hillocks

Under a light covering of dirt, the hillocks were a dead pure white.

The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

There was one who lived here who had come from Russia, he always would ride up the mounds (he called the mounds so funnily, "hillocks").

The Cossacks Leo Tolstoy 1869

In the early stages of research, ideas are like hillocks on a landscape.

Science and truth have been cast aside by our desire for controversy | Robin McKie 2011

It was a long shot near the embassy where there were practically ramparts of bodies stacked to and fro, and there just past those hillocks of humanity was a group of Haitian children blithely kicking around a soccer ball as the field reporter — Ann Curry it was — noted the surrealism of the scene.

Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave... 2010

Outside the Underground Gallery, seven other knee-hugging figures, cast from Mr. Plensa's own body, sit on small grassy hillocks, with cherry trees shooting upward between their arms.

Jaume Plensa Is Deep in Thought Emma Crichton-Miller 2011

Most hillocks shrink and disappear until, in the end, you are left with a single towering pinnacle of virtual certitude.

Science and truth have been cast aside by our desire for controversy | Robin McKie 2011

It was a long shot near the embassy where there were practically ramparts of bodies stacked to and fro, and there just past those hillocks of humanity was a group of Haitian children blithely kicking around a soccer ball as the field reporter — Ann Curry it was — noted the surrealism of the scene.

Archive 2010-02-01 2010

We might have been spared Robert May's inept metaphor about "hillocks", Huxley's view that the process "is simply common sense at its best" (didn't Wolpert long ago demonstrate its counterintuitive qualities?) and the confusion of "fact" (a bit of a weasel word) with inference from observation, as in the Hoyle example.

Science: The incessant drive for 'balance' distorts education | the big issue 2011

David looked ahead and saw a landscape of sandy hillocks, dotted with thornbushes and olive trees.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

Running with the children of the village through meadow grass, among the mounds and hillocks, chasing along the timeworn runs of fox and rabbit through the ruins.

GRAVE CONCERNS • by Oscar Windsor-Smith 2009