| 单词 | hillock |
| 例句 | We marched up athwart a hillock toward the house, Olakunde beating our step to better impress upon the inhabitants our seriousness of purpose. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z What I had seen up till now were mere hillocks of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She carried it out into the meadow and put it down on a hillock of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z As the sun came over the rim of the desert and light flooded the little hillocks and bushes all around, Matt curled up in the shelter of a rock and cried. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gray shapes appeared from the line of bushes straggling over a hillock. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Lord Jason's men waited to receive them behind rocks and grass and hillocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wind howled around each mound and hillock and floe, piling up enormous drifts of snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Knife, a much smaller and more fit man, zigzagged after Rita as she darted around hillocks and bushes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I remember something, too, of the green grave-mounds; and I have not forgotten, either, two figures of strangers straying amongst the low hillocks and reading the mementoes graven on the few mossy head-stones. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They watched the ground humping into a continuous hillock that progressed farther as the moles tunneled towards Ambrose Spike. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z So he rode to a green hillock and there set his banner, and the White Horse ran rippling in the wind. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There were linear streaks of clean floor for the furrows, and linear streaks of dust, the hillocks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time he caught up with her, she had climbed a hillock and was stringing the bow. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He tugged mightily, causing the cumbersome tower to sway dangerously as it bumped over grassy hillocks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We skied through small frosty woods and over the hillocks and fields of the disputed valley. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The streambed opened onto an expansive grassy firing range, with an observation tower and berms at the near end and hillocks at the far end. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On either side she saw hillocks covered with pumpkin vines, while beyond stood row upon row of ripe mealies. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully, they lifted Adaon from his steed and carried him to a hillock. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Pippin fell asleep, pillowed on a green hillock. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And so in this place and that, by burned homestead or barn, upon hillock or mound, under wall or on field, still they gathered and rallied and fought until the day wore away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He stole away, and sat down on a green hillock not far from his bed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Around the little peak of the tent lay the snow, mounds, hillocks, swells, slopes, all white, untrodden. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He observed exactly what I saw four decades later: isolated hillocks of forest; long raised berms; canals; raised agricultural fields; circular, moat-like ditches; and odd, zigzagging ridges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They had walked into a patch of tents that were all covered with a thick growth of shamrocks, so that it looked as though small, oddly shaped hillocks had sprouted out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Probably because folk around here haven’t ever seen a real barrow, just heard about them in stories. When they find a hill with big mounds on it . . .” I pointed out the oddly shaped hillocks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They went up the small tunnel to the garden and watched in the moonlight from a hillock a few feet away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Gurgi, having finished his meal, sidled over and squatted on a hillock to listen. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The fires brought no light to the hillock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z These thoughts dropped on top of the hillock of crop worries in my heart. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On January 22, Worsley climbed a hillock of ice and saw that the gale that had blown them north had also compacted the ice and blown Ocean Camp closer to their position. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z These "knolls, or hillocks,” the two men wrote, were "natural eminences of sand.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Viola sat sifting soft hillocks of white flour with Idabelle for company. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They were now standing on a lawn atop a small hillock. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It twisted and turned tortuously, over small hillocks, through hedges and across fields. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Dust lay thick on the floor, there were neat hillocks of chipped cement and the earth where bandicoots, for some obscure reason of their own, had dug. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I circled the wreck twice before I spied Dad’s hunched silhouette on a hillock in the distance. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To the west, maize hills marched across the sandy hillocks in parallel rows. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s an unusual tract of landscape: a valley mouth pimpled with hillocks of earth. Burial Rites and the loneliness of the long-distance writer 2013-06-04T02:39:45Z From a hillock you watch walkers winding trance-like, as if creating a crop circle. Walking; Ark-ive; Cesario – review 2012-08-25T23:06:03Z For vast stretches there are no signs of civilization at all, save the odd Turkish flag planted on a hillock, a family of goats skipping along the rock ledges, or clusters of stone ruins. T Magazine: Turkish Delight 2012-07-12T21:02:17Z A hillock of salad atop the schnitzel all but hides the prize. La Betty in Mount Vernon Triangle gives its diners a family hug 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z His name is “Hillhock,” a portmanteau of “hillock,” a small knoll on which to sit, and “ham hock,” a cut of pork. That Pig Couch on Craigslist? Not for Sale. (Also, Not a Couch.) 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The most immediately captivating of Mr. Sachs’s works is a small, cylindrical fish pond surrounded by a sloping plywood construction, like a flagstone-covered hillock. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z She vowed to track him down and set off with her baby son but soon ran out of supplies and rested on a hillock. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Velázquez was possibly looking at a hillock with clusters of wild grass when he drew a rhythmical composition that defies identification. Fair Swamped by Second Raters 2010-03-12T12:30:00Z And for pudding “huge sorrel babas”, Mont Blancs, “hillocks of chocolate-covered pastry” that fall apart “with a squelch at a knife cleft”, and “shameless ‘virgin’s cakes’ shaped like breasts”. A Sicilian feast with salt-crusted seabass | Feasting 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z On the manicured lawn at the mouth of the Karlsaue, “Doing Nothing Garden,” an undulant compost-heap hillock fuzzy with new weeds, by the Chinese artist Song Dong, erupts like a comic mirage. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z “A mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.” Visit Victoria Hagan's Nantucket Home 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The dish looks most attractive if you don’t press the roast beef down – a few hillocks are nice here. My favorite Parisian pile on a plate starts at the deli 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z After him came the landscape gardens of Capability Brown and Humphry Repton and, ultimately, every hillock and winding path, and every picturesque gazebo and rockery in suburban gardens everywhere, can claim descent. Chiswick House: 2010-06-12T23:04:00Z In an evening of drink and drugs, Tim gets his guests to join him in digging up the hillock where he made his discovery, and they dredge up more evidence of foul play. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z An installation, “Table of Goods,” consists of a hillock of soil, ringed by candles and studded with sugar, coffee and chocolate. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, The Royal Baby, by Tony Bradman and Tony Ross, is a manful attempt to meet current frenzied speculation about the contents of the Duchess's hillock head-on, without pandering to it. Royal baby books: regal or ridiculous? 2013-07-19T09:36:00Z He built huge sets, including a castle, a woodland glade and a battlefield with its own hillock. Duncan Jones on Warcraft: 'If you get it wrong, people are going to be upset' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It’s also apparent in a topographical installation by Ellen Brooks, one of Heinecken’s students, which fuses a life-size black-and-white cutout of a nude couple to a hillock of artificial grass. ‘The Photographic Object, 1970’ Revisits a Renowned Show 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The Spanish scenery rose in undulating, vertical hillocks, interspersed with abstract trees. From the Paris Catwalk to a Los Angeles Stage 2013-05-30T06:37:03Z But some of the children are vicious, and so is his teacher, a hillock of a woman who speaks softly and does, in fact, carry a big stick that she regularly wields. Review: In ‘The Arab of the Future 2,’ Back to Syria in 1984 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The land, rolling hillocks and flatlands alive with wildflowers and blooming weeds, includes a large house for his family and storage facilities he can convert into a lab. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z My reign as the sore winner of this imaginary competition lasted a year, at the end of which a hillock of breakouts suddenly emerged along both cheeks. I Quit My Elaborate Skin Care Routine 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z He also repurposed muck that was dredged to create the lagoons in order to bulk up a lonely little hillock into the 16-acre Wooded Island, which he planted with hemlock and other trees. Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z In the afternoon, we reached the bottom and waited on a hillock for Aidano to drive us to Lengai Safari Lodge. Peering Into Volcanoes at Tanzania’s Crater Highlands 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Growing up in the Washington, D.C., area meant carving the nearby hillocks of Pennsylvania and Virginia with names like Liberty and Roundtop. Skiing the Alps, Making It My Own 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z In the evening sun, the land seemed as arid as a moonscape, dotted by chalky hillocks and ringed by unfriendly cliffs. Journeys: An Israeli Oasis as a Passage to Ancient Times 2010-09-12T08:01:00Z Despite hoping for a safe home-counties seat with haystacks and hillocks, his character has just been elected MP for the Worcestershire town of Redditch. The surprise success of NT Live 2013-06-09T19:30:01Z Filling in the blanks of the elegant bowl are a froth of coconut milk foam infused with fresh ginger and hillocks of wilted baby arugula. Crane & Turtle: A chef’s playground in Petworth Father Luget, Mr Halliday says, claimed to have seen the light over a hillock in the rectory garden and to have seen the Crucifixion above it and the Virgin Mary kneeling before it. The Middleton Rector who claimed to see the Virgin Mary 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z But a wagon can restore that simplicity: It’s a great way to lug toys, sunshades and chairs over sandy hillocks. A Mini Challenge 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z WINTHROP, Okanogan County — On a rocky hillock crowned with lupine and yarrow, Methow Conservancy Executive Director Sarah Brooks surveyed the Sunny M Ranch on the eve of a historic land deal. Methow conservation group buys 1,200 acres above Winthrop 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The part of the axon where it emerges from the soma is called the axon hillock. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Railway workers are planning to build a sandy hillock there where the badgers can dig their homes. Badger tunnels halt traffic on Dutch railways 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The beacon’s red light is the only touch of color in the gallery, but its glow amid the hillocks of slag denotes not life but danger. Review | In the galleries: Sculptures take us beyond the conventional 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The cell body contains a specialized structure, the axon hillock that integrates signals from multiple synapses and serves as a junction between the cell body and an axon. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Some of the circular nests of smooth cordgrass are built atop mangrove stands, others on grassy hillocks. Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Besides being an anatomical structure, the axon hillock is also the part of the neuron that has the greatest density of voltage-dependent sodium channels. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It bounced over bumps and hillocks, trailing a plume of dust. Daily heat record broken in Seattle as residents swelter 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Where the axon emerges from the cell body, there is a special region referred to as the axon hillock. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Multiple signals from multiple synapses are integrated at the axon hillock, which then passes the signal into the axon, where the signal is transferred to another cell. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The fairway tightens at about 300 yards, and the drive should be aimed at the church steeple between two hillocks. BRITISH OPEN ’22: A hole-by-hole look at St. Andrews 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z While the axon and axon hillock are generally involved in information outflow, this region can also receive input from other neurons as well. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Intermittent rain continued in the region where 19 bodies have been recovered after a hillock caved in and buried the railroad project area, Guite said. World Digest: July 1, 2022 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Because the axon hillock represents the beginning of the axon, it is also referred to as the initial segment. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Multiple signals from multiple synapses are integrated at the axon hillock, which then passes the signal into the axon, where the signal is transferred to another cell. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Sixteen bodies have been recovered so far after a hillock caved in and buried the railroad project area, Guite told The Associated Press. Mudslide leaves 16 dead, over 70 missing in northeast India 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Two others died when their houses on a small hillock caved in in the state’s capital Itanagar, and two road construction workers were killed due to mudslides at another location. Heavy rains trigger floods in northeast India, killing 8 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z As Modi spoke, firefighters were struggling to extinguish a blaze at the Bhalswa landfill site, a hillock rising above the northwestern edge of the city. India too hot, says Modi, sending fire warning nationwide as Delhi landfill burns 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z For all other neurons, the axon hillock is essentially the initial segment of the axon, and it is where summation takes place. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Multiple signals from a single synapse are integrated at the axon hillock, which then passes the signal into the axon, where the signal is transferred to another cell. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z From the start of his third round, Woods’s surgically repaired back looked stiff, and traversing Augusta National’s many hillocks and mounts seemed especially painstaking on his rebuilt right leg and ankle. As Tiger Woods Falls Behind at the Masters, the Spotlight Shifts 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Shrimp cooked in the tandoor encircle a hillock of raw mango and diced bell peppers, a “salsa” fired up with chile powder and cumin. Review | Kismet Modern Indian adds an artful touch to Alexandria 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Finally, the fire moved on, racing over a hillock and down into the valley, where it jumped a creek and started burning in another forest. Returning Home to a Valley Filled With Flames 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In this example, the action potential travels—a process known as propagation—along the axon from the axon hillock to the axon terminals and into the synaptic end bulbs. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z This process is called summation and occurs at the axon hillock, as illustrated in Figure 26.16. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z In a separate incident, three people were killed in Mumbai’s Vikhroli neighborhood after half a dozen huts located at the base of a hillock collapsed on top of each other late Saturday night. Landslides kill 20 after monsoon rains in India’s Mumbai 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z In one of the neighbourhoods, about half a dozen huts located at the base of a hillock, collapsed on top of each other, officials said. Landslides kill at least 15 in Mumbai after heavy rains 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z And during the winter months, he’s had his stick at his side, ready to plunge it into any random hump, hillock or drift. Perspective | In his memoir ‘Newsman,’ TV’s Pat Collins sticks to his story 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z If that graded potential is strong enough to reach threshold, the second neuron generates an action potential at its axon hillock. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z All these inputs are added together at the axon hillock. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z A psychological topology, this – one marked with hillocks of anxiety and peaks of alarm. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z In his 2005 book The Cosmic Landscape, Susskind contends that our universe is just a hillock in an infinite landscape of universes. Will the Universe Remember Us after We're Gone? 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z "I dwell upon it constantly / Two rounded hillocks of real class." ‘I wrote my wife a poem every day for 25 years’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Infections still occur, but over a longer period – and “flattening the curve” turns the steep mountain of cases into a more sedate hillock. Covid-19 outbreak: what do health experts mean by 'flattening the curve'? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Multiple signals from a single synapse are integrated at the axon hillock, which then passes the signal into the axon, where the signal is transferred to another cell. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Houses wear fresh coats of paint and every one has at least one car or motorbike parked outside, sometimes next to a hillock of scrap. This Indonesian village thrives on American trash. Its future is bleak 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The hillocks were marked on maps as Roman tumuli—burial mounds—and a guest who stayed with Pretty once claimed to see a ghostly warrior on horseback, riding through the grounds. Revisiting Sutton Hoo, Britain’s Mythical Ship Burial 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z The grassy hillocks are rubble from the powerful Magadha empire, whose kings funded the world’s first Buddhist monasteries, more than two millennia ago. Walking the Path of the Buddha in a Neglected Corner of India 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z He can’t make the mid-range birdie putt he leaves himself, but had he hit his approach another few feet up the hillock, he’d have set himself up with a proper birdie chance. The Open 2019: first round – live! 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The ground levelled off, dipping and rising in knobby hillocks among bushes and outcroppings of rock. “Poetry” 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He’d fill in the bunkers and re-establish hillocks and undulating ground both in the approach area and back down the fairway. Masters 2019: We Redesigned Augusta National* - Golf Digest 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z On flights over the city and surrounding areas, aid workers said, they saw hundreds of people crammed onto rooftops, in the branches of palm trees and on small hillocks, waiting to be rescued. ‘Everything is destroyed’: Mozambique fears massive human toll from Cyclone Idai 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z In the village of Saidpora, a cluster of houses perched on a hillock in Indian-controlled Kashmir, locals pointed to a nearby snowy peak as the nearest point on the Line of Control. No respite for Kashmir, even as tensions between India and Pakistan decrease 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Meanwhile a display of local knowledge at 4 from Darren Clarke, who uses a hillock to the right of the green to send his ball sharp left, towards a pin tucked away behind a bank. The Open 2019: first round – live! 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Many people seemed just as happy to mingle in the cavernous halls outside, amid long tables filled with fresh juices, coffee and hillocks of pastries. Despite Khashoggi case, U.S. firms and Saudi prince show up at ‘Davos in the Desert’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Art Schaupeter would replace the greenside bunkers at 17 with mounds and hillocks. Masters 2019: We Redesigned Augusta National* - Golf Digest 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Thousands more people crammed stands and hillocks overlooking the tee, making the players look tiny, like ants in a giant’s hand, in the middle of the roiling human sea. Ryder Cup 1st tee: A spectacle like no other in sports 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Chesneau said word went out to Paris-area builders that they could dump their unwanted soil from construction sites on the course, making the undulating hillocks that now give spectators a great view of the holes. Ryder Cup course fit for a king _ literally 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z On Sunday, in the community of Pacupac, on the north coast of Luzon, pigs marooned on a hillock snuffled for food. At Typhoon’s Eye in Philippines, Whipping Debris and Fervent Prayers 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z His approach on No. 2 hopped off a hillock to about 10 feet for birdie. Spieth takes a stumble in his British Open title defense 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It's a dusty place, surrounded by sandy, rocky hillocks, not far from the River Nile. 'Hoping for a miracle to stop our daughter being hanged' 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z The accompanying report said the rise exhibited strings of “hillocks and hollows, or interrupted ridges and troughs.” How the Ice Age Shaped New York 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “There were machine gun nests everywhere — on every hillock … every ravine … and every gun was trained on the … Marines.” The Battle of Belleau Wood was brutal, deadly and forgotten. But it forged a new Marine Corps. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z A grassy hillock rises in the middle of the memorial. A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z It is an uneven hillock, not suitable for building or farming; slave burial grounds were often in such out-of-the-way, unusable areas. Cedar trees and fieldstones: A likely slave cemetery is unearthed near Annapolis 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Moving toward the plot his relatives had carved out of a hillock to camp on, they passed thousands of fellow Rohingya refugees building homes for now that may become homes for much longer. One month on, a bleak new reality emerges for 436,000 Rohingya refugees 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z A Bangladeshi border guard points to a nearby hillock where a fire is raging; he says the Burmese army is burning down houses. A state-led massacre triggers an exodus of Rohingyas from Myanmar 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z A walk through the 13-acre site brings encounters with gnarling, curling rock formations and placid hillocks crowned by ornate gazebos overlooking a meandering pond. TRAVEL: Visit Suzhou: The Venice of China 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z After today, it’s all about mountaineering and scrapping but this stage is flatter than stale beer, apart from a category-four hillock around the 142km mark. Tour de France 2017: stage 11 – live! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z In frozen regions, a similar effect on a grand scale produces unusual hillocks known as pingos. How ice creates mini-mountains 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z When there was a pause in the fighting, a group of trucks emerged from behind the berm, raced up the track and cut right onto a hillock that overlooked the house. ‘They Will Have to Die Now’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In the morning she takes her seat among hillocks of pants, and spends the next eight and a half hours in a work-trance, punctuated by the shouting of supervisors and a half-hour break for lunch. Young Rural Women in India Chase Big-City Dreams 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z We also split a hillock of crispy calamari, which arrived in a tarragon pesto, with smoked oyster mayo and pickled radish. Review: Bar Sugo’s Seriously Italian Menu Goes Beyond the Sauce 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The aptly named Fatty also briefly passes by before waddling into the night, while Botty's Father surveys the scene from a hillock. The cat guardians of Singapore - BBC News 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z But the asylum, a Greek Revival building that sat prettily atop a hillock off Fifth Avenue, between West 43rd and 44th Streets, was destroyed by the mob. Remembering a Vile Civil War Act, on Fifth Avenue 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Nestled among snowy brush-covered hillocks, its skyline is dominated by the distant Rockies and little else. Two teenage girls face trial in Colorado for 'planning mass school shooting' 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Can highlights be so exceptional that they become the rising tide that lifts all boats rather than mountains surrounded by hillocks? From Kid A to Straight Outta Compton – five flawed albums that became classics 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Even after 65 hours of play, the grasslands and rocky hillocks from the game’s opening areas reveal surprising new nooks and vistas, a loving and meticulous translation of geological principles into frontier poetics. ‘Xenoblade Chronicles X’ takes the pleasures of wasting time to a new extreme 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z I clamber over some hillocks so that I see the reverse of a yellow trail sign, the side on which there’s no writing. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Hacking out of the sand, he pulls his second miles to the left of the gallery, and can only bump his third over a hillock and onto the apron at the front of the green. US PGA Championship 2015: first round – live! 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z It veered from aneurysm-inducing in the beginning to the equivalent of a walk up a hillock by its second half. The Witcher 3: One of the best blockbuster role-playing games ever made 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Now the gray-green roof of Witanhurst’s Orangery appears like a hillock at the bottom of the Sergeants’ garden. London’s Most Mysterious Mansion 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z On a hillock in the southeast corner, Mayor Edward I. Koch is buried; a bench facing his tombstone is piled with stones, a Jewish custom. The Trinity Church Cemetery in Washington Heights Holds Plenty of History 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z But from a village near the border fence, the black flag of the Islamic State could be seen flying from a hillock. ISIS Revenue Sources Remain Crucial Target, U.S. Says 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Hacking out of the sand, he pulls his second miles to the left of the gallery, and can only bump his third over a hillock and onto the apron at the front of the green. US PGA Championship 2015: first round – live! 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Instead it reduced a hill to a hillock. Geithner Book Reveals Consensus, Not Vision, During Financial Crisis 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z NONGTALANG, India — “Bomb, bomb, bomb!” shouted the miner, and his warning echoed off the walls of the decapitated hillock. India Ink: A Village Brings Down Its Hills as Lure of Mining Grows 2014-03-19T06:46:46Z I have not come to see the governor, nor the large brown hillocks which dot the pristine lawns. Enjoying a stroke and a grunt at 182 2014-03-13T01:04:36Z The expedition leaders were keen to get some of their scientists and accompanying tourist assistants to a small cluster of rocky hillocks called the Hodgeman Islands, close to land. Why did Antarctic expedition ship get stranded in ice? 2014-01-21T20:26:44Z Further along the shore, a tunnel festooned with faded splashes of graffiti ran beneath an eroded hillock. City Room: Volunteers Try to Restore Storm-Scarred Beach for Some of the Summer 2013-05-21T21:53:58Z That master plan proposes to build a hillock or two, but this is old marshland. Gotham: A Sheik’s Vision Could Trump Plan for a Queens Park 2013-05-07T00:44:48Z One of the very few markers left is a little mound, or hillock, nearby. Five great places of history 2012-10-12T08:50:12Z The hillocks rise and trot surprisingly swiftly towards us. Enjoying a stroke and a grunt at 182 2014-03-13T01:04:36Z Royal Lytham is full of wild hillocks and mounds that can hide a tank, let alone a tee box. On Golf: At British Open Course, Peculiarities Around Every Bend 2012-07-20T18:25:46Z Again, Sigh is a hill or hillock, because the fairies are believed to dwell within. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z The fog had come in during the night, but hugged the earth so closely that every hillock appeared like an island resting on the calm, white sea. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z But inside that hillock lie the remains of the Athenians who fought and died at Marathon. Five great places of history 2012-10-12T08:50:12Z Suddenly Leslie levelled the weapon, aiming at what he took to be the body of a rabbit showing above the top of a hillock. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z The sandy tracks were covered with curious hillocks 5 to 6 feet in height formed by the drifting sand and the gorse bushes. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Before us was a plain upon which was growing a tall, reed-like grass; and in the centre of this plain was a long, hog-backed hillock, bare of trees. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z We could hear the guns rising over hillocks, falling heavily upon stones, or crushing back upon some boulder. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z There menaced us our tawny foes, Where any bank or hillock rose; A cloud of dust or shadows’ naught Seemed ever with some danger fraught. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Mounting a steep hillock, the car swerved and toppled completely over, pinning the admiral beneath the chassis and throwing the other occupants headlong upon the turf. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z Presently a buffalo lifts his black mane above the neighbouring hillock, and rushes away before we can do more than point to the spot on which we saw it. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z He could not at first make out what this could be, for the moving object almost at once disappeared behind a hillock. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z At the top they found themselves upon a hillock--one of those bare, flat-topped eminences which are scattered throughout the whole continent of Africa. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z The hillocks outside 747 Third Avenue are scheduled to be replaced by a more level plaza, though the naked lady will remain. Melvyn Kaufman, Developer Who Shaped Manhattan?s Streetscape, Dies at 87 2012-03-25T02:45:29Z Ants live together in swarms, usually raising hillocks of earth, variously chambered within, where they maintain a perfect system of order, store their provisions, and nurture their young. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The boy was able to make out the great gabled tower, situated upon a hillock to the north of the city, which goes by the name of the Five-Storied Pagoda. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z In the centre of the swamp the ground rose into a hillock, and here it was possible for them to stand side by side. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Piled in heaps and hillocks on the ground, they fairly dominated the market. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z All the robins at the same moment flew upwards from the hillock and perched themselves in clusters among the rose-trees which formed the bower. Fairies Afield 2012-03-18T02:00:20.790Z The camp was placed on a hillock, the base of which was washed on one side by the stream. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z As he came over a little hillock his outline could be seen for a second and one of the Americans called out to him to halt. The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces 2012-03-09T03:00:18.240Z "May I never see thee again if I do so," said Majmun resolutely, sitting down on a hillock. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Once we saw a rude shepherd's hut, on a little hillock, surrounded by sheep. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z It was snow-covered, and full of hillocks and intervening ponds of water which the brief summer sun had melted from their sides. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Often, too, across the hillocks came the sound of stones—stones striking one against the other, and my father replied in the same way. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z But luck was with them, and one day, late in the afternoon, they heard a loud shout, and saw an Esquimau, standing on a hillock of ice, waving his arms at them. First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle 2012-02-27T03:00:16.033Z It was a beautiful summer evening; there was a half-moon in the sky, and a hundred other half-moons scattered over the hillocks below. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z God! how that man changed—since he saw your sweet Mistress Warren there on the hillock at Roanoke Plain! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Sometimes they climbed over an ice hillock, making a ladder of their sledge. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z A hillock at the center forms a dome in the cavernous hall below, whose walls are higher than 8 meters in places. Space Capsule Embeds Richter, Bacon Beneath Frankfurt Staedel 2012-02-24T01:52:58Z The beach grass was rooted everywhere in the hillocks next the shore, and appeared to be gradually working its way inland. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z "Then don't stare idly at them any longer; away with those mutinous dogs and impale them, and put them on the highest hillock that the whole army may see them." The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z A lane led around the hillock to the right; up this dim path I conducted the chaise-and-four until I found room to turn them back, facing the Boundary Road again. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The bodies were burned, their ashes buried, and a round hillock of earth thrown up over them; for, as it was thought, they had fallen in honourable fight, as it became men to do. Pine Needles 2012-02-20T03:00:19.367Z This is in a better state of preservation, and has been set up on a hillock by the side of a stêlê which was discovered at the same time. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z He must produce symmetry and balance where now are ragged outlines of hillocks and ridges. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z At last he reached the top of a hillock and, looking back, perceived one division still fighting on the battlefield. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z Presently, on a dark hillock to our right, I saw lighted windows glimmering among trees, and I called in a low voice to Mount and sprang noiselessly to the road. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z A mile or two from the town the trail mounted a rolling hillock and I pinched myself to remember that I was not in New Mexico. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z He let go his sleeve and sank back against the hillock. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z The kings of the Earth can heap up little hillocks, which they name fortresses and castles; but the weakest breath of air defies their authority, blows where it lists, and mocks at their command. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z All four flashlights played simultaneously upon a tiny hillock that rose from the meadow at the forest edge. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The night was warm and fragrant under the great June stars as I passed silently along the lane, climbed the hillock and entered the orchard. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z And let us with that river glide Around yon hillock's verdant side; And lo! a gleam of sweet surprise, Like sudden sunshine, warms thine eyes. The Isle of Palms and Other Poems 2012-02-04T03:00:15.103Z He got slowly up and looked round for a hillock that would give him a little shelter from the sun. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z Grassy hillocks rise between us and the cathedral; and we gain an impression as of some great ship riding majestically over ocean billows. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The Master's flashlight found a gap through which its rays could reach the hillock crest. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z It was night ere the lights of Johnstown glimmered out against the hill-side where, on the hillock called Mount Johnson, the candles in our windows spun little rings of fire in the evening haze. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z There was a hillock up there, bare of trees, the southern side of which was sown thickly with strawberries. The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward 2012-02-03T03:00:19.757Z He stumbled on across the sand hillocks, and presently could discern a huddled figure on the ground, with its back propped up against a hillock. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z His predictions, though not always accurate, are cheered by hundreds of fans who flock to his den at Gobbler's Knob, a wooded hillock just outside the town that bears his name. Could Climate Change Put the Groundhog Out of Business? 2012-02-02T15:45:00.420Z In less than five minutes the twenty scampering runaways were "ringed" on the hillock. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The Links rose up in a hillock immediately behind us, so that our successor could not see us until he had reached the first hole. Mr. Punch's Golf Stories 2012-01-28T03:00:25.907Z The snow deadened the sound of our feet, and we were well-nigh through the village when Larke tripped over a hillock and stumbled forward on his face with a curse. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The horse was there, not far from the spot where he had last seen it, but Lumley was no longer lying against the hillock, and in his first hasty glance Gray failed to find him. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z It was a place, however, consecrated by the dust of too many dear friends for me to abstain from treading among its grass-covered and heaped hillocks of earth. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z The Templars and the Hospitallers, with the count of Tripoli, stood firm on the summit of a small hillock, and for a long time presented a bold and undaunted front to the victorious enemy. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Swift’s clever epitaph, on a miser, may more appropriately close this article: Beneath this verdant hillock lies Demer, the wealthy and the wise. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z “Oh yes,” he replied pointing to the nearest salt-like hillock, “there she is.” Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z They had been riding for miles and miles without seeing a tree or a hillock, or even a dry water-course. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z No house, nor stone, nor hillock, nor solitary tree were seen within the vast circle of the encompassing horizon. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z Or let us to Nantasket, there To wander idly as we list, Whether, on rocky hillocks bare, Sharp cedar-points, like breakers, tear The trailing fringes of gray mist. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z He put the gold-bricks, upon all of which his name was engraved, one upon another in rows, so that from a distance they looked like a hillock of gold. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z Here may he lie, and let no traveller dare The grass green hillock o'er his carcase rear, Or heap up piles of monumental stones, To shield from Phœbus and the stars his bones. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z Gray helped him back to the hillock, and put his foot in as comfortable a position as possible. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z The turf on that hillock was new; Dear Little Ones, did ye know aught of the Dead, Or could he be heedful of you? A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Here and there rises a scrubby hillock of furze, black and rough as the head of a monster. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The boatmen went to the hillock of gold, when Sribatsa said that the gold was his. Folk-Tales of Bengal 2012-01-05T03:00:45.240Z Towards the Ganges the land is uneven, and often rises in hillocks of sand cultivated at the base, and their slopes covered with lofty munj grass. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z The ground was growing rougher; it was broken up into hillocks, and his progress was less rapid. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z The soil is then made into little hillocks in which the yams are planted. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z This island was of considerable extent, lying two-thirds across the wide mouth of the river, its surface dotted over with little knolls or hillocks of earth. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z In Summer they proul about in search of berries, &c. and as the Winter approaches, retire to their dens, which are always under-ground; and generally, if not always, on the side of a small hillock. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z In other words, they were scooping dirt out of the ditch on either side and dumping it in tall, unsurmountable hillocks right in the middle of the roadway. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Gray lay down with his back to him, under the scanty shade of a hillock, and drew his hat over his eyes. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z What hordes of like beings might not be concealed behind these mysterious hillocks? By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Clambering on foot up a steep-sided hillock that appeared to be an ancient glacial moraine augmented by many slides, we suddenly found ourselves on the edge of the high-water level of the lake. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z ‘You’re only a dog, you know, but you can sit on a hillock, and watch and warn us if you see any fiend-boys coming along with catapults.’ Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z The puffs were rising rapidly behind the hillock and bullets sang sharply about them; the horse of the first man hit leaped forward with a bullet-stung rump. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The outposts whom we had left on the hillock had been recalled, and on the march not a cry of alarm had been raised, so that the missing men must have disappeared without a sound. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z We can see nothing ahead but low, rounded hillocks covered with broken stone. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Around each, a small area of cytoplasm becomes segregated, the whole often projecting as a little bud or hillock from the general surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z I do wonder now if there are such things as fairies, and if on moonlight nights they come oot, and dance on this green hillock. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z My post, as already mentioned, was in the face of a ridge, or rather in a hillock forming part of the ridge, and having a deep pass on either hand. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Yet though we searched the clump and the far side of the hillock as well, our efforts were in vain. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z It is getting very dark; we could no longer see the hillocks, but we knew that they were there. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z Thus, it is conceived, many of the peculiar hillocks and hollows which characterize terminal moraines may have arisen. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z The domed ceiling rises at the center, forming a large hillock dotted with skylights in the garden. Deutsche Bank Art Loan Forces Frankfurt’s Staedel Underground 2011-11-28T03:54:00Z Just as the buzzard approached a fair range, I observed that a good stag had ascended my hillock, and for some twenty yards ran in full view. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z “This is to be your drawing-room and dining-room, Madame,” declared Mr. Stuart, as he helped Madame de Villiers over the sandy hillock. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z We kicked our heels disconsolately on shore—a sandy shore this time; little sandy hillocks alternated with patches of struggling tufts of grass. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z There are many hillocks of a general kame-like habit associated with the terminal moraine south of the main quartzite range, and north of the Wisconsin river. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z Michael and I arranged ourselves afresh upon the hillock; I squared my shoulders, and felt my wonted photographic expression of hang-dog desperation settle down upon me. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z They rose my hillock at a foot's pace, the stag leading—an eight-pointer—and at last stood actually within five yards. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z It frothed in a white hillock on either side of the boat, and little trails of foam swirled about her deck. The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound 2011-11-24T03:00:42.877Z Then everybody disappeared behind sandy hillocks, the goufa floated past us, and we were once more left alone with the wind and the rat. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z A typical kame is a hill, hillock, or less commonly a short ridge of stratified drift; but several or many are often associated, giving rise to groups and areas of kames. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z Thus rebuked, Madam scrambled hastily over the crest of the hillock and sank in unseemly laughter into the deep heather behind it. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z A buzzard came sailing along the pine-tops towards me; I was posted on a small plateau crowning an isolated hillock, and overlooking a sea of dark green pines. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The palfrey and the maiden drew near a hillock within the forest, where the trees stood so close and thick that no moonlight fell within the shadow of the branches. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z We had ridden round and chosen this site in the middle of the mysterious hillocks, which shut us out so effectually from everything except the stars. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z She went nearer to the edge of the hillock, and set her eyes once more upon the city, as if for a farewell view. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z The kind of moles you find in Europe live in what seem to be little earthen fortresses, and the tops, sticking above ground, make hillocks. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z “That is a splendid whistle!” thought Esben; lay down on a sunny hillock, and fell asleep. The Norwegian Fairy Book 2011-11-22T03:00:08.940Z She seemed to be stumbling over a succession of hillocks. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z And neither for fear of this wild boar of Ben-Gulban nor of any other wild beast will I leave this hillock. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z Nest and Eggs—The nests are usually built on little hillocks in the marshes, and contain from six to eight dirty white eggs. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z One day we were cleaning an overgrown path on a hillock near the pond. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Atwada, who was seated on a hillock behind his master, sprang forward and dealt him a mortal wound. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Lindo walked in and out in semi and total eclipse near at hand, now emerging life-size upon a hillock, now visible only as an erect travelling tail amid the heather. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z After watching him for some time longer, Maildun ventured warily towards the hillock, to see whether he was inclined to mischief; but the bird showed no disposition to harm him. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z Two travellers passed a hillock in a marsh, and heard some groans proceeding from a man on the top of it. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z In traversing this department," says Surell, "one often sees, at the outlet of a gorge, a flattened hillock, with a fan-shaped outline and regular slopes; it is the bed of dejection of an ancient torrent. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z He was repulsed, and driven back to the foot of the hillock on which Napoleon stood. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Two thousand miles from north to south, and nearly five hundred miles in breadth, hardly a hillock rises above its surface from the foothills of the Andes westward to the sea. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z On they came, flying at a vast height, nearer and nearer, till at last they swooped down and alighted on the hillock in front of the first bird, one on each side. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The first consisted of a number of hillocks inclosed by rough palings, and decorated with sticks with little bits of coloured stuff and feathers fluttering from them. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Coast dunes are oblong ridges or round hillocks, formed by the action of the wind upon sands thrown up by the waves on the beach of seas, and sometimes of fresh-water lakes. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z His creditors permitted him to occupy, besides, a queer little domicile, little better than a cottage, which stood just under a wooded hillock in the vast wild park. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z I occupied a small stockade on a hillock above it, whence I had a good view, and could overlook the Manipuris. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z But Dermat said he would not leave the hillock through fear of any wild boar. Old Celtic Romances 2011-11-19T03:00:26.863Z The whole is then covered with earth, and when finished resembles a large hillock. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Entire hillock chains with acute crests are formed in a similar manner. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z At six o'clock in the evening I alighted upon a hillock commanding a prospect of the country around. The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 2011-10-29T02:00:14.677Z We were at the foot of the hillock, on which stood the swing. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:28.357Z "Well, where are we?" asked Brent, as he and Joe Pete ascended a nearby hillock to take observation of their surroundings. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z A small kind of pumpkins which are very productive they plant with a dibble, and raise the ground into hillocks the same as those about Indian corn. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z Had the dunes been distinguished from other hillocks, in ancient times, by so remarkable a feature as the propensity to drift, they would certainly have acquired a specific name in both Old Northern and German. Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action 2011-11-11T03:00:34.027Z Nobody fears for the safety of a mountain, but a hillock of sand may be washed away. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z The village does not stand on a hill, but the church, which is at some distance, stands on one, or rather on a hillock. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z In one place the army column made a slight d�tour round a hillock of sandgrains upon which a host of tiny brown ants was laboring. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z They sought a lodging, and engaged one in a narrow street whose houses were built over ancient arches sunk in the middle of a hillock. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Under a grey sky, against the somber and broken background of a cemetery, rises on a little hillock the fat and black figure of an undertaker's man. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z This shows that if the spots were either flat marks, or hillocks, on the sun's face, the dark centre would remain to the last, but as a fact it disappears before the rim. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z Towards the church, after a slight glance at the village, I proceeded with hasty steps, and was soon at the foot of the hillock. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z I stop and list—I stop and peer— Until the neighb’ring hillocks grow To groups of soldiers, far and near. Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z Without a word the stranger turned and began to ascend a narrow path which led to a curious hillock, which from its shape, was called by the country-folk the "Lucken Hare." The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z There would be just room enough on our little quarter-deck for a tea-table and a couple of chairs; but of prospect, save for the side of the hillock, had we none. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Then she pointed out of the window to a little hillock, in the new churchyard, not far from the house. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Sometimes we crossed watercourses which emptied their tribute into the brook, and every now and then ascended and descended hillocks covered with gorse and whin. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Cattle browsed upon the hillocks, tiny hamlets were spotlessly neat and orderly, the 72 roads were edged with trimmed hedges, and even in the woods, where wild-plants grew, there was no débris to be found. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z "This is a strange thing, and these be queer on-goings," said the old woman to herself, creeping hastily down to the bottom of the hillock again. The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z I was descending the hillock for a closer view when I remembered that I could hardly expect to be shown round that day. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Vainly did I seek for thee; vainly sought in hillock and dale for trace of thee, but naught was there to be found anywhere.” A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z They moved slowly, for in some places the old road lay among sandy hillocks and holes, while in others it sank very notably and became a muddy, stick-covered ridgeway. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z Hilda fell, unharmed, upon a hillock of soft green moss, so far, so far beneath the ledge whence Margaret had pushed her, that the opening above looked no bigger than a star. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z Soon they reached a hillock, and here the Prince drew rein, and, stooping down, cried in a strange, uncanny whisper, "Open, open, Green Hill, and let the Prince, and his horse, and his hound enter." The Scottish Fairy Book 2011-09-27T02:00:17.480Z I stood for a moment examining it from half-way up the hillock. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z We were on a long, sparsely-wooded hillock where juniper spread waist high. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The quagmire broke under them; then grasping grass, clumps, and reeds, they clung to hillocks, or lay on their bellies not to sink the first moment. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z Around the hillock where she lay was a small courtyard with turf as smooth as velvet, and upon the rocky walls encircling it were trained vines of roses, myrtle and jasmine, covered with lovely blossoms. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z "Say not so! say not so!" cried Banfi excitedly, and riding up to the top of a hillock, he seemed to be observing something in the distance. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z Paul Potter's Bull.—The picture represents an enormous black and white bull standing on a hillock beneath two trees. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Others lay down and died on hillocks; some lost presence of mind, and looked with the greatest indifference on the approaching pursuers. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Though the cathedral crowns the hillock round which clusters the old part of the town, a large portion of the newer town is built on the alluvial flats on either bank of the Rhone. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z At last they came to a cleft in a little green hillock. The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book 2011-09-09T02:01:11.180Z All the way to the boundary hillock of the Bialystok domain they travelled in a peasant's cart; but there a noble cavalcade awaited them, with the Major Domo of the Starosta at their head. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z On goes the sledge, now over a smooth sheet of frozen snow, and again bumping up and down as the dogs dash over rough hillocks of ice. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z The bay, with its great beach of golden sand, its many hillocks—silvery-blue in places with sea-holly, and green with clumps of feathery tamarisk—lay open before her as she came out of the lane. The Piskey-Purse Legends and Tales of North Cornwall 2011-08-30T02:00:37.027Z I was crawling flat on my face, for the crest of the hillock sloped so gently that this was the only way to get near them. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z He has climbed in his life a hundred hillocks, thinking each to be a mountain. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Here I led my horse into a thicket which ran between two steep hillocks, and remained in it during the night. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Each bunch increasing year after year, forms in time a small hillock or tuft, and, the roots spreading and spreading, these hillocks of grass almost covered the lake, leaving only narrow channels of water between. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z They drove over a little hillock that raised them higher than the tote road had done. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z There, scarce a stream creeps down its narrow bed, There scarce a hillock lifts its little head, Or humble hamlet peeps their glades among But lives and murmurs in immortal song. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Now they throng close, where oak and ash cling to the sides of the hillock and circle the stones that tower to ragged turrets in their midst. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z This plain, only interrupted by a few hillocks, was about twenty miles in diameter: it was covered with very high grass and small patches of mosquito trees, elms, dwarf oaks, and yuccas. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z How many millions of ants must have been needed to raise these hillocks! and what still more incalculable numbers must have lived in them! Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z AS a way to save the world, digging a ditch next to a hillock of sheep dung would seem to be a modest start. In the Garden: The Permaculture Movement Grows From Underground 2011-07-28T02:30:54Z The long anticipated fourteenth of June had arrived, and the level stretch of green grass with its circling hillocks in the rear of the gray house was ablaze with color. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z The lonely hillock where stands Siward's Cross, or "Nun's Cross," as Moormen call it, lies at a point a little above the western end of Fox Tor Mire. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z We set off, Carpel sat himself down upon a hillock and gazed weeping after us.... Gabriel A Story of the Jews in Prague 2011-07-27T02:00:26.233Z Upon a hillock, overgrown with lilies of the valley and ivy, sat Cornelia her head rested on her hand, and her bosom rose and fell slowly, as if burdened with the weight of sorrowful thought. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z The pair that stand before the verandah like two dark hillocks are steady and trustworthy. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z She repeated the words of each fair daughter as she displayed her trophy of liberty, and could clap as enthusiastically as the spectators watching from the hillocks in the distance. Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer 2011-07-28T02:00:09.363Z And a stable lad ran into the yard from his vantage point on a hillock. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z And when we looked for evidences of an ancient permanent occupation of the region by man, there were none—not a hillock raised by human hands, nor the smallest object that could be deemed antiquarian. Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas 2011-07-10T02:00:18.883Z For the mother stayed while the earth was reverently drawn over the cold bed, till a little hillock of black soil lay silvered by the dropping moonbeams falling through the willow boughs. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z But ancient foundations, projecting above the level, and concealed under green hillocks, rise in many places; and elegant columns, tesselated pavements, and coins, are continually met with in ploughing and digging. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z He then ran to the post indicated, and the two knights took their seats on the hillock. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z All were hurrying across the rough bottom, with its hillocks and furze bushes, and patches of withered bracken; then, gathering in the narrow bit that let them in under a fringe of trees, mounting upwards. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z The sea was rising momentarily, and long hillocks of dull green water swept on—line upon line—gathering into knife-like crests to roll and break into surge upon yonder shore. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Among the broken hillocks the strangers were quite at the mercy of an attacking force, no matter how small. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z Later in the morning they were suddenly startled by a strange apparition that came up over a hillock towards them. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z At last, tired and worn out with travelling and whistling, he sat down on a hillock and began to cry. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z This hillock is a good point of view for the survey of the place. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The fowlers discover the hillocks where the Ruffs congregate by the grass being trampled bare, and this shews that the same spot is long frequented. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z To his imagination, the odious brick box on the hillock seemed to be true. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z In the centre of the picture is Our Lord kneeling on a hillock deeply engaged in prayer, and above is an angel flying toward Him bearing the chalice of sorrow. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z Observe those ants; they have a little habitation in yonder hillock; they carry food to it for their young, and sleep very snug in it during the cold weather. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z A solitary hillock rises in the plain, on the top of which, clearly defined, stands this tower. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z At frequent intervals Denbigh climbed the hillock and brought his glasses to bear upon the distant high ground. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z About four hundred yards off was a rounded hillock. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z They were no taller than a strawberry stem, and were dancing merrily around a green hillock upon which sat their queen who was about three inches tall. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z The motor-cell body, with protoplasmic processes, axis cylinder, side fibrils or collaterals, and end ramifications, represents parts of a neuron. a. h., axon hillock devoid of Nissl bodies, showing fibrillation; ax., axon. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Thus the motion appears unbroken, and from the canvas point of view the waves must be motionless as the sand hillocks of a desert. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z Rounded hillocks emerged here and there from the plain which, as it approached the coast, was carpeted with patches of white, slowly-drifting fog. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Just then came up the old hag out of the hillock, who hobbled along with her stick, whose nose and mouth met, and whose head nodded. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z On the distant hillock, a heather blossom raised itself on its stalk. Top of the World Stories for Boys and Girls Translated from the Scandinavian Languages 2011-06-21T02:00:28.070Z Half-a-dozen hillocks of loose, almost pulverised earth were thrown up, at irregular distances, communicating with the main gallery by side passages. Rambles of a Naturalist 2011-06-04T02:00:13.503Z Having passed the intervening hillocks and copses, I gained a view of the front of the building. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z South, there were only the low grass hillocks, now blended into one definite skyline. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z So as they sat there up came an old hag out of a hillock, and begged for a morsel of meat. Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales 2011-06-13T02:00:24.710Z Mount Dennis was slowly left behind and sank to a mere hillock beneath. Among the Canadian Alps 2011-05-30T02:00:16.600Z It was impossible for a carriage to pass along anywhere without getting upset by the hillocks of stones. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z The grave hillock and the mouldering body are each a world of powers at work. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Between the Yang-tse-Kiang and Hoang-Ho the country is so flat that, if we may judge by the scene from the mast-head of the Phantom, not a hillock breaks the level waste of fertile land. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Suddenly, from behind a low heather-clad hillock at the side of the road, four wild-looking men sprang up and barred his progress. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Runs its nose up a little hillock of hard crusted snow. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z A hillock a little distance from Aschaffenburg was then crowned by a battery of six guns, the fire of which raked the Prussian masses. The Prussian Terror 2011-05-04T02:00:15.170Z When he got to the bottom of the hillock, the runner stopped, bent his head low towards the ground, and--loosened his garters. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z So he placed it on top of a little hillock overlooking the lake, where it looked like a great bunch of violets against the patches of snow. At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-04T02:00:13.920Z He sat down on the grassy hillock and watched, knowing well that the fight could but end in one way. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z All this while Sancho stood upon the hillock, beholding his master's actions—tearing his beard, and cursing the unfortunate hour and moment that ever he knew him. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z In a few hours, what was previously a level, is often covered with ranges of hillocks, hindering a view of the horizon, and bewildering the most experienced wanderers through these perilous regions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Driving to the station a friend, a resident of the Springs, pointed out to me a little clay hillock, beside the road. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The Sun-land behind the hillocks of the God's acre, behind the pest-cloud of Death, is covered by a complete, an impenetrable darkness of twelve inches, or of as many holy nights. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z When the river ran all gory, And in hillocks lay the dead, And seven and thirty thousand Fell for the White and Red. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z Sometimes at the center of the village, surrounded by the houses, was a sort of hillock or mound from which the country around might be overlooked. American Indians 2011-04-21T02:00:55.200Z Just then Mildred rose to recall Olive and Chriss; as she went down the woody hillock a quick contraction of pain furrowed her brow. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z On the hillock he dug through nine successive settlements. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z These ovens stand by themselves out in the open fields, and look at a little distance like small hillocks. In the Year '13 A Tale of Mecklenburg Life 2011-04-14T02:00:53.733Z “Sit down,” said the old man, pointing to a hillock beside a tree. Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch 2011-04-14T02:00:48.280Z A shovel wasted—Fortunately the stream of cars on the roadway below flowed on without a ripple of curiosity as to the party on the hillock. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z She walked by his side without a word, till he had found a place that suited him, a rough hillock behind a dark angle of the wall; the cotton-mill was between them and the glen. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Kerry, the midwife, who was nurse as well, carried the child to church, and the tiny red burden lay cooing softly at her breast in a very hillock of white swaddlings. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z They just happened to go splashing across a bit of a frog pond that lay cupped among hillocks of seedling pines. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z At night they would take off their clothing and, covering their bodies with blankets, lie down to sleep on some dry hillock. American Leaders and Heroes A preliminary text-book in United States History 2011-04-03T02:00:17.547Z He had cast a surreptitious glance toward a clump of poplars that disputed possession of a hillock with an outcrop of granite. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z A collection of petty hillocks is uninteresting, while the towering snow-clad Alps are magnificent. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z But the men, who, half a mile distant, have been drawn in line, now wheel, form, and march around the little hillock in the distance. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z Many parents first cut their children’s hair near one of these hillocks, and offer the first fruits of the hair to the serpents residing there.” Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z So he turned to the left, leading the way by a narrow path up the steep bank, till we reached the summit of a hillock, separated by a deep ditch from the wall of Tangier. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z Around hillocks, hurdling bowlders, dodging cones and knobs that were too slippery for climbing, ran the race. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z About noon of the third day, on reaching the brow of a hillock, we saw a huge dome before us, upon which the fierce rays of the sun striking, produced the appearance of burnished gold. The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z So a tent was pitched on a little hillock near, and I rested comfortably during the night. My Cave Life in Vicksburg With Letters of Trial and Travel 2011-03-30T02:00:13.113Z So they went to the jungle close to the house, and the Muhammadan dug two holes, one on one hillock, and one on another. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Man builds pyramids, and God builds pyramids; the pyramids of man are heaps of shingles, tiny hillocks on a sandy plain; the pyramids of the Lord are Andes and Indian hills. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z "Here, on the hillock in front of you," I replied. The Treasure of the Tigris A Tale of Mesopotamia 2011-03-22T02:00:16.873Z Two hundred rods away rose the hillock on whose brow scowled the republican battery that now menaced every foot of the plain the cuirassiers were advancing over. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z As she pensively advanced toward the banks of the Nile she perceived at a distance, under a thicket watered by the river, an old woman in a tattered gray garment, seated on a hillock. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z But in a moment the anxious suspense was over, and we rested on the ridge of the long hillock, with the mountain-side stretching down to the plain, which lay not very far below us. The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine 2011-03-15T02:00:14.097Z He halted at the outskirts of the city, on a hillock that commanded the main street, and sent for the regent. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z It was on top of a steep hillock, of which it occupied nearly the whole summit. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z From this hillock it was possible to rake the Austrian's left flank from the rear. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z He would lie contentedly for hours with his head pillowed on the hillocks of blown sand about the roots of the sage, and look up at the merry-go-round. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z Last week we took a first look at the grounds where football can be viewed for free, whether from hillock or household. Has a league ever finished in alphabetical order? 2011-03-09T00:07:00Z It got its name from a grove of maples on the top of a mound that in the autumn used to turn red and orange and look like the hillock was in a blaze. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z After eight hours of walking in dense forest, in the early evening we entered a narrow, barren stretch of land hemmed in by hillocks. Fugitive existence 2011-03-07T00:58:39Z He sat on a hillock to watch a fox hunt mice. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z But in a moment the anxious suspense was over, and we rested on the ridge of the long hillock with the mountain-side stretching down to the plain, which lay not very far below us. The Dusantes A Sequel to "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine" 2011-03-06T03:00:18.327Z Into the Warren, by the stile up this road's side, went Cleve, and climbed the gray rocky hillock that commands an extensive view of that wild park; but there they were not. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z He made a landing in an open space, an uncultivated field with a hillock in the center covered with grass and surrounded by trees. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z He went on, eating as he did so, past a broad plain a mile and more across, being broken into odd little hillocks by gradually ripening and suddenly developing mushrooms with which he was unfamiliar. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z The villages and the pits which I have mentioned were fortresses, and there were numerous other mounds and hillocks that had been turned into strongholds. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z Soon the sleigh stumbled over the snow hillocks once more into the smooth course, and now they went impetuously towards the inn near the Haff, where a numerous circle of people was assembled. Withered Leaves. Vol. III.(of III) A Novel 2011-02-25T03:01:13.983Z A low range of limestone hillocks, interspersed with strange masses of coral, and marked by a pillar like that of Lot, encloses the well of Hanlefánta, where each mule obtained a shield full of water. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The estimates of M. Morlot are based on the discoveries made in a hillock formed by the river Tinière at its entrance into the lake of Geneva. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z At last, above the crest of the last hillock he had surmounted, two tiny antennae appeared, then the black glistening head of an army ant, the forerunner of its horde. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z At seven o'clock on the morning of 17th April, when the 1st Royal West Kents and the 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers were waiting with fixed bayonets, the mines under the hillock were exploded. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z It stands several miles nearer to the sea, in the centre of the great plain of Argos, and upon the only hillock which there affords any natural scope for fortification. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z I have found oft when stumbling o’er hillock or stone, A slender supporter is better than none! Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect 2011-02-16T03:00:41.223Z One dome-shaped hillock is nearly one hundred feet in height. A Manual of the Antiquity of Man 2011-02-21T03:00:07.080Z His feet sank into the spongy sides of the hillock. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z No!—There she skipped over the hillocks singing; here her hat fell off, there she took it up again; here she picked a flower, there she stood deep in the highest grass. Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life 2011-02-14T03:00:32.700Z Cyril, having secretly crumbled some of his, now, stooping forward, places it upon the top of her hillock. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Then we run away at full speed, stepping on the hillocks of our dead, apologising to them inwardly. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Some resemble hillocks or great mounds, extending over the ground to a circumference of many yards. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Plain marble memorial stones adorned the green hillocks that were mantled in ivy. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Scrub oaks on the hillocks still carried the dead red leaves of the past year; while here and there a beech or a maple added its varied beauty to the winter landscape. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z They had propped his head on a hillock of turf, and some charitable soul had brought water from the river. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z This first shot is aimed too far to the right, and the fragments fall twenty or thirty yards away on the little white hillocks. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z So he dismounted and led his horse round the hillock skirting Adet's farm buildings so that he should not be seen. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z They struck a road to the left of the church, leading to a hillock crowned with a cross. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z “Not if there was any real fear of an attack,” said Maseden, leading her to the small sand hillock near the boat. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z “But yonder hillock, black against the stars, holds in its deep heart veins of mineral; and in those veins, my friend, there runs an ichor bearing the self-same name as that you seek.” The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The Boers followed him up, and, occupying a hillock, opened fire on the camp at less than a mile. Two Years on Trek Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa 2011-01-26T03:00:28.560Z Camille the bailiff had seen and heard him among the insurgents on the hillock that night. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z And when I sat up, a freshly-bruised and crestfallen youth, it was to behold Red clattering over a little hillock, head up, stirrups swinging wide. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z He pointed to a hillock a couple of gunshots distant from the Castle. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z When the first hillock of fresh brown earth was thrown up in the edge of the Forest, the People who lived there said to each other. Among the Forest People 2011-01-17T03:00:55.113Z You must go and sit behind that hillock over there, and you mustn’t move till I tell you you may.” Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z Just here the ground rose sharply to a little hillock which dominated the flat valley of the Loire and commanded a fine view over the more distant villages. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z We are thus reminded of the delight 122shewn by almost all boys in climbing trees; and this again reminds us how lambs and kids, originally alpine animals, delight to frisk on any hillock, however small. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z No grave-stone, or mound, or any little hillock around the house, betrayed any past burials of man or child. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z He then set up the cross on a little mossy hillock; and all the glow-worms formed themselves into a circle round it, and prayed and sang songs of gratitude,—which, however, were inaudible to Julius. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z He quickly filled the water-bottles from the pool, and, telling her that he would prepare the luncheon on the other side of the hillock, walked off across the sand. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z She followed him at a distance and stopped on a hillock between the Fairies' Dolmen and the Calvary of the Flowers. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The moon, rising behind a hillock, looked like a weird eye peeping on a ghastly scene. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z There is scarcely a district of the Highlands without its fairy knoll, generally the greenest hillock in the place. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z They watched until they saw the red glow of his lantern vanish over a hillock. Signal in the Dark 2011-01-06T03:00:43.537Z McCartney's battery, the First Massachusetts, is on a hillock, where it has full sweep of all the plain, right and left, and in front. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z As Clarence lay along the stern of the boat glancing down into the water, his attention was suddenly attracted by something that rested at the top of a little hillock of sand. The Red Miriok 2011-01-04T03:01:16.847Z The grass hillocks were covered with common people. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Two women were walking toward the Point when one of them, hearing churning going on under a hillock, expressed aloud a wish for some butter-milk. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z It melted away like a hillock of snow before the sunshine. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Two batteries were placed in position on hillocks south of the turnpike, to throw shells up the creek, should such an attempt be made. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Sections were made at right angles in both of the hillocks, and it was clearly ascertained that no building of any size could be concealed within. Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys 2011-01-03T03:01:08.433Z Then, with a preternatural shriek, he drops the head, which rolls down the hillock of earth among the crowd, staggers and falls heavily upon the platform, gasping out "Oh, Gott! mein Vater!" Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z In the background on a hillock about which towered sombre spruces stood a small, solemn round temple with Tuscan columns and a gleaming green roof. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Then the body began to move in little jumps down the side of the hillock, gathering a gradual momentum, until at last it heaved up into the air and soared heavily off in the moonlight. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Below me, on a hillock, were Hancock and staff directing movements. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z Building stones are found at the base of both hillocks, but always embedded in the soil; those which were easy of removal having no doubt been long since taken away by the country people. Notice of Runic Inscriptions Discovered during Recent Excavations in the Orkneys 2011-01-03T03:01:08.433Z Wherever these hillocks abounded, the earth seemed to be of a loose texture, consisting of either mud or clay. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z Off to the west and around on each side there unfolds a panorama of smiling valleys and green hillocks in most enticing succession. Stained Glass Tours in France 2010-12-30T03:00:24.760Z The long yew staff I carried served me well; by its aid I could jump from hillock to hillock, and thus make swifter progress than had I been on horseback. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z In front of Devens the swell is smoothed to a plain, or rather there is a depression, as if the hillock had been scooped out of the plain. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z A big round moon hung so low in the sky that it seemed to roll like a wagon wheel right across the tops of the hillocks. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z While hunting material for tent pegs and poles I noticed a curious rectangular-shaped hillock of green moss a short distance from the shore of the pond. Lost Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:25.250Z On the north, Central Park, with its fine avenues, its hillocks, its valleys, its lakes, and its magnificent terrace over the Hudson, is a very lovely pleasure ground. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Near us was the hillock we tried to gain; it was next to impossible to reach it against the storm. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z At the summit of two other hillocks hard by, two figures were writhing on their crosses. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z In the middle of the following afternoon Alec appeared on a hillock. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z The two-story house he owns in the Valley of Bourdon crumbled, too, and he moved his family to a grassy hillock on the church estate because it was “the closest and most logical place.” In Haiti, Rising Call for Displaced to Go Away 2010-10-05T00:07:00Z Not so fun is trying to negotiate the endless number of mounds and hillocks, all of which, of course, are covered with knee-high fescue. PGA Championship: Birdies And Bogeys First Round 2010-08-12T04:00:00Z Out in the waves, in the black, pitching hillocks of water, something large and pale was bobbing in and out of view. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z Mirza's bungalow, perched on a hillock in the upmarket Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad, did not for a while present a happy picture. Love drama 2010-04-07T17:51:00Z Then they mounted a hillock, looked down on Plains City, and halted in astonishment. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z On the summit of the hillock, surrounded by a wall with three gates, lie the remains of the city. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Another fact is perhaps worth notice: snow rarely lies so smooth as not to present little asperities at its surface; little ridges or hillocks, with little hollows between them. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. While standing on a hillock near the village of La Couteau in the midst of his staff, the commander of our Third Division was struck by a fragment of shrapnel and killed. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War The sea was shut from view by a wall of chalky hillocks covered with stubbly grass, and only the country outlook remained. Capricious Caroline A moment later two horsemen appeared on top of a hillock and started toward them. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z Gorse-bushes made but poor landmarks, and there were neither trees nor hillocks near to guide them. A Blot on the Scutcheon He had not proceeded far, however, when he tumbled over a steep bank, and rolled from hillock to hillock till he reached the bottom of the den in a state of insensibility. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 When the dance was ended, he led Judith to a green hillock on which her father sat, and approaching the heir of Riccon, inquired, fiercely, "What want ye, sir?—what look ye at?" Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 A spent shot, that had struck through a sandbank, came rolling on like a bowl, and, leaping up from a hillock in front, struck me on the breast. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 It was level, surrounded by knolls and hillocks much like the one upon which they stood, and grass that would be shoulder-high to a horse was already almost knee-high. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z As he spoke P�re Mouet pointed to where, on a low hillock, a Calvary had been placed. A Blot on the Scutcheon Numerous grassy hillocks scattered around indicate the cemetery where "the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Ye enter a swampy meadow, that waves wi' flags an' rushes like a corn-field in harvest, an' see a hillock covered wi' willows rising like an island in the midst. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 A friendly gap between two hillocks presented itself on her left, and she swung round and made for it. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Rising, she saw a wagon coming over a hillock. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z The day before yesterday, in the evening, we suddenly discovered a black hillock to the east. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 There were pleasure houses on the hillocks around the Collect, and on an island, in its centre, the city powder house was erected. In Jail with Charles Dickens They landed to look on it, and sat on a hillock near by. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race At any rate, there where stood your grandfather's cottage—he was a poor man then—ye will see a kind of knowe or hillock, greener than the rest. Deep Moat Grange Steadily, however, the swell grew heavier, though not so much as a cat’s-paw ruffled the dead surfaces of the watery hillocks. Into the Primitive Coming nearer, he saw it was too regular in form for a hillock, and its corners too sharply defined. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers The coverlet was dragged up, and formed a white hillock behind which a strip of Olga's light brown hair shone forth. The Wish A Novel Each rising from its hillock like a horn, Steeples afar and chapels round about, The rain, the long, long rain, Through all the winter wears and wears them out. Poems of Emile Verhaeren The old town is on a hillock, crowned by the ancient castle, while the new town is built on the level ground at the foot of the hill. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Making a wide detour, and carefully concealing his approach by keeping the hillocks between himself and the ponies, he would get as near as he possibly could without being seen. The Wreckers of Sable Island She reached the little grassy hillock and sat down, too weak and spiritless, even to walk on. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir Here a hillock, running parallel with our lines, and slightly elevated above the surface of the plain, intervened between us and the enemy. My First Campaign The seven pines were still in view, standing upon a hillock by themselves. Three Young Ranchmen or, Daring Adventures in the Great West Keeping his eyes fixed he slid dangerously to the foot of the hillock and walked down the waggon ruts. Last Words He went to the door and regretfully looked after the tall figure striding swiftly over the sand until it disappeared behind a hillock, beyond which he thought must be the ocean. The Wreckers of Sable Island Seated on the sunny hillock, the cottage appeared quiet, almost lonesome but for a ringing sound which came from the adjoining field and was made by the sickle passing through the corn. The Progressionists, and Angela. On a small hillock a few yards from the edge of dense jungle and forest not far from Ammad's walls, stood a group of Jaltor's warriors flanking the king and his guests. The Return of Tharn Streams of less importance furrowed the cone in other directions, but the largest quantity of lava proceeded from the fissure in the Atria del Cavallo, below the hillock or miniature chain of collines just described. The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1872 Keeping a wary eye for Uhlans who must be somewhere near they rode with all the courage of youth into a clump of trees that grew upon a hillock close to the road. The Guns of Europe |
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