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Example sentences for "rising ground"

  • There were the Yarra trees, and fine grassy flats on its banks; and I came to a fine looking piece of rising ground, on the right bank, where the grass was on fire.

  • On one piece of rising ground, I found a mass of rocks, a few feet higher than the rest, and from it I perceived a continuation of the slightly elevated flattopped range, to the southward and westward.

  • The brigalow beyond the river grew on a rising ground of sharpedged red gravel, and, from a small opening, I saw the course of the river running nearly northward.

  • At last they came to a piece of rising ground, from which they plainly distinguished, sleeping on a distant mountain, a mammoth bear.

  • She thought to herself that she would find her brother's head, and came to a piece of rising ground, and there saw some of his paints and feathers.

  • From a rising ground at no great distance, a general view of the enemy's positions could be gained.

  • The position was well chosen, upon a rising ground, at some distance from the river side, but commanding the whole bend or reach of the river in front of it.

  • Upwards of a mile further on, a newly-constructed field-work was discovered upon a rising ground, surrounded and partially concealed by trees.

  • It is in every respect a singular place: it stands on a rising ground, and directly above it towers a steep conical mountain of calcareous earth, crowned by a ruined castle.

  • At an early hour on the following day we reached Colunga, a beautiful village on a rising ground, thickly planted with chestnut trees.

  • I was heartily glad when, on ascending a rising ground, at about four o'clock, I saw Estremoz on its hill at something less than a league's distance.

  • On reaching a rising ground, from which they had a prospect of the town, the people of the coffle were desired to sit down facing the west, and the town's people facing Kamalia.

  • They had by this, time reached Laboo, a town situated on a rising ground, where the country begins to undulate in hill and dale.

  • A third town, called Musfeia, built on a rising ground, and capable of being defended against assailants ten times as numerous as the besiegers, was next reached.

  • But it is a far more striking object from many points of view, partly owing to its position on a rising ground, partly because it is crowned with the noble ruins of the Parthenon.

  • It is in the usual horse-shoe form, with its sloping back, enclosing the sitting accommodation for the spectators, resting on a rising ground.

  • Three batteries, each of twelve guns, began to open fire, while the remains of the infantry rallied behind a rising ground leading up towards the plateau of Ayker, or Mackenzie's Height.

  • Behind the work, on rising ground, a Russian regiment kept up a most destructive file fire on our advance; the field-pieces on the flank also played incessantly upon them.

  • The ground before them was level until about half a mile from the river, where a rising ground, covered with long grass, low bushes, and scattered trees, sloped gently up to a range of hills.

  • The house stood on a rising ground overlooking a meadow which bordered the Rappahannock.

  • Here, on a rising ground he met Colonel Atlee with his Pennsylvania Provincials, and learned that the enemy were near.

  • Thus having said, the father spirit leads The priestess and his son thro' swarms of shades, And takes a rising ground, from thence to see The long procession of his progeny.

  • On a rising ground, at the foot of one of the bold bluffs in the middle distance, a collection of neat wigwams formed, with their surrounding gardens, no unpleasant feature in the picture.

  • We spurred on, and indeed perceived a few straggling rails crowning a rising ground at no great distance.

  • They spurred across the plain, and reached a rising ground just as the force of Puerto Carrero had charged, with sound of trumpet, upon the flank of the party in ambush.

  • The king, with a handful of cavaliers, galloped to a rising ground, exposed to the fire of the enemy, calling upon the flying troops and endeavoring in vain to rally them.

  • On a rising ground, commanding a view of the whole encampment, stood the ample and magnificent pavilion of the king, with the banner of Castile and Aragon and the holy standard of the cross erected before it.

  • They traveled on a pleasant course, his wife leading the way, until they reached a rising ground.

  • Pushing on, he emerged toward dusk from the forest, and beheld at a distance a large village of high lodges standing on rising ground.

  • At a distance, on a rising ground, he could see the lodges of a large village.

  • As we passed over the brow of an eminence, the tombs of the kings of Golconda broke on our sight, occupying the whole of a rising ground in front.

  • Bhudrinath and I rode on some time in silence: at last we reached a rising ground, which apparently led down to the bed of a river, for I thought I saw the water glistening in the moon's rays.

  • I faced them upon a rising ground with my 30 Horse and 50 Dragoons.

  • The Infantry marched to the right of the Cavalry upon a rising ground, close by a wood which came down to the River Kessel before mentioned.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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