A dozen villages clinging like limpets to steep hillsides are before you, and away on your right front the tall spires of Christian churches at Ain Karim tell you you are approaching the Holy Sites.

They could not spare men to take up positions on the rocky hillside behind them.

An' no yonder, for Little Minóok has made big millionaires o' both o' them!" Millionaires or not, they'll never, either of them, create a greater sensation than they did that Christmas Day, in the Big Chimney Cabin, on the bleak hillside, up above the Never-Know-What.

Reaching a small cluster of stunted and gnarled pines, they pressed through it and emerged on a great, bleak hillside, almost bare of vegetation.

On sunny hillsides around the principal trees they lie in big piles,bushels and basketfuls of them, all fresh and clean, making the most beautiful kitchen-middens imaginable.

Scott thus converted the barren hillside into a region of interest and delight.

Another Saint sailed away to a foreign land on a sod from his native hillside!

All the population was in the square and on the roofs that mount above it, tier by tier, against the wooded hillside: Moulay Idriss had better to do that day than to gape at a few tourists in dust-coats.

A last ray lit up a distant hillside, his shadow floated on the wet sand.

An accident in the ranges on the Pacific slope, when a mountain locomotive jumped the track and plunged down a precipitous hillside, gave Lister his first chance.

The sun rose out of the water, the mist began to melt, and rolling back, uncovered a line of surf and a belt of rough hillside.

In an hour they were far up the mountain, lying side by side on a great flat rock, looking across a deep impassable valley and over two rounded hilltops, where the scrub spruces looked like pins on a cushion, to the bare, rugged hillside where Megaleep stood out like a watchman against the blue sky.

There was a blank stretch of brown hillside with the wind whispering stealthily through the dead grass when Lord Nick thrust open the door of Donnegan's shack and entered.

" CHAPTER XVIII John Crewys stood on the walk below the terrace, with Peter by his side, enjoying an after-breakfast smoke, and watching a party of sportsmen climbing up the bracken-clothed slopes of the opposite hillside.

His eyes looked away over the blue spires of the lupins to the naked hillside.

Anderson's keen eyes swept from near at hand to far away, down the gentle, billowy slope and up the far hillside.

Only remained the hoof-marks in the meadow and the torn hillside to mark the boisterous trail of the life that had broken the peace of the place and passed on.

Those groves are all planted on dry hillsides covered with chaparral, and therefore are liable to be swept by fire.

Before dark we reached the village of Pampaconas, a few small huts scattered over grassy hillsides, at an elevation of 10,000 feet.

There is little doubt, that if a ship-load of passengers could be suddenly and unexpectedly landed upon the grassy slope of a verdant hillside; many would under momentary impulse of overwhelming pleasure, kiss the dear earth, as Columbus did on landing at San Salvador, if, indeed, extreme joy did not impel them to make themselves ridiculous by imitating old Nebuchadnezzar, in commencing to graze on the herbage!

The God of battle has been called on, in times past, to preside over a number of military engagements which have come off on this now peaceful hillside.

Nevertheless, an educated European who finds himself standing in an interminable plain or on a windy hillside where nothing has been done, where he is about to begin that work of reclaiming the desert which has been going on in Europe for thousands of years, and of which the average civilized man is the calm, self-satisfied, unconscious inheritor, finds that he must shift his point of view!

I have already described bear hunting in the spring, when we stalked our game upon the snowy hillsides, and again on the Alaska Peninsula, where we hunted across the open on foot, and also in the baidarka.

What lovely landward coves and bayswhat alder-smothered creekswhat lily-sheeted poolswhat sheer steep hillsides, making the water dark and quiet where they hang.

He indicated a sweeping hillside ahead, and a half-mile further on he left the creek and began to climb.