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Example sentences for "small hill"

  • About 10 o'clock last night we were flooded with water, although upon rising ground, and were obliged to move our camp to the top of a small hill.

  • Sent Muller to see if there is any more water to the west, and went myself to the top of a small hill, and built a cone of stones to connect this point with the last point.

  • Machinery, and quite some of it, too," murmured Dick.

  • You needn't 'suh' me, I mean what I said.

  • Then they forded a small stream and began to climb the slope of a small hill, at the top of which were a series of rocks.

  • Then they came out and urged their now tired horses up a small hill, from which to get some idea of their surroundings.

  • The reddish rocks were behind, leading to a small hill.

  • Between the eighth and ninth mile we ascended a small hill, whence we had a distant view from the south round by the west to north, taking in that tract of country over which we had passed.

  • We now kept the banks of the stream, till at the tenth mile we ascended a small hill a mile south of it, from which Mount Byng bore N.

  • It was built on the top of a small hill, entirely made of earth and adobes (bricks baked in the sun).

  • Further on a small hill is reached, where a fortress may be seen, built by the Yncas in former days, which must be of no small strength for Indian warfare.

  • When one of the chiefs dies, the people mourn for many days, cut off the hair of his wives, kill those who were most beloved, and raise a tomb the size of a small hill, with an opening towards the rising sun.

  • The level of the interior was broken by a small hill to the right of the stream, but the view from its summit rather damped than encouraged my hopes of any improvement.

  • In the distance there was a small hill, and on its top a bark hut.

  • It might, however, be considered an extraordinary feature in it, that a small hill of blue limestone existed upon the left bank of the river.

  • After skirting a small hill of ice, they came upon a narrow lead of clear blue water and following this, reached a point where the ice had been driven in a tight pack for miles.

  • The trail of the game was readily followed, and about seven o'clock in the evening the hunters came upon a herd of six musk oxen, resting in the shelter of a small hill.

  • They had a small hill of ice before them, and started to skirt this.

  • Small hill station on Níla Koh on border of Dera Ismail Khán and Bannu districts.

  • One experimental trip only had been accomplished by Mr Soares, who was forced to pay the Makua chiefs 120 dollars footing, to reach a small hill in view of the sea, about twenty-five miles off.

  • In fact it appeared, as far as the eye could reach, the very counterpart of that where we stood, with the exception of a small hill, very distant, called Phongue.

  • Once across, we sought for and put up in a village beneath a small hill, from the top of which I saw the Victoria N'yanza for the first time on this march.

  • This rock is the small hill mentioned in the ritual; the erica has been replaced by the acacia, and the grief of Isis has been changed for that of the fellow crafts.

  • Mount Calvary is a small hill or eminence, situated in a westerly direction from that Mount Moriah on which the temple of Solomon was built.

  • A small hill of Jerusalem, in a westerly direction, and not far from Mount Moriah.

  • This "small hill" having been determined as the burial-place of Jesus, the symbol has been Christianized by many modern masons.

  • Started on bearing of 330 degrees for a distant point like river timber which turned out to be a small hill or ridge with spinifex; a lagoon on the left at its base; struck it at five miles.

  • Changed course to 347 degrees for a small hill in the distance and at two and a half miles crossed several irregular watercourses from the north flowing to south and east; went then to a small spinifex rise, timbered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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