The plains across"--which was a western expression meaning the end of that part of the trip--there rose on the west rolling foothills and dark peaked profiles against the sky scarcely to be distinguished from gray cloud banks.
Flanking the fire by some of the great gullies that cut the foothills like trenches, the hunters began to find the signs they had been seeking.
Their way took them up hill and down dale, through rugged uplands where they had to travel five miles to advance three, picking their way over the trackless, rocky heights which formed the first foothills of the mighty Alps.
It didn't require much urging to start Hooja--the naked idea was enough to send him leaping on ahead of us into the foothills which we now had reached.
At last, after what seemed months, and may, I now realize, have been years, we came in sight of the dun escarpment which buttressed the foothills of Sari.
I but ran away to avoid the thag, as did others, and coming into a long passage I became confused and lost my way in the foothills beyond Phutra.
From the Red River Valley to the foothills long-smouldering indignation was glowing like a streak of fire in the prairie grass; a spark or two more and nothing could stop the conflagration that would sweep the plains country.
Grain production was now increasing rapidly in this Province of theFoothills and Chinooks and the future shipment of Alberta grain to the Pacific Coast and thence via the new Panama Canal route was a live topic.
Here a cluster of ruins ranging from small groups of domiciles to medium-sized villages is found located on knobs and hills, high up in the foothills and overlooking large areas of the Verde bottom lands.
The village overlooked a large area of low bottom land in the angle between the Verde and the East Verde, and is itself overlooked by the foothills rising behind it to the high mesas forming part of the Mazatzal mountains.
These canyons run back into the mesa seen in the illustration, which in turn forms part of the foothills rising into the range of mountains hemming in the Rio Verde on the east.
A picturesque cut-off highway over aspen-covered foothills around the very base of majestic Chief Mountain, and beginning at a point 4 miles north of Babb, leads to Waterton Lakes Park in Canada.
This explains the absence of foothills that is so conspicuous a feature of this mountain front and one in which it differs from most other ranges.
Manchuria, and from the foothills of the Altai, the Sayan and the Yablonoi Mountains on the N.
The foothills had been growing more and more rugged as the advance was made, and now the party might fairly be said to be in the mountains themselves.
In the distance were the rugged outlines of the Hachetas, with the rolling foothills lying between.
The moon had been up for an hour, and was shining down in a radiant flood, illuminating the heaving surface of the foothillsas if they had been a silver sea.
Suddenly a dip in the foothills hid the approaching horsemen, but the thunder of their hoofs could still be heard.
Well, you didn't expect to find a roaring city in the heart of the foothills of the Hachetas, did you?
Plastered with dirt and mud, scratched and ragged, they did, indeed, look unlike the three trim persons who had set out from the American foothills in pursuit of Black Ramon.
The father of this boy here, and twelve other rancheros, are riding through the American foothills now to your rescue.
Far on the horizon, like great blue clouds, lay the Sierre de la Hacheta, in the foothills of which lay Agua Caliente Ranch.
Out on Cape Sunrise the waters swept over the lonely grave of Betty Cruise, but fell back baffled when they attacked the foothills that protected the homes of the living.
The broad prairie extends on either side of the railroad as far as the eye can reach, ending at the foothills of the Sierra Madre--"Mother Mountains.
The author remembers nothing more remarkable of the same character, unless it may be portions of the zigzag railway of the Blue Mountains in Australia, and some grades among the foothills of the Himalayan range in India.
The course of these dusty pillars of sand was generally towards the foothills of the high ranges.
The Cibolan pueblos are built on the foothills of mesas or in open valley sites, surrounded by broad fields, while the Tusayan villages are perched upon mesa promontories that overlook the valley lands used for cultivation.
They are located on two low elevations or foothills extending in a southwestern direction from the group of hills, upon whose eastern extremity Hawikuh is built.
From Sundhiango they headed northwest, toward thefoothills of Mt.
Nestled somewhere in the foothills of the Thanglung mountains was the outpost of Jaraminka.
As Muscles sipped his tea, he told the boys about landing on a cleared, level plateau over a ridge of the Thanglung foothills to the west.
He was told that a flying man had come down in the foothills near a police outpost called Jaraminka.
Nothing was said for the first half hour as Chan Li led Biff and Chuba into the foothills to the north of Jaraminka.
And some of those foothillswould be called mountains back where you come from.
As the afternoon drew on the foothills were left behind and the open road became more and more enclosed, until at last it was simply a trail through the forest.
His projected excursion to the foothills was abandoned, but he and Clyde rode almost daily.
The land lay in the dawn as empty as when the keels of restless white men first split the Western ocean; and more lifeless, for the great buffalo herds that of old gave the men of the plains and foothills food and raiment were gone forever.
As they left the foothills and began to circle one of the lesser peaks--a slow, gradually rising spiral circle that brought them higher and higher--Marian felt the old charm of the mountains come back to her.
One night they found themselves camped among the foothills of a range of mountains.
What seemed to be mere foothills far above, now appear colossal peaks sheer up and down, penning the angry river between black walls.
There, with his back to a furze-bush, he sat watching the withered grasses of the foothills swept by the hurricane and the low wrack driven past close overhead.
The only person whose sympathy seemed to be of value was Cole's, for the man from the foothills offered to go North and hunt for Philip.
But for his wife's complete satisfaction he would have chosen a retreat on the foothills above the sea.
Isabel spinning away from the foothills was still happy with thoughts of the morning's transaction.
Neither the dazzling contour of the lifting range, nor a wonderful valley, sweeping from foothills to the distant, glistening sea, could distract her mind from personal complaints.
Afterward, the thoroughbreds from the foothills went side by side.
Already what is known in California as a "weather breeder" seemed to overcharge the senses, and even as Isabel left the foothills for the the homeward down-grade spin she felt a change.
The older ladies were kind and the little woman of the foothills enjoyed the short spin through the avenue of peppers to paddocks beyond.
The woman of the foothillshad once been a school teacher and felt the irresistible charm of the beautiful stranger's manner.
The Cibola, speeding, swiftly onward, had crossed the low foothills and was pulling herself through the almost breezeless air like a modern liner, five hundred feet above the ground.
Bob wondered if they were headed earthward again, for he could see the approaching foothills widening out beneath.
Late that afternoon they emerged from the timber and were on the sandy foothills where progress was faster.
Some time after two o'clock he came up over the rise of the last foothills and saw, eight miles away, the glistening shape which he at once knew was the inflated balloon.
At seven o'clock the peaks and ridges below them had begun to drop into foothills and as the great sandy deserts of distant Utah and nearer by Arizona came before their eyes the boys decided that it was time to anchor for the night.
They had decided to their way east, in hope of falling in with Elmer and Bob, and this meant the crossing of at least two mountain ranges and thirty miles of barren foothills to Mount Wilson.
To-night," continued Ned, "we ought to sleep high up in the foothillsover there.
Of course all speed was made toward the foothillsand that evening Alan and Bob, the former only a shadow of the lively youngster who had left Clarkeville but two weeks before, were found and rescued.
They were secreted in among the foothillson the western side of the flowering paradise, at a point where they were not observed, and at the same time were the observers of all that was going on in front of them.
The trio in the foothills were evidently quite alone.
Preface For a better understanding of this story, it will be necessary to say a few words concerning the people of the Terai,--the great tract of jungle that skirts the foothills of the Himalayas, in the Province of Kumaon.
They are a simple, primitive folk, and migratory in their ways: inhabiting the interior valleys of the hills in the hot weather and the monsoon, and the foothills and the Terai during the winter.
They had now turned their horses' heads toward the foothills on the north and he asked: "What are these 'mines' of which you speak?
For a little, Brown Bull stood irresolute, half inclined to lead his followers away from the host and slip back into the wooded foothills whence they had come.
The trail running in from the Settlement to McLaggan's camp among the foothills was a matter of some fifteen miles, and uphill all the way.
From time to time he would lift his red-rimmed nostrils, sniff the air in every direction, and scan the summits of the foothills far on the right, as if the unknown peril which he apprehended was likely to come from that direction.
By hanging upon the skirts of it, he held himself ready to detach his little herd from its company and make off among the foothills in case of need.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foothills" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
