The towers and temples crushed by time, Stupendous wrecks, appear To me less mournfully sublime Than this poor molehill here.
It is entitled Lines to a Molehill in a Churchyard.
This was a pity, for, ten minutes after he and Patch had left for the station, there had arrived for him a letter from a firm of solicitors that numbered many distinguished clients, and The Honourable Mr. Justice Molehill among them.
It was no desire for refreshment, but pure kindness of heart that moved Sir Giles Molehill to accept the attorney's invitation.
At the mention of the twin brother, Mr. Justice Molehill raised his keen grey eyes to stare at the lamp.
The first thing which Mr. Justice Molehill did was to wipe the sweat from his face, and the second, to mix himself and consume the strongest whisky and soda he had swallowed for years.
The length of my shadow stretching out before me as we started from the molehill was a reminder of the need for haste, and we set off at a smart double.
In order to make quite sure I hunted for koodoo spoor; there was none to be seen, but on an old molehill there was the single print of a dog's foot.
Jock's footprints in the molehill were only a few hundred yards from the Cigarette Kopje and about the same distance from where we had lost the koodoo spoor; and we were, at that moment, actually within a mile of the waggons.
I began to understand things then: why places and landmarks seemed familiar; why Jock's spoor in the molehill had pointed the wrong way; why my shadow was in front and behind and beside me in turns.
Up from behind the molehill jumps the hare, Cheat of his chosen bed, and from the bank The yellowhammer flutters in short fears From off its nest hid in the grasses rank, And drops again when no more noise it hears.
One climbs a molehill for a bunch of may, One stands on tiptoe for a linnet's nest And pricks her hand and throws her flowers away And runs for plantin leaves to have it drest.
The ploughman would turn from his plough in the day And wonder what being had come in his way, To lie on a molehill and read the day long And laugh out aloud when he'd finished his song.
But here my fancy's moods admire The naked levels till they tire, Nor een a molehill cushion meet To rest on when I want a seat.
As the lowly shrub is to the lofty cedar, Or a molehill to Olympus, if compar'd, I am to you, Sir.
Bustopha: Oh mountain, shalt thou call a molehill a scab upon the face of the earth?
My mother bows; As if Olympus to a molehill should In supplication nod.
And in this ground, increased this molehill Unto that mountain which my father left me.
But in this molehill many pismires be, All which will sting, before they be remov'd.
The home of the Mole--the molehill proper--is about a foot high and about three feet broad in any direction.
Call it, great lady, by another name; An humble modesty, that would not match A molehill with Olympus.
As the lowly shrub is to the lofty cedar, Or a molehill to Olympus, if compared, I am to you, sir.
And one of them is, not to make mountains of molehills; for a molehill is not a mountain.
If I could get his feelings right in regard to other and more important things, a reform in that matter would soon follow; whereas to make a mountain of a molehill would be to put that very mountain between him and me.
Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland, Come, make him stand upon this molehill here, That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
It doth not argue a dwarf to have greater strength than a giant, because he can throw off themolehill which is upon him, while the other struggles beneath a mountain.
As a molehillto a mountain is women's jealousy to men's.
After this the monks obtained ten acres of land, known as Molehill, by grant from the de la Molle of the day, and so named either on account of their resemblance to a molehill (of which more presently) or after the family.
He wrote to land agents and put Molehill upon their books to be sold or let on lease, and also to various influential friends to obtain introductions to the leading men in New Zealand.
My mother bows, As if Olympus to a molehill should In supplication nod; and my young boy Hath an aspect of intercession which Great nature cries 'Deny not.
Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland, Come, make him stand upon this molehill here That raught at mountains with outstretched arms, Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.
By cripes, a feller can't as much as take a five cent cigar out of his pocket without all hands tryin' to make a--a molehill out of it.
A molehillis what a ground mole lives in, ain't it?
Break, Spirit, break to boundless things Beyond the molehill and the clod, And catch the glory of the strings That tune the harmonies of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "molehill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
