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  • Hillocks became cliffs sixty and seventy feet high, above valleys of broken limestone.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • The very act of writing — and revising — teaches us to identify and correct contradictions, to refine and improve and clarify our thoughts — to think Hillocks, 1987.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

  • The very act of writing — and revising — teaches us to identify and correct contradictions, to refine and improve and clarify our thoughts — to think Hillocks, 1987.

    A Certain Kind of Person Bruce Schauble 2007

  • How they come around the Hillocks and creep toward each other, setting screens for cover.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Hillocks of snow grew on the sea ice overnight as pressure ridges formed.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • Hillocks of rock sprouted from the lake's surface, one such rising to a respectable height, and Nik guessed that its crown had once been a true island.

    Night of masks Norton, Andre 1965

  • Hillocks built up in a line with little bits of wood stuck into them, represent gardens in the walks of which baby gravely places his little uncertain feet.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • But the general contour of the ground, the swelling hillocks on the flanks (Culp's Hill on the right, the Round Tops on the left) and the broad glacis up which attackers must advance against the center, all combined to make the position very strong indeed when held by even or superior numbers.

    Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

  • 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.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • 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.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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