Downland

In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The adonis blue and 20 other butterfly species, including Britain's tiniest butterfly, the small blue, have flown on to "the butterfly haven", a flowery piece of artificial chalk downland, which was the brainchild of the school's environmental science teacher Dan Danahar. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And if you have to wait a while, enjoy the views across rolling National Trust downland to Lyme Bay on the Jurassic Coast. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I downland anything I see interesting or reviewed from anywhere. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To immerse oneself in The Enigma of Arrival, say, is to experience the deep, slow calm that comes over its narrator as he paces the ancient chalky downland of Salisbury Plain, takes the measure of the seasons and the wildlife, familiarizes himself with the habits of the local rustics, and makes leisured comparisons between the agricultural rhythms of England and those of his Caribbean homeland. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Soon they heard the gurgle of water, and several times they glimpsed streams that cut downland toward Coldwater Creek. ❋ Jonathan Maberry (2010)

They had gone to Redhill for a weekend, and during the outing, on open downland, below the skyline and where nobody could possibly have a directional mike on them, the former controller with his former agent had worked out a series of drops, meeting places and telephone codes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not far ahead I would come to the road from Wantage going south to Hungerford, and I wanted to cross that to reach the next wide expanse of open downland on the far side, where many trainers had their yards but wouldn't know by sight a conspicuous horse from Lambourn. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)

A piebald horse looms from the drizzle beside its new timber-built stable, and higher, on former downland with treeless hedges, the barley is yellowing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Clouds gathered even before they reached the open downland of Salisbury Plain. ❋ Joan Brady (2010)

Its flash of white against a wilderness of dark downland like that brief explosion, that jolt of life in a vacuum. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When did the internet turn into upside-downland, where the burden of proof rests upon the accused, and where absolutely any baseless accusation can be repeatedly and viciously hurled against someone–and be presumed true–so long as the accuser mumbles a provisional apology on condition of the accused forking over the evidence that the accuser demands? ❋ Unknown (2009)

In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be traveling with the king's court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They made not so much way that they came to the Five Crafts on the fourth day, but lay under the bare heavens in a dale below the big swell of the downland, whereof Gerard spake. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And thereafter they sang to the pipe and the harp their own downland songs; and this she found strange, that whereas her eyes were dry when she was singing the songs of love of the knighthood, the wildness of the shepherd-music drew the tears from her, would she, would she not. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Over that downland we may wend a four days, and then the land will swell up high, and from the end of that high land we shall behold below us a fair land of tillage, well watered and wooded, and much builded; and in the midst thereof ❋ Unknown (2007)

In like wise they rode the next day, and came at eventide to a thorp in a fair little dale of the downland, and there they guested with the shepherd-folk, who wondered much at the beauty of ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was now winter again; and the fresh, cold windy day, and the sweeping downland, brightened up my hopes a little. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Him: "[I go] to Downlands College" You: "[fuck off]" ❋ Yhdujskjdfhsjdk (2022)