, seventy versts from the Polar Sea.

  12. The Bonchurch Landslip must be traversed on foot.

  13. Illustration: Landslip in the Cemetery of Cyriaca.

  14. Here we found that the great topic of conversation was a landslip of peat, which had occurred about a month previous to our arrival, laying waste a portion of the little settlement.

  15. He was killed by a landslip in the pit, when he was barely forty years old.

  16. A landslip often plunges a peninsula of soil out upon a glacial meadow.

  17. Often they remain beautiful treeless gardens for generations, while wind and wash slowly bring sediment, or until a flood or landslip brings soil.

  18. There'll be mischief somewhere besides this; a landslip or two, more than likely.

  19. The landslip seemed to have reached midway down the cliff, but the rain had washed the earth and rubbish to one side.

  20. And yet I feel as if I had often heard that name at the time when I used first to run about the mountain; when the great landslip killed Uncle Wargs.

  21. Piacenza is the site of Velleia, a town which was overwhelmed by a landslip in the 3d cent.

  22. Abimes de Myans, lakes between conical hillocks, formed by a partial landslip of Mt.

  23. At about a third of the way the Dordogne is crossed, and shortly afterwards is passed the ravine of the Egravats, formed by a landslip of the trachytic mountain, the Roc de Cuzeau, 5706 ft.

  24. On the morning of the sixth a drenched shepherd reported in the village that a landslip had choked the fall of Buet, and completely altered its shape.

  25. You know there was a landslip hundreds of years ago, just beyond the cove.

  26. The rugged grandeur of the Landslip and Undercliff will furnish subjects that yield delight in the interpretation of their romantic interest.

  27. The Landslip which lies between Shanklin and Ventnor is a favourite resort to the inhabitants and visitors of both places.

  28. The view is taken coming from the Landslip and looking towards the Chine, Old Village, and town.

  29. Close by is the path leading through the Landslip to Shanklin.

  30. This quiet retreat is at the Ventnor end of the Landslip and within a short distance of Old Bonchurch.

  31. This part of the Landslip is full of great diversities of form and situation, some appearing to grow direct out of the rocks.

  32. On one occasion a landslip imprisoned a number of miners in their workings.

  33. A terrible landslip occurred in 1770; the noise was heard as far as Innsbruck, where it was attributed to an earthquake.

  34. By 16 September the landslip had crept down the Huerfano River past Cedarwood.

  35. And the landslip was growing, north and south along the Fault.

  36. According to Chinese myths, the landslip which produced the rapid was caused by the following circumstance.

  37. Huge pieces of rock have fallen from the cliff, and well-nigh block the way, and just ahead a landslip has carried off part of our course.

  38. Is this feature the result of landslip and of floods issuing from the chasm, or was the pedestal always weaker upon this side?

  39. We must therefore form the conception of an eruption accompanied by an earthquake, not of a landslip effected by seismic shocks.

  40. The Sylhet valley and a line to the west of Darjiling form the southern and western boundaries of the landslip area, which was therefore not less than 300 miles in length from east to west.

  41. At Cherrapunji, also, the deep valleys were so scored that, from a distance, there appeared to be more landslip than untouched hillside.

  42. In one, on the northern foot of the Garo hills, a landslip crossed the drainage channel and formed a shallow pond, which was not filled up by sand until the end of January 1898.

  43. Near Sinya, in the northern Khasi hills, an unusually large landslip formed a barrier, of which the remains are more than 200 feet above the level of the river-bed.

  44. The field was broken into clods of earth, and swollen up to a height of 5-1/2 yards, while a great landslip had descended into it from an adjoining hill.

  45. The next instant, the landslip seemed to come hurrying down the channel, roaring and leaping: it was the mud-brown waters of the burn, careering along as if mad with joy at having regained their ancient course.

  46. The channel of the second remained dry, the landslip continuing to choke it, and the stream to fall into the Glashburn.

  47. Bridges span all the affluents which might interrupt the traffic in summer and autumn, and wherever a landslip has occurred, the road is repaired at once.

  48. And often we pass places where a new landslip may take place at any moment, and where huge blocks are poised in the air and seem ready to roll down the declivity.

  49. And we know that Arthur Pym was mistaken in asserting that Captain William Guy and several of his companions perished in the landslip of the hill at Klock-Klock.

  50. He believed that William Guy and his companions must all have perished in the landslip of the hill of Klock-Klock?

  51. But now, thanks to Patterson’s note-book, we are certain that my brother and five of his companions escaped from the landslip contrived by the natives.

  52. But of a great landslip in the Alps details are sure to be observed, and we are enabled to form a picture of the occurrence.

  53. Vast extinct volcanoes, lava wildernesses, tumbled wastes of snow, or frozen carbonic acid, or frozen air, and everywhere landslip seams and cracks and gulfs.

  54. He had evidently made up his mind that the road to the Landslip was not a congenial one.

  55. Denys had undertaken, at the earnest request of the woman at the Landslip Cottage, to take care of Harry as far as to Mixham Junction, where his uncle would meet him.

  56. We don't want to sit staring down the Landslip till they arrive.

  57. Audrey had to come back with her and I went on to the Landslip to find you.

  58. Mrs. Henchman wanted us all to walk to the Landslip this afternoon," she said.

  59. So I told her I should hire a nice little wicker bath chair and I should push her, and we would all go to the Landslip this afternoon and have a nice walk together.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landslip" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    avalanche; coast; glide; glissade; landslide; skid; slide; slip; slither; subsidence