"This
hill is dangerous," I said, As we rode on together Through sunny miles and sunny miles Of Surrey heather; "This
hill is dangerous--don't you think We'd better walk it?" "Or sit it out--more danger still!" She smiled--"and talk it?"
It runs almost to the very gates of Ephesus--a town great in all ages of the world--a city familiar to readers of the Bible, and one which was as old as the very
hills when the disciples of Christ preached in its streets.
Towards nightfall we reached a level amphitheatre, surrounded by a great rampart of
hills, which shut out the sunshine long before it left the external world.
Even as he went on, the shout, the laugh, the shriek the sob, rose up in unison, till they changed into the hollow, fitful, and uneven sound of the wind, as it fought among the pine-trees on those three lonely
hills. The lady looked up, and there was the withered woman smiling in her face.
I don't mean a flat country; but a vale--that is, a flat country bounded by
hills. The having your
hill always in view if you choose to turn towards him--that's the essence of a vale.
Then comes your uncle's place--Lesser
Hill. Though it is so close to the Castle, it is not connected with it.
After this, time stopped, and he, sitting at the mouth of the shrine, could not tell whether he were alive or dead; a man with control of his limbs, or a part of the
hills, and the clouds, and the shifting rain and sunlight.
The Black
Hills are chiefly composed of sandstone, and in many places are broken into savage cliffs and precipices, and present the most singular and fantastic forms; sometimes resembling towns and castellated fortresses.
The
hills sweated the ghi and sugar suet off his bones; the dry air, taken sobbingly at the head of cruel passes, firmed and built out his upper ribs; and the tilted levels put new hard muscles into calf and thigh.
Then might she hope with a real hope, for the fields would give her sustenance which she could gain by night, while by day she hid among the surrounding
hills, and sometime, yes, sometime she knew, the searchers would come, for John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, would never cease to search for his daughter until every square haad of the planet had been combed again and again.
Then a head showed itself over the rock and the same voice said, "This
hill belongs to us, and we don't allow anyone to cross it."
Eynsford Hill--Miss Eynsford
Hill? [Exchange of bows.
Lucie climbed upon the stile and looked up at the
hill behind Little-town-a
hill that goes up--up--into the clouds as though it had no top!
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call an
hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers, for the observers of his law.
Leatherhead is about twelve miles from Maybury
Hill. The scent of hay was in the air through the lush meadows beyond Pyrford, and the hedges on either side were sweet and gay with multitudes of dog-roses.