The Duddon estate itself included a great deal of mountain ground, some of the loneliest and remotest in the district, where a man who knew the fells might very well take hiding.
Aye, but they're all gone up to t' fells for t' winter.
She had first come across him when sketching among some distant fells where he had been a shepherd for more than forty years.
The sound, with all its weight of association, sank and echoed through the morning stillness; the fellsrepeated it, a voice of worship toward God, of appeal toward man.
The rain had passed, and thefells rose clear and high above the moist hay meadows and the fresh-leaved trees.
In spite of the mining prospector and the railway projector, many of these fells and dales are more lonely to-day than they were three, or even ten centuries ago.
To make its acquaintance away up on the fells is to find it blending into many a choice bit of folklore and into old-world customs and superstitions.
The hare nibbles the root, the vulture devours the hare, the hunter shoots the vulture, the lion fells the hunter, and the worm eats the lion.
The hare nibbles the flower, the vulture seizes the hare, the hunter slays the vulture, the lion fells the hunter, the worm devours the lion.
When Cliges perceives that he is wounded he has rushed upon the stripling, and strikes him straightway with such violence that he thrusts his lance right through his heart and fells him dead.
Cliges encounters no knight but he fells him to the ground.
He would come when the Fells pleased, and bring what they pleased.
Upon the limestone-covered fells it conforms marvellously to its environment, it being almost impossible to detect its curiously mottled plumage as it basks upon the grey stones, not more still than itself.
On the sides of the fells and uplands hares are difficult to kill.
There were at least a pair of martins, and foxes from the fells had their tracks through the woods.
All alike were merry; for now the rugged fells were passed; the sun-scorched Saracen Land lay behind.
My sea-wolves are fairly glutted with plunder, and I dread lest these fells recall too well the cliffs of our Trondir fiords.
Frowning, he moved over to the farther battlement, and turned his face away toward the barren fells which lay between him and the mysterious South.
Harbottle and Longpikes rose but a few miles away, and the whole country was broken up by deep ravines and valleys, fells and crags.
Thus there is nought for us to do but to keep cattle, which need but little care and attention, and which can be driven off to the fells when the Scots make a great raid.
Most lively lads in Lonsdale bred, With weapons of unwieldy weight, All such as Tatham Fells had fed, Went under Stanley’s streamer bright.
I stand here penniless, a beggar; talk What idle trash I may, this final blow Of fortune fells me.
The cases on the spiral wheels must be placed parallel to their fells and burn two at a time.
Horizontal wheels are more perfect, when their fells are made circular.
It consists of six spokes, which are strengthened by two fells of a hexagon form, at some distance from each other.
The fells are divided into as many equal parts as we employ cases, which may be from twenty-four to forty-four.
Every time Dutch Michael fells a pine on a stormy night in the Black Forest, one of his old ones is sprung from the bottom of some ship, the water rushes in, and that ship with all on board is lost.
This much is certain, that on such stormy nights as this he is up in the Pine-grove, where no one fells trees, selecting the biggest pines.
Yet the authoress of "The Fells of Swarthmoor Hall" calls him a man of fervid eloquence, so that it was not lack of gifts that kept him from preaching, but it must have been the persuasion that he was not called to the work.
Soon afterwards the Fells of Swarthmoor were led to Christ by his preaching and became the most devoted of adherents.
I sought her afar through the spectral trees (Night is the time when the old must die), The fells were all muffled, the floods did freeze, And a wrathful moon hung red in the sky.
The coach which came from out dull darksome fells Into the light; passed to the dark again Like some old comet which knows well her way, Whirled to the sun that as her fateful loop She turns, forebodes the destined silences.
Our ascent even to the top was very easy; when it was accomplished we had exceedingly fine views, some of the lofty Fells being resplendent with sunshine, and others partly shrouded by clouds.
A charter of John, afterwards king, at the end of the twelfth century, directs the removal of all tenants in Furness Fells who have not rendered due fealty to the abbot.
The first and most obvious use of the fells to the monks was as a forest of unlimited timber.
Furness Fells to William Sandys and John Sawrey, to maintain three smithies, or combined smelting and hammering works, for which the rent was L20.
The dales are not surveyed in Domesday, and the few landowners mentioned on the fringe of the fells are obviously of Norse or Celtic origin--Duvan and Thorolf, and Ornulf and Orm, Gospatric and Gillemichael.
In Furness Fells long time they were Boasting of their misdeed, In more mischief contriving there How they might yet proceed.
And Elizabeth Murray sleeps by the side of her son Abel, in the churchyard, as quietly as if he had lived and died among the fells like herself.
The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more; and the perspiration ran out of the ends of his fingers and toes, and washed him cleaner than he had been for a whole year.
As for his having gone over those great fells to Vendale, they no more dreamed of that than of his having gone to the moon.
It was only a couple of months since the young athlete from the fells had been brought within its sway, and already the marks of it were evident in dress, speech, and manner.
The distant fells were drawn upon the sky in the heavenliest brushings of blue and purple; the river thundered over its falls and weirs in a foamy splendour; and the deer were feeding with a new zest amid the fast-greening grass.
The fells and the river flats had been scourged at night with torrents of rain and wind, and in the pale mornings any passing promise of sun had been drowned again before the day was high.
Wyllard had travelled since morning along a ridge of fells when he sat down beside the water and contentedly filled his pipe.
After answering it he started North, and, obtaining Agatha's address from Miss Rawlinson, went on again to a certain little town which stands encircled by towering fells beside a lake in the North Country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
