Rough tors and crags are smoothed off, while boulder-clay nestles on the lee-side.
The rough ridges have been rounded off, the sharp escarpments have been bevelled, the abrupt tors and peaks have been smoothed down.
The contrast between the smoothly-flowing contour of the lower elevations and the shattered and riven aspect of the harsh ridges, sharp peaks, and craggy tors above, is particularly striking.
To the east a green and smiling country of gentle hills and valleys leads to that shade of past splendour, the Castle of Berry Pomeroy; and far away to the north-west, it is possible to see the high, sharp torson Dartmoor.
He goes back to his eulogy, and names various Prætors and officers who have worked on his behalf.
The city stands; the Prætors give the law, the Ædiles keep up the games, good men look to their principal and their interest.
I shall go to Ivybridge, for the torsand the beacons.
As she wandered with her father among those boggy uplands, or stood on the rocky tors that so strangely crest the low flat hill-tops of the great Devonian moor.
So he had poised in old days; so he poised himself now, with Cleer by his side, an angel confessed, on those high tors of Dartmoor.
So they sent two of the prætors to relieve him and called him home.
It was such a friendship as one reads about sometimes in books: fast and firm as the great Tors upon our native moorlands, true as the sun in the heavens.
I had a vague awe of the Tors in those boyish days, and would not have gone near them after dark for the heaviest bribe.
The region of Gelli, which gives its name to or derives its name from Brown Willy and Brown Gelli, two tors in the upland metalliferous district, was valuable because of the abundance of stream-tin and of gold that was found there.
This occupies the site of a lake, but it has been filled by detritus from the granite tors around, and this rubble has been turned over and over by tin-streamers, who not only extracted the baser metal, but also gold.
The two Prætors were General Lefebvre and General Serrurier.
Presently he stood on the side of lofty Steeperton and surveyed that vast valley known as Taw Marsh, which lies between the western foothills of Cosdon Beacon and the Belstone Tors to the north.
To the left lay the mountain, and to the right tors of weathered granite, dim in the changing moonlight.
There are none of those queer pinnacles and tors one sees there, just ready to topple down into the sea.
The emperor always chose them among the two nobilities of Rome, the prætors from the senators, the procurators from the knights.
There are at once in Rome two consuls who govern the people and command the armies, and several prætors to serve as subordinate governors or commanders and to pronounce judgment.
The prætors of the city set themselves to correct the ancient law and to judge according to equity or justice.
For the most part Dartmoor is uncultivated, a wilderness of barren moorland, with lofty hills and jagged tors on every hand, here and there scored by narrow valleys, which are often strewn with huge boulders of granite.
Round these tors lies some of the most beautiful and fertile land in all England.
Another stretch of country dotted withtors and covered with moorland is Exmoor, in the north of Devon.
The tors are huge knobs or humps of granite, and the word has the same meaning as "tower.
Round these tors stretch great sweeps of moor and morass.
Aunt Pike had been very frightened indeed when she was summoned home, and learned all about Anna's Helbarrow Tors experience, and found her seriously ill with pneumonia as a result of it.
Still calling, she went around the tors to another point, but she could catch no glimpse of any living being, and in that great waste of rocks and furze and underbrush it was not surprising.
This all seemed to them so likely, that they drove on again gaily, their minds quite easy about her; all except Betty, who persisted in gazing back at the tors as long as they were in view, in the hope of seeing a signal of distress.
On the tors the sun was shining and the wild thyme smelling as sweetly as though it were April rather than January.
If they went one way she would go another, the moor was large enough, and--and at any rate the tors and the gorse and the birds liked her as much as they liked Penelope.
Here and there were lesser tors and piles of rock, and little footpaths through the heather, and pools which gleamed with a cold light in the light of the evening sky.
I doubt he'll take to writing 'em life-size upon the tors next.
Westward under the Harter Tors and south by the Abbot's Way to Plym Steps the streamlet flows; then she gathers volume and melody to enter a land of vanished men.
The distant details of the land faded; the tors ascended solemn and purple above the grey.
No longer she sulked; no longer the tors and hog-backed hills answered the dark strata of the sky with greater darkness, and spread beneath the sullen colours of the clouds a face still more sullen.
The man meantime was moving at one point of that great trio of tors known hereabout as "the Triangle.
The magistrates above-mentioned were elected annually, but it was the practice frequently to prolong the command of the Consuls or Prætors in the provinces under the titles of Proconsuls or Proprætors.
With respect to the magistrates, Sulla increased the number of Quæstors from eight to twenty, and of Prætors from six to eight.
When the territories of the state extended beyond Italy, new Prætors were created to govern the provinces.
Two Prætors were appointed to take the administration of Sicily and Sardinia (B.
In the later times of the Republic it was usual for both Consuls and several Prætors to remain at Rome during their year of office, and at its close to take the command of provinces, with the titles of Proconsuls or Proprætors.
They again took up arms, and continued to resist the Roman Prætors for the next sixteen years, till Tib.
There are some fine tors near Lydford, though not the highest of the moorland.
Widecombe is in a hollow surrounded by heights and tors (it must be understood that the word tor is only used where the granite actually protrudes from the soil).
The tors of this district are approaching their greatest height, and Mis Tor, a true mother of storms, is one of the most magnificent.
They are natural formations, like the rock-basins and the tors themselves.
Bel, Rippon, and Hey Tors are on one side, Hamildon Down on the other.
It will be realized that if this and other tors rose sheer from a low-lying plain, their height would be much more appreciable.
The two highest tors lie beyond Lynx--Yes Tor and High Willhayes; both of these, though High Willhayes has a slight advantage, are well over 2000 feet.
The slopes around are almost as smooth as if their formation was of chalk, not granite; this might be a corner of the Sussex Downs but for the jagged tors that dream in the blue haze of the horizon.
The senatorial provinces were ruled by proconsuls appointed by the Senate; the imperial by proprætors appointed by the emperors.
Strabo gives us the list of the provinces senatorial and imperial alike, and expressly classes Cyprus amongst the imperial provinces, which were ruled by proprætors and not by proconsuls.
The other Prætors had provinces allotted to them to administer; and after the expiration of their year of office, the prætors generally received the administration of a Province with the title of Proprætor.
The trial was appointed to take place before the prætor of Macedonia, for at that time the Romans did not appoint prætors of Greece.
For a dictator is not chosen by the people or by the Senate, but one of the consuls or prætors comes forward publicly and names whom he pleases dictator.
Not to mention the rest of the potentates, consuls, prætors and tribunes with whom Sulla had to contend, what Roman was more to be dreaded than Marius?
It caused dejection in the city to see the prætors return without their insignia of office, and to hear them report that the commotion could not be checked, and was past all remedy.
The tors vanished; the distance was huddled from sight; Honor's astrakhan hat caught the snow, and her habit also.
Out of the uproar came a voice to him, and where the tors tossed thunder back and forth, until it died among their peaks, the watcher caught a message affirming his own heart in its sudden determination.
Out far away, the distant Tors glowed in the evening light, like great barriers to some mystic elusive land beyond.
Within the forge Philip too had waited in an agony of suspense, whilst twice the glorious sunset had clothed the Tors with gold.
Even "new men" who have been prætors I think, unless under great obligations to you, will not like to be surpassed by you in official rank.
He is openly opposed by the prætors Cato and Servilius and the tribune Q.
For he will have on his side Appius the consul, some prætors and tribunes.
The prætors have not yet drawn their lots for the provinces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
