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  • Pang Sida has wide south-facing hill-slope habitats.

    Dong Phayayan Khao-Yai Forest Complex, Thailand 2009

  • However, there remained issues such as flash-flood, drainage, green basket, hill-slope development and global warming.

    Global Issues Are here To Stay. 2008

  • Yes, it takes some time to spend in front of your computer, but you can do it at any time of the day, while you are recovering from the glaring summer heat on your hill-slope or in the middle of the night.

    Through the Looking Glass: Seeing Online Wine Culture from the Other Side 2008

  • The sudden emergence of a giant blade from behind a hill-slope, or out of a cloud base, triggers that primeval "corner of the eye" fright which saved our distant ancestor from leaping predators.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Garry 2005

  • To a glorious resting-place on the hill-slope of Hotoke Iwa, sacred since 767, when a Buddhist saint, called Shodo Shonin, visited it, and declared the old Shinto deity of the mountain to be only a manifestation of Buddha, Hidetada, the second Shogun of the

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • It proved to be a long-mouthed pit, sunk in the trap hill-slope some four fathoms deep, but much filled up; and, so far from being built in, it had not even the usual wooden platform.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • On the hill-slope immediately around me I had a mixed force composed of members of most of the cavalry regiments, and a few infantrymen.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • This was a small case-shot because the gun, a six-pounder, was the biggest that could be worked up the steep hill-slope.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • This was a small case-shot because the gun, a six pounder, was the biggest that could be worked up the steep hill-slope.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • On the hill-slope I, Kerovan of Ulmsdale, faced the wayfarer in trader's clothing, who was no trader, as I knew when his staff beckoned me out of hiding against my will.

    The Crystal Gryphon Norton, Andre 1972

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