relief-map

In two hours I was at the top of the hill, looking out over the intervening valley at the long lake of Zurich, spread there beyond with its girdle of low hills, like a relief-map.

Twilight in Italy 2003

I had a feeling as if it were false, a large relief-map that I was looking down upon, and which I wanted to smash.

Twilight in Italy 2003

His upper arms and shoulders were a grotesque relief-map of veins and muscular striation.

Achille's Choice Niven, Larry 1991

Seen in terms of space, history shrivels into a mere wrinkling or furrowing of the surface as in an aerial relief-map or one of those pieced-together aerial photographs known in the trade as mosaics.

Déjeuner sur l'Herbe McCarthy, Mary 1963

The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!

The song of the lark 1915

The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather 1915

The heavy emptiness of his face, as rugged as a relief-map in the side-light, even made me forget the smell of the scones Iroquois Annie was vindictively scorching down in the kitchen.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!

The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Always it became smaller, and more and more like a coloured relief-map with tiny, Noah's-ark houses.

The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

And this is why it is utterly pernicious to set a child making a clay relief-map of its own district, or to ask a child to draw conclusions from given observations.

Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907