Sentence examples for gentle rises from inspiring English sources

A generation later, many more young men were to die for their countries among the gentle rises and valleys that ripple out from Mons – a city that has long been an unwilling venue for warfare.

Journeys are rendered with delicate, transporting physical detail ("fine rain that made my eyebrows itch"), and the prose is sprinkled with characteristic, wrong-footing juxtapositions: "We came over a couple of gentle rises to find the war blocking our road".

Under an immense blue sky, we followed Route 56 through a huge platter of a landscape with gentle rises and shallow, scooped-out low spots, with small islands of dark-leafed trees.

The previous day's competition with Andrzej had shown us both that, while we were fighting each other for that podium place, we were also well matched for pace and had similar tactics for travelling fast in the mountains: run all the downhills, flats and gentle rises and power walk the steeper sections.

They say that they can see the spirit world and the wind.' The sled slides through snow, crossing lakes, cresting gentle rises and turning sharp bends that the dogs take in their stride.

Within each layer, the units are staggered on a gentle rise.

This bucolic scene isn't even that flat: beyond the riverbank is a gentle rise, where villages are sensibly situated.

In a town house entrance hall, he pronounced the gentle rise of the marble steps "the only stairway in New York fit for a cardinal".

For those lacking the legs, nearby Tet Paul Nature Trail (758-720-1779; soufrierefoundation.org; 12.50 E.C. dollars, or $5) follows a gentle rise between the two Pitons.

THE Montville Inn sits on a gentle rise on a peaceful stretch of Route 202, a block or so from what remains of the old Morris Canal.

Up a gentle rise they tramped in their gorgeous red coats, then halted, surprised to find themselves facing a battalion of farmers across the river.