He threw himself upon the sands, with his back to a sandy knoll covered with weedy green grass, and with the murmur of the sea in his ears, he slept.
Deane, who was out early, for his bed had been no more than a sofa, gave a little start of surprise as he opened the door and found Winifred Rowan standing on a little knoll by the side of the flagstaff, looking seaward.
About four o'clock, looking landwards from a little sandy knoll just in front of his strange abode, he saw two figures coming along the dyke path.
Deane left his dinner more than once to stand outside on the little knoll and watch.
The girl's ringing laughter reached a small group of men at work with shovels upon the rise of a green knoll not far away.
The knoll was covered with green grass and somehow as they looked at it they had a feeling that there was something about it that was mysterious or uncanny.
Suddenly they stopped--the knoll had begun to move toward the water.
Gazing at the knoll he said: "Let's run and jump on its top.
Kill and scalp these two and each take a scalp and come over to the high knoll and I will show you where the horses are, and as soon as you hand me the old man's scalp I will disappear and you will see me no more.
When he came to a very small knoll the trail ended.
Before they started they sat down to smoke and rest beside a beautiful lake at the foot of a green knoll that rose from its shore.
As for the dog, little Peter, he was only with difficulty seen when ascending some such illuminated knoll as has been mentioned, when he might be traced creeping along with unabated vigilance and caution.
Even in this lane, at the foot of the knoll below us, see the brilliant luxuriance of clustered bitter-sweet draping the side of that clump of cedars!
The bushes are now bare of fruit, but ruddy with their autumn blushes, tingeing the surface of the knoll with a delicate coral pink.
But this knoll and all these farms are not mine alone.
The trees are 25 feet tall, 5-6 inches thick, situated on a knoll of clay, well drained soil, lying open toward the northwest.
The smaller trees are located more or less between and around the larger ones, the old mansion being on a slightknoll in the center of the planting.
At last, coming to a little knoll in the swamp, he lay down under a hemlock-tree, and being sorely tired, fell asleep.
The ground is low here," said the pilot; "but I think we can carry eight feet up to the knoll on which the houses stood.
The knoll was covered with shade-trees and shrubs, and the estates were as beautiful as anything I ever looked upon--that is, what I could see of them above the water.
From a knoll close by one gains an excellent panorama of Dick's, Jack's and Ralston's Peaks.
He started rapidly down the knoll and there floated back to Captain Plum the soft notes of his meaningless chuckle.
As he remembered it, there was a clanking in his mind, quite sufficient to fulfil the prison ideal.
But if you hadn't told me, Reardon, I give you my word I shouldn't have thought of the risk she runs.
We would slide along and maybe when we reached the knoll we'd have enough speed to keep on going in a straight line until we could point her nose upward.
Soon he returned, and among the three of them all his food and books and any equipment he might need was carried over the knollout of sight of the wrecked ship.
The pioneer brigade had been posted on the knoll of ground west of the Nashville pike and about four or five hundred yards in the rear of Palmer's centre, supporting Stokes's battery.
Rousseau's division, cutting its way through the enemy in falling back from the cedars, took position on this temporary line with all its batteries posted on the knoll a short distance to the rear.
It was to a Great Knoll of the Fairies, then, that the woman was taken, and thereafter to "Tom na Shirich, near Inverness.
One who is well versed in these matters says: "There is perhaps not a hamlet or township in the Highlands or Hebrides without its shian or green fairy knoll so-called.
She went to a knoll with the couple of calves, and she was striking the tether-peg into it.
In any case old Angus and the knoll would be united!
I will sell this knoll to your father, and give my daughter to you, when you take that house, and with your own unaided hands place it on the top of this knoll!
Tell me, for I am anxious about it, have you spoken to your father about selling the field with the knoll to my father?
The unfortunate settlers found refuge ultimately, after being driven from knoll to knoll, on the higher ground of the Assinaboine, on the Little Mountain, and on a low hill twelve miles from the settlement.
The combined bumps have given an impulse to the house under the influence of which it bears straight down upon the knoll with considerable force.
In order to the full enjoyment of his pipe, the old gentleman had built on a knoll what Elsie styled a summer-house.
On his way to the main road the old gentleman had to pass close to the summer-house on the knollso much coveted by Angus Macdonald.
Meanwhile Mr Cockran reached the knollwhich he had set out to visit.
Since the affair of the knoll these two men had studiously cut each other.
Now it must be known that the Highlander loved the view from that knollas much as did his neighbour.
I will sell this knoll to your father, and give my daughter to you, when you take that house, and with your own unaided hands place it on this knoll!
From the greenknoll the shouting hunt With swollen cheeks clangs his alarms; Mayhap I hear the bristler's grunt: But where my Oriana charms The wood, hushed is its ev'ry haunt.
The pit is dug, six feet long, three wide, and four deep, on top of the highest knoll that can be found near a stream.
After he had rested, he went on northward, and stumbled over a knoll and fell down on his knees.
Their coming down the winding path from the knoll was picturesque.
Away in front, on the knoll whence they had started on their last fatal charge, a band of some twenty turbaned warriors had taken up their position, and in a roughly-formed square stood at bay, to defend their aged chief.
Of the whole Arab host only five hundred men remained in the rear, stationed on a knoll selected as their head-quarters during the fight.
From this point of vantage the whole of the shining river could be seen, save where a knoll or bluff intercepted portions of it.
On the brow of the knoll she paused, looking back.
Venters drew Jane off from one of these into a shrub-lined trail, just wide enough for the two to walk abreast, and in a roundabout way led her far from the house to a knoll on the edge of the grove.
Descending a knoll he entered a glade where the trees grew farther apart and the underbrush was only knee high.
On a little knoll carpeted with velvety grass sat Isaac and his Indian bride.
Betty had passed the top of the knoll now and she was going down the gentle slope like the wind.
Five minutes later, his face still stony and expressionless, he dismounted lightly and with infinite care and caution led Patches away from the knoll and far back into the timber.
A quarter of a mile from the cabin he brought Patches to a halt on a little knoll and looked about him.
