Approaching the Orkneys from Thurso the first things that struck us were certain great structures crowning the mounded hills.
Then he broke out two pieces of snow-crust and, holding them over the depression which held the trap, rubbed them together until the trap was completely covered and the snow mounded slightly higher than the surrounding level.
When wealth no more shall rest in mounded heaps, But smit with freer light shall slowly melt In many streams to fatten lower lands, And light shall spread, and man be liker man Thro' all the season of the golden year.
A few steps brought us to the still God's acre, where the snow lay deep and cold upon high-mounded graves of many generations.
Snow lies mounded on the roads and fields, writhed into loveliest wreaths, or outspread in the softest undulations.
Here, then, the elements have had their will unchecked by such sculptured granite as in Egypt resists the mounded sand of the desert, or by such marble colonnades as in Athens have calmly borne the insults of successive sieges.
The meadows in the sun are twice as green For all the scatter of fresh red mounded earth, The mischief of the moles: No dullish red, Glostershire earth new-delved In April!
There must have been a warning given once: No tree, on pain of withering and sawfly, To reach the slimmest of his snaky toes Into this mounded sward and rumple it; All trees stand back: taboo is on this soil.
Then the grass of that mounded meadow stirred Above the Roman bones that may not stir Though joyous morning whispered, shouted, sang: The grass stirred as that happy music rang.
But good Aeneas heaps a mighty mounded tomb over him, with his own armour and his oar and trumpet, beneath a skyey mountain that now is called Misenus after him, and keeps his name immortal from age to age.
Bar [22-58]and bulwark no longer shelter the Trojans; nay, within the gates and even on the mounded walls they clash in battle and make the trenches swim with blood.
But we need no words to fill our senate-house, safely as thou wingest them while the mounded walls keep off the enemy, and the trenches swim not yet with blood.
Hither the goddess most beautiful first swoops down, and marks Arruns from the mounded height.
Ye that have heard the whispering dead In every wind that creeps, Or felt the stir that strains the lead Beneath the mounded heaps, Tread softly, ah!
A spring in the desert, a fire in the darkness leaping, Greenness comes transparently roofing and walling Garden ways with an indolent downward-sweeping, Or mounded high .
A church of silent weathered looks, A breezy reddish tower, A yard whose mounded resting-nooks Are tinged with sorrel flower.
Then wilt thou see the orange trees star-flowering over Spain, Or arched and mounded Kaiser-towns that molder mid Almain, Or through the cypress-gardens go of magic Italy?
O sea-wall, mounded long and low, Let iron bounds be thine; Nor let the salt wave overflow That breast I held divine.
He sipped his cocktail and continued: "I can understand why the village is mounded up, too.
Just back of the mounded earth, the reserves were sleeping in the mud of the road, and on the wet bank of the ditch.
The rainless California summer had scorched the country; moundedsummit swelled beyond mounded summit all dried to a uniform ochre.
It loomed in mounded masses, swelled into lowering spheres, dissolved into long, soaring puffs, looked solid and yet was perpetually taking new forms.
Forgive the meanness of our human hearts, That never, till a noble soul departs, See half the worth, or hear the angel's wings Till they go rustling heavenward as he springs Up from the mounded sod.
Fall-planted trees should generally be mounded up, sometimes even as high as shown in Fig.
Roses and many other bushes may be mounded in the fall with profit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mounded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
