 That part of the island we had landed on was a narrow ridge, not above a musket-shot across, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by a creek, extending upwards of a mile inland, and nearly communicating with the sea at its head.  Annual Register - Side 209redigeret af - 1818Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - 822 sider
...or Bay-Encor) the province of the jungles). The modern Cochin-China, or the old Ciampa, is bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a high mountain-chain, which, as a spur of the Yunan mountains, runs all along the whole length of its... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1907 - 588 sider
...door is marked by a stone. All around, the dark, flat, unprofitable marsh stretches away for miles, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the beautiful curving sweep of the pine forest. Here they remained for twenty-four hours, until the... | |
 | 1855 - 714 sider
...called the horn. By the horn, then, of the son of oil, the prophet might mean Syria, which is bordered, on one side, by the sea, and, on the other, by a most barren desert, and stretches out from its base to the south, like a horn : and thus these words... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford - 1912 - 616 sider
...extent; but the isthmuses, which determine the breadth of the sides, are each of seven or eight stadia, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the lake. The whole city is intersected by streets for the passage of horsemen and chariots. Two of... | |
 | raj rama of Jhalawar Bhavãnĩ Singh - 1912 - 412 sider
...scenery, which at some places is simply charming. Llandudno is especially picturesque, bounded as it is on one side by the sea and on the other by a beautiful tree-covered mountain. We reached the Midland Hotel, Manchester, about 5.30, and I at once... | |
 | George Willis Botsford, Ernest Gottlieb Sihler - 1915 - 758 sider
...extent ; but the isthmuses, which determine the breadth of the sides, are each of seven or eight stadia, bounded on one side by the sea, and on the other by the lake. The whole city is intersected by streets for the passage of horsemen and chariots. Two of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1921 - 228 sider
...something of Nice, where I am vegetating so very agreeably. It is charmingly situated in a small valley bounded on one side by the Sea and on the other by an Ampitheatre of Hills which rise gradually and are covered to the top with gardens vineyards, olive,... | |
 | 1926 - 330 sider
...the house to go to the post office, which was about half a mile away, on a road which was bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a hilly farm. There were ten children at the post office, and when I drew near it, and heard a child... | |
 | Gary Richard Thompson, Virgil Llewellyn Lokke - 1981 - 412 sider
...Seventeenthcentury Boston, in Roger Chillingworth's words, is a "wild outskirt of the earth" (I, -7 6), begirt on one side by the sea and on the other by a forest wilderness, which serves the same symbolic function. Like Blithedale, Boston is an island in... | |
 | Edwin Ardener - 1996 - 408 sider
...century. All the Bamboko villages in Victoria Division are now included within six reservations, each bounded on one side by the sea and on the other by plantations. Four of these reservations contain only one village each: Sanje, Bibundi (Vewonde), Njonje... | |
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