What is "bottomland"

Usage examples of "bottomland".

Redneck Baptists, rich liberals, yellow dog Democrats, middle-class blacks, young fire eaters, Uncle Toms, and bone-dumb bluegums working the bottomland north of town.

De Mille movie set, sweeping up from the cotton-rich bottomland to the spires and mansions on the great bluff, then back down again to the Triton plant and the sandbars where the river rolls on toward New Orleans and the Gulf.

Gallos, but from those heads grown on the flattest and darkest bottomland in Candar.

The grasses they rode past were thicker, with traces of green, on the bottomland below the road.

Barely a trickle flowed over gray and white rocks, and the sedge and cattail along its verge were thin and weak, though on the whole the bottomland that lay for thirty or forty feet on either side of the water was lusher than the prairie above.

Pretty as a prairie morning with her hair the color of wind-dried grass and her eyes the same shade as bottomland soil.

Their path, a former game trail, meandered among these trunks, then gradually left the hill country and entered the bottomland of Myrloch Vale itself.

Much better: it went for a long distance across flat ground and then dropped down toward the bottomland near Medicine Creek, at a point where the creek looped back toward the town.

At long last, the corn row opened onto the bottomland along the creek.

They obviously had come down to water in the thin light of dawn and were taking their time about it, enjoying the rich bottomland grass as well.

Lavadie himself owned many animals, but he had permits to graze them on either Bureau of Land Management or National Forest land, so his own bottomland could be rented out to others, which he was only too glad to do.

Huge flocks of birds inhabited the bottomland, feeding on the mudflats and in the shallows, and rising into the air squawking and shrieking when the boat sped through their midst.

And legend says that when he reached the verdant valley of the River Coln, he paused on a swath of bottomland which rolled out to meet the wolds like a lush green carpet.

All looked peaceful, the bend in the wide, gray-green river, the wind-whipped water, the willow leaves blowing off in the bottomlands, a few bullboats out near the far shore with the tiny figures of women or fishermen in them, some towing bundles of driftwood to be used for firewood, the town on its stone cliff, protected on three sides by water and on the land side by its long palisade of pointed logs.

He worked northeastward through the hills of Kentucky, then struck the Ohio River bottomland, and went on into Pennsylvania.