How To Use Hummock In A Sentence
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Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
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Permafrost, however, exists in (very northern) Finland not only in palsa bogs and peat hummocks (=”pounu” in Finnish) but also on some fjeld top areas (=”paljakka” in Finnish).
Predict future climate change! « Climate Audit
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He had evidently sat still a good while for him, honest man; and he got up with this, and began to pace up and down, looking at the "hummocks," which signified greater meanings to him than to his wife.
A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
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Featherlight tempura; hummock of sweet white crabmeat spiked with apple; shaami — tiny fishcake sultry with brown meat.
Times, Sunday Times
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Great lines of hummocks and haycock-shaped pieces of ice came in view on every side; we could see that we should have to keep our eyes open.
The South Pole~ Through the Mountains
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There was a beech table half eaten into by a geometrically precise hummocky valley and a pair of side tables made from cardboard, with what looked like the ghosts of elegant 18th-century cabriolet-legged wooden tables hovering inside them.
Combining Craft with Digital
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I get up, pull on warm clothes, and make my way slowly back to my hummock.
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I dived from the hummock where the cut-bank crumbled.
Thomas mcgrath | letters to an imaginary friend « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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It is situated on the ground, on grass clumps or hummocks in the open tundra.
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Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena.
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The ice in this neighbourhood was covered with innumerable "hummocks," and the floes were from seven to ten feet in thickness.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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Need to do some downscaling to get useful results to input to an impact model to make decisions about adaptation. (here’s an early paper from this work) 14: 20: Next up isStefanFronzek’s talk onProbabilistic projections of climate change effects on sub-arctic palsa mires, in which I learnt that palsa mires are permanently frozen peat hummocks, which are sensitive to climate change, and if they melt are a major source of methane.
Liveblogging the EGU – day 4 | Serendipity
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The floor of the wide valley was carpeted with hummocky grass.
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Mounds, called hummocks, are the growing medium though which swamp laurel, Labrador tea, salal and native cranberries grow.
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The ice in the offing was of the "hummocky" kind, and drifting rapidly about with the tides, leaving us a navigable channel varying in width from two miles to three or four hundred yards.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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The building materials? the rosy bricks, the russet hanging tiles, the massive oak beams, even the iron for hinges and latches? would have come from within a five-mile radius, which is why the house feels like a natural outcrop of the hummocky Sussex Wealden landscape in which it sits.
Hancox: All under one roof
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Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena.
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'I sat down on a hummock by the stream.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is situated on the ground, on grass clumps or hummocks in the open tundra.
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The wide belt of dune-land with its hummocks and scrubby grass growing out of the sand was deserted at that hour.
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Between the hummocks was a slimy, black ooze that covered the bones of more than one unfortunate animal.
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail
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The principal phenomena are rounded hummocks of rock on the skirts of the hills, and in the middle of the valleys; and as these hummocks, whatever may be the direction of the valleys, invariably present a smoothed side up, and an abrupt side downwards (_stoss-seite_ and _lee-seite_ of the Scandinavian geologists), it becomes certain that the glaciers proceeding from the mountains at the upper extremities were local to the several valleys.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852
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Once upon a time the land was deer park, now it is an intricate pattern of hummock-shaped pastures, small fields, small field barns, diddy gates and ridge and furrow grassland.
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You can use spring-flowering bulbs to give the vertical spires in the tabletop garden, and surround these with lower undulating hummocks of all the best spring bedding - violas, polyanthus, bellis, schizanthus.
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Topographically, it consists of uneven, hummocky terrain interspersed with small, shallow pools of highly acidic bog water.
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The whole ice-pack seemed one vast plain, like a bleak moorland in winter, only with little hillocks of ice here and there called hummocks, for the flat pieces of ice were all frozen hard together, and Ara wondered where "Greenland's icy mountains" had all got to.
Crusoes of the Frozen North
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By the time Jack and I had with awkward alacrity bestowed plates, glasses, knives, and forks on the most hummocky portions of the cloth, white and rosy flakes of lobster _à la_ Newburg were simmering appetisingly in a creamy froth.
The Princess Passes
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There was a beech table half eaten into by a geometrically precise hummocky valley and a pair of side tables made from cardboard, with what looked like the ghosts of elegant 18th-century cabriolet-legged wooden tables hovering inside them.
Combining Craft with Digital
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The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop.
Guns = "Unhealthy" Lifestyle?
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Yet the waste has its oases, the "hummocks," where the live-oaks are hung with long festoons of grape-vines, -- where the air is sweet with woodland odors, and vocal with the song of birds.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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-- Astl.I. 150, 2.] [Footnote 227: The saddle-backed hills of old navigators, are to be considered in reference to the old demipique or war-saddle, having high abrupt peaks, or hummocks, at each end, with a flattish hollow between.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07
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At rare intervals the forest would fall away on either hand, opening up a wide view of cultivated fields, sweeping grandly down in long stripes of tender green to the billowy verdure of the broad savanna, where silvery-sparkling lakes lay imbedded and great round "hummocks" of dark trees uprose like islands in the grassy sea.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
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I've never seen such terrible country; it was a constant stumble over grassy hummocks and peat-bogs.
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On Wednesday, the space agency released new images of the hummocky surface as Dawn circled from an average altitude of 130 miles above the surface – the closest it'll get.
NASA Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Images Of Vesta Asteroid
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The dominant vegetation in the Park is open woodland and spinifex (spiny hummockgrass) grassland, with many eucalypts, acacias and grevilleas; notably silverleaf bloodwood Eucalyptus collina and roughleaf range gum E. aspera, The regionally endemic sandstone grevillea Grevillea miniata, and rock grevillea G. psilantha, are found only in the Park.
Purnululu National Park, Australia
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In hummocky terrain, the wire is presently suspended above the soil surface over hollows.
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They watch for prey from slightly elevated perches such as hummocks, rocks, and fence posts.
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The Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs contain more crenulated, broken, or hummocky ridges, compared to the smoother, more sharply crested sandstone ridges of 67h.
Ecoregions of Alabama and Georgia (EPA)
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Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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'I sat down on a hummock by the stream.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the first few miles it was quite wide, and as I kept to the eastern side there was a great expanse of hummocky snow to my right.
The Sky Writer
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There is no timber in this valley, and accordingly the scenery, though on a large scale, is neither impressive nor pleasing; the mountains are large swelling hummocks, grassed up to the summit, and though steeply declivitous, entirely destitute of precipice.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
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As the land rose in nine roundish points, which seamen call hummocks, this place was named Nine Hummock Bay.
The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789)
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I think one of the plants that makes the hummocks might be this plant called tussock sedge carex stricta.
Swamp adventures
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De Geer moraines, drumlin fields, transverse moraines and hummocky moraines occur there but do not form archipelagoes.
Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden
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Mounds, called hummocks, are the growing medium though which tangles of swamp laurel, Labrador tea, salal and native cranberries and blueberries grow.
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The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop.
Guns = "Unhealthy" Lifestyle?
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Most sandstones arc characterized by erosional bases, hummocky cross-stratification and intensely burrowed tops.
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They were all sprawled, posed, lounging on low benches and some hummocky hassocky things which seemed to have grown up out of the floor.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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Bears generally hunt along pressure ridges, in hummocky ice, and at the edges of rough ice areas.
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar
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They do not return to the vast hummocky moorlands until late May or even early June.
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Rounding off the pavilion's layers is a roof garden with grassy hummocks and a calm, reflecting pool.
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The Southern Dissected Ridges and Knobs contain more crenulated, broken, or hummocky ridges, compared to the smoother, more sharply pointed sandstone ridges of Ecoregion 67h.
Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)
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'I sat down on a hummock by the stream.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country
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They sat on a raised hummock, and soon the hummock became an island as the water rose about them.
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We loaded everything into pulks, which we dragged behind us for a traipse across hummocky tundra.
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Scoresby records, that when shot at a distance, and able to escape, the bear has been observed to retire to the shelter of a hummock, and, as if aware of the styptical effect of cold, apply snow to the wound.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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hummocky," and heavier than any we had seen since making Igloolik; some of the hummocks, as we afterward found, measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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On the peaty hummocks of Yew Tree Heath in the north-east of the forest, where a few hessian-coloured fallow deer merge into the rust-tipped bracken, the only sounds are the wailing of a redshank and the hum of bees.
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This research, which appears in the January-February 2010 issue of Journal of Environmental Quality, reports that airborne laser scanning instruments are capable of measuring fine-scale peatland structures such as hummocks and hollows that typically measure less than four meters in size.
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In the hummocky terrain of the valley floor the hollows, channels and gentle slopes are occupied by peat.
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Curled-up dogs lie in large circles on the hummocky shore ice, their rusty chains leading from a spike frozen into the ice like spokes on an old, buckled wheel.
World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness
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Masses are forced up like colossal tombstones on all sides; our sailors call them "hummocks;" here and there the broken ice displays large "holes of water.
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage