Relief Map

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His upper arms and shoulders were a grotesque relief-map of veins and muscular striation. ❋ 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. ❋ 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! ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)

Always it became smaller, and more and more like a coloured relief-map with tiny, Noah's-ark houses. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (1907)

The relief-map of the region about Verdun shows the sharply marked division of two plateaus situated on either side of the river Meuse. ❋ Unknown (1902)

I seemed to be looking down upon a colored relief-map of the mountain systems of the continent. ❋ Unknown (1890)

She was a fine old lady with snowy hair, her sweet face wrinkled into a relief-map of the journey of life, her eyes as bright and sparkling as those of her granddaughter. ❋ Arlo Bates (1884)

He showed us the whole thing, on a relief-map, and we could see our route, with all its elevations and depressions, its villages and its rivers, as clearly as if we were sailing over it in a balloon. ❋ Unknown (1879)

* All the heights and valleys on this side lie spread out before us, like the surface of a relief-map. ❋ Unknown (1873)