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THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS was made into a silent film in 1919.
Elizabeth is out riding in the hills and witnesses the brutal murders of a whole group of young women by trafficking mobster Dolan.
This is a very old tradition, both in the Sicilian families and in those Celtic clans that moved into the hills of Appalachia.
We get a good selection of their newer songs, such as Rainmaker, Dance of Death and Wildest Dreams, mixed in with some of their good old classics, such as Run to the hills, Number of the beast and many more!
The reason I like this movie is because I like that type of movie-Cops or robbers or detectives and stuff(BEVERLY HILLS COP, 48 HRS, LETHAL WEAPON, etc.).
We had looked out across what Christians call the Holy Land from the Jordanian hills.
The Americans, meanwhile, are preparing to retreat from a decade of war in the Afghan hills and valleys.
Worse, every day, many of the city’s residents were wounded and killed by shelling and sniping from the hills surrounding the city, which just a few years earlier had been enlivened by the 1984 Winter Olympics.
Soon, the snow in the hills above Kathmandu will begin to melt.
We design contracts around imperfect trustworthiness and construct elaborate institutions that take account of the hills and valleys of human honor.
The threat of cruise-missile strikes last September was enough to send Al Qaeda members in Syria scrambling for the hills.
Palestinian Refugees and German ExpelleesThe atmosphere could not have been more tranquil: a former royal castle in the rolling hills of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, where statesmen and politicians held an annual meeting dealing with the Middle East.
They have lived fruitful lives together, cultivating crops and grazing cattle in a remote village in the hills of southwest Uganda.
At the ramshackle Rubaya primary school, in a small town in the lush green hills of North Kivu province, bordering Rwanda, one gets a glimpse of that possibility.
Thanks to satellite television, the world had a front-row seat to watch the citizens of Sarajevo, who were kept alive by UN food deliveries, being killed by shelling and sniping from the surrounding hills.
Two months later, opposition units from Duma and Ghouta were close to cutting off Assad’s forces in Damascus from the north of the country, by controlling strategic hills and paralyzing the M5 motorway.
As I write this under a vine in my vegetable garden, I look west across wooded hills and cannot see another building.
The Jordan Valley and the hills of Judea and Samaria are, undoubtedly, strategic assets for a country whose width is that of the length of a Manhattan avenue.
Yet three centuries ago there was also technological progress, from the mechanical clock and the watermill to the cannon and the caravel, and on to strains of rice that can be cropped three times a year in Guangzhou and the breeding of merino sheep that can flourish in the hills of Spain.
The idea is to build small hills in low-lying parts of the city, with level tops that could be used as parks or sports fields.
Hindus, Ahmadiyyas, and tribal people in the Chittagong hills, fearful for their safety, have been leaving the country in droves.
Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.
The slowdown in the retreat of the snout of glaciers could, therefore, be a consequence of the very rapid rise of human population in the hills and desertification caused by overgrazing – purely local factors that boost aerosol levels.
Ships were heaved onto hills, and cars floated like boats.
Modi’s administration has carved out a union territory in the high plateaux and hills of Ladakh in the eastern half of the state, and reduced the status of the remainder – still named Jammu and Kashmir – from that of a state to a union territory.
To read Boccaccio’s accounts of self-indulgent young Florentine aristocrats fleeing for the hills of Fiesole is to link past and present.
Investors are running for the hills.
Sometimes an unpredictable irregularity in the seafloor would force the Nautilus to slow down, and then it would glide into the narrow channels between the hills with a cetacean's dexterity.
At night when they left, the horses, stuffed up to the nostrils with oats, could hardly be got into the shafts; they kicked, reared, the harness broke, their masters laughed or swore; and all night in the light of the moon along country roads there were runaway carts at full gallop plunging into the ditches, jumping over yard after yard of stones, clambering up the hills, with women leaning out from the tilt to catch hold of the reins.
And she followed them in thought up and down the hills, traversing villages, gliding along the highroads by the light of the stars.
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