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But of course at that time the Indians were not restricted closely to the bounds of the reserve, but ranged freely over the vast and beautiful prairie lying between the coteaux or ranges of low hills which mark out "the Jim Valley."
Drifting Crane 1995
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Miles to the west, still stands in its grassy cove on the coteaux of the prairie, the Church of the Ascension, referring not to the ascension of our Lord, but to "the going up" of the prairies.
Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas R. J. Creswell
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Où deux cercueils passant sous les coteaux en deuil,
La Cloche du village 1920
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But, of course, at that time the Indians were not restricted closely to the bounds of the reserve, but ranged freely over the vast and beautiful prairie lying between the coteaux or ranges of low hills which mark out
Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900
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Qui prodigues les fleurs sur tes coteaux fertiles,
Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878
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The river Mayenne comes down from the north, from its junction with the Sarthe, edged on either side by low ranges of _coteaux_ which approaching it nearly on the west leave room along its eastern bank for vast level flats of marshy meadow land, cut through by white roads and long poplar-rows -- meadows which in reality represent the old river-bed in some remote geological age before it had shrunk to its present channel.
Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860
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- Georges, one had an afternoon walk among the rocks of Fontainebleau, and next day we got early into Sens, for new lessons in its cathedral aisles, and the first saunter among the budding vines of the coteaux.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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The _coteaux_ yield about half a piece to the _setterie_, the plains a whole piece.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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There are made about one thousand _pièces_ (of two hundred and fifty bottles each) annually, of which six hundred are of the first quality, made on the _coteaux_.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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La meilleure efpéce de ce plâtre eft tirée des coteaux qui font dans les en - rons de Paris; on le defcend fur la Seine, etonl'exporte du Havre de
Papers and letters on agriculture, recommended to the attention of the Canadian farmers by the Agricultural Society in Canada [microform] Agricultural Society in Canada 1790
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