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