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Dales

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Dales1
pl n
(Placename) (sometimes not capital) the. short for the Yorkshire Dales

Dales2
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) a strong working breed of pony, originating from Yorkshire and Durham


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Having so much to do with the recognition of local sanctities, the habit of connecting the very trees and stones of a particular spot of earth with the great events of life, till the low walls, the green mounds, the half-obliterated epitaphs, seemed full of oracular voices, even the religion of those people of the dales appeared but as another link between them and the solemn imageries of the natural world.
Arable lands are few and limited; with but slight exceptions the prospect is a broad rich mass of grass and trees, mantling minor hills and dales within the major.
I seemed less often on an eminence or in a pit; my glassy azure dales had gentler slopes, or a distemper was melting from my eyes.
 
 
 
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