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High country   /haɪ kˈəntri/   Listen
High country

noun
1.
An area lying above the piedmont but below the timberline.





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"High country" Quotes from Famous Books



... this high country is now in a transitional state, that was once a sheep-walk and is now a training ground for the army. Where the sheep are taken away the turf loses the smooth, elastic character which makes it better to walk on than the most perfect lawn. The sheep fed closely, and everything that grew on the ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson
... a storm had raged uninterruptedly. As quickly as the soaked ways would permit he ascended to the high country. ...
— Legends of the Rhine • Wilhelm Ruland
... at the forlorn shops, the irregular sidewalks, the grassless yards. "It isn't very pretty, that's a fact; but you can always forget it by just looking up at the high country. When you ...
— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland


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