Presently she came to a little mound, upon which she paused to look about her.

Near the wall of his palace, there is an artificial mound of gold and silver, having turrets and steeples, and other magnificent ornaments, contrived for the solace and recreation of this great man.[l] I was further informed, that there are four such great men in the kingdom of Mangi.

Overlooking the village was a grassy mound, that narrowed the mouth of the valley, and caused the rippling stream that flowed at its feet to turn abruptly from its course.

All about us, as we crossed that tragic field, there were little brown mounds, each with a white wooden cross upon it.

Neither the Macedonian King nor any of his followers knew what those vast mounds had once been.

The noble castle was enclosed on three sides by the ocean, and on the fourth by walled battlements, "And double mound and fosse, By narrow drawbridge, outworks strong, Through studded gates, and entrance long, To the main court they cross.

A road leads round its base, passing between a circular mound overlooking the "old harbour," and the yard where the concrete blocks are fashioned for the strengthening of the pier.

The guests thought it was a curious mound; but the Maharajah recognised the reared heads of the young snakes and told his friends what the heap was.

Bushes of underwood covering sandy mounds, a few palmettos and Argan trees, in which wild doves fluttered and flew about, were all that broke the monotony of a perfect waste.

The eastern apex is a tall, rugged mound, probably the remains of a huge circular crater.

The water, which gushes up strong and free at the foot of a rocky mound, is warm and slightly brackish.

According to the traditions of the people, this place held grave mounds with memorial stones.

As they came down the river Tigris in their boat, they passed the immense mound of Nimroud, and so impressed was Layard by it that he then, scarce twenty-three years old, resolved that some day he would search and learn what was hidden under it; but little did he imagine what wonderful monuments he was to find there only a few years later.

Beyond them rose a shapeless mound or isle, like some half-organic monster grounded in his native ooze.

The loftier were now mere mounds of almost barren earth; the lower were often, like 'Fallen Jerusalem,' mere long earthless moles, as of minute Cyclopean masonry.

On high again, beyond the cliffs, stretched the Causses, vast, arid and barren plateaux, flat and featureless save for an occasional low, rounded mound, a menhir or a dolmen, and (if such may be termed features) great pits that opened in the earth like cold craters, which the countryfolk termed avens.

It was thirteen years since my mother's death, when, after a long absence from my native village, I stood beside the sacred mound beneath which I had seen her buried.

At noon they lay about in little groups all over the prairie, the yellow calves clumsily frisking beside their mothers, while on the slight mounds the great bulls moaned and muttered and pawed the dust.

A lofty mound was erected, and the building of timber upon it.

The dull clods swell into the sullen mound; Earth, one look yet upon the prey we gave!

These chambered mounds are situated in the eastern part of Clay County, Missouri, and form a large group on both sides of the Missouri River.

Superintending the construction of a small ornamental mound and side wall to the piazza, for shrubbery and flowers.

A giant mound, capped by a crown of crumbling, weather-tinted rock, rose abruptly at the northern edge of the village and gave the place its name.

Blow, west wind, by the lowly mound, And murmur, summer-streams There is no need of other sound To soothe my lady's dreams.

In the centre of the city rose a steep, abrupt mound, crowned with the remains of the ancient citadel, and shining minarets shot up, singly or in clusters, around its base.