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... lofty hills , or climbs its strangely shaped rocky heights which seem to turn abruptly from one another , as the sparkling river flowing at their feet takes one of its sudden curves , he will find at every eight or ten miles ' distance ...
... lofty hills , or climbs its strangely shaped rocky heights which seem to turn abruptly from one another , as the sparkling river flowing at their feet takes one of its sudden curves , he will find at every eight or ten miles ' distance ...
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... lofty hills either wooded or broom- clothed , winding brawling streams , with dense tracts of forest , fringed by heathery wastes . Julius Cæsar says of this forest : " It reaches from east to west , from the Rhine nearly to the Rhone ...
... lofty hills either wooded or broom- clothed , winding brawling streams , with dense tracts of forest , fringed by heathery wastes . Julius Cæsar says of this forest : " It reaches from east to west , from the Rhine nearly to the Rhone ...
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... lofty cliffs , sometimes green , but oftener thrusting rugged gray shoulders through the scanty grass and wild flowers . The young harvest moon kissed the crags on. ON THE MEUSE , NEAR DINANT . WIERTZ'S HOUSE , NEAR DINANT . IN THE ...
... lofty cliffs , sometimes green , but oftener thrusting rugged gray shoulders through the scanty grass and wild flowers . The young harvest moon kissed the crags on. ON THE MEUSE , NEAR DINANT . WIERTZ'S HOUSE , NEAR DINANT . IN THE ...
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... lofty overhanging crag , is the gray citadel , and lower down , relieved sharply against this in a darker gray , is the quaint bulbous spire of the church , in itself a fine specimen of Early Gothic . Below the church , and before the ...
... lofty overhanging crag , is the gray citadel , and lower down , relieved sharply against this in a darker gray , is the quaint bulbous spire of the church , in itself a fine specimen of Early Gothic . Below the church , and before the ...
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... lofty piers and roof , and the total absence of ornament , united to the sombre tone of colour , make it very impressive ; and it is , too , in such complete contrast to the bright little town outside , with its many - coloured houses ...
... lofty piers and roof , and the total absence of ornament , united to the sombre tone of colour , make it very impressive ; and it is , too , in such complete contrast to the bright little town outside , with its many - coloured houses ...
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