Defn: A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives.
Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleysfrom the upper Missouri to California.
Defn: One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
It is said that miasmatic valleys in Algeria and Portugal, and a part of the unhealthy Roman Campagna, have been made more salubrious by planting groves of these trees.
Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks.
A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe.
On through the valleysand half-way up the slopes, which rolled here far away into a still wilder world, the young man rode.
But the valleys between them, and the grounds on the sea coast, high as well as low, were covered to a considerable breadth with high, straight trees, that formed a beautiful prospect as of one vast forest.
And in the midst of these mountains and valleys of junk sat Great Taylor upon her dilapidated throne.
The American locomotive is to-day speeding across the steppes of Siberia, through the valleys of Japan, across the uplands of Burmah and around the mountainsides of South America.
He thought that the levels of the valleys are at present being raised, owing to the deposit of detritus in them.
Geikie states that the doctrine of the origin of valleys by the erosive action of the streams which flow through them, though it has been credited to various writers, was first clearly taught from actual concrete examples by Desmarest.
Great forests grew there, and in deep valleys were wild animals of many sorts, and deer innumerable.
From this commanding spot the valleys of the Wharfe and Ouse lie plainly unfolded, and the towers of York itself may be seen on the skyline, on the verge of this wide expanse of meadows and woodlands.
I inclined to leave the rough-beaten track through the valleys for short cuts across the hills, and asked the landlord about a guide.
The road winding along a hill-side leads you onwards high above the valleys that open at every bend.
The road still descends: the prospect opens over forests far broader than on the Saxon side: valleysbranch off, and the scenery improves.
There he found many men and animals who had fled from the flood that already covered the valleys and plains, and even the highest hills.
The neighbourhood of the tree is unhealthy, not on account of anything in the tree itself, but because it grows in the hot and humid valleys of Java, rank with malaria and fever.
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow, or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
He armed himself and followed on his track: he passed the great river and crossed mountains and valleys to the shores of the deep and gloomy lake, now called Manitou Lake, Spirit Lake, or the Lake of Devils.
Rightly used, we can draw from these sources much valuable information of the people whose council-fires blazed all along the beautiful valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in times far removed from us.
This stream, rising in the La Platte Mountains, flows through beautiful valleys to a great table-land known as the Mesa Verde.
The most we can say is, that these valleys have surely been settled for a long while.
The rich and productive valleys and bolsons are hardly move than specks on the map.
On its bracing uplands were flocks of llamas and abundance of edible roots, while its sunny valleys yielded large crops of corn, pepper, and fruits.
A great portion of the formation has been removed, and deep valleyscut in them by running water.
It was only after a most stubborn resistance that the principal valleys were subdued.
It will help us to understand as nothing else will how the tribes located in one rich and productive bolson could, by successive forays, reduce to a condition of tribute tribes living in other detached valleys and bolsons.
We may suppose that in the fertilevalleys of the coast, and in the bolsons of the interior, tribes of rude people were slowly moving along the line of progress that conducts at last to civilization.
Like a river it fills the valleys leading down from the mountains.
The rivers of the Dordogne run in deep valleys cut through calcareous strata: and while the sides of the valley in chalk districts are generally sloping, in this case, owing probably to the hardness of the rock, they are frequently vertical.
A tribe located on one of the fertile river valleys of Wisconsin was composed of various gens or clans.
We notice that we have here another instance of the influence that fertile river valleys exert upon tribes settling therein.
Then in the evening stillness the great outlines show majesty; then in the silence after sunset rivers, winding among the ranges in many branches over broad, stony beds, fill the shadowy valleys with their hoarse murmur.
In the month of February, when the rata flowers in the Alps, there are valleys which are ablaze for miles with "Flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire.
Even pleasanter are the sound and glitter of water under the summer sunshine to the wayfarer in the open grassy plains or valleys of the east coast.
A golden autumnal day had arisen from the dim morning mists; the mountains were unveiled and the valleys were filled with sunshine.
The storm passed down into the valleys in full force, and there, after the lightning had flashed and the thunder had rolled for an hour, it ended in a pouring rain.
The interior valleys are warm, and during the summer quite hot, and yet the dry heat does not exhaust or distress one, and cool nights refresh you.
But smaller tracks, sown to alfalfa, are found to pay in the valleys where the land can be irrigated.
He soon became a very skillful dancer, and an excellent reciter of the mele; so the fame of his skill was not slow in extending through all the valleys of the island.
No one disputes that while they supported themselves by useful industry in the valleys where were their homes they were peaceable and harmless, and that the whites stood in no danger from them.
It happens that the Indians of these little valleys are a mild race, not prone to war.
Potter Valley is one of the richest and also one of the prettiest of the minor valleys of this State, and your way to Lakeport carries you along the shores of two pleasant mountain lakelets--the Blue Lakes, which are probably ancient craters.
Yet coffee grows wild in many of the valleys and hills, and here and there you find a small plantation of a few hundred trees which does well.
Having thus more soil than the other islands, Kauai has also more grass; being older, not only are its valleys somewhat richer, but its mountains are also more picturesque than those of Maui and Hawaii, as also they are much lower.
Thus he will see on his journey two of the richest and most fertile of the minorvalleys of California, both abounding in fruit and vines as well as in grain.
Among the delightful and fertile valleys which beautify the State of Maryland, none is more charming than the one through which the Antietam winds its tortuous course.
Its fairvalleys desolate of inhabitants, or inhabited by low white trash, as idle as ignorant.
From these glades numerous valleys diverge, and, in looking down these, splendid vistas are obtained.
They slope down steeply from narrow ridges; hence their picturesque seclusions of valleys and dales, which subdivide the lake region into so many communities.
Our hills, like apple-dumplings in a dish, have no such valleys as these.
The hills and valleys abound in streams, sparkling through pebbly beds, and forming here and there a dark pool; and they would be populous with trout if all England, with one fell purpose, did not come hither to fish them.
Have New England's hills and valleys Lost their every charm for thee?
It was a wild, sequestered spot, With here and there a humble cot; Yet, nature's richest robes were thrown Around those hills and valleys lone.
The vegetation of the poimy and zaimischas in the marshy bottoms of the ravines, and in the valleys of streams and rivers, is totally different.
The fauna of the thickets at the bottom of the river-valleys is decidedly, rich and includes aquatic birds.
The Caucasian races inhabiting Georgia, the valleys and defiles of the Caucasian Mountains have different appellations and different origins.
Not a tree is to be seen, the few woods and thickets being hidden in the depressions and deep valleys of the rivers.
The Arctic Region comprises the tundras of the Arctic littoral beyond the northern limit of forests, which last closely follows the coast-line with bends towards the north in the river valleys (70° N.
The tops of the mountains here, the valleys being so large, were much plainer to be seen than where the passages were narrow, for there the height was so great that we could see but little.
The valleys and lowlands are studded with villages, and checkered by orchards, vineyards, and gardens, yielding both the cereals of the temperate zones and the fruit of the tropics.
The moist air coming into contact with the cold body becomes greatly reduced in temperature and after depositing a heavy dew, lies still in the valleys over the whole surface of the ground.
Not a poem or a dream, but as a range of mountains would form if they were piled down from some other world; first a row of little peaks, then monster heights arising where valleys hid, and valleys forming on the points of peaks.
At any rate, Trembleth (situated in the northernmost of the four valleysmentioned above) was a residence of some of the subsequent members of the family.
In some of the Montana valleys good crops have been grown with much success in many of those western valleys, and even on the bench lands at the base of foothills.
In the mountain valleys in the Northwestern States, and on the Pacific slope west of the Cascade Mountains, it is perennial.
In the western valleys of the mountain States, alfalfa is the crop around which it may be said that agricultural production centers.
The dairy and swine industries in those valleys must largely depend upon it.
By growing it as a rotation crop in these valleys it may be made to furnish the soil indefinitely with supplies of nitrogen and humus.
In the valleys of the West that preparation of the soil found suitable for alfalfa would also, doubtless, be found suitable for this clover.
In the mountain valleys it would probably succeed, but in these alfalfa and some other varieties of clover will give far better returns.
In the western valleysthey range from three to five or six, according to location.
In the Western valleys where irrigation is practiced, clover seeds may be sown at any time that may be desired, from the early spring until the early autumn.
It might be so grown in the clover lands that lie immediately southward from Lakes Superior and Huron, in the northern Rocky Mountain valleys and on the valley lands around Puget Sound.
With irrigation it grows most vigorously in the mountain valleys between the Rocky and Cascade mountains, and between about 37° and 50° north latitude.
From this point, we proceeded up the stream about eight miles, where we found a great many people and Indians--some engaged in the bed of the stream, and others in the small side valleys that put into it.
This description of climate prevails in all the valleysalong the coast range, and extends throughout the country, north and south, as far eastward as the valley of the Sacramento and San Joaquin.
It crops out in the valleys and on the tops of the hills, and forms a striking feature of the entire country over which it extends.
A considerable portion of the valleys of the Moquelume, Seco, Cosumnes, and American Rivers is also well adapted to agriculture; and the broad plains lying between them furnish abundant pasture for raising stock.
A detailed report of my reconnoissance in the valleys of the San Joaquin and Sacramento will be forwarded by the next steamer.
There are many streams among the valleys of Upper California, some of which, in the rainy season, swell to a considerable size.
I would respectfully recommend that at least three sub-Indian agents be appointed for this country, and stationed in the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin.
My correspondence with the Indian agents and military officers established in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys will inform you of the measures taken to prevent a repetition of these difficulties.
It is said there are large numbers of them in the mountains and valleys about the head-waters of the San Joaquin, along the western base of the Sierra, and in the northern part of the territory, and that they are hostile.
The small bands with whom I met, scattered through the lower portions of the foot-hills of the Sierra, and in the valleys between them and the coast, seemed to be almost the lowest grade of human beings.
Most of the valleys are watered by streams sufficiently large to be rendered very useful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "valleys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
