While the multitudes must toil and suffer in the plains below, the maharaja may rest and enjoy himself in his hilltop palace.
The palace at Amber is situated on a hilltop several hundred feet above the level of the plain, and commanding magnificent views of the surrounding country.
Their bell-shaped domes, startlingly white, or so covered with gold-leaf as to shine resplendent in the sunlight, crown many a hilltop and constitute the chief beauty of the towns.
The great lady lived on a hilltop out in the suburbs, not so far from the hilltop of Nelse Ackerman.
A stoical German signal-corps officer, on a hilltop some miles to eastward, laid aside his field-glass and calmly remarked to a man at his side "We have lost a good spy!
Beyond the hamlet the ridge ofhilltop ran on for perhaps a quarter-mile before dipping into the plain below.
The hilltop experiences come after going down through the valley.
But there is a hilltop roadway of exhilarating air and outlook for him who has been through the valley.
It runs from the Bethlehem plain where He came in, to the Olivet hilltop where He slipped away again up and back, for a time, until things are ready for the next step in His plan.
The down slant is the beginning of the hilltop road.
If you are on the hilltop they seem to steal down like a world of soothing shadows.
From the hilltop on which the prison is built I can see for twenty miles, and there is not a tree, nor a building, not even a rise or fall in the ground to break the awful and dazzling loneliness of that great field of snow.
A hilltop is shown when the closed contour is higher than the contour next to it; a depression is shown when the closed contour is lower than the one next to it.
When you reach the hilltop you see four hostile cavalrymen trotting north on the Valley Pike, across the railroad track.
In short, the place was a kind of small Davos: consumptive folk consorting on a hilltop in the most unbroken idleness.
They were buried at South Worthington, in a sunny hilltop cemetery, open to the sky, the voice of a little brook coming softly up from among the trees below.
But here and there, a sunny hilltop field made cultivation worth while, and as he followed the patient oxen along the shining brown furrow, he looked away to the encircling hills so full of mystery and fascination.
To the east, in the valley, a singing silver brook flashed in and out among somber boulders, the land ascending to sunny hilltop pastures beyond.
Around it, covering the hilltop and the side clear down to the track was a soft white moving mass that caused Ross to give a startled exclamation.
At the turning of the road that leads from Demi-Lune to Voisins, on the hilltop overlooking the valley of the Marne, one of the humble dwellings of the hamlet of Huiry was transformed a few months ago into a beautiful cottage.
Illustration: Miss Mildred Aldrich, the author of "A Hilltop on the Marne" and "On the Edge of the War Zone.
As soon as he arrived at Tiflis, he stood upon thehilltop near the city and blew the horn.
On the hilltop he met an old man winding a ball of black thread, while another ball of white thread lay near him.
But here on the hilltop at any rate, a bustle of wind--such a noise amongst the hedges and the pools instantly ruffled and then quiet again; and so precipitous a darkness when a cloud swallowed the moon.
It was the Bermuda hilltop which to our vision was changing.
The little banana grove on the Bermuda hilltop began fading.
The foray into Bermuda--the materialization of that little band on the Paget hilltop was more in the nature of an experiment than a real attack.
Strangely fantastic, weird journey from this Bermuda hilltop through the Unknown to the city of New York!
The actual objects which one man will see from a particular hilltop are just as different from those which another will see as the beholders are different.
Otherwise, regular and universal as this phenomenon is, whether you stand on the hilltop or in the hollow, you will think for threescore years and ten that all the wood is, at this season, sere and brown.
In a clear day stand thus on a hilltop in the woods, when the sun is an hour high, and every one within range of your vision, excepting in the west, will be revealed.
They had come back over the hilltop and were on the slope of the valley in which the Eighty-Second Division was fighting.
For the sake of the freer air he took a path traversing the hilltop toward the college.
As he spoke, the old man fixed his eyes on a hilltop across the river, with a far-off look that seemed to promise a story.
The soft breeze, wafting the pungent fragrance of pines, bore also up to that lonely hilltop the distant clatter of dishes and the voices of scouts from the camp below.
Tom reached for a slip of paper and laying it upon the map just where the trail went over the hilltop and off the camp territory altogether, jotted down the numbers of three cabins which were indicated by little squares.
The bottom seemed to have dropped out of all his plans, and he lingered on his lonely hilltop for the remaining day or two before the unsuspecting tenants of this remote little community should arrive.
But as the days and weeks passed, and brought no word from the recipient of "Hilltop Days," Polly hardly knew how to comfort the sorrowful giver.
It was indeed Brother Michael's penitent knight, who had had many a strange experience since that memorable evening on the hilltop above Carcassonne.
King, the watchmen report that it has been called from hilltop to hilltop that a white man who rides a black horse, has crossed the Buffalo, and travels towards the Great Place.
We drove out a few miles to see the Independence Building, a tall pile, which from its hilltop looks over a wide stretch of rolling country.
Whoever crosses a hill on foot or horseback sees the surrounding landscape change by degrees, and is more or less prepared for the view which the hilltop gives of what lies beyond.
From the hilltop we looked over a wide stretch of rolling hills covered with short grass, which in the wet hollows was yellowish or brown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hilltop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
