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If the declivity is gentle, it can be drained by sodded, concave avenues; but if too steep for that, it must be benched or terraced, which is more expensive.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863

The main building and the wings were built in the so-called terraced form; that is to say, the first row of apartments in the main building and in each wing on the court side were but one story high.

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines Lewis H. Morgan 1849

The Chinese, however, have invented an ingenious kind of pathway called a "terraced" or "flying" road.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

The scene recalled the terraced heights of Switzerland, and the people working there looked like flies on a wall. [

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

These houses, now mostly occupied by lawyers, are the work of Nicholas Barbon, who pioneered terraced housing when he wasn't sitting in parliament or helping to invent buildings insurance.

Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

It is a ramshackle building built on a terraced hillside in the middle of the woods, and looks like it may have been built at the first stages of settlement in the area.

The Rainbow Clockwerkz Hugh Barlow 2012

Emily Park, 28, is a single mother to eight-year-old Joseph, and works for a firm of solicitors in York, where she lives in a rented terraced house.

Almost all UK families have 'inadequate financial protection' 2011

Stuart Allan, a RICs member based in Co Durham, said: “The bottom end of the market of older terraced houses is slow mainly due to the difficulties of obtaining mortgages for first-time buyers.”

Britain’s Housing Market is Benefiting from Not Being in the Euro | Impact Lab 2010

Over drinks in her terraced, art-rich house, clients comb through gems as carefully as they do stocks, sometimes spending weeks on the process.

Adding Jewels to Their Crowns Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011

Georgian terraced houses, designed for a walking citizenry, are tall and narrow.

A guide to British architecture 2011