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Usage examples of himalayan.

International Colloquium of Cryptozoologists, Nancy Derringer had trudged through Himalayan snows for Yeti, plumbed deep-water lakes all over the Americas and the British Isles for surviving plesiosaurs, and penetrated abyssal depths in quest of garagantuan cephalopods.

Himalayan icefalls, he would reach The Corpus of Nocturnal Perception.

Umballa to Kalka train had been crowded with English families fleeing the heat of the plains for the cool of the Himalayan foothills.

Ethan Hughes, 24, Kate Cox, 25, and George Arnott, 39, were seized along with an American couple and two others while trekking in the Himalayan foothills near Sriniagar, the Kashmiri summer capital.

It is to be had in the Neilgherries, the Khasia hills, and the ranges in Arakan, as well as in the valleys of the great Himalayan chain up to 7000 or 8000 feet of elevation.

Most of our birds and reptiles, and our lemurs, rhinos, orang-utans, mandrills, lion-tailed macaques, giraffes, anteaters, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, Himalayan and sloth bears, Indian elephants and Nilgiri tahrs, among others, were in demand, but others, Elfie for example, were met with silence.

If I seem to disobey that command now, it is only because I think that at this stage a warning about those farther Vermont hills--and about those Himalayan peaks which bold explorers are more and more determined to ascend--is more conducive to public safety than silence would be.

The higher foothills shot up between five and six miles away, forming a range almost distinct from the terrifying line of more than Himalayan peaks beyond them.

Mahatma Xanadu as though believing that his Tibetan master had stopped in Egypt to pick up the riddle of the Sphinx as a mere by-product to augment his Himalayan wisdom.

The Tsangpo, which rises in the same region, flows eastwards between the Himalayan and TransHimalayan ranges for some 800 miles, receiving a number of tributaries, before turning south into India, where it becomes the Brahmaputra and discharges into the Bay of Bengal.

As concentric rings of turbulent light expanding to the diameter of a small sea erupted from its summit, a single imposing device of Himalayan dimensions discharged a blinding fork of lightninglike energy so intensely purple it was almost black.

The monk merely requisitioned a runner boy who, for the price of fifty rupees, put on his adidas, got his second wind, and trekked the twenty miles or so to the Lukla airstrip, where he placed the charred, unreadable pages on the first flight to Kathmandu with instructions that a new copy of the enclosed be photocopied and returned by the next available Himalayan Air taxi.

Himalayan ridge or Caffre bush, even the plague-cursed Guinea Coast swamp would suit him better.

Africa will push northward into Europe, squeezing the Mediterranean out of existence and thrusting up a chain of mountains of Himalayan majesty running from Paris to Calcutta.

The building was bordered by Himalayan cedar trees on a property facing a four-lane highway.