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Archaic forest
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weald
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The Weald is a wooded area between the North and South Downs in South East England. Weald may also refer to the following places in England Weald, Kent Weald, Oxfordshire Harrow Weald , London Lower Weald, Middle Weald and Upper Weald, hamlets in Calverton, ...
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Weald \Weald\, n. [AS. See Wold .] A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, And heard the spirits of the waste and weald Moan as she fled. --Tennyson. ...
Usage examples of weald.
Even densely peopled areas like north Kent, the Sussex coast, west Gloucestershire and east Somerset, immediately adjoin areas like the Weald of Kent and Sussex where Romano-British remains hardly occur.
These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
A perfect stretch of trackage lay ahead, straight across the Weald of Kent.
The family was seated in the V V counting-house of the High Weald go down Sarah Courtney tried to show her disapproval in sternness, but an expression of resignation was not entirely hidden by her lowered lids.
Eudena and Ugh-lomi fled from the people of Uya towards the fir-clad mountains of the Weald, across the forests of sweet chestnutand the grass-clad chalkland, and hid themselves at last in the gorge of the river between the chalk cliffs, men were few and their squatting-places far between.
Back in the stables on High Weald Jim rubbed Drumfire down, rather than letting one of the grooms do the job, then left him with a manger of crushed corn, over which he had dribbled molasses.
If, then, we knew the rate at which the sea commonly wears away a line of cliff of any given height, we could measure the time requisite to have denuded the Weald.
Glimmering fields, And wakening wealds, And rising lark, And meadows dark, And idle rills, And labouring mills, And far-distant hills Of the fawn and the doe.
He could aim for Weald itself, allowing, of course, for the lag in the apparent motion of its image because of the limited speed of light.
He made the third of his students identify Weald in the celestial globe containing hundreds of millions of stars, and get on course in overdrive toward it.
Then there were two hundred pounds of salt for preserving venison, ten pounds of pepper, a large box of strong curry powder, sacks of rice, flour and maize meal, bags of spices and bottles of flavouring essences for stews and cakes, bottles of jam and kegs of pickles from the kitchens of High Weald.
The West Weald and Border Weald run up against the Broken Bone hradani.
Tom and Dorian signed the deed of transfer of High Weald and, grinning triumphantly, van de Velde handed over an irrevocable letter of credit drawn on the Bank of Batavia for an amount less than half of what he had been prepared to pay for it only a few months before.