It was ringed in by a jagged paling of pines, and in the exact centre was a hummocky oasis of gray, lichened stone.
High bare mountains covered with snow that was dappled with hummocky rock rose sheer up from the surf.
It sits quietly between its low banks, and is fed from the low, hummockyhills on the northern side, and by the higher hills beyond them.
Where the ice has retreated from the sea there is left a hummocky drift sheet with hollows filled with lakelets.
These deposits help to explain similar hummocky regions of drift and similar plains of coarse, water-laid material often found in the drift-covered area of the northeastern United States.
Diagram Illustrating the Formation of Kame Terraces i, glacier ice; t, t, terraces] Kame terraces are hummocky embankments of stratified drift sometimes found in rugged regions along the sides of valleys.
The barrier is not yet entirely cut away, and several lakes are held in shallow basins on its hummocky surface.
The Berserkjahraun farm-house lies in the middle of some hummocky land adjoining the lava-field; it is built on the site of Styr's house and named after the Berserks.
Riding through this hummocky ground sometimes requires the exercise of considerable caution.
We proceeded at first over a quantity of sinter debris, and then through some hummocky land.
A quantity of moraine and hummocky land intervened, but that was traversed without incident worth recording.
When we did move on we tried to make up in pace for the delay; we made good time in ascending steadily from the valley over great accumulations of moraine matter and by ancient tracks through hummocky land.
Leaving Athalmansvatn a large tract of hummockyground was crossed, covered chiefly by Cassiope hypnoides, Empetrum, Willows, Salix lanata and S.
Hummocky ground was also met with in meadows at Gilhagi (near Maelifell); here they were covered by grass and other meadow-plants, and Saxifraga cernua grew in masses in the depressions.
The high ground was very much broken up, being of a deep hummocky character and covered by a dwarfed growth of Willows, Empetrum, Mosses, etc.
A good deal ofhummocky ground was also passed over, and its characteristic and invariable features were noticed (v.
Our course lay, as usual, over moraine matter and hummocky land, but there was a big patch of black sand composed of fine lava particles that we had to cross.
Towards Strytur the lava was in places covered by "hummocky ground," which showed the usual features noticed elsewhere.
Pieces, about the size of a cottage, of glacier-ice or of hummocky pack washed clear of snow.
January 3 the lead ended in hummocky ice, impossible to penetrate.
We managed to get another three-quarters of a mile before lunch, and a further mile due west over a very hummockyfloe before we camped at 5.
The hummockyice did not offer a suitable anchorage for the ship, and we were compelled to dodge up and down for ten hours before we were able to make fast to a small floe under the lee of a berg 120 ft.
The course during the afternoon was east-south-east through loose pack and open water, with deep hummocky floes to the south.
It consisted partly of heavy hummocky ice showing evidence of great pressure, but contained also many thick, flat floes evidently formed in some sheltered bay and never subjected to pressure or to much motion.
Includes all the processes of pressure formation whereby level young ice becomes broken up and built up into "Hummocky Floes".
We passed at least two hundred bergs during the day, and we noticed also large masses of hummocky bay-ice and ice-foot.
A more restricted use than the above, to include hummocky floes or close areas of young ice and light floes.
The route, however, lay over very hummocky floes, and required much work with pick and shovel to make it passable for the boat-sledges.
Blind though she is, she often walks miles to church over uneven ground or hummocky ice, when away at the fishing places.
Nails would soon be pulled out or broken off on a journey over hummocky ice or uneven ground.
We were surprised by the sight of high hummocky land right ahead, and at a considerable distance.
On the following morning land was seen to the westward, as well as eastward, and there was "a hummocky mountain, capped with clouds, apparently near the head of the inlet.
The morning saw cricket and football matches in full swing, the afternoon golf--and golf played on hummocky ice is golf--and hockey.
The whole hull of the Arrandoon was hidden from their view behind the hummocky ice, and thus they could not tell what was going on on deck, but they could see no smoke arising from the funnel, and this but served further to dishearten them.
The object of sending forward such a weight of stores was to save the ponies' legs over the variable sea ice, which was in some places hummockyand in others too slippery to stand on.
With the greatest difficulty we found amongst the hummocky ice a place to set up our tent.
The trace is then attached to the nose of the dead seal, which is thus dragged into camp by the faithful dog, the hunter walking alongside urging the dog by his voice, and occasionally assisting him over a drift or amid hummocky ice.
It was very old ice, and as hummocky as it is possible for ice to be.
Straightaway for five miles the trail stretched, and then it disappeared in hummocky ground.
For beyond a mile of the bare, hummocky rock began the valley of sage, and the mouths of canyons, one of which surely was another gateway into the pass.
If we can hit far enough to carry the hummocky country and attain the region of good lies: if, in short, we are long drivers, we need fear no particularly subtle devilry, but the driving has to be something more than merely decent.
The water-lead margined by rude hummocky crags trending to the westward and southward from the southward and eastward, forming a rude, broken horseshoe.
Brooks and myself took advantage of the twilight at nine o'clock to cross the hummocky fields to the Rescue.
It took place almost invariably at their original lines of junction, well marked by the hummocky ridges.
Off to the hummocky west, feeling our way with walking-poles--open water all round us.
It is no idle feat to ride the Invigorator thus over hummocky ground.
It was simply hummocky solid ground with a little green grass and some water.
Within reëntrants or recesses of the ice margin the drift deposits were especially heavy, so that high hills of hummocky surface have been built up, which are described as kames.
The hummocky surface of morainal deposits is so characteristic that the lakes of this type are never very large and are correspondingly irregular in outline.
From the masthead one can see a few patches of open water in different directions, but the main outlook is the same scene of desolate hummocky pack.
We stopped to water ship from a nice hummocky floe.
Demetri's team came over the hummocky tide crack at full gallop, depositing the driver on the snow.
It was as much as these four could do to carry away the half of the body left, although the bear had just before dragged the whole of it over the rough and hummocky ice with little exertion.
The sledge, with its living burden, had always to make the journey twice, and often thrice, over the same road, and that a rough and difficult route over broken and hummocky ice.
The hummocky surface and blocky material in the slide are well shown along the last half mile of the trail to Strawberry Lake.
Many landslides, however, are just jumbled, hummocky masses of slumped material.
Now it whistled down the hillside on their right; now it came up with a vicious scream from the depths of the canyon which dropped away beside them on the left of the harsh, hummocky path.
The surface left was little better than a sheet of glare ice, hummocky and studded with roughnesses caused by broken ice frozen upon its surface.
At this relatively narrow place the glacier was very hummocky and rent by many deep crevasses, so that we often feared that we could not advance farther.
At several places ice blocks were heaped up so that its surface was hummocky and cleft by crevasses.
But now it is but the wreck of its former greatness; and the crazy mud hovels and hummocky streets which surround it form an abomination of dilapidation that it would not be easy to match even in Spain.
We dipped into a slippery shell-scarred track that wound through a hummocky copse, swung southwards along a sunken road, and then made due east again, drawing nearer a dense forest of stubby firs that stretched far as eye could see.
The hummockygreenness reminded one of nothing so much as a seaside golf-course.
We went through a garden transformed into a dust-bin, and dipped down a hummocky slope that rose again to a chalky ridge.
There were open spots and aisles and squares of sand; and hedging rows of prickly pear and the huge spider-legged ocatillo and hummocky masses of clustered bisnagi.
The desert resembled a rounded hummocky sea of color.
The hummocky mountains still retained their general figure in the more interior parts.
The back country consisted of high hummocky mountains, whose parallel edges were lying elevated one above another to a considerable distance inland.
He found Twofold Bay situated at the southern end of a short chain of hummocky hills, one part of which is much more conspicuous than the rest, and lies immediately behind the bay.
But after 300 and odd miles of travel a particularly hummocky valley proved too much for its endurance.
Not till it finally ran out of the hummocky sand into the far-reaching levels of the great Mexican haciendas did he lose hope and return to the contemplation of the scenery as such.
As the sun rolled up out of crimson mists, the land appeared in all of its nakedness of hummocky sand a-bristle with cactus beard.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hummocky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
