Hillside
['hɪlsaɪd] or ['hɪl'saɪd]
Definition
(n.) The side or declivity of a hill.
Checked by Debs
Examples
- They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Robert Jordan looked down the green slope of the hillside to the road and the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Being built on the hillside, its basement opens into the rear yard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These lights dotted the hillside like stars of a low magnitude. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then he was looking through the thinning trees and he saw the oiled dark of the road below and beyond it the green slope of the hillside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The second officer was breathing heavily from his sprint up and across the hillside from the automatic rifle position. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Our place of meeting was on a hillside within a few hundred feet of the rebel lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then he looked at the hillside and he looked at the pines and he tried not to think at all. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The Austrian trenches were above on the hillside only a few yards from the Italian lines. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She drifted along in a wonderful interfusion of physical motion, down the dark, blowy hillside. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The attack would cross the river up above the narrow gorge and spread up the hillside. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The captain lay on his face on the hillside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He was happy in the wet hillside, that was overgrown and obscure with bushes and flowers. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The fascists had attacked and we had stopped them on that slope in the gray rocks, the scrub pines and the gorse of the Guadarrama hillsides. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I shall gather manna for her morning and night: the plains and hillsides in the moon are bleached with manna, Adele. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Kelsey