Hills

Examples

• Mounting, Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He must have been one of a patrol scattered out in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Of course we are very careful and we make no disturbance in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• There are many men here now in the hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A little further on, I passed the boy crouching for shelter under the lee of the sand hills. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It moved entirely under its own power, could climb hills and could travel on the level road at speeds which had never before been exhibited by vehicles of that type. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• His family is as old as the hills, and infinitely more respectable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It blows over the--ha--Surrey hills. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• We caught them and passed them and turned off on a road that climbed up into the hills. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He was never too good at getting about and he was conductor of a tram and that is not the best preparation for the hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• That they can ascend and descend hills of considerable elevation, with facility and safety. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It was one of the oldest farms in the neighbourhood, situated in a solitary, sheltered spot, inland at the junction of two hills. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There is the dark then to come and from wherever we are in these hills, I can reach and do the bridge at daylight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The hills beyond Marsh Glen sent the answer faintly back--Where are you? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Beyond that the hills become precipitous. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He has a general opinion that the world might get on without hills but would be done up without Dedlocks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Once, before the war, going up to Cortina D'Ampezzo I had gone along it for several hours in the hills. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We met with no Indians, but we found the places on the neighbouring hills where they had lain to watch our proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The river and the hills are delicious, and these glimpses of the narrow cross streets are my delight. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• You have not yet told me what you saw kneeling on those hills. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You will find him at Dunkeld; gentle and tractable he wanders up the hills, and through the wood, or sits listening beside the waterfall. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then the husband of the other girl, the other sister, who was also in the trams, had gone to the hills as I had. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The sand hills, some of them almost inaccessible to foot-passengers, were surveyed off and mapped into fifty vara lots--a vara being a Spanish yard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We camped that night at the foot of the hills we had been approaching for two days and which marked the southern boundary of this particular sea. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Beyond the mule train the road was empty and we climbed through the hills and then went down over the shoulder of a long hill into a river-valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The book brought out (it was never changed, but when finishedrecommenced) was a venerable volume, old as the hills--grey as the H?tel de Ville. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Rosalie