Mussoorie has all the advantages and none of the drawbacks of Simla, and lies compactly in ground on which a small city could be built, whereas Simla straggles along a narrow mountain ridge, and up and down the steep sides of an Alpine peak.
So Dave sets out for the New York Store, an' the rest of us sorter straggles along.
Leastwise that's what one of these yere fernologists allows, whostraggles into camp an' goes to thumbin' our bumps one day.
Ruellia persicaefolia straggles a little lower than these.
To the East the cessation of the lightness of the soil and of the hollows is very abrupt, and strongly influences the tea, only a few small straggles being visible in that direction.
The flora of the fir woods amounts to almost nothing, Colchicum straggles up now and then, this and a grass or Carex, a Caprifoliaceous shrub, and Cotoneaster of Tazeen, and Fragaria are the only forms.
Those marked thus* are subtropical or tropical, and one glance will show their predominance: only Corydalis straggles down.
Beyond this, all is smart and modern, where an airy suburbstraggles on to the Downs.
This peculiar piece of water straggles along a length of three miles, and throws out queerly shaped arms both east and west.
Behind the park the village of Castle Donington stragglesdown and along the high road leading from Ashby-de-la-Zouch towards the Trent.
The old village which the founder of the Kajar dynasty enlarged into Teheran, straggles within eleven miles of walls in the most depressed part of an uninteresting waste.
Still, as of old, the town crowds about the foot of the two spiral crags and straggles out with towered church, mosque and minaret, into the valley.
It straggles for two miles or more along a dusty road shaded by a double row of flaming fire-trees.
At this place the road and telegraph wires turn inland to Satsuporo, and a track for horses only turns to the north-east, and straggles round the island for about seven hundred miles.
Central and northern coast districts of California north to Washington; straggles irregularly eastward and southward in California in winter.
Straggles eastward to west shore of Hudson Bay, and occurs casually in North Central States, Nebraska, etc.
In winter it retires southward, or stragglesirregularly eastward[30].
Pacific Coast and Bering Sea districts of Alaska; south in winter thru the Pacific States to Lower California; occasionally straggles eastward.
IX [Sidenote: The Bridge of Calahorra] The bridge that the Moors built over the Guadalquivir stragglesacross the water with easy arches.
Almost until we reach the next ferry, a couple of miles below Day's Lock, Dorchester still straggles along parallel to the river, and the last glimpse of its red roofs from a bend in the stream is exceedingly picturesque.
Gravesend is a pretty town that straggles around the base of a bluff hill.
The town straggles down a brief, steep bank of clay, and spreads itself over a fine level.
The parish of Nowelhurst straggles away far into the depths of the forest.
Groups of that graceful tree, the black poplar, overhang the scene and shade the little hamlet that straggles down a lane to the left hand.
Even at high noon the sunlight straggles through only in small patches.
Here the boundary has bent a mile or two westwards, at one point touching the Colne Brook, as the branch is called that, from the village of this name, straggles down to the Thames opposite Egham.
By its Thames Street, Hampton straggles on towards Sunbury, where the river is broken by eyots, weirs, and a deep shady cut on the Surrey side.
This finely situated village straggles roomily along the swarded and shaded ridge road, dropping at the west end into a valley in which lies its Midland station.
A meaner quarter straggles on to the dull flats of Staines Moor behind the railway, from which High Street curves spaciously down to the bridge, for long the nearest neighbour of London Bridge.
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