knolls

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Beyond the knolls were the northeast suburbs, built upon as flat land as any the town afforded, and farther on stretched rolling prairie, picturesquely beautiful.

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  • Tucked into a hollow between two cypress-covered knolls was a collection of buildings—white, and small as toys from this vantage. —  Muller, Marcia - [11] Trophies and Dead Things.htm
  • When we came upon the patch of Sand-knolls which lie near Fehrbellin, his Majesty cried Forester, why aren't these sand-knolls sown FORESTER . —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • It runs east and west, opening on the eastern side of the channel; but the knolls, that is to say, the rounded surfaces at its entrance, are furrowed across the cove, at right angles with it. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Try getting out and DOING something instead of sitting in your Parker knolls, sipping your wine and complaining to the wind. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • Climbing knolls, ridges, and peaks was essential to navigating in the Beartooths, where jumbled terrain hides features. —  Backpacking Light Magazine
 

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