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Usage examples of downs.

On the left, the country appeared to be one vast extent of sandy downs, bristling with thistles.

The downs, the extent of which was large, were composed of hillocks and even of hills, very irregularly distributed.

And what could not be explained either was how the engineer had managed to get to this cave in the downs, more than a mile from the shore.

The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys, not far from that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his enigmatical preservation.

There, the long series of downs ended, and the soil had a volcanic appearance.

The third shot, aimed this time at the downs forming the upper side of Union Bay, struck the sand at a distance of four miles, then having ricocheted: was lost in the sea in a cloud of spray.

They had explored, though only in an imperfect manner, the vast shore of Washington Bay from Claw Cape to Reptile End, the woody and marshy border of the west coast, and the interminable downs, ending at the open mouth of Shark Gulf.

Between them and the mountain, the ground is considerably depressed, and if the lava should ever take a course towards the lake, it would be cast on the downs and the neighboring parts of Shark Gulf.

He saw a stretch of empty downs with the wind swaying the remote green-pointed furze bushes.

All his kingdom would he give for the sound of Cornish church bells over the downs, and all the thousand minarets of Celephais for the steep homely roofs of the village near his home.

Drug addicts tend to fall into different classes: those who like downs and Mr.

Londoners long enough to be recorded in some very old church records as Merton Downs, Freemason.

Holborn, and gaze across one mile of downs and swales to an irregular patch of turf called Clerkenwell Green: a bit of common ground separating St.