Valleys

Examples

• Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This lower country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had little or no stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We heard that Germans and Austrians had broken through in the north and were coming down the mountain valleys toward Cividale and Udine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My first real knowledge of myself was as an unprotected orphan among the valleys and fells of Cumberland. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Some of these cliff dwellings may still be seen in the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado and its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The high lands are used for grazing purposes, and rich agricultural lands are found in many of the valleys. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He hemmed the beasts into valleys and enclosures where he could be sure to find them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These elements grew up and became distinct one from another in the great river valleys of the world in the course of five or six thousand years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Romansh, Italian, and French-speaking valleys were presently added to this valiant little republican group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Over these old hills and valleys the ark that contained all that was left of a vanished world once floated. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These big trees grow at an altitude between 4,000 and 7,000 feet, and, whether individual or in groves, they are found in protected valleys, canyons, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The movement in the Kanawha and Shenandoah valleys, under General Sigel, commenced on the 1st of May. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Day by day and year by year the waters spread up the valleys and drove mankind before them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mines of the mountains first attracted them; but afterwards they found that rich valleys and productive grazing and farming lands were there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In the Lebanon, according to Dr. Hooker, perpetual snow formerly covered the central axis, and fed glaciers which rolled 4,000 feet down the valleys. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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