Sentence example with the word 'pontine'

pontine

Last update: June 22, 2015


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Besides these offshoots of the Apennines there are in this part of Central Italy several detached mountains, rising almost like islands on the seashore, of which the two most remarkable are the Monte Argentaro on the coast of Tuscany near Orbetello (2087 ft.) and the Monte Circello (1771 ft.) at the angle of the Pontine Marshes, by the whole breadth of which it is separated from the Volscian Apennines.   [Please select]

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In the Pontine marshes they find a favorite retreat, and in the pestilential Maremma scarcely any other animals are to be seen.   [Please select]

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--It appears that the Pontine Marshes were then very fertile, since Pliny relates, after Licinius Mucianus, that they included upwards of twenty-four flourishing towns.   [Please select]

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