At sunset, a hillock upon a projecting point bore N.
I walked the greater part of the length of the island; and from the highesthillock set the eastern extreme of the island close to Cape Van Diemen, at N.
Viewed from the road the fall did not appear by any means so considerable as it measurement determines; while at its foot there was a little green hillock to the summit of which it seemed a few steps would reach.
I had just been standing out by the littlehillock that rose near the corner of the home gable-end, watching the glen people place their lamps in the window corners.
The byre was built on the shoulder of a hillock and the midden was situated in a grotto hollowed underneath; its floor was on a level with the cart-road outside, and in the corner of this vault we had to build a fire for cooking our food.
One night a fool into a brook Thus from a hillock looking down, The golden stars for guineas took, And silver Cynthia for a crown.
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.
From this hillock it was possible to rake the Austrian's left flank from the rear.
Woe for him who shall be upon the hillock waiting for the hound who is fitly framed (lit.
Here, as elsewhere, potatoes did not grow in ridges, but each root had a little hillock to itself; an unnatural early training which may account for the strange appearance of pommes de terre au naturel.
To the south-west a sandy hillock was observed, which proved to be on Captain Baudin's Peron Island.
The banks where we landed were about two hundred yards apart, but were so low and without a hillock to ascend or a tree to climb to enable us to obtain a view of the country, that we could form but a very slight opinion of the place.
At last he reached the top of a hillock and, looking back, perceived one division still fighting on the battlefield.
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.
At night the hillock on which he dwelt was completely surrounded by musketeers, and he never slept without having his pistols under his pillow, and several loaded guns by his side.
Gaffat, a small hillock about four miles from Debra Tabor, was assigned to them as a place of residence.
The whole hillock is so completely covered with vegetation of every description, that the spot from a distance seems more like a luxuriant waste untouched by man's hand, than the abode of thousands, and the central mart of Western Abyssinia.
The Ras passed an anxious, sleepless night; at day-dawn he and his friends went upon the small hillock near the prison, and telescope in hand anxiously watched the Galla plain.
On a distanthillock arose a small red flannel tent--it is there where Theodore fixed his temporary abode and that of his household.
Starting from the log with a certain alacrity in his gait and ascending the hillock of earth that was raised against the stone circumference of the lime-kiln, he thus reached the top of the structure.
Every mound or hillock of red clay contains one or more quartz-reefs, generally outcropping, but sometimes buried in the subsoils.
Then we passed on the right a hillock seventy to eighty feet high, where quartz showed in detached and weathered blocks.
At length the track, which had been winding among the smooth undulations, rounded an unusually steep hillock of kopje character, and we saw before us at the distance of a mile the pretty little town of Lindley.
I knew every slope, every hillock and accident of ground, as one knows men and women in the world.
In dying, the serpent contracted his folds with so much violence, that their spiral impression is still discernible round the hillock where it lay.
Came to several deserted mountain huts or shiels, and rested for some time beside one of them, upon a hillock of its green plot of monumental herbage.
Blow then, O ye priests, 'the Trumpet in Zion,' for the Hillock is in danger.
Nobody fears for the safety of a mountain, but a hillock of sand may be washed away.
And then, feeling hungry from excess of emotion, he descended from his hillock and fell to nibbling grass stems.
The big rattler beside the door of the next hillock underwent his careful scrutiny, which convinced him that the reptile had recently made a good meal, and would not be dangerous until he had slept it off.
She, too, turned her back with ostentatious indifference upon her rude guests, and went out and sat on the top of the hillock to let her feelings calm down.
He barked a warning, and the sharp signal went around from hillock to hillock; and in half a minute all the big, babyish eyes were fixed upon the approach of the skying marauder.
But on the hillock next door to the Little Villager sat no garrulous, furry gossip like himself.
