Heyward perceived, in truth, that the younger Indian had thrown his form on the side of the
hillock while they were talking, like one who sought to make the most of the time allotted to rest, and that his example had been followed by David, whose voice literally "clove to his jaws," with the fever of his wound, heightened, as it was, by their toilsome march.
What little he could see of the surrounding country was far from alluring--a vast expanse of rough country, rolling in little, barren
hillocks, and tufted here and there with clumps of dreary shrub.
So Celeus called the countless people to an assembly and bade them make a goodly temple for rich-haired Demeter and an altar upon the rising
hillock.
As we approached the Shimerdas' dwelling, I could still see nothing but rough red
hillocks, and draws with shelving banks and long roots hanging out where the earth had crumbled away.
There was a velvety stretch of ground in the Sawyer pasture which was full of fascinating hollows and
hillocks, as well as verdant levels, on which to build houses.
Its cheerless
hillocks were all but naked of vegetation, for a never very flourishing growth of heather had recently been burnt right down to the unkindly- looking earth, leaving a dwarf black forest of charred sticks very grim to the eye and heart; while the dull surface of a small lifeless-looking lake added the final touch to the Dead-Sea mournfulness of the prospect.
The party followed him and soon disappeared with him behind the
hillocks of sand unobserved.
The grass wore the deep tint of the cypress, and the heads of its blades hung droopingly, and hither and thither among it were many small unsightly
hillocks, low and narrow, and not very long, that had the aspect of graves, but were not; although over and all about them the rue and the rosemary clambered.
The place where Nikita had stopped was not completely in the hollow where the snow sweeping down from the
hillocks might have buried them altogether, but still it was partly sheltered from the wind by the side of the ravine.
Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the pale blue wintry sky.
They passed through the plantation, and came out on some open ground, rising and falling prettily, in little
hillocks and hollows.
It throws up at the mouth of its burrows
hillocks of earth like those of the mole, but smaller.
