Pomona Sentence Examples

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  • The magnificent scenery of the west coast of Pomona is commonly visited from Stromness.

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  • It is situated at the head of a bay of the same name on the east of the island of Pomona, or Mainland, 247 m.

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  • There is daily communication with Scrabster pier (Thurso), via Scapa pier, on the southern side of the waist of Pomona, about 12 m.

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  • There is more than one meaning of Pomona discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

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  • Laurentum was also accessible by a branch from the Via Ostiensis at the eighth mile (at Malafede) leading past Castel Porziano, the royal hunting-lodge, which is identical with the ancient Ager Solonius (in which, Festus tells us, was situated the Pomonal or sacred grove of Pomona) and which later belonged to Marius.

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  • Picumnus, a rustic deity (like Picus) and husband of Pomona, is specially concerned with the manuring of the soil and hence called Sterquilinus, while Pilumnus is the inventor of the pounding of grain, so named from the pestle (pi/um) used by bakers.

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  • The only other islands containing heights of any importance are Pomona, with Ward Hill (880 ft.), and Wideford (740 ft.) and Rousay.

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  • Nearly all of the islands possess lakes, and Loch Harray and Loch Stenness in Pomona attain noteworthy proportions.

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  • Excepting on the west fronts of Pomona, Hoy and Rousay, the coast-line of the islands is deeply indented, and the islands themselves are divided from each other by straits generally called sounds or firths, though off the north-east of Hoy the designation Bring Deeps is used, south of Pomona is Scapa Flow and to the south-west of Eday is found the Fall of Warness.

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  • The very names of the islands indicate their nature, for the terminal a or ay is the Norse ey, meaning "island," which is scarcely disguised even in the words Pomona and Hoy.

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  • As in the neighbouring mainland of Caithness, these rocks rest upon the metamorphic rocks of the eastern schists, as may be seen on Pomona, where a narrow strip is exposed between Stromness and Inganess, and again in the small island of Graemsay; they are represented by grey gneiss and granite.

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  • The Lower Old Red Sandstone is represented by well-bedded flagstones over most of the islands; in the south of Pomona these are faulted against an overlying series of massive red sandstones, but a gradual passage from the flagstones to the sandstones may be followed from Westray S.E.

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  • Local moraines are found in some of the valleys in Pomona and Hoy.

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  • Sandstone is quarried on several islands, and distilleries are found in Pomona (near Kirkwall and Stromness).

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  • Between Hoy and Pomona are Hunda (8), Cava (17), and Graemsay (195), which has excellent soil and is mostly under cultivation.

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  • Pomona (q.v.; 16,235) is the principal island.

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  • Eight other cities had populations of more than 5000 - Riverside City (7973), Vallejo (7965), Eureka (7327), Santa Rosa (6673), Santa Barbara (6587), San Bernardino (6156), Santa Cruz (5659), and Pomona (5526).

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  • Seal Island and Penguin Island are in the bay; Ichaboe, Mercury, and Hollam's Bird islands are to the north; Halifax, Long, Possession, Albatross, Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south.

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  • Of the "Pomona" mentioned by Lomazzo as a work of the Amboise time his visitor says nothing, nor yet of the Louvre "Bacchus," which tradition ascribes to Leonardo but which is clearly pupil's work.

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  • Like Proteus, he had the power of assuming any shape he pleased, which enabled him to win the love of Pomona.

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  • Jessica Marie Alba was born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California to Mark Alba and Cathy Jensen.

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  • The second Roman festival was one to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees.

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  • To get a feel for this magazine, you can read a ten page sampling in the article about the Pomona Tattoo Expo online.

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  • The Pomona celebration was dedicated to fruit and trees.

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  • It is believed that the Pomona celebration explains the bobbing for apples tradition at Halloween.

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