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Example sentences for "wolds"

Lexicographically close words:
wol; wold; wolde; wolden; woldest; wole; wolen; wolf; wolfed; wolfhound
  1. Ingram has the following variation:--"And to the east north are the wolds which are called Heath Wolds.

  2. Beverley has no natural features to give it any attractiveness, for it stands on the borders of the level plain of Holderness, and towards the Wolds there is only a very gentle rise.

  3. There is scarcely a district in England to compare with the Yorkshire Wolds for its remarkable richness in the remains of Early Man.

  4. As we continue towards the setting sun, the deeply-indented edges of the Wolds begin to appear, and the roads generally make great plunges into the valley of the Derwent.

  5. The village of Bempton has, however, contrived to maintain itself in its bleak situation, although it is less than two miles from the huge perpendicular cliffs where the Wolds drop into the sea.

  6. Gradually the conversation fell into a more serious mood, and they began to speak of Yorkshire, and to long after its breezy wolds and lovely dales; and Annabel listened and said, "She would be delighted when they went down there.

  7. A good breeze of wind from the wolds fluttered her snowy skirts, and tossed the penetrating scents of thyme and marjoram, mint and pennyroyal upward, and she drew them through her parted lips and distended nostrils.

  8. Never was there such a route from one spot to another as the one we took from Widdington-in-the-Wolds to the Grey Tor Inn.

  9. Out on the wolds Diggon and the peddler had built a fire to warm a new-born lamb.

  10. In that day," quoth he, "they 'll cease to ride the hunt across the wolds and scatter the sheep.

  11. On the south are the wolds of the Negeb plateau, with the plains of Beersheba beyond.

  12. It consists of open wolds and arable land, the soil being a white soft chalk, geologically a later formation than the hard limestone of the hills.

  13. In the same year he became Vicar of Grasby, a small village in the Lincolnshire wolds between Caistor and Brigg.

  14. He went there and fell in love with their mother, and with their mode of life, and with the region, where "there were not only such good seas, but such fine Hill and Dale among the Wolds as people in general scarce thought on.

  15. Nor would the woods and the path by the brook and the breezy wolds ever have been quite the same if his quaint figure had no longer appeared suddenly there.

  16. The boundless wolds of Africa, reminding one so much of Gloucestershire, yet far grander and far finer than anything of the kind in England, were to me a dreary wilderness.

  17. Fresh and health-giving is the breeze on the wolds in autumn, like the driest and oldest iced champagne.

  18. Let us allow at all events that the reflection from the arc reaches across the whole extent of the wolds as far as Dursley.

  19. How well I remember the first sight of the wolds of South Africa!

  20. But whilst the hawking party was moving slowly across the wolds to try fresh ground an event occurred which had the effect of bringing the morning's sport, as far as hawks were concerned, to an abrupt conclusion.

  21. Up above on the wolds all is bleak, dull, and uninteresting.

  22. But once arrived, a magnificent view was to be had, extending thirty miles and more across the wolds to the White Horse Hill in Berkshire.

  23. He has brought us the information that Morton has telephoned through to say that there is a foot of snow on the wolds and that hounds had better stay at the kennels.

  24. William has since tea been talking about publishing the Yorkshire Wolds Poem with The Pedlar.

  25. And they ceased not wandering over the wilds and the wolds till at last they saw upon their way a large city and a mighty fine; so they entered it and made for a place whereat they alighted.

  26. Presently on a day of the days he inclined to the hunt and the chase, so he went off with his suite till they found themselves in the middle of the wildest of wolds where the ruler came upon an underground cavern.

  27. The Prince took them from him and returning to his march traversed the wilds and the wolds for days and nights, all of them; and he continued in that case when he drew near his father's capital which rose within eye-shot.

  28. Then he went forth without awaking her and fared through wilds and wolds for a term of ten days, travelling by light and by night, till he drew near a certain city which was domineered over by an Elephant.

  29. Some miles on, the road begins to get bad and rough and hilly, rougher by far than the roads in the Wolds of York or among the banks of Northumberland.

  30. Compared with these last splendours the low, wooded wolds of the Ardennes, with their narrow limestone valleys, seem a little thing indeed.

  31. This is the vast agglomeration of caves and vertical potholes--like those in Craven, but here called etonnoirs--that riddle the rolling wolds in all directions.

  32. Oli Purum drove me to Corwen station, and by night I am at home again on the Wolds of Lincolnshire.

  33. This estuary breaks through the high ground formed by the Wolds of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, which consists of hard rock.

  34. The Scottish bridle-bit shews the adaptation of the iron for use and the bronze for ornament; and this is even more apparent in the plated harness of the British charioteer found on the wolds of Yorkshire.

  35. Meanwhile Charles, finding he was not pursued, made his way across the wolds in the direction of Northleach, and passing on the right of that town, which was then an important mart for cloth and wool, returned to the Foss Way.

  36. They were again on the Foss Way, with nothing but the bare wolds spread out around them, like the billows of a tempestuous sea.

  37. The attractions of the Yorkshire Wolds are proof against the wet sea-mists, the penetrating winds, and the merciless rain which sometimes sweep over them.

  38. The Yorkshire Wolds terminate on the east with the great Flamborough headland, the chalky cliffs of which have remarkable strength to resist ocean erosion.

  39. So will we fare on all night and when the morrow morns, we shall have traversed wolds and wastes, and thou wilt have attained thy desire and won the beloved of thy heart.

  40. Three generations of the Pelhams turned thousands of acres of waste in heaths and Wolds into rich farm-land; the fourth did his part by giving the same district railways and seaport communication.

  41. It is much more like a Lincolnshire Wolds farmhouse than an inn.

  42. The men who ride on the Lincolnshire Wolds are all sportsmen, who know the whole country as well as their own gardens, and are not unfrequently personally acquainted with the peculiar appearance and habits of each fox on foot.


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