But suppose you come across theknolls while I follow Haynes' course along the beach.
With all speed, he pointed across the knolls toward the beach.
The knolls in the fields all appear over it, looking like little islands in the midst of an inland sea.
Partly in a deep dell it lies, partly on a hill; rocks and wooded knolls with shady walks by the streamlet-side make it well suited for a summer resort, but it is hardly known.
When he had gone nearly five miles he began to search to right and left, still holding to a general northerly direction, but often turning out of his course to ride to the tops of the knolls which rose here and there about him.
It was noon before they struck the road from Durovernum to Anderida, a straight and serious highway that went whitely amid wastes of scrub, thickets, and dark knolls of trees.
When they had gone a little further, they could see that the ground near the foot of the hills rose in little knolls and ridges, but these were lower and fewer about the entry into that valley.
In front was a series of knolls treed sparsely like orchards; and although no enemy was visible, these knolls were all popping and spitting with rifle-fire.
The sun burned down steadily from a pale blue sky upon the crackling woods and knolls and fields.
On some palm-dotted knolls before them they could see little lines of black dots--the American advance.
There will be many a pitched battle on those knolls there.
The valley is generally about a mile in width, ridges of wooded knolls hemming in the broad expanse of reeds and rice and willow clumps.
The rounded knolls to which De Saussure first gave the name of roches moutonnees were smoothed, polished, scratched, and grooved in the direction of the ice movement, the marks running mostly from south to north, or nearly so.
The eastern slope is more broken, and while the rounded knolls are quite as distinct and characteristic, the erratics are more loosely scattered over the surface.
Not only so, but we frequently find that one side of prominent projecting knolls and hills is more highly worn and abraded than the other.
Such was the depth of snow that comparatively few bodies could be found, save as here and there, on knolls and ridges, a white mound of driven snow marked where a wolf had left a scalped and mangled corpse.
Bounded upon all sides but the east by high mountains, the plain of Newera Ellia lay like a level valley of about two miles in length by half a mile in width, bordered by undulating grassy knolls at the foot of the mountains.
They are composed of undulating knolls of fine grass, with a large and deep river flowing through the centre.
At length we separated, and took up our stations upon different knollsto watch the patina and to listen.
Then ran he to the knollsand eminences that were scattered about, to command a view, but she was nowhere visible.
Grant inspired you in his wholeness like a fertile prairie, Sherman like a hill-country abounding in choice knolls and mountain heights.
He put much cannon on convenient knolls and had as large reserves as he could spare; but either the indomitable Hood or the wary Johnston had discovered the weakness of our left, so that about 3 P.
On the southeast shoulder of one of the knolls is a fragment of a circular wall which was originally 12 feet in diameter.
Mr. Stephen, however, found vestiges of such ancient forms among the debris of fallen walls occupying two small knolls on the edge of the first mesa, at a point that overlooks the broken-down ruin of Sikyatki.
A ridge of rocky knolls and sand dunes lies at the foot of the mesa here, and close to the main cliff is a spring.
There are two prominent knolls about 400 yards apart and the summits of these are covered with traces of house walls; also portions of walls can be discerned on all the intervening hummocks.
On these knolls they fed with semipalmated sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, and ruddy turnstones.
Non-nesting or non-breeding birds were on bare wind-blown knolls adjacent to the river.
They were numerous on polygons having low centers and on high windswept knolls in association with black-bellied plovers, ruddy turnstones and pectoral sandpipers.
But about him on the heath were scattered rocks like the reef beneath which he had slept the last night, and peaks, and hammers, and knolls of uncouth shapes.
But they rode steadily on their way, and when they came up to the knolls they saw that it was War-brand indeed with a score of men at his back; but they stirred not when they saw Erne's company that it was great.
But when they were half-way to the haven they saw where hard by three knolls on the way-side were men standing with their weapons and war- gear glittering in the sun.
As it was wider, so it was not so plain a ground as was Burgdale, but rose in knolls and little hills here and there.
As for the place of tryst for the faring over the Waste, let it be the end of the knolls just by the jaws of the pass yonder, where the Weltering Water comes into the Dale from the East.
The dead were buried in knolls or burrows near the dwelling, and their spirits were thought to inhabit these places; they are said to "die into the hill.
These knolls became the sacred places of their district, and many a belief existed about these quiet neighbours and the help they afforded to the living.
They struck out, trudging through the blackness in single file, following a serpentine path between the occasional rills and knollsscattered between the two ships.
The plain to the south was a flat expanse of gray punctuated by occasional rocky knolls and weird, needle-sharp pinnacles, some of which towered to awesome heights.
They moved slowly across the ashy floor of the crater, occasionally circling small knolls or jagged rock outcroppings.
Besides, the Ridge is not like the roof of a house, but a most illusive series of irregular knolls with small plateaus or valleys between, a sort of miniature broken tableland.
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