How To Use Highland In A Sentence

He discussions certain sparsely settled areas (the Highlands of Scotland, for example) as requiring less division of labor than more densely settled areas, and argues that this will slow down the development of manufacture, which makes a great deal of sense. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
Clach climbed five places into fifth spot after a wash out in the Highland League, with a 2-0 triumph over north rivals Fort William.
Six biogeographical zones, ranging from subtropical forest to highland scrub, host an impressive 151 species of bird, 34 species of mammal, 228 species of butterfly and countless plants. Taiwan's Greatest Ascent
Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.

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The train chugged steadily along the West Highland Line.
After a spell in America, they moved to Edinburgh, but were soon criss-crossing the Highlands in search of the perfect home.
Wit and playfulness is one thing, sending your models out in full Highland regalia is quite another. Times, Sunday Times
Competitors danced the Highland fling, the sword dance, the sean triubhais, the Highland reel, the sailors' hornpipe, the Irish Jig and other dances, preferably to the music of the bagpipe.
Highland slopes were characterized by an association of clubmoss (Lycopodium trichiatum), a fern (Gleichemia polypodioides), and flowering plants (Poa fuegiana, Acaena seurguisarbae, Scirpus aucklandicus, Uncinia brevicaulis, and Trisetum insulare). Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands
Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.
“Indeed, Robin, I’ll be better advised before I gie it back to you; it is a wanchancy weapon in a Highlandman’s hand, and I am thinking you will be about some harns-breaking.” Chronicles of the Canongate
We stopped at a little hut, where we saw an old woman grinding with the quern, the ancient Highland instrument, which it is said was used by the Romans, but which, being very slow in its operation, is almost entirely gone into disuse. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite.
The Park consists of two geomorphic units: rift valley volcanic mountains and Congo basin low highlands. Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
In some villages of Nyalam County, bharals and kiangs ate 40 percent of highland barley each year.
The central highlands are also receiving their first snowfall. Times, Sunday Times
MBEs also went to stonemason Alan Horsfield, who was honoured for services to St Paul's Cathedral, Welsh caretaker Robert Owen, who was recognised for services to the community in Holyhead, Anglesey, and Mary Watt, who was rewarded for services to highland dance teaching in Ross-shire, Scotland. New Year honours: Recognition for unsung heroes in the public sector
Ben Wyvis, for instance, is unlikely to win any prizes in a contest against some of the more shapely Highland summits.
Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place.
The southern half of the Republic of Guatemala mainly consists of beautiful mountain highlands and plateaus, which are susceptible to devastating earthquakes.
Separate ice fields also encroached from the North Sea, driving eastwards through what is now the Vale Of Pickering and covering much of the East Yorkshire plain, leaving the moors and wolds as isolated highlands.
The highlands have rugged terrain that is difficult to cultivate.
But the voices continued to bedevil her, and later that year she was committed to Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
In parts of the Southern Province and central highlands they were little used, and human power was employed instead.
In early 1999 the company suffered a setback following the discovery that its Glenmorangie Single Highland Malt brand had been overstocked in the UK distribution chain.
Radio nan Gaidheal will broadcast a single morning block to the Highlands and Islands, replacing the current piecemeal pattern of programmes.
Concerns are also growing over the pylons needed to carry electricity from remote parts of the Highlands and the Borders.
Instead of rounding up villains, John spends his days shepherding black Hebridean sheep and Highland cattle.
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Every few minutes he would stop and listen to what sounds there were in these quiet highland woods.
The Khmer Loeu hill tribes live in remote highland areas in the plateaus and mountainous areas on the edges of Cambodia.
As part of the pacification of the Highlands after the collapse of the Jacobite rising of 1689-90 a royal order required all clan chieftains to take an oath of allegiance to William and Mary.
The first stop on the tourist route out of the city is the hill town of Dalat in the southern central highlands.
Many species common in montane forest, such as trees of the genera Podocarpus and Juniperus, have economic importance, while several crops including coffee (Coffea arabica) and tef (Eragrostis tef) from the Ethiopian Highlands have been domesticated. Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
Many Highland chiefs and clansmen, who did battle for the Stuart cause, paid for their loyalty with life and property.
Quickly, the Highlander sheathed his claymore and dropped his shield.
The Southern Highland Group, consisting of greywacke, shale, limestone and volcanic rock, forms the top of the Dalradian succession.
“You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I for the present travel on foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward.” Rob Roy
Enlil agrees to grant the remnants of Mankind implements and seeds; agriculture begins in the highlands.
The Glencoe Visitor Centre, run by the National Trust for Scotland, is designed as a traditional ‘clachan,’ or Highland village.
Kabary, the flowery speeches given at all formal, ancestral occasions in the central highlands, are recognized as requiring great skill.
These highlands have a story to tell, one illustrated by railroad ties, horseshoes, and rusty scraps of metal - as well as big-tooth aspen and red spruce saplings poking through the snow.
Along the banks we caught sight of both of the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa.
He had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder. Waverley
Another "Highland Laddie" is also in the "Museum," vol. v., which I take to be Ramsay's original, as he has borrowed the chorus -- "O my bonie Highland lad," &c. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
The enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard cattle boats and sent on horrific transatlantic crossings by evil lairds has been shattered in a new study.
Lowland smith would hammer shoon on a Highland shelty. A Legend of Montrose
The topography of Kerala could be divided into highland, midland and lowland areas.
The Dawg, at least, awaits your arrival with anticipated pleasure and I must say you should love it here so if I´m in town (that would be Lake Chapala) the first brew is on me but the same goes for Highland Chiapas if I happen to be there at the time. Fuel, food, utilities, taxes,et cetera.
Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums. Surprised by Joy
Lord Kilian won't let a jumped-up highlander lord it over two experienced administrators like you and me. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
The search is still continuing for a group of climbers reported missing in the Scottish highlands.
Highland areas would be reforested to create a filter through which rain and groundwater could be purified for use in the more populated valleys and lowlands.
Plague on her, for an auld Highland witch and spaewife," said a farmer from the Carse of Stirling; "she'll cast some of her cantrips on the cattle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827
At least 18 people were wrongly committed by Highland doctors, according to a whistle-blower who claims she has since been forced out of her job as a medical records officer.
Within Tanzania the area is important for retaining uncultivated lowland vegetation, for the arid and semi-arid plant communities below 1,300 m, for its abundant shortgrass grazing and for the water catchment highland forests. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
I mean to collect all the Erse traditions, poems, &c. &c., and translate, or expand the subject to fill a volume, which may appear next spring under the denomination of 'The Highland Harp,' or some title equally picturesque. Life of Lord Byron
Boasting savagely violent battle scenes and an adrenaline fueled chase through the breathtaking Scottish highlands, CENTURION is set during the war between Roman soldiers and Pict tribesmen during the 2nd century Roman conquest of Britain. Neil Marshall’s CENTURION to Stand Guard This Summer – Collider.com
This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands; for here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Well - known specialty: child Ma pigs, highland cattle consumption , possessionmian yang , Triton, milk and so on.
Located about two hours west of Sofia in the Sredna Gora highlands, Koprivshtitsa is a prime example of Bulgaria's attempt to promote its country life to tourists.
There was no remedy for what was called by Lord Lovat's friends, the "rascality" of the judges: -- and again this unworthy Highlander was driven from his own country to seek safety in the land wherein his offences had received their pardon. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.
Yet he could still turn up unannounced at any time in a bar in a far-flung corner of the Highlands with a fiddle under his chin. Times, Sunday Times
Swim, raft, or trek along the rivers, which emerge from the glacial highlands of the Andes and vary from black to white, cloudy, ruddy, or salty.
There has been much interest recently in the Scots’ language Gaelic, once the preserve of the teuchters in the highlands but now increasingly popular among the keelies in the lowlands.
How can you dislike a town where everybody jaywalks and the libramientos are known locally as the "other cemetary" and people drive in chaotic but workable distraction and many folks are short and fat and ridiculed by the overcompensating snobbish Highlanders as redneck morons and eating and drinking and dancing are local sports. Driving From San Crist�bal de Las Casas to Lake Chapala
Through the summer, you'll barely turn a corner without seeing a Highland Games, with the skirl of the bagpipes, tug-o'-war, races and what they quaintly call heavy events’ - throwing lumps of metal and tossing the caber.
In New Jersey, Triassic brownish red, shale, sandstone, and argillite are extensive; these sedimentary rocks are much less resistant to erosion than the metamorphic crystalline rocks that form the core of the adjacent Northeastern Highlands (58). Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
The jungled mountains of western Colombia, where the drugs are produced and guerrillas operate, look an awful lot like Vietnam's Central Highlands.
On the west the rough highlands of Marin shut off the ocean; in the midst, in long, straggling, gleaming arms, the bay died out among the grass; there were few trees and few enclosures; the sun shone wide over open uplands, the displumed hills stood clear against the sky. The Silverado Squatters
Any list of bad sequels that does not list Highlander II as the all-time el-supremo undisputed champ of a stinking stinkeroo of a stinker is not the pixels used to post it. EW's Top 25 Worst Sequels
Contrary to previous reports, the Highland project, unlike London's Hospital, does not have Microsoft millionaire Paul Allen's financial backing.
Soung (highland) including the Hmong ( "Meo") and the Yao (Mien) 9\%, ethnic Vietnamese/Chinese 1\% The 2000 CIA World Factbook
The highlands of this park are forested with the peak of Mount Meru rising above the forests to dominate the area.
Rich in Native American and pioneer history, the Appalachian Highlands boast an amazing plant diversity - from laurel to flowering dogwood - and more than 200 different kinds of birds.
Sunbirds in the highland forest include the golden winged sunbird Nectarinia reichenowi and eastern double collared sunbird N. mediocris. Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
The train chugged steadily along the West Highland Line.
The Long-tailed Sylph occurs in highlands of northwestern South America from Venezuela to Bolivia.
While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
Geologically the axes from the New Guinea Highlands comprise thermally metamorphosed basalt, chert and greywacke depending on quarry source.
The regiment was recruited from the Highlands specifically for service in India.
No matter the range of your holiday aspirations, from a weekend break in the Highlands to a grand tour of the Far East, there is no doubt that having a sprog in tow slows you down.
The event organiser, a man from Mourne Highland Games, also demonstrated tossing the caber and even managed to persuade a few people to have a go at this popular Scottish sport.
Besides raising Angus cattle in the South Highlands Theo's a property developer in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and investor in listed and unlisted companies by himself and with others.
Captain is primed for the Park with a glass of curacoa; and where you see Hobby, of the Highland Buffs, driving up with Dobby, of the The Book of Snobs
Family ties superimposed on clan clannishness, which is the blood heritage of the Highland Scotch, made it impossible for him to feel otherwise. Poor Man's Rock
But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
All those chimney sweeps and ribbon girls, ragmen and hook-nosed Jews, bricklayers and Highland warriors, Turkish dancers and London match girls? The Terror
For too long your family's presence in Scotland has been coloured by Balmoral and the late summer season with its fishing, robust outdoor activities and Highland games.
And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious The Freelands
The depression between the ancient northern highland and the southern mountains climbed upward toward a wild landscape that outcropped in rugged crags. The Plains of Passage
That night trip also yielded a highland tinamou, two Virginia opossums and - after half an hour spent staring at a yellow eye in a distant tree - what turned out to be a potoo.
Many areas of both the highlands and the lowlands supported very dense populations prior to the Roman invasion.
One monkey in particular has been the focus of a lot of attention lately, the Highland mangabey Lophocebus kipunji (although this is not its current name: see next post). Archive 2006-06-01
The surprising effect which had been produced by small means, in 1745 – 6, animated their hopes for more important successes, when the whole nonjuring interest of Britain, identified as it then was with great part of the landed gentlemen, should come forward to finish what had been gallantly attempted by a few Highland chiefs. Redgauntlet
There is ground to conclude that they came down from mountains in the fact that the name "Accad" means "Mountains" or "Highlands," a name which they could not possibly have taken in the dead flats of Lower Chaldea, but must have retained as a relic of an older home. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
They did up an old cottage in the Scottish Highlands.
Western Highlands, and was living in some house on the coast, how sad and still the Atlantic must have been all this wet forenoon, with the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay lying remote and gray and misty in the far and desolate plain of the sea! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
Walkers on the Queen's Highland estate were allowed to walk from the Spittle of Muick car park to mountain summits on recognised paths.
Ecoregion 37 is a synclinal and alluvial valley lying between the Ozark Highlands (39) and the Ouachita Mountains (36). Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
‘If the person was from the Highlands, they would be familiar with the pros and cons of this sort of area,’ he said.
American army; while the Hessian columns, stretching across a chain of the "highland," attempted to turn Gen. Greene's flank, and storm the advanced redoubt. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
In this case Highlander staff will invite the group to attend a residential video workshop at the Highlander Center.
The Queen has been accused of ignoring the devastating environmental damage caused by vast herds of red deer that roam across her Highland estate and onto one of Scotland's top nature reserves.
It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
The author is himself a sixth generation Scot with a Highland background that has not been dimmed by 200 years of separation from his homeland.
In the highlands a kind of polygonum is used for this purpose. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
For their part, the dark-skinned highlanders were amazed to confront men so pale that they seemed like spirits of the dead.
Highland Council convener David Green has already written to Scottish Secretary Helen Liddell asking her to help ‘end the uncertainty which has hung over our lifeline link for too long now’.
Somewhat softened by wind erosion, the surface none the less looked more like the lunar highlands than like anything on Earth.
Highlanders used baldmoney or spignel to give food a spicy flavour and also chewed the roots as a stimulant and to relieve flatulence.
Lowland smith would hammer shoon on a Highland shelty. A Legend of Montrose
The train chugged steadily along the West Highland Line.
Cultivated oca has an important place in the diets and farming systems of rural communities in the Andean highlands.
I love most highlander stories, and the regency era is a close second. Angels' Blood Countdown: Christine Wells - Wicked Little Game ARC
Mantle compositions that could yield both mare basalts and highland rocks are consistent with the constraints on the interior outlined earlier.
Also closed on the day of the show will be the southbound Highland Avenue off-ramp from the 101 Freeway.
They could barhop in Virginia-Highland, another nice Atlanta neighborhood, or go to this amazing alternative rock club called the Cotton Club and listen to music. The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z
Overall, physiography and lithology contrast with the low mountains of the Northeastern Highlands (58), the Ridge and Valley (67), and the flat coastal plains of Ecoregions 63 and 84. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
The proposal is seen as the only option left to bail out the cash - starved Highlands and Islands Fire Service which is short of equipment such as ladders, breathing apparatus, cutting equipment, fireproof clothing and pumps.
The dry season, caused by the Humboldt current, is characterized by cool temperatures (17°C-22°C), a fairly persistent fog (garua) that envelopes the highlands of the larger islands in mist and drizzle, together with southeasterly winds. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
And is it not ironic that these lands were so heavily settled by the very people cleared from the Highland glens?
In recent years there has been a flurry of headlines about prospecting companies coming to the Highlands in search of precious gems.
He has a 151-foot ocean-going yacht, the Highlander, with a helicopter deck (even though it's been temporarily mothballed in deference to the dismal economy) and I don't. A Beastly Pursuit, in Rhyme
Most of the near side of the Moon is bright, rough, high terrain, called the lunar highlands.
It gives incomers to the highlands and islands a link to their adoptive country that's very much more real than blood or poetry.
For complexity of form and for the splendour of its corries and glens, this hill has few equals in the central Highlands.
The Western Highlands possess a beauty and a majesty found nowhere else in Britain.
For many of these highlanders raising dairy cows is considered the best way to make a living, better than growing beans or other crops.
Pretender was proclaimed in Edinburgh, when the Highland army was on its march to London, and when all the hopes of hollow courtiership and inveterate Jacobitism were turned to the triumph of the ancient dynasty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
There is life beyond fruit cake, clootie dumpling, and meat casseroles although you wouldn't know it in my highland shop where there is little fresh fruit on display but there is always a good supply of dried fruit.
In fact, when one considers the oblique twists, unexpected turns and apparently random decisions that have characterised his career, then a home in the Highlands village actually seems somehow inevitable.
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The highlander who had missed his throw picked up his spear and stabbed the man in the back until he stopped moving. Gideon’s war
He was the first artist to depict the Highland landscape without sentimentality.
In today's Highlands, the march of the modern means that the hills support unsaleable sheep and the shores inedible shellfish; salmon are caged and deer without number pollute the bens.
The mainland subspecies of swamp antechinus (Antechinus minimus maritimus) and white footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) are largely restricted to coastal regions, while other species, such as the koala, are widespread throughout this ecoregion and excluded from the Central Highlands because of the cold winters. Southeast Australia temperate forests
The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet.
The big difference between this and all the other Highland Games is that spectators get to participate - meek office-types, and even their husbands, can toss the caber with the big boys.
Snow is forecast in the Highlands where the thermometer could hit zero. The Sun
Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom, _ that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, "To fight for your own hand, like Henry Wynd," passed into a proverb. Rob Roy — Complete
In Lake Tana, which is the source of the Blue Nile in the Ethiopian Highlands, about a quarter of the nearly 65 fish species are endemic, including a loach Nemacheilus abyssinicus and 14 large cyprinid barbs. Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
Then there is of course the wholesale wiping out of some 300 hamlets and villages in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
As well as streams of south-west England and mainland Europe, the young salmon belong to rivers and glens that drain the western Highlands.
Llamas were first domesticated more than 5,000 years ago in the Peruvian highlands.
In addition to the hundred acres of decent bottomland, McGinty's old man also accumulated a little highland pasturage to the north of the valley, where he kept a few fat, lazy sheep.
Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. Waverley
The company plans to supply a range of black tartan kilts to meet demand for more contemporary-looking Highland clothing.
Yet, in a week when four Highland clubs are aspiring to follow Inverness up the leagues, the absences also serve as a measure of how far Paterson's northerners have come in five short seasons.
The temperature outside right now at 8 PM in the actual middle of the country central highlands, not the western central highlands, is 17º C. that is 62. 6º F. It´s cool, but a long way from cold. The geography and dynamics of modern Mexico.
Wynd -- or, as the Highlanders called him, _Gow Chrom_, that is, the bandy-legged smith -- fought well, and contributed greatly to the fate of the battle, without knowing which side he fought on; -- so, 'To fight for your ain hand, like Henry Wynd,' passed into a proverb. The Proverbs of Scotland
Secondly, to the west of this mountain wilderness, stretching upwards from the sea in a wedge form between the Brahui highlands and the group of towering peaks which enclose the Hingol river and abut on the sea at Malan, are the alluvial flats and delta of the Purali, forming the little province of Las Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Or that I can dive down at one side of a Highland loch and come up at the other like a sheldrake? Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
The Mahiccon, or Mahattan, who occupied Staten island, York island, (which from its being the principal seat of their residence was formerly called Mahatton) Long island and that part of New-York and Connecticut which lies between Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney ridge down to the Sound. Notes on the State of Virginia.
It was a classic example of a successful Highland charge, but Bonnie Dundee was killed as he led his cavalry into the firing line, and the rebellion petered to a halt within months.
He is a specialist in the production of highland hats such as glengarries for pipers/drummers and balmorals for daywear use.
Orkney's Highland Park whisky has come out top in a competition run by Whisky Magazine.
After exploring gentle mountain slopes, taiga flatland and highland barrens, we suddenly reached the plateau's edge.
Convoys of Highland garrons, laden with whisky ‘ankers’ or casks would regularly set out over the hills to supply markets throughout the north east and beyond.
The Forestry Commission has given a Highland laird £2m to plant 2.5 million trees and create Scotland's largest native forest.
Highlander's new range of daysacks use all of these qualities while still being functional, attractive urban designs.
It generally consists of a long piece of callico, or muslin, wrapped loosely round the body, somewhat in the form of a highland plaid. The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African
In general, Venezuela is usually divided into four major environmental regions: the coastal zone, the Andean mountain range, the llanos, and the Guiana Highlands.
Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
Nor, it seems, were the judges convinced, despite being helicoptered round the isles and shown a collection of stuffed Highland animals.
This shows a heavily cratered highland terrain, and is used to monitor illumination of polar areas, and long shadows cast by large crater rims.
The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
Many of the larger craters in both the highlands and mare basins display clusters or rings of steep mountains at their centers.
It lives in arid and semi-arid areas with little vegetation, preferring highlands and rocky landscapes.
In the highlands where Dawg lives with homes at both 5,000 and 7,000 feet, no cooling is ever required except ceiling fans if you buy in the right location. About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life"
On the down side though is the fact that, in the Highlands, many of the roads are unsurfaced: gravel roads like you find in the more remote parts of New Zealand.
The reds are cratered highlands, which contain few resources.
Most Spanish speakers live in the Pacific lowlands and central highlands.
Highland society in general, however, was organized into that most celebrated of Scottish institutions, the clan.
In one of the most pertinent examples of this, anthropologists criticised matrilocal residence among groups in the Central Highlands for its implied association with a ‘primitive’, benighted phase of history.
Several families of the Highlands of Scotland anciently laid claim to the distinction of an attendant spirit who performed the office of the Irish banshie. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
“Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil — why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated — they are all of the tribe of Macfungus — mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie.” The Antiquary
It was not, indeed, expected at that time, that Highlanders would attack cavalry in an open plain, though late events have shown that they may do so with success. supper a messan-dog --- sic awsome language as that I ne'er heard out o 'a human thrapple; --- and, unless the deil wad rise amang them to gie them a lesson, I thinkna that their talent at cursing could be amended. Rob Roy
The irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the scene. Waverley
In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan.
More than 30 of the nearly 200 mammals found in the Ethiopian Highlands are found nowhere else, including a remarkable six endemic genera, four of which are monotypic: three rodents (Megadendromus, Muriculus, and Nilopegamys) and one primate, the gelada (Theropithecus gelada). Biological diversity in the Eastern Afromontane
Finally, when military occupation of the entire valley proved unfeasible, the general decided to leave the lowlands to the southerners and to occupy all the highlands with his people, and in time the Highlanders became known as the Hakka, the Guest People, while the lowlanders were called the Punti, the Natives of the Land. Hawaii
Given this cow's red bangs, I assume that it can be none other than a kyloe, Scottish highland cattle. Ugly Overload
The West Highland Way is second only to the Pennine Way in the hall of fame of British long-distance footpaths.
The highlands are populated mainly by peasant farmers.
The Okavango River rises in the highlands of Angola and flows inland, never to reach the sea.
Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable.
The committee decided not to take evidence from the Crofting Counties Fishing Rights Group, which represents some 500 gillies, river bailiffs and other river workers in the Highlands.
In the cooler highlands, they wear a calf-length shirt called a zanna with a jacket.
They have a son Marcus, an Army major with the Highlanders regiment and a daughter, Susan, who lives in Devon.
A man and a woman have died and another man was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after an avalanche in the Highlands. Times, Sunday Times
Take a glass of wine, Sir Arthur, and drink down that bead-roll of unbaptized jargon, that would choke the devil -- why, that last fellow has the only intelligible name you have repeated -- they are all of the tribe of Macfungus -- mushroom monarchs every one of them; sprung up from the fumes of conceit, folly, and falsehood, fermenting in the brains of some mad Highland seannachie. The Antiquary — Volume 01
He was the first artist to depict the Highland landscape without sentimentality.
As a young officer in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he became adept at reels, strathspeys and sword dances.
She had made a brave but abortive attempt to reach the remote site on Ben More Assynt, near Sutherland in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, when she was 23.
Nicknamed The Highlander, he had already caused a stir at the Games, dyeing his hair blue and white to resemble the saltire.
A population of the threatened wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) may still be living in Bastar District, Madhya Pradesh, near the junction of the Eastern Ghats Mountains and the eastern highlands. Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests

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