Lumbering Sentence Examples

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  • Then she started out at a lumbering run toward Carmen.

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  • Lumbering and farming are also important industries.

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  • The city is in a rich lumbering, gardening, farming, and copper-, goldand silver-mining district.

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  • With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city.

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  • Winchester is in an agricultural, lumbering and stock-raising region, and has various manufactures.

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  • The inhabitants are engaged chiefly in the cultivation of rice and Indian corn, and in lumbering; good timber grows on the neighbouring mountains, and some iron and gold have been found in this region.

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  • The private forests are protected from abuse chiefly by the important legislation of 1903, which prescribes penalties for excessive lumbering and any action liable to endanger the regrowth of wood.

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  • Built in part upon "made land," well protected by levees, and lying within the richest cottonproducing region of the south, the rich timber country of the St Francis river, and the Mississippi "bottom lands," Helena concentrates its economic interests in cotton-compressing and shipping, the manufacture of cotton-seed products, lumbering and wood-working.

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  • Frankfort is a trade centre fJr an agricultural and lumbering region; among its manufactures are handles, agricultural implements and foundry products.

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  • The city is in a rich farming, truckgardening and lumbering country.

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  • These have been or are largely used in connexion with pine lumbering operations.

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  • From the large lumbering herbivorous sauropods to the small nippy carnivorous theropods, Skye has a number of record-breaking dinosaurs.

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  • Through the centuries, others reported seeing a strange hump in the water or an elephant-like creature lumbering near Loch Ness or the nearby River Ness.

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  • It's an outdoor paradise in all but the most severe weather, and is noted for its world-class skiing, climbing, hiking, and historic mining and lumbering towns.

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  • The industrial interests of the city are principally in mining, lumbering and agriculture.

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  • Antigo is the centre of a good farming and lumbering district, and its manufactures consist principally of lumber,chairs,furniture,sashes,doors and blinds, hubs and spokes, and other wood products.

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  • Lumbering is an important industry, but it has been much restricted by the creation of a state forest preserve, containing in 1907, 1,401,482 acres, and by the purchase of large tracts for game preserves and recreation grounds by private clubs.

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  • He made money in lumbering out West, and returning to Owego became a banker and railway director.

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  • Reed kept glancing back to check it was still lumbering up behind them.

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  • Heskey was a lumbering oaf with a poor goalscoring record at Leicester, his England prospects were laughed at.

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  • Many happy days at City as well as countless Saturdays at Watford Junction enjoying the huge number of express passenger and lumbering freight trains.

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  • The lumbering brick edifice called Northampton State Hospital warehoused mental patients for almost 200 years until it was finally closed in the late 1980s.

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  • People who have glimpsed the creature on land also report no discernable front limbs or appendages, and use words such as lumbering to describe its gait, as if it is uncomfortable on land.

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  • It is therefore a sparsely settled region with lumbering for one of the leading industries, though there is some mining, as of iron.

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  • It is the capital of Kootenay county, and the shipping centre for the mining and lumbering district.

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  • Agriculture, dairying and lumbering are the chief pursuits of the inhabitants.

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  • Most climb trees in a slow, lumbering fashion, and, in descending, always come hind-quarters first.

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  • But a reserve squadron was placed behind the centre under the marquess of Santa Cruz, and the eight lumbering galeasses were stationed at intervals in front of the line to break the formation of the Turks.

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