Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range of southwest England extending about 100 km (60 mi) northeast from Bristol and rising to about 330 m (1,080 ft).
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- noun a range of low hills in southwestern England
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Situated one and a quarter miles west of Moreton-in-Marsh Gloucestershire – UK, Batsford Arboretum is tucked away on a south facing escarpment of the famous Cotswold Hills.
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No T.V. or computer just a long walk over the Cotswold Hills and a pub lunch.
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Martin himself, taking his place behind the steering wheel of his BMW, set off before noon without premonition, collecting his three passengers from their Cotswold Hills bases on his way to his afternoon's work.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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Her sudden -- perhaps excusable -- jealousy of Anne Alison, her barbarous dismissal of Anthony, her quite inexcusable failure to give any reason for such treatment, her subsequent enlightenment by Anne herself -- there is the skeleton whose dry bones he and she are to pick over -- a gruesome business _which has already been dispatched_ ... upon the twentieth day of February, gentlemen, up in the Cotswold Hills.
Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922
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Very precise too are the allusions to the region of the Cotswold Hills, which were easily accessible from Stratford.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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But it defies picking, and where it grows it generally takes full possession, so that I have known several woods -- especially on the Cotswold Hills -- that are to be avoided when the plant is in flower.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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Cotswold Hills, while these in turn passed beneath the great chalk deposits occupying the eastern parts of England.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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One was found a few years since plunged up to the hilt in the earth on the Cotswold Hills.
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Cheltenham was mentioned by local historians merely as a rural parish lying under the Cotswold Hills, and affording good ground both for tillage and pasture.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Clowns from the Cotswold Hills and the forest of Dean, who had votes, but who did not know their letters, were invited to hear these satires read, and were asked whether they were prepared to endure the two great evils which were then considered by the common people of England as the inseparable concomitants of despotism, to wear wooden shoes, and to live on frogs.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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