Noun : He moved to a highland far from the river. From Dictionary.com.
The beach and highlands is a very nice combination. From Wordnik.com. [Differences among retirees by location] Reference
Ancient rock music instruments found in Vietnamese highlands. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Trust me, the state of Chiapas, especially up in the indigenous highlands, is not the Mexico most of us know and love. From Wordnik.com. [Any Chiapas backroad driving experts?] Reference
The highlands are the great bulk of this territory. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Another unique singer of the highlands is the horned lark. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
The highlands is a world where time has all but stood still. From Wordnik.com. [ica] Reference
The highlands are the original crust of the moon, shattered and fragmented by the impact of meteoroids, asteroids, and comets. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The altitude did not bother us, but we only spent a week or so actually in the "highlands". From Wordnik.com. [Central Highlands] Reference
Really, the only good reason to live in Mexico, it seems to me, is the weather in the highlands which is magnificent. From Wordnik.com. [The "cheap" life in Mexico] Reference
I live in the highlands which is totally run by Liberals or SNP…… we have no Tory seats or Labour seats here and proud of it…. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tony Blair agrees that Iraq has] Reference
Superjet 100 to be tested in Armenian highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net] Reference
While the Canaanites inhabited the lowlands, the highlands were the seat of the Amorites (Num. xiii. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
"highlands" that divide rivers flowing different ways. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren] Reference
1980s, the highlands were the epicenter of a genocide against Indigenous Peoples. From Wordnik.com. [MADRE] Reference
But the nature they seek in the highlands is facing a threat from afar. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest In The Clouds] Reference
The 78-mile canyon holds a year-round stream that drains the highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Barret Corp. Gets OK To Drill UNDERNEATH Protected Land] Reference
The Montagnards in Vietnam's highlands and the Hmong in Laos come to mind. From Wordnik.com. [Conn Hallinan: Dismembering Afghanistan] Reference
The frosts of its highlands might hold deep-frozen samples of once living beings. From Wordnik.com. [Out Where We Belong] Reference
Two years ago Princess Diana visited Kuito, a town in the central highlands of Angola. From Wordnik.com. [It's Not A Pretty Picture] Reference
Robbie Hughes manages the distilleries at Glengoyne in the southern highlands north of Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [Will Scotch Whisky Revive Britain's Tanked Economy?] Reference
It is set in the desolate forested highlands around the Skellefte river, near the Arctic Circle. From Wordnik.com. [Faith and doubt in Lapland] Reference
Then, too, the difference in temperature between the lowlands and the highlands seems remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
Russia; and it is not altogether obliterated in some parts of the highlands of Scotland and Wales. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
In summer, like the wildfowl, they disappear and go north to seek cool pastures in the Mongolian highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
The monsoon-swept highlands in far northern India are home to 68 of the world's greatest tea gardens, or plantations. From Wordnik.com. [Tip Sheet] Reference
But something else is growing in these fertile highlands, and the rest of the country is watching with great interest. From Wordnik.com. [Following A Higher Law] Reference
Such trees form the forests of the greater part of the highlands of the northern and northeastern parts of our country. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
At Dongkwang, on Cheju's southern highlands, soldiers came to kill and burn because locals had reportedly fed area rebels. From Wordnik.com. [Ghosts Of Cheju] Reference
After leaving Memphis, there are no such highlands coming to the water's edge on the east shore until Vicksburg is reached. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"The outflow channels do not continue far into the northern highlands," points out geologist James Head of Brown University. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Life] Reference
Livingstone longed for the bracing air of the Scottish highlands, and a sight of his beloved wife and children in the home land. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
They're hiding in Siberia, hiking the Burmese highlands, wandering the Mongolian steppes during the fiercest winter in half a century. From Wordnik.com. [Riding The Seoul Train] Reference
David Livingstone was in what is modern-day Malawi, where it is hot and dry or hot and humid, except in the freezing night-time highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Kew Gardens: 'Plants are not just beautiful. They help us to survive'] Reference
In Vietnam, the Green Berets were initially (and successfully) sent into the highlands to train indigenous tribesmen as guerrilla fighters. From Wordnik.com. [Obama’s Vietnam] Reference
The lake's more than a dozen communities of highlands Maya have cultivated corn and beans along the craggy shores since pre-Hispanic times. From Wordnik.com. [On a Guatemalan Lake, Luxury Meets Tradition] Reference
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