What is "downland"

Usage examples of "downland".

I followed Mackie out of the yard and across the road and on to the downland track, and found that Touchy knew what to do from long experience but would respond better to pressure with the calf rather than to strong pulls on his tough old mouth.

He could offer to have people sent downland to act as look-outs, but he was far from certain as to how Nilsson might react to such a suggestion with its hint of collusion.

Happier ever since we'd traded uplands for downlands and then downlands for border country.

Behind us they stood like downlands etched sharp against the sky's last light.

The gentle, rolling downlands stretched ahead and behind, sere under unrumpled snow, the rippled ink of oak copse and the grayed trunks of alders snagged through by tinseled skeins of moonlight.

A matriarch gifted with Sight attended every birth, death, and wedding held in these isolate downlands, her place to interpret the omens and deliver a guiding augury appropriate to the occasion.

He had his burning-glass in his pocket, he’d some wrapped, waxed matches on him, but he was scared to do it for fear that Harper or a horse he didn’t want to meet or even think about would smell it on the wind, in this place where smells you didn’t notice downland were very, very obvious as man-made.

Again, I wondered how I knew about such things: how I knew the snail I'd just pushed was a Roman snail that used calcium in the chalky downland soil to make its shell.

As folk did in the downland villages, people in Oburan did their major business by day.