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  • noun Plural form of sandhill.

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Examples

  • It was during her stay at Kingsburgh that she met Dr Samuel Johnson, who found her, "a woman of soft features, gentle manners and elegant presence."** in 1773 the couple emigrated to North Carolina and setted in a predominantly Scots area of central North Carolina called the sandhills region around Cross Creek.

    Archive 2008-01-13 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • It was during her stay at Kingsburgh that she met Dr Samuel Johnson, who found her, "a woman of soft features, gentle manners and elegant presence."** in 1773 the couple emigrated to North Carolina and setted in a predominantly Scots area of central North Carolina called the sandhills region around Cross Creek.

    Miss Flora MacDonald de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Among the sandhills was a single whooping crane, a huge white bird much larger than the grey sandhills.

    Adios, Amigos Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • Among the sandhills was a single whooping crane, a huge white bird much larger than the grey sandhills.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007

  • The dust of the sandhills is a source of discomfort to the inhabitants, and baffles all the efforts of the municipality to overcome it.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • The western side of the county for the breadth of from six to eight miles belongs to the region of upland piny woods, the principal growth being long-leaf pine, with an undergrowth of oaks, hickory, dogwood, etc., and a sandy soil; but some of it approaches the character of the regular "sandhills," with pine and oak flats here and there.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

  • 'sandhills' from where its a 200m walk to the beach.

    Backyard Missionary 2009

  • 'sandhills' from where its a 200m walk to the beach.

    Backyard Missionary 2009

  • Even the lads and lassies giggled and snickered over their part in the affair, narrating with gusto how Larry had jumped on my chest and slept under the bridge, how So-and-So had slept out in the sandhills that night, and what had happened to the other lad who fell in the ditch.

    Chapter 4 2010

  • And I was very proud, on that bright Sunday morning, going down the long bleak road among the sandhills.

    Chapter 4 2010

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