The floor was strewn with white sand and all round about tents were erected in which roast and baked meats were piled up into veritable hillockson broad beech-wood dishes.
The beach grass was rooted everywhere in thehillocks next the shore, and appeared to be gradually working its way inland.
It is anchored where it is, for the winds would blow it away else, by wooden cribs on which the drifting sands are mounded; and it is also tethered by beach-grass rooted in the hillocks or downs that fringe the harbor-side.
The waves upheave themselves like solid hillocks of water, black at the base, and hurl themselves with appalling force against the huge rocks, which have already been worn and broken by them into a thousand fantastic shapes.
While we wander about the green hillocks which compose that mysterious circle our minds can feel the inspiration of the scene and sport with the phantoms of the unreal world.
Turning neither to the right nor to the left, he walked without a path straight out upon the plain of Bethlehem, still whitened in the hollows and on the sheltered side of its roundedhillocks by the veil of snow.
Also, may you depend upon it that these little hillocks of nature denoted a wench fashioned with delicious perfection, like everything that the monks possess.
At howes, or hillocks never stumbled, And late or early never grumbled?
And at the end of the vistas the campagna in green, purple blue modelling of evening, hillocks and farms and aqueducts, hay and straw stacks vaguely visible.
The Greek had for some time been looking through a spy-glass towards Malta, which lay like a line of blue hillocks rising from the sea.
However, I should say this place would repay the labours of an excavator, for it must have been a place of considerable importance once.
I went on—desolate hills rose in the east, the way I was going, but on the south were beautiful hillocks adorned with trees and hedge-rows.
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.
Till the red hillocks marked where the standards had danced, And the Grenadiers gasped where their sabres had glanced.
Beyond the grassy hillocks There are tents that glimmer white; Beneath the leafy covert There is steel that glistens bright.
MacLure--Lord Kilspindie at the head as landlord and Drumsheugh at his feet as his friend; the two ministers of the parish came first on the right and left; then Burnbrae and Hillocks of the farmers, and Saunders and Tammas for the plowmen.
The highest parts of Cape Vanderlin are hillocks of almost bare sand; on the isthmus behind it were many shrubs and bushes, and amongst the latter was found a wild nutmeg, in tolerable abundance.
This is the southernmost of six islets, lying behind the point of Hill View, and from one of two hillocks upon it, another set of bearings was taken.
A sandy point with two hillocks on it, which had been the extreme of the preceding evening, was passed at ten o'clock; and seeing a large bight round it, we tacked to work up.
Drumtochty had a legitimate curiosity regarding the history of any new tenant, and Hillocks was invaluable on such occasion, being able to collect a complete biography during a casual conversation on the state of markets.
Hillocks maintained an unobtrusive but vigilant watch, and had no fault to find this time with Milton.
When Hillocks went abroad to kirk or market he made a brave endeavour to conceal his depression, but it was less than successful.
Hillocks came in late and threw some light on that problem.
The countenance of the kirkyard lifted, and as Hillocks followed Drumsheugh into kirk, he stopped twice and wagged his head with marked satisfaction.
He didna stand it," broke inHillocks with eagerness; "div ye ken hoo mony whups he 's hed?
And Hillocks ceased, that the fathers might face the prospect of a new religion.
To lonely hearths the presences that gladdened them before.
She never harmed me, never hindered me In anything but what I should not do.
In Fate's unfolding scroll, Dark woes and ingrate wrongs I read, That rack the noble soul.
He pointed out to me certain hillocks on the coast about Grand Bassá, where he said gold had lately been found.
A fair path runs up hillocks of red-yellow clay, metalled with rounded quartz and ironstone-gravel, roped with roots and barred with trees; their greatest elevation may have been 120 feet.
In California I found the miners washing down loose sandstones and hillocks of clay, passing the stuff through sluices, and making money when the gold averaged only 9d.
The mounds and hillocks on either side, beginning with the Akromasi and Kabudwe mounds, near the mouth, are evidently parts of an ancient archipelago built by the mangrove and silted up to mainland.
Here and there we came upon small hillocks covered with trees, in which numerous monkeys sported about.
The bearings most essential to the survey, taken from this station were these, Point Brown, sandy hillocks on it, S.
The shore abreast was seven or eight miles distant; and behind it ran a continuation of the same ridge of sandy hillocks which surrounds the bight, and it extended to the southern extreme.
The coast is sandy on both sides of Cape Knob, but especially on the west side, where the hillocks at the back of the shore are little else than bare sand.
During the occupation of Cairo by the French, the invaders constructed redoubts on thesehillocks which commanded the city.
Not a green thing was visible except the whortleberries, which tufted a few lonely hillocks rising to the height of the original surface and prevented by this defence from being blown away also.
In laying out a navy-yard at that port, a large quantity of earthy material was removed from the dunes and other hillocks and carted to a low piece of ground which required filling up.
Land shells, such as snails, for example, are found on the surface of the dunes in abundance, and many of the shelly fragments in the interior of the hillocks may be derived from the same source.
Many hillocks on the plain retain the name of islands, which they more justly bore when they were surrounded by water.
In Northern and Central Italy, one often sees hillockscrowned with grove-like plantations of small trees, much resembling large arbors.
Under an intensely clear sapphire-coloured sky rises a distant rim of broken and chocolate-coloured trap-hills, set off by pale hillocks and white flats of gypsum, here and there crystallized by contact with the plutonics.
The sites are the sides and mouths of four little branch-valleys which cut through the hillocks representing the Wady-bank.
In the Koura, about one hour to the west of Araayr, are some hillocks called Keszour el Besheir (Arabic).
In the bottom of the bay formed by the plain and by the continuation of the shore to the south, is a spring of sweet water, and near it large hillocks of sand, driven up from the shore by the westerly winds.
Most of these villages stand upon, or near, low hillocks or Tels, the only objects which break the monotony of the plain.
Round Island are two or three hillocks that appeared like islands; and it is possible they may be such; for we had but a distant view of the coast in this place.
We had now fair weather and sunshine, and as we ranged along the coast, at the distance of four miles, we saw several of the inhabitants, and some of their habitations, which looked like little hillocks of earth.
She ran on, regardless of hillocksand big stones--heedless of her steps, and thinking only of her pursuer.
The hillside was covered in this part with great hillocks of heather and gorse.
The moor stretched away in the haze, which gave the hillocks of gorse and heather and the slight eminences of the open ground an unnatural size.
Behind it the chilled winds sweep down to the Madrid plateau, over rocky hillocks and involved ravines,--a scene in which probably no man ever took pleasure except the royal recluse who chose it for his home.
There are mountains of oranges and dates, brownhillocks of nuts of every kind, store of every product of this versatile soil.
From Madrid to Aranjuez you meet the usual landscapes of dun hillocks and pale-blue vegetation, such as are only seen in nature in Central Spain, and only seen in art on the matchless canvas of Velazquez.
Approaching Nieuport, they discovered the Dunes to be full of soldiers, who had dug pits behind the sandy hillocks for protection, and in them planted the dog-artillery and one or two large machine guns.
The dunes lay between the North Sea and the Yser River in West Flanders and consisted of a stretch of sandy hillocks reaching from Coxyde to Nieuport les Bains.
Hillocks was sitting in the post-office one afternoon when I looked in for my letters, and the right side of his face was blazing red.
And the medical attendant of Drumtochty continued his invective till Hillocks started, and still pursued his retreating figure with medical directions of a simple and practical character.
It was showery weather, and occasionally the hillocks were washed nearly flat and a lot of sand must have entered their burrows--however, as soon as the sun came out again they cleaned out their holes and returned to their work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hillocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
