The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

Our camp was in the center of a wide valley.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

Carl Dill was neither a rancher nor a valley man.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

There was no valley like this on your map.

The raped valley was a pregnant womb awaiting abortion.

When the skies grew dark and thunder rolled across the valley, he was unafraid.

Jones relented, he did not order his men to apply the torch -- the drove of livestock was driven up the valley, via Beverly, and across the mountains to feed and serve the Confederate army, while Jones and his raiders turned toward Buckhannon to join forces with Imboden.

In the Sacramento valley in California, for instance, it has been observed that there was not one day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins.

The general consensus amongst scholars is that Luwian was spoken — to a greater or lesser degree — across a large area of western Anatolia, including ( possibly ) Wilusa (= Troy ), the Seha River Land ( to be identified with the Hermos and / or Kaikos valley ), and the kingdom of Mira-Kuwaliya with its core territory of the Maeander valley.

The harbour of Mobile was formed by the drowning of the lower part of the valley of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers as a result of the sinking of the land here, such sinking having occurred on other parts of the Gulf coast.

Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

Alberto Giacometti was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia and came from an artistic background ; his father, Giovanni, was a well-known post-Impressionist painter.

To the north, the Christian Kingdom of Asturias was continuing its program of Reconquista in the Duero valley.

Gobannium was a Roman fort guarding the road along the valley of the River Usk which linked the legionary fortress of Burrium ( Usk ) and later Isca Augusta or Isca Silurum, ( Caerleon ) in the south with Y Gaer, Brecon and Mid Wales.

The Berlin – Warsaw Urstromtal ( ice age glacial valley ), between the low Barnim Plateau to the north and the Teltow Plateau to the south, was formed by meltwater flowing from ice sheets at the end of the last Weichselian glaciation.

The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.

However, it seems that the Duke ’ s favoured scheme was to return to the Moselle valley ( where Marshal Marsin had recently taken command of French forces ) and once more attempt an advance into the heart of France.

During the late 2nd century, the main ethnic change in the northern Black sea region was the immigration, from the Vistula valley in the North, of the Goths and accompanying Germanic tribes such as the Taifali and the Hasdingi, a branch of the Vandal people.

* The upper Valdarno, a long valley bordered from East by the Pratomagno massif and from West by the hills around Siena.

It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south.

East of the Saane, the municipality area ends in a small corner, bordered by the ridges of Dent de Broc ( above sea level ) in the north and Dent du Chamois ( above sea level ) in the south, ending at the valley of Motélon.

The Alhambra as a whole is completely walled, bordered to the north by the valley of the Darro, to the south by the al-Sabika, and to the east of the Cuesta del Rey Chico, which in turn is separated from the Albaicín and Generalife, located in the Cerro del Sol.

The lake is located above sea level and is bordered by two cliffs, rising to the west and to the east, which form the walls of a valley.

It is a land of great contrasts: at the lowest it is at a mere 40 metres of elevation above sea level at the point at which the Ardèche river flows into the Rhône ( in the south east of the department ) up to 1, 754 metres at Mont Mézenc ( Centre-west ), it is bordered to the east by the length of the Rhône valley for 140 km and to the west by the high plateaus of the Massif Central.

Walthamstow is bordered to the north by Chingford, south by Leyton and Leytonstone, east by the southern reaches of Epping Forest at Woodford and west by Tottenham and the River Lea valley.

Ravalli County is part of a north / south mountain valley bordered by the Sapphire Mountains on the East and the Bitterroot Mountains on the West.

The township is bordered to the north and south by mountains ( Mahoning Mountain to the north at a elevation of 1, 150 feet and Blue Mountain to the south at 1, 680 feet ) while the valley floor varies in elevation from 480 – 650 feet.

Republic is located near the source of the Sanpoil River in a long valley bordered on the west by the Okanagan Highlands to the west and the Kettle mountain range to the east.

An alternative etymology would be from the common noun hwicce " ark, chest, locker ", in reference to the appearance of the territory as a flat-bottomed valley bordered by the Cotswolds and the Malvern Hills.

The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur valley and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel.

To the east, the Alamut valley is bordered by a mountainous range called Alamkuh ( The Throne of Solomon ) between which the Alamut River flows.

This valley is bordered by the Sierra Nevada to the west, the La Malinche volcano to the east, and extends over parts of the states of Puebla and Tlaxcala.

The Aare valley was bordered by three dioceses ; Lausanne, Constance and Basel.

The seven hamlets occupy a four-mile long valley which is bordered on the west by Mont Chenevier, and on the east by the impressive and snow-capped Tournette massif.

It is situated in a spacious valley, bordered on both sides by low rocks.

The park and town of McArthur are in the Fall River Valley basin, a large valley bordered on the east and west by mountains and in the north by a volcanic plateau.

The valley is bordered by the Colorado River to the east and, in part, the Salton Sea to the west.

It is bordered by a natural valley to the east, and an artificial ditch to the west.

The valley of the Tapajós is bordered on both sides by bluffs.

Asti is the geographical heart of this macro-region, bordered on the south by the valley of the river Belbo and west roughly from the path of the stream Versa and whose right side is located Asti.

The reserve is in the southern part of the Albion Mountains, bordered on the east by the Raft River valley and to the north by the Snake River valley.