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He made his way to a burial ground planted neatly around with pines. There were a dozen grave mounds.

Amid grey mounds of dusty rocks we were able to see Egyptian vultures and steppe eagles.

Poking through the dark covering are small mounds, probably made of more resistant material.

Archaeologists believe the 37-acre central plaza formed by the mounds may have been used for religious and other public ceremonies.

Oliver crept away to the old churchyard, and sitting down on one of the green mounds, wept and prayed for her, in silence.

By the bottom of these giant pages, the cone forms had metamorphosed into ornate pyramids and art-deco mounds .

As part of the search that has extended into a second month, many coastal towns are using heavy machinery to jar free mounds of rubble.

Looking at an old map of the city, firefighters tried to identify what stood in areas where mounds of debris gather.

The landscape fell away, revealing a seemingly infinite vista of rippled sand mounds, rising and falling like the folds in a quilt.

I recognized the sweetness in the air and did not examine the mounds too closely.

At the end of the long asphalt road, the car turned right, onto a wider street, passing enormous mounds of construction material.

It is possible the plateau is made up of the same material as the highly fractured mounds in the west.

A German man and woman, their faces in close-up, talked about the good and essential symbiotic nature of termite mounds, with subtitles.

On the left of the road, mounds of some sort, that might be last year's stacks or might be a village, rose up in the gathering darkness.

Toward the end of the win over the Nets, we saw Mutombo and Jackson perched on the bench, two mounds of ice on their well-worn knees.

During the day, tribesmen guard their territory. At night, they hide behind rock mounds that cover the land and fight.

The mounds from the dead had formed "a great mountain of ash" , so much more than the handful from Eichmann's body.

Its top tourist attractions are the Chocolate Hills , thousands of cone - shaped mounds scattered over 50 square kilometers .

Then they began to build mounds of earth on top of their mastabas, to make them grander.

The ants build their nests in form of mounds in almost any type of soil, but prefer open, sunny areas or partially shaded ones.

any of several South African plants grown for the profusion of usually yellow daisy like flowers and mounds of aromatic foliage.

She found mounds of appliances, shoes, clothing, electronics, books and food packaging as far as she could see.

Everyone who visits Auschwitz remembers the hair: almost two tons of it, piled behind glass in mounds taller than a person.

The consequent structural integrity of the mounds and their excellent permeability to water has protected them from erosion by flood waters.

The babies in her double jogging stroller are tiny purple mounds, pink noses, and then gone.

Gateway to an abandoned cemetery, adjacent to our complex. All the grave mounds had been emptied.

The hills recede into the distance and now we are in vast grasslands dotted with termite mounds, skyscraper sandcastles of the insect world.

In India, mounds of stone called "stupas" were used to house religious relics and writings.

The blindingly white flats stretch as far as the eye can see, except for a few raised mounds of salt.

These features are up to 2 km tall and are probably large rock fragments or mounds of rock.

When there was the entrance of Arart and Araaraart, they begin to build upon those mounds which were discovered through research.

PUSHING up through the late-winter snows on a hill above Manchuria's Tumen river are scatterings of old burial mounds.

The tee shot is to the widest fairway on the golf course guarded by left and right bunkers and native grass mounds in the fairway.

Mounds of tailings from mineral mining are discarded alongside paddy fields throughout the region.

The mounds are six giant half-circles in the shape of a bull's-eye, almost three-fourths of a mile wide.

Essence of life mounds reach its on face of around mucous membrane, sporadic prostate excretes tubal mouth.

The outer walls of the mounds are built to allow only eddies changing with low frequencies to penetrate deep within them.

Equivalent structures in Mesopotamia collapsed into mounds of earth after many centuries of neglect and weathering.

The tooth fairy has actually hurt herself in my daughter's room because of my daughter's mounds of stuff in her bedroom.

Centuries of rebuilding using sun-dried mud-bricks resulted in high mounds , or Tells, rising above the fields and canals.

and mounds of ashes blocked up rights of way, and wholly changed the law and custom of the neighbourhood.

Sutra streamers and Mani stone mounds put up by devout believers can be seen everywhere in Tibet.

The rebel frontline in this part of the country is a series of simple defences - mounds of earth to protect the rebels from incoming fire.

His grasp of the wild ants, so ants climb up grass stick or paddle, and then to the buffeting (Space ant mounds), .

Two mounds set behind him, form a passageway to the statue, are mountains of despair.

They were mounds of earth to keep cattle in and to mark boundaries.

The grey moss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearing all the towers.

Mounds of brass pots and pans are heaped around the walls.

and entire ranges of mounds, the refuse of the quarries, blotted from the chart which my yesterday's walk left pictured in my mind.

Cano, a 63-year-old microbiologist at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, inspects the smelly little mounds lovingly.

large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia; build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs.

Patterns in Nature: Rainbows A double rainbow frames termite mounds in Australia's grasslands.

Yet as the special report on the waste business in this week's issue argues, there are grounds for optimism amid the mounds of rubbish.

Laborers moved quickly to the stage with brooms and swept away the mounds of discarded hair.

Photographs in the Chinese news media showed rickety wooden boats overflowing with green mounds of algae collected from the sea.

Even so, this does not help to solve the mystery of exactly what these mounds were.

Archaeologists suspect that the mounds at Poverty Point served as sites for dwellings, but they are not certain.

Despite mounds of evidence, convicting them will be agonisingly complicated.

What else you need to know: Some people swear by filling mounds with grits, bleach, or Drano (not so eco-friendly).

They love warm places and live in mounds, usually in grassy areas, across the southern half of the country.

The magnetic termite Amitermes meridionalis of Australia uses Earth's magnetic field to build mounds elongated in anorth-south direction.

Fortifications were raised by building mounds of dirt and fences, and they were reinforced with vegetation and brush.

So many clothes were contributed that they were piled in mounds six feet (two meters) high in some devastated towns.

Other men of worth are mounds and hillocks , which may be surmounted.

The houses have been dug out by hand, and the dirt piled in mounds on the roadway.

Ogres dwell in ogre mounds: rough collections of wood, dirt, and stone huts and caves.

Structures were frequently built on top of the mounds.

A double rainbow frames termite mounds in Australia's grasslands.

Mounds of spice powders are displayed by a vendor at New Market.

Mounds of melons and grapes are stacked on the bare wooden planks of mule-drawn carts.

The city proper contained 120 mounds at a varying distances from the city center.

Termite mounds three metres tall tower above the flat plains.

Mounds of coal, cat walks, and barges at the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company coal docks, Dec.

As they look like mounds of earth, they are called mound tombs.

So why are they reluctant, despite having mounds of cash lying around?

Mounds were pyramid shaped with truncated tops.

it was occupied primarily during the mississippian period ( 8001400 ) , when it covered nearly 1 , 600 ha and included some 120 mounds.

Excavations of 12th- and-13th-century burial mounds in the highlands of Brazil and Argentina revealed numerous earthen ovens.

The spatial distribution of F. cunicularia mounds was in random pattern.

With XP, though, the risk is obvious, instead of being hidden by mounds of paper and promises.

Roofing tiles cover mounds of salt harvested from seaside evaporating ponds near Marsala, Sicily, Mar.

In some states, like Ohio, Native American people built mounds as burial places.

Muddy grass and small gray mounds of melting snow.

People made mounds of stone, brush, or mud, in water.

A city of east-central Indiana northeast of Indianapolis. There are numerous prehistoric mounds nearby. Population, 59, 459.

The love line. The mounds of Venus and Mars.

Drop batter in 9 mounds over hot vegetables.

If an icicle grows long enough, it can meet ice mounds on the ground, forming an ice column.

Earth mounds were being hastily erected lest an attack (should) be launched that night.

They deserve instead to crack open the sparkling water and lay into the mounds of untouched biscuits themselves.

In the park there are twelve small islands connected by arched bridges and small mounds.

They deserve instead to crack open the sparkling water and lay into the mounds of untouched biscuits themselves.

It has been reported that mounds of red fire ants were recently found near the Hong Kong Wetland Park .

Cold-water coral mounds: Evidence for early Holocene climate change and slope failure

Culture Techniques of Introducing Eucalyptus to Low Hills and Mounds

Study on Potentialities of Mounds and Ridges Resources Development of Gansu Province

Tels are the mounds that layer upon layer of former cities make;

seven small mounds of earth were visible there

mounds of orders for the product