Its predominant features were hills and trees; immense, rounded, lowering hills, misty blue in the distance; and unending forests, dense and dark, cloaking all the plains.
Like the Greek King condemned to push an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll all the way down again as he neared the top, no sooner had the bridge's painters finished the job, so the story goes, than they would be required to start again.
Those hills are immense water stores – bigger than any manmade reservoir.
Writing in July 1890, after he had already moved to Auvers, Van Gogh said that he had become absorbed "in the immense plain against the hills, boundless as the sea, delicate yellow".
At a time when Hill was in immense pain, he told his coach he wanted to play.
It was a good climb up the steep man-made hill to an immense and heavily leaning brick pagoda (the tail of the tiger) built in 961.
The room became still as he read a letter that Verrazzano had written to the King of France: Serenissimo Re, After one hundred leagues, we came to a most beautiful spot where an immense river flowed to the sea between two little hills..
It commands the hill as the Parthenon does the Acropolis, its immense roof a great airfoil or billowing sail appearing to lift the building off the earth, and simultaneously seeming to weigh it down, compress it.
Immense crowds watched in the Massif Central, a chain of hills and mountains not to be compared to the Pyrenees, which will be transited Friday and Saturday, or the Alps, which arrive next Wednesday.
At the Frank Pais Mausoleum of the Second Front, Raul's name has been embossed on a plaque next to Vilma's, mounted on an immense boulder ringed by royal green palms and the Micara hills.
