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  • Powell, the Police Prefect, could afford a small lime-stone maisonette on Hudson Ramp overlooking the North River.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • The sheet of water, lying at a tolerably great depth underground, but already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay situated between the chalk and the Jurassic lime-stone; this layer may be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Then he went down three hundred feet of lime-stone terraces, one below the other, as straight as if a carpenter had ruled them with his ruler and then cut them out with his chisel.

    The Water Babies 2007

  • There is plenty of lime-stone in the island, a great quarry of free-stone, and some natural woods, but none of any age, as they cut the trees for common country uses.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • The other 17 parcels are spread out over the entire Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, from the sandy soils to the west and southeast, to the rocky plateau lime-stone/clay soils of the north and northeast.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • All of the Gras vineyards are on either the plateau of Gigondas that faces the Côtes du Rhône village of Sablet to the north, or on the terraced lime-stone/clay hillsides of Les Hautes Garrigues.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • The other 17 parcels are spread out over the entire Châteauneuf-du-Pape appellation, from the sandy soils to the west and southeast, to the rocky plateau lime-stone/clay soils of the north and northeast.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • The soil is mainly rocky stones covering a lime-stone/clay base.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • All of the Gras vineyards are on either the plateau of Gigondas that faces the Côtes du Rhône village of Sablet to the north, or on the terraced lime-stone/clay hillsides of Les Hautes Garrigues.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

  • The soil is mainly rocky stones covering a lime-stone/clay base.

    The World’s Greatest Wine Estates Jr. Robert M. Parker 2005

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