M110) But for ages together the ancient inhabitants of these uplands earned their bread by less reputable means than the toil of the husbandman and the vinedresser.
Along the foot of the uplands to the right he marked a patch of swamp, sown with sedgy pools and clumps of dense bushes.
Far forward and to the right, he saw woods and ridgy uplands, and purple-blue beyond the uplands a range of ragged hills.
I was younger, and though still weak from the effects of fever, the dry air of the uplands daily gave me vigour, and the absolute freedom of the life was delightful to me.
Despite this the interior is somewhat cooler than the coast, and in the uplands frost is not uncommon.
Near the coast runs a continuous belt of plantations, while grazing, tobacco and general farm lands cover the lower slopes of the hills, and virgin forests much of the uplands and mountains.
Temperately they thread their way over the uplands or in the cañons, except where blocks of lava may have tumbled into the trough, causing the stream to wreathe and hiss.
Rounding the mass, we were able to reach on horseback some grassyuplands of the further slopes.
These uplands provide good pasture during summer and sweet hay for the long winter months.
A cold, grey world of bleak uplandsand mist-veiled mountains, a chill atmosphere which sent one pacing to and fro.
The uplands which give rise to the Kur in the district of Göleh must come very near to this level.
The western part of the country, however, consists almost entirely of higher land, and the individual mountain ranges in the east tend to taper into hills and gentle uplands as they approach the Black Sea (see fig.
The uplands east of the Maritsa River are not of the same stature as the major ranges.
The many valley basins throughout the uplands frequently have temperature inversions resulting in stagnant air.
Deciduous trees are native to all of the uplands of the country with tolerable elevations.
Avoiding that last outpost of civilization, they were approaching the country of the Mambava, which lay behind the steamy sunshine, below the blue and lavender battlements of granite, in the uplands covered with forests.
Sometimes the green zone of the uplands was lost in a blur not of heat, but of fever.
On the growing crops on the uplands dead stalks and chopped straw were being used as mulch.
In the uplands it was peaceful and restful to walk through the shady lanes between the tree-studded homesteads or along the road passing between plots of mulberry, tea, vegetables or grain, cultivated with the care given to plants in a garden.
Some foreigners who speak so positively about machinery for paddies, and for, I suppose, the sloping uplands to which our arable farming is relegated, do not really grasp the physical conditions of our agriculture.
But the visit to Uplandswas one more of business than pleasure, else Miles would never have quitted Minnie.
We will now take our readers to Uplands Park, the day of Miles's expected visit there by Lord Randolph Gray.
We were curious to know whether the baraque was tenanted in winter, and one of the guides told us that during the winter the whole of the uplands around us lay deep in snow, the roads being quite impassable.
Within eight minutes, a police ambulance was flying Mihul and Trigger at emergency speeds towards a small Uplands City behind the mountains.
No sycomores grow or can grow on the bleak uplands of Tekoa (Tristram, Nat.
And when I came in again I found that my mother had Nell already seated by the fireside, for it is chill among the uplands in May.
It shall not be the uplands of Barr parish that shall keep ye frae the stark sword of John Kennedy of Balterson.
The rolling uplands that stretch inland, with the deep vales and furzy hollows that intersect them, are renowned as the realm of King Arthur, the hero of British history and fable.
Immediately in front of the assemblage rose Whalley Nab, its steep sides and brow partially covered with timber, with green patches in the uplands where sheep and cattle fed.
It will tax all the resources of the Government of India to prevent the healthy uplands from becoming a whiteman's preserve and the Indians from being relegated to the swampy lowlands.
The uplands of East Africa have been declared a Colony and the lowlands a Protectorate.
The general outlook, however, during the last forty-mile stretch of the Severn, is worthy of its fame, for on both sides the uplandsspread back in deep lofty ridges.
I am not even quite sure that tropical experience doesn't predispose us somewhat in favour of planting the sweet potato instead of grazing battering-rams in the uplands of Connemara.
Rich lowlands and oolites suit the cereals; red marl produces wonderful grazing grass; bare uplands are best for gorse and heather.
Among the trees on the uplands are the black cherry, the linden, and the honey locust, all affording indications of a fertile soil.
Because the soil in the uplands relates closely to the base rock and the mountains were created by geologically recent folding that has exposed the edges of layered rock formations, there are abrupt changes in the basic surface rock.
Central Uplands The central uplands region extends south from the Drin River valley, which marks the southern boundary of the North Albanian Alpine area, to the southern mountains.
The ridges of the uplands are extensions of the Dalmatian coastal range that enters Albania from Yugoslavia.
Earth shifting along the faultline that roughly defines the western edge of the central uplands causes frequent and occasionally severe earthquakes.
Some include all of the area in a large diamond shape roughly encompassing all the uplands of southern Albania beneath lines connecting Vlore, Elbasan, and Korce.
From this height may be seen a variety of views, such as Sark, Herm, and Jethou, and on the other hand the sloping meads of the Valle, losing themselves in the gentle uplands of the Catel.
Yea, all these acres wise Augéas owns, These corn-clad uplands and these orchards green, Far as yon ledges whence the cataracts leap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uplands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
