The temple site was on a low spur of the hill, below the town.

A 1942 eyewitness description spoke of " a low grove of dead and decaying kou trees " on a very shallow hill at the island's center, but 58 years later ( 2000 ) a visitor accompanying a scientific expedition reported seeing " a flat bulldozed plain of coral sand, without a single tree " and some traces of building ruins.

He strategically placed his longbowmen on top of a high hill, so that they had a better range than the English longbowmen, who were overwhelmed down on the low ground.

The top of the hill and the whole of the south and east sides are covered with enormous pines whose dark green is enhanced by a pleasant foreground of cabbage palms and banana trees, and I also observed a low bush among them the fruit of which resembles our red currants but is much larger and hangs in purple and red clusters that help to give the whole a gay appearance.

Vatican City sits on a low hill.

They occupied the summit of a low hill, directly abutting on the sea, and bounded on the west by the marshy valley through which flows the river Madiuni, the ancient Selinus ; on the east by a smaller valley or depression, also traversed by a small marshy stream, which separates it from a hill of similar character, where the remains of the principal temples are still visible.

The order was important, because the New England troops entrenched on the hill were low on ammunition.

In accordance with this cosmic symbolism, Yasovarman built his central temple on a low hill known as Phnom Bakheng, surrounding it with a moat fed from the baray.

The highest point is a hill scaled by Major Road near Route 1 in South Brunswick Township of approximately above sea level ; the low elevation is sea level.

He anchored his right flank on a low hill, on which he placed his main artillery battery.

Four years later, a party led by Captain Wollaston established a post on a low hill near the south shore of Quincy Bay east of present-day Black's Creek.

* Harris Hill is an extensive community in the southwest corner of the town, built on a low hill called " Harris Hill.

The region is named after Asa Harris, a former officer in the American Colonial Army, who established a tavern near the top of a low hill northeast of Buffalo.

Mercy and Werth deployed their right wing on the Wennenberg, anchored their left wing on the schloss ( castle ) hill, and posted their center on the low ridge between the wings.

The city centre is sited on a low hill on the north bank of the Calder close to a crossing place where it is spanned by a 14th-century, nine-arched, stone bridge and a reinforced concrete bridge built in 1929 – 1930.

Both ‘ heath ’ & ‘ dune ’ relate to the wide, raised land that the field lies on, as the word dun being, ‘ consistenly used for a low hill with a fairly extensive summit which provided a good settlement-site in open country ( Margaret Gelling ).

Because Ford relied on gravity to feed fuel to the carburetor rather than a fuel pump, a Model T could not climb a steep hill when the fuel level was low.

Stark led his men to the low ground between Mystic Beach and the hill and ordered them to " fortify " a two-rail fence by stuffing straw and grass between the rails.

By means of an inscription, Ross was able to identify the site of the temple ; it lies, as Herodotus suggests, on a low hill beyond the boundary of the town.

Biscarrosse in Aquitaine ), with both place-name variants well attested in the whole Basque Country and out meaning ' low ridge ' or ' prominence ' ( Iheldo bizchaya attested in 1141 for the hill Igeldo in Donostia ).

To the east of the city lies Flagstaff Point, a rocky headland with eroded low cliffs topped by a grassy hill.

Orakau was chosen as the site of the battle, a low hill surrounded by rolling country.

Outnumbered, the margrave deployed his troops into a defensive position on a low hill outside of the village.

This literally means " the shin ", but in placenames betokens a shin-shaped hill or ridge ( i. e. one that is long, low and narrow ).

He rode low on the mare's neck.

Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel bag over the low side-rack, I stepped on the running board ; ;

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.

A tall lady, with a ruffled collar very low on her bosom, turned insolent green eyes upon him.

From the outside, it seemed no more than a low drumlin, a lump on the dark earth.

This caution has been particularly noticeable in a tendency of retailers and distributors to shift the inventory burden back on the supplier, and the fact stocks at retail are low in many lines has escaped attention because of the presence of higher stocks at the manufacturing level.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

There are no data published in the literature on the shape of low viscosity drops to confirm the above formulas.

Stains, which include the wide variety of nonparticulate materials which give color even when present in very low concentration on the soiled object.

With either of the gradients described, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose separated agglutinins of the ABO series into at least three regions ( Figs. 1 and 2 ): one of extremely low anionic binding capacity, one of low anionic binding capacity and one of high anionic binding capacity.

But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.

Needless to say, the organic load was very low on a volumetric basis, but was 270 lb BOD/day/acre on a surface loading basis.

The effect is that the platform returns from an off-level position at a rapid rate until it is nearly level, at which point the platform is controlled by a proportional servo with low enough frequency response so that the noise has little effect on the leveling process.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

Then last season the Birds tumbled as low as 11-18 on May 19 before recovering to make a race of it and total 86 victories.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

In her mind's eye -- her imagination responding fully, almost exhaustingly, to these shores' peculiar powers of stimulation -- she saw the city as from above, telescoped on its great bare plains that the ruins marked, aqueducts and tombs, here a cypress, there a pine, and all around the low blue hills.

An American in Paris is scored for 3 flutes ( 3rd doubling on piccolo ), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in B flat, bass clarinet in B flat, 2 bassoons, 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in B flat, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, snare drum, bass drum, triangle, wood block, cymbals, low and high tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, celesta, 4 taxi horns resembling the pitches A, B, C and D, alto saxophone / soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, baritone saxophone / soprano saxophone / alto saxophone, and strings.

Because oxygen concentration in the water increases at both low temperatures and high flow rates, aquatic amphibians in these situations can rely primarily on cutaneous respiration, as in the Titicaca water frog and the hellbender salamander.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.