117 adjectives to describe localities

One of those periodical outbreaks of war, which seem to have occurred from time immemorial, for the possession of cattle, had burst forth in the land, and had so changed the relations of the tribes to each other that I was obliged to set out anew to look for a suitable locality for a mission-station.

Many of Wordsworth's allusions to Place are obscure, and the exact localities difficult to identify.

But very many of the breeds existed in their respective localities awaiting national recognition.

Training camps are established every summer in convenient localities from two to three months.

The seal which Mr. McNair had exhibited to the meeting was of Babylonian workmanship, and although relics of the same class were of no great rarity in Persia and Mesopotamia, it was a curious circumstance to find one in such a remote locality as the Swat Valley, and could only be explained by supposing it to have belonged to one of Alexander's soldiers who brought it from Babylon.

It was also a healthy locality, being exposed to no malarial poisons, like the "Eternal City."

Besides that, during dull seasons of the year, he made trips to more or less distant localities in search of the species of big game not found immediately about his ranch.

Throughout this vast line of road, the only white inhabitants are the garrisons of the military posts, the keepers of mail-stations, and voyageurs and mountaineers, whose cabins may be found in every locality favorable to Indian trade.

" "We think we have the only suitable town-site in this immediate locality," said Mr. Rose, "and as a town is already started, we have saved the company considerable expense.

THE COMMON OR WILD RABBIT.Warrens, or inclosures, are frequently made in favourable localities, and some of them are so large as to comprise 2,000 acres.

That done, we satisfied our hunger while creeping slowly onward, oftentimes forced to spend an hour or more in making a détour around some particularly dangerous locality.

In numerous localities boiling hot mineral water containing silica was forcing itself out of the ground, spreading itself over the surface and depositing a crust, the thickness of which depended on its distance from the center point.

I shall mention only two, on account of their peculiar locality.

If the spirit's faith be allowed such wide confidences as these; if it may carry up into the invisible and infinite so many precious relics from the wreck of time, so many human circumstances and associations, why may it not take with it, to hang up in its heaven, photographs of those earthly localities rendered immortal here by the lives of good and great men?

Decentralization would be made necessary by the mass of government business to be transacted, and so our separate localities would come to be governed by delegated authorityby proconsuls authorized from Washington to execute the will of the great majority of the whole people.

The numerous researches made subsequently by us, and by many other observers, in the soil and in the air of several malarious localities, as well as in the blood and in the organs of men and animals specifically infected, have put it henceforth almost beyond doubt that we really have to do with a schizomycete.

This place is both a well-chosen and a favourite locality for schools, being situated upon a high plateau of land, with James River on one side and York River on the other; consequently, the air is peculiarly healthy and pure.

These are in the main either fixtures in their native localities or permanently absorbed into the great galleries of Europe; and America may scarcely hope ever to possess such.

Shall the names of so many of our colors continue to be derived from those of obscure foreign localities, as Naples yellow, Prussian blue, raw Sienna, burnt Umber, Gamboge?(surely the Tyrian purple must have faded by this time)or from comparatively trivial articles of commerce,chocolate, lemon, coffee, cinnamon, claret?(shall we compare our Hickory to a lemon, or a lemon to a Hickory?)or from ores and oxides which few ever see?

Ceylon was thought to be its native island; but it has been found in Malabar, Cochin-China, Sumatra, and the Eastern Islands; also in the Brazils, the Mauritius, Jamaica, and other tropical localities.

A dweller in great citiessay, for instance, one who lives within decent distance of such a charming locality as that called the Five Points in New Yorkcould hardly realize the amount of awe that an event so trifling as a sudden and violent death will spread over a primitive village community.

As to the point that the minister stood in an imaginary locality because, as was alleged, he stood on the boundary line, the lawyer maintained that it was a physical impossibility that a minister weighing two hundred and fifty pounds could stand in a purely imaginative place.

" "Why, sir, I believe they have always played ball in that precise locality.

"I presume," he went on, "that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco.

In the absence on either side of any government with full authority and power, the leaders would often negotiate some special or temporary truce, referring only to certain limited localities, or to certain people; and would agree between themselves for the interchange or ransom of prisoners.

117 adjectives to describe  localities