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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain range in the southern part of the Scottish Highlands, extending northeast to southwest and including Ben Nevis, 1,343 m (4,406 ft), the highest point in Britain.
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The final assault into the Martian stronghold in the Grampian Mountains began, led by a column of our finest artillery pieces to tear apart the earthworks and heat rays that surrounded their control centre.
The End of the War neil h 2005
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The final assault into the Martian stronghold in the Grampian Mountains began, led by a column of our finest artillery pieces to tear apart the earthworks and heat rays that surrounded their control centre.
Archive 2005-07-01 neil h 2005
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Cairngorum, one of the peaks of the Grampian Mountains in Banffshire,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Grampian Mountains extend across the valley of Strathmore, dropping their boulders not only on the slopes and along the base of the Sidlaw
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The banks of the cataract almost joined at the top, yet separated by an abyss of immense depth, presenting that appearance which so often astonishes and appals travellers who frequent the Grampian Mountains, and indicates that these stupendous chasms were not the silent work of time, but the sudden effect of some violent convulsion of the earth.
Anecdotes of Dogs Edward Jesse 1824
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For though in the following year he carried his arms further, and, as it is thought, to the foot of the Grampian Mountains, and there defeated a confederate army of the Caledonians, headed by
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Grampian Mountains in the distance are best visited during wildflower season.
globorati Liz Kraft 2009
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Later on a tour through the Grampian Mountains and along the Great Ocean Road in the State of Victoria, the consequences of drought and of fire, its dark companion, were even more starkly apparent.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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However, temperatures are generally lower than in the rest of the UK, with the coldest ever UK temperature of - 27. 2°C (- 16. 96°F) recorded at Braemar in the Grampian Mountains, on 11 February 1895 and 10 January 1982 and also at Altnaharra,
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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NW. of the 'Glbnshbe, Spital of/a noted pafs Saltrejt, into the Grampian Mountains in Scotland,
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