It stood on a little knoll that overlooked the village, the valley, the stream that ran through it, and commanded a distant view of the country beyond the gap.

The fairies dwelt only in grassy knolls, on the summits of high hills, and inside cliffs.

A pocket of flat land lay between two rocky knolls, with a ring of good-sized trees around it.

O'er the trees In front, the village-church, with pinnacles, And light grey tow'r, appears, while to the right An amphitheatre of oaks extends Its sweep, till, more abrupt, a wooded knoll, Where once a castle frown'd, closes the scene.

And that is why, standing on this round knoll, beneath the merrily-rustling cherry-trees, and listening to the murmurous song, I heard my boyhood speak to me, and felt again the old breath on my brow.

" I replied: "Grandmother, you forget that is my tree; I want it to drape that bare knoll.

All the workmen rested at mid-day, and I went to enjoy my half-hour alone on a mossy knoll in the neighbouring wood, which commands through the trees a wide prospect of the bay and the opposite shore.

In the mouth of the harbour we passed over a coral knoll, having five fathoms on it.

I had stopped at the forks of a lane and was hesitating which branch to take and what to do with myself, when a tall and beautiful Willow, standing upon a knoll a few rods distant, with thick drooping boughs sweeping the ground on every side, beckoned to me.

The ground showed bare where the snow had melted on an occasional sandy knoll, and there was a search for wintergreen leaves.

The buckboard reappeared, lurching up a farther knoll, and then rolled out of sight to be seen no more.

At the upper end of the bench rose a knoll, golden and green with scrub oaks, and russet-colored with its lichened rocks.

Beyond the gates of Legree's farm, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees.

I prefer, too, to any glass roof which Sir Joseph Paxton ever planned, that dome above my head some three miles high, of soft dappled grey and yellow cloud, through the vast lattice-work whereof the blue sky peeps, and sheds down tender gleams on yellow bogs, and softly rounded heather knolls, and pale chalk ranges gleaming far away.

Regrets were expressed when some historic knoll was levelled in order to provide a nice flat space for a public square.

Long enough ago, in Trinidad at least, to allow waterprobably the estuary waters of the Orinocoto saw all the upheaved layers off at the top into one flat sea-bottom once more, leaving as projections certain harder knots of rock, such as the limestones of Mount Tamana; and, it may be, the curious knoll of hard clay rock under which nestles the town of San Fernando.

On a lofty knoll are the remains of an ancient encampment, called Saxon-bury Castle, from its name, ascribed to the Saxons; a neighbouring spot bears the name of Dane's Gate, and is supposed to be part of an old trackway or military road.

Some digger might find in a marshy knoll Where his little bleached bones were lying.

O'er the trees In front, the village-church, with pinnacles, And light grey tow'r, appears, while to the right An amphitheatre of oaks extends Its sweep, till, more abrupt, a wooded knoll, Where once a castle frown'd, closes the scene.

The soft pines on this nearer knoll seem separated from them by ages and generations.

The ground showed bare where the snow had melted on an occasional sandy knoll, and there was a search for wintergreen leaves.

Away to the west Charlton saw the groves that grew on the banks of the Big Gun River, and then the smooth prairie knolls beyond, and in the dim horizon the "Big Woods."

Not long ago, one says, I stood, just at sunset, on the summit of a pretty knoll, and, looking eastward, saw the harvesters cutting into the tall, brown-headed, rippling wheat.

Next, an order from the general sent the artillery galloping to the rear for about an eighth of a mile, where, after a short detour to the left and a mad race across swampy, ditch-dug fields, it took up a temporary position on a convenient knoll.

Far away to the southwest, and yet faintly seen through the crystalline atmosphere, were the many-colored knolls and rolls and cliffs of the Painted Desert.