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Eagle Ridge is a muscular course, with bulging mounds and sinewy swales framing the targets at every turn.
You can frame raised beds with lumber or form unframed beds like ours by shaping soil into level, flat-sided mounds about 8 inches high.
From beneath mounds of sand and debris, Babylon and Nineveh were exposed to view together with whole libraries of clay cuneiform tablets.
Most widespread around the sandhills is scrub, which is a desertlike habitat of sandy mounds with scattered clumps of vegetation.
The exhibition will display works of art found in burial mounds of Sarmatian tribes.
From my vantage point, the cranes working away on the mounds resembled Matchbox cars in scale to the piles.
The coral was everywhere, huge mounds of the stuff, some brown, some browny pink, some pinky blue, and others just blue.
Ancient cities are now identified by the mounds raised above the surrounding terrain, called tells.
The African termite lives in tall mounds so strong that humans use dynamite to remove them when they are in the way.
We examined a captive animal in a terrarium, where I fed it samples of the plants that grow on the mounds.
Both sexes start scrapes on mounds or tussocks near the water, and the female picks one.
Long-tailed mounds extend eastward to Juneau County on the Wisconsin River and were very common throughout glaciated eastern Wisconsin.
Deep permafrost thawing may result in irregular surface subsidence and thermokarst pits and mounds.
Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts.
As in many monument complexes, burials were inserted into existing mounds, and barrows were built among and onto them.
With its prehistoric burial mounds, barrows and encampments, its feudal laws and time-trapped settlements, the New Forest is anything but.
On average, estimates improved by about one-third with the mounds compared to the measuring cups.
The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.
Fieldfare and redwings feed on the mounds of apples, Blackbirds and thrushes turn over the compost heap.
Gophers clump their mounds together in tight groups, and these are flatter and fan-shaped with off-center holes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The angles of the castellation of the various walls shut out the tops of the other hills or mounds on every side.
With better tools we will proceed to dig into these mounds and discover what they contain.
That dragons dwelt in mounds was a common Germanic belief, to which the cottonian Gnomic verses testify.
It is from these mounds that we discover the most that we know about early man in the United States.
From fluvial glades that thro my cantons run, From those rich mounds that mask the falling sun.
Everywhere steaming hot springs are seen, also mounds and cones of geyserite.
On the low mounds, that looked like heaps of sifted ashes, struggled now and then into sickliness a ragged, twisted shrub.
Near several of the sites are groups of a hundred or more burial mounds, all of which may be attributed to the Siouan tribes.
Quickly the earth was shovelled in, and soon two mounds showed on the sward.
All around is a sea of mounds covered with sand, where the houses stood, mostly built of madrepore, and laid out in streets.
He was to ascertain when the tumuli, or mounds, were built, and for what use.
In the next village but one to the west formerly stood the Priory of minting, of which only mounds and ponds survive.
An exploration of Ottar's mound showed a striking similarity with the Uppsala mounds.
Pidgeon has described mounds in Minnesota, in many respects like the altar mounds.
It was an amoeba, another of those single-celled, protoplasmic mounds of flesh.
There are other mounds on Richland creek, in the neighborhood of Waynesville.
The royal fern may be cultivated easily in deep mounds of rich soil shielded somewhat from the sun.
A soldier clambered miraculously over mounds of dead bodies and heaps of ice.
Those turf-heaps, mounds of potter's clay, melted at the word of the soldiers like butter in the frying-pans of Friesland housewives.
In some places there are high mounds of dirt outside the city wall.
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