The piedmont characteristics are disappearing and the glacier resolving itself into the original glaciers of alpine type which gave rise to it.
Glaciers so formed are known as the "piedmont type.
It is of the piedmont type of glacier, that is, has its source from a number of commensal streams of ice, fed by snow falling upon the eastern slopes of the Ten Peaks.
It is of the piedmont type, created by three commensal streams of ice.
As Rome is the seat of Christian wisdom, Piedmont is to-day the principal home of Italian military strength.
The influence of his writings was tremendous; the minds of Italians from Piedmont to Sicily were stirred to a higher pitch than they had been for many centuries.
Napoleon insisted that the treaty should be secret and should not be submitted to the Piedmont Parliament.
But Charles Felix, when he came to Turin, would have none of this constitution, and Charles Albert left Piedmont under the shadow of his kinsman's displeasure.
In Piedmont there was moreover an intense national feeling, the House of Savoy was deeply rooted in the affections of the people, and almost alone among the Italian sovereignties that House was practically indigenous to the soil.
Now England made a suggestion, the government proposed that all the Italian states should be admitted to the proposed Congress, and that Austria as well as Piedmont should disarm.
Fortune had stood by him and had placed Piedmont in the most enviable position he could have wished.
The Venetians were fully occupied with their revolution at home, the Lombards had already begun to determine what they would do when they were free, and Piedmont was left practically alone to fight the rapidly reviving army of Austria.
He wanted to be alone, and finally applied to the King of Piedmontthrough his minister at Naples for permission to travel by himself.
He understood the boldness of Cavour's great diplomatic stroke and gave Piedmont the credit she deserved in becoming the first envoy of a great nation.
Events hurried, a short time and Lombardy and Venice were in arms and Piedmont determined on supporting them.
Austria accused Piedmont of fostering the small revolts which were continually breaking out in Lombardy, the war indemnity--eighty million francs--was heavy and had to be raised by new taxation which was of course universally unpopular.
After an examination of this ice mass the party pressed on past Spike Point to Dunlop Island, sledging coastwise parallel to the Piedmont Glacier, named by Griffith Taylor after Dr.
The ship was placed alongside the Piedmont here on January 8, near a big moraine close north of the Coves.
The most highly developed irrigation in the world is probably that practised in the plains of Piedmont and Lombardy, where every variety of condition is to be found.
The system is due to the ability of the great Count Cavour; what he originated in Piedmont has been also carried out in Lombardy.
Ideal form of the surface left on the site of the apron of a piedmont glacier.
Lake Garda, a border lake upon the site of a piedmontapron at the margin of the Alpine highland (after Penck and Brückner).
About the apron of the piedmont glacier, such deposits are particularly heavy (Fig.
This is the piedmont glacier, a type found to-day in the high latitudes of Alaska and in the southern Andes (Fig.
Map of the Malaspina glacier of Alaska, the best known of existing piedmont glaciers (after Russell).
Moraines and drumlins about Lake Constance upon the site of the earlierpiedmont glacier of the Upper Rhine.
We enter next the broadly extended piedmontapron site, above which Lake Constance still remains as a border lake (399).
During the “ice age” the Swiss glaciers extended down the valleys below the existing ice remnants and spread upon the Swiss foreland as great piedmont glaciers such as may now be seen in Alaska.
The condition of Piedmont at that time was deplorable; for wars, the exactions and devastations of the foreign soldiery, and religious antagonism between Catholics and Protestants had wrought terrible havoc.
Piedmont on his way from Poland; Emmanuel gave him a magnificent reception, and obtained from him a promise that Pinerolo and Savigliano should be evacuated, which was carried out at the end of the year.
While the way to Piedmont was thus for a time obstructed, a door was set open for them in a part of Switzerland which they had not yet visited.
When not thus employed, however, they were known to lay wait in all the principal passes, both of Piedmont and Savoy, and take toll of all travellers with a strong hand.
Brissac writes me word, sire," said the Marechal de Vieilleville, "that Corse de Leon has served you better in Piedmont than any three captains in your service.
In order to carry this into effect Piedmont must be forced to join the league and stop her frontier against Swiss commerce.
He stated as the grounds of this arrangement that it was to give to Piedmont a new proof of the affection and attachment of the French people.
The union of Piedmont with France had changed the state of Europe.
Piedmont and of the states of Parma and Piacenza with France, and the continuance of the French troops in Holland.
The First Consul appointed for the government of Piedmont a Council which, as may naturally be imagined; he composed of those Piedmontese who were the declared partisans of France.
We have between the coast ranges of northern Chile and the western flanks of the Cordillera Sillilica, probably the best example of piedmont accumulation in a dry climate that the west coast of South America affords.
The silts and muds constitute the outer fringe of the piedmont and are interrupted here and there where sands are blown upon them from the higher portions of the piedmont, or from the desert mountains and plains on the seaward side.
Practically no rain falls upon the greater part of the desert and the only water it receives is that borne to it by the piedmont streams in the early summer, from the rains and melted snows of the high plateau and mountains to the eastward.
They reach far into and possibly across the Amazon basin, they form a distinct though small piedmontfringe along the eastern base of the Andes, and they are universal throughout the Andean valleys.
The main body of the material is such as might be deposited on the wide flood plains of piedmont streams during a period of prolonged erosion on surrounding highlands that served as the feeding grounds of the streams.
If between this time and his arrival any packet for him should be addressed to you either from Piedmont or from Italy, you will keep it, if you please, to deliver to him.
At a later date, Camillo Borghese married Pauline Bonaparte and was appointed governor of Piedmont by Napoleon I.
As usual the cavalry filled the gaps of the Ridge and covered efficiently every approach, while the army slowly poured through its defiles to well-known camping grounds on the sunny slopes of the Piedmont glades and meadows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piedmont" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
