S.W. side of Prince of Wales's foreland, another inlet into Royal Sound; and it then appeared, that the foreland was the E. point of a large island lying in the mouth of it. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time] Reference
It recently obtained a 51 percent working interest in four hydrocarbon prospecting licenses in the "foreland" area of Papua New. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Lichens/Lichenes of the Bialowieza Forest and its western foreland. From Wordnik.com. [Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus] Reference
We found the coast very precipitous, without any foreland or inlets. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death. From Wordnik.com. [Albloggerque] Reference
The high hills to the west were the farthest eastern foreland of the enormous western chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
As for the sediments themselves, they are pretty much what we would expect to see in a terrestrial foreland basin. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Rock - South Table Mountain - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The sun, though up and brisk already upon sea and foreland, had not found time to rout the shadows skulking in the dingles. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
He could see three cottages, a pair about a hundred yards from the Grange and a third standing alone higher on the foreland. From Wordnik.com. [She Closed Her Eyes] Reference
And so they three departed thence and rode forth as fast as ever they might till that they came to the foreland of that mount. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
It came around the foreland head of the ridge with the lights off and started down the edge of the floodplain in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
To the south was the foreland of the high western mountains, whose uppermost reaches were never warmed by the gentle days of summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
They are not very much different from the sediments we can observe in the currently active foreland basin associated with the Andes. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Rock - South Table Mountain - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
During an earlier advancing period, the mountain glaciers filled the deep trench of a fault line separating the mountain foreland and the ancient massif. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
He marched on, possessed with a feeling that it was Geoffroi whom he was going to seek, towards the projecting foreland that shut in the village on the east. From Wordnik.com. [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference
Even Queen Elizabeth, of England, sent Frobisher on a voyage of discovery, but he only discovered a foreland and tons of mica, which he mistook for golden ore. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Every now and then a vessel might be seen making her silent way round the foreland, her form gradually lessening, till at last it was entirely lost in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.] Reference
Antoine was turned out of the cottage, lest the sight of him should excite her again, and he marched away across the low rocks to his own home on the solitary foreland. From Wordnik.com. [A Loose End and Other Stories] Reference
Countisbury foreland stands high to the east of the harbour and stretches far out into the sea, and between the foreland and the mainland is another long, steep, winding cleft. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Northwest of the Queenes foreland the backside of all the Straights: where. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
A noble beach of white sand fringes the bay from the town to the foreland of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
There were clumps of evergreens about, tall cedars, a bit of bushy foreland, and a stretch of snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Younger Set] Reference
Magnetostratigraphic data on Neogene growth folding in the foreland basin of the southern Tianshan Mountains. From Wordnik.com. [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference
Noone the 31 24 s. by w. 27 62 n.w. This 31 at noone, comming close by a foreland or great cape, we fell into. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.] Reference
We passed within a very short distance of the Cape, a bold bluff foreland, but not of any considerable height. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference
Within this rocky foreland lie two bays, sweet coverlets of blue waters, washing a shingly shore under shelter of dark cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Manx Nation - 1891] Reference
'Watchett town was not to be seen, on account of a little foreland, a mile or more upon my course, and standing to the right of me. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
They reached a part of the cliffs where a low wall divided the foreland from an old churchyard which was fast crumbling into the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Shrieking Pit] Reference
It came at last to denote any ness or foreland; but was originally the name of a sacred hill, and of the pillar which was placed upon it. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
And to anybody coming up, and ten times to a stranger, this resolute foreland offers more invitation to go home again, than to come visiting. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
The sun had long set behind the western foreland ere we caught ahead of us the roar of the surf on the bar which lay across the river's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess] Reference
The lines of many a leaning tree were thrown, from the cliffs of the foreland, down upon the sparkling grass at the foot of the western crags. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Bay, where we had a great tyde, like a race ouer the flood: the Bay is at the least two leagues ouer: so doe I imagine from the fayre foreland to. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03] Reference
And being quite the elbow of a foreland of the meadow-reach, it yielded almost a "bird's-eye view" of the beautiful glade and the wandering brook. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
The Lufilian foreland and Lufilian arc are hosted by the Katangan Sequence and together form one of the largest metallogenic districts in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]
I took Nericus, the stablished castle on the foreland of the continent, being then the prince of the Cephallenians, would that in such might, and with mail about my shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey] Reference
He crosses down here from Slocomslade, not from Tibbacot, I tell you; but along that track to the left there, and so by the foreland to Glenthorne, where his boat is in the cove. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
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