Nothing I have been told is easier in this life than to make a mountain out of a molehill, but in my short experience it is the wretched little molehills which upset me and not the great big things which sweep me away with them.
I would rather have to fight one mountain than two molehills any day, you get so much more sympathy after the struggle.
He had been a trifle melodramatic on the previous evening, but we are all liable to make mountains out of molehills at times, she thought.
Personally her inclination was to make molehills out of mountains, but that was only a difference in temperament; both implied a judgment at fault, and she was quite willing to forgive and forget.
But I would add this not unimportant fact, that molehills are mountains; one has only to become a pigmy like Peter to discover that.
I do no deny that molehills can sometimes be important.
No doubt it is annoying to the farmer to have molehills among his hay, which blunt the knives of the reaping-machines, and prevent them from cutting properly.
And if the farmer rakes the molehills down, so as to spread this earth evenly over the surface of the field, he finds that it forms a top-dressing quite as good as any he could apply himself.
They are partly pickaxes, and partly spades, which can tear away the earth and fling it up into molehills with the most wonderful speed.
The passages are made by the Mole in his search after the earth-worms and grubs, on which he lives; and the molehills are formed by the earth he scrapes out of his runs.
The baron, accompanied by his wife, walked in the sunshine, grumbling because the molehillsagainst which his foot tripped were not yet leveled.
My young folk are just going to see whether they can hit the molehills under your feet.
The cattle had trodden it down into holes; the snouts of greedy swine had rooted it up; gray molehills and rank tufts of grass rose on all sides.
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