Cruachmore, the nearest upland farm, could scarcely be seen from the stronghold.
As Hadria drove over the winding uplandroad back to her home, her thoughts followed her sister into her new existence, and then turned wistfully backwards to the days that had been marked off into the past by Algitha's departure.
The shallow upland valleys, moorland with their intense summer sun and the riverless, boggy behaviour of the water breed the pest inevitably.
After coming to a deep well in a grassy plot in a wide space of the road, I go back, across the sunny naked upland country, towards the pink station and its out-buildings.
I cursed the degenerate aborigines, the dirty-breasted host who dared to keep such an inn, the sordid villagers who had the baseness to squat their beastly human nastiness in this upland valley.
In the Mediterranean area the new-comers seized the upland regions, that is, as we have suggested, the regions of pasture, and ousted the longheads permanently from them.
This condition occurred especially in Germany, where the iron deposits formerly worked were those of the upland regions which have kept their forests till this day.
At the present time Alpine man occupies almost all the upland and therefore relatively infertile regions of France, especially Savoy and the Dauphiny, the central uplands, and parts (not the whole) of Brittany.
On the one hand, there are regions of uplandtype but with rounded and smoothed forms, which are sometimes almost reduced to the condition of a plain.
Beyond that distance the high ridge known as Epping Upland limits the prospect.
The whole morning it raged all along the northern slopes of the upland held by our gallant troops.
Far away to the south the Bass Rock and the cliffs near Tantallon Castle rose out of a heaving sea, and behind them loomed the upland country south of Dunbar, so famous in Scottish story.
The hilly upland districts of these provinces are the native and favourite soils of the tea-tree.
The terrace culture is resorted to, in raising upland rice.
And in the house there was an old Sicilian woman, who diligently cared for the old man, in the upland far from the city.
But some god drave me wandering hither from Sicania against my will, and yonder my ship is moored toward theupland away from the city.
In the upland parishes of Wales, particularly those in Montgomeryshire, it was said, and that not so long ago, that cows knelt at midnight on Christmas eve, to adore the infant Saviour.
So then Kit told the tale, losing his diffidence and pointing the narrative with dry, upland humour.
Drink and his rough experience of awhile since, between them, brought a coldness to his spine, as if it were a reed shivering in some upland gale.
The latter issues from an upland lake, enclosed by the peaks of the Arans and the craggy slopes of the Arenigs.
The Ystwith rises in the broken upland a few miles south of Plinlimmon, runs in a deep channel for three or four miles, and then, with little hesitation, though infinite sinuosities, rushes due west.
Between these the upland forms a wedge-like promontory, defended on either side by a steep, almost precipitous, scarp.
Good celery can be grown on clay upland with but one watering--at the time of planting--provided that plenty of mulch is applied as soon as the plants are set.
The upland cress, sometimes called peppergrass, is easily grown from seed sown in drills a foot apart.
Under the name of cress there are two forms, the water cress and the upland cress.
In a thousand open spaces of down and upland the people who had fled thither from the floods and the falling houses and sliding slopes of hill watched for that rising in vain.
But they did not know it was the lost Country of the Blind, nor distinguish it in any way from any other narrow streak of upland valley.
These turtles occasionally damage garden crops and have been known to eat the eggs of upland game birds.
The herbage, moistened by streams which fall from the eminences, has never been known to fade; and, whilst the chief part of Tuscany is parched by the heats of summer, these upland meadows retain the freshness of spring.
The upland lawns, which hang at immense heights above the vale, next caught my attention.
They would return, no doubt, later in the season, when the snow had hardened, and the mice had begun to come out and play on the surface, but for the present they were following an easier chase in the deeps of the upland forest.
In truth, were a building or two of the chalet type visible, the passer-by might fancy himself for a moment in an upland of the High Alps, so Swiss-like is the general aspect.
In upland countries, the surplus water that falls in rain flows off in brooks and rivers to the sea; but in land that is below the level of the sea, there can be no natural flow of either brooks or rivers.
The ground might become more wet, and the canals and reservoirs get full,--just as brooks and rivers do on any upland country after a long rain.
Thus in order to obtain offspring women used to resort to the great sanctuary of Aesculapius, situated in a beautiful upland valley, to which a path, winding through a long wooded gorge, leads from the bay of Epidaurus.
Just as he arrived there, chancing to look towards the hills, he saw that the whole country, upland and bottom alike, was black with buffaloes.
Can scenes like these withdraw thee from thy wood, Thy upland forest, or thy valley's flood?
