Upland plains

Usage examples of wolds.

Yet Cricklade was her life, it was beautiful even in midwinter’s long barren months when yards of snow covered the ground, the pine trees on the surrounding wolds were denuded, and the birds buried themselves below the frostline.

They galloped across the wolds, scattering the somnolent sheep, Louise’s laughter trilling through the heavy air.

Even now, the sight of the Romany caravans winding their way through Cricklade’s wolds as midsummer approached always made him feel incredibly randy.

Through the windows he could see Cricklade’s peaceful wolds, rich and verdant.

The eastward slopes of the wolds were slowly slipping from verdant green to subdued burgundy.

Less than a dozen first magnitude stars twinkled above the wolds, the rest of the universe had been washed out in the red dwarf’s sullied glow.

There was more woodland than out on the open wolds, more cover from, and for, prying eyes.

A solitary figure making her way across the wolds, a knot in the uniformity of thought enveloping the county.

Little flying craft zipped across the wolds, stopping next to anyone they found and asking politely if they needed assistance, then conveying them back to the hospital for the ubiquitous treatment.

A spring dawn on Flamborough Head, where the rock of the Yorkshire Wolds juts out into the North Sea like a gigantic fishhook, millions of tons in weight.

Instead, their tenants and the men of the flatlands east of the Yorkshire Wolds could easily put two thousand stout warriors into the field, with many more half-armed spearmen and bowmen to back them.

West they fared, crossing the mighty River Argon to come into the wide wolds 'tween river and mountain, where they turned south for Darda Galion, the Grimwalls on their right, the Argon to their left.