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From this plain the two faint-hearts with me slipped back to their fellows on the castle-hill.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

The Mesfale is tolerably well built, and, like the Shebeyka, contains a few new houses; but that part of it which lies towards the great castle-hill is now almost entirely in ruins.

Travels in Arabia 2003

The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobál, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460, repaired in 1597 and rebuilt in 1833.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

From the raising of the standard on the castle-hill at

London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

At the foot of the castle-hill, along the banks of the Danube was a group of tottering houses; tottering because in spring, when the ice broke up, the Danube roared and dashed among them.

Debts of Honor M��r J��kai 1864

Eleven hours later, a very different procession climbed the castle-hill, and passed in at the portcullis.

The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel Emily Sarah Holt 1864

At a good height above the actual bottom, as one feels very strongly in going up the road from Argentan, the castle-hill strictly so called is surrounded by the artificial work which, for want of a better name, we have called a ditch.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

The castle-hill of Exmes is not in so happy a case as either of these; but it is much better off than if it were surmounted by

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

No longer marked by the castle itself, it seems simply part of the general mass of high ground on which both town and castle stand, and from which the castle-hill itself stands forward in a peninsular fashion towards the north.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

Seen from below, from the bridge across the Rille at no great distance, there is something wonderfully striking in this single side of the church, an inside seen from outside, with its sheltered windows and vaulting-shafts, standing against the side of the castle-hill.

Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857