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The children of the house tugged unrebuked at his rosary; and he clean forgot the Rule which forbids looking at women as he talked of enduring snows, landslips, blocked passes, the remote cliffs where men find sapphires and turquoise, and that wonderful upland road that leads at last into Great China itself.

A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, on the route from Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing.

She took to it, practically in despair, after her life's work was carried away in a landslip. Surely that makes it more excusable."

An earthquake, a landslip, an avalanche, overtake a man incidentally, as it were -- without passion.

Then the people ran as only Hill folk can run, for they knew that in a landslip you must climb for the highest ground across the valley.

A ray of sunlight through the tree-stems, a clear space made by nature in the woods, or a landslip here and there, coming as a surprise to make a contrast in the foreground, made up an endless series of pictures delightful to see amid the silence, at the time of year when all things grow young, and when the sun fills a cloudless heaven with a blaze of light.

The route had been closed by landslips at sites around Crianlarich and Tyndrum following extreme precipitation on August 4, when more than three inches of rain fell in a few hours on to already saturated land.

Operators of the steamship Sir Walter Scott, which carries around 300,000 visitors a year up and own the loch, blame publicity surrounding the landslips for a major drop in trade.

Summary: Mysuru (Karnataka) [India], Aug 11 (ANI): Heavy rains and landslips along railway tracks in Sakleshpur eroded embankment along Sakleshpur-Subramanya Road Ghat Section here, an official statement South Western Railway said on Sunday.

One pensioner who has been a home owner in the street for 70 years said they have long accepted that the area is affected by landslips.

Calmac cancelled many of their Western Isles ferries for the entire day, while there were fresh landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll, delaying the reopening of the key route.