Here the Plateau falls precipitously down to the Vippacco valley, only the long brown foothill of San Marco breaking the drop.

Its battlemented walls are like those of Cittadella and Castelfranco, but in a better state of preservation and more picturesque, running up a rocky foothill behind the town and coming down again,a most curious effect.

He had owned a horse in the foothill country, but when he came to the desert with no forage but mesquite, he found himself under the necessity of picking the beans from the briers, a labor that drove him to the use of pack animals to whom thorns were a relish.

Peaks of the fourteen thousand class, belted with sombre swathes of pine, rise almost directly from the bench lands with no foothill approaches.

All the foothill folk pleaded in extenuation of the robber that he wrote a copy of verses, embalming his adventure, which he used to pin to the nearest tree.

She'll keep a foothill school in order just about two minutesand no longer!"

"Oh yes, indeed," she answered; "and I know something of your foothill folks.

"These foothill imps will kill her," said Ajax.

"I love my boys, my foothill boys; and if they are rough, brutal at times, they're strong."

But, not for the first time, I was struck by the heroism and self-sacrifice of these rude foothill folk, whose great qualities shine brightest in the dark hours of adversity.

I have been told that he was the first of the foothill settlers to irrigate abundantly, the first to plant out an orchard and vineyard, the first, certainly, to create a garden out of a sage-brush desert.

Now, Lily Panel, you don't mean to tell me that you thought I was goin' ter murder this feller?" Mrs. Panel looked at Leveson with an expression which I have seen in the eyes of foothill mothers, whose children run barefoot, when they have found a rattlesnake.

I pause to rest me upon a rock embedded on the side of a foothill facing the low river bottom.

Their parties in town were as select as their picnics in the foothills, and the foothill picnics were the occasions where Cougarville society really came out.

Their parties in town were as select as their picnics in the foothills, and the foothill picnics were the occasions where Cougarville society really came out.

It was a foothill picnic which brought an end to all relations between John Gray and Miss Molly Fleming.

He asked Miss Fleming on the way home if she would go with him to the picnic to be held in the wooded foothills on the following day.

It was up the foothills a mile or two above, and just beside the valley in which were the picnickers.

In the Cougarville Screamer of the following morning appeared a graphic account of the great exploit of "Professor" Gray, of the Department of Agriculture, who on the preceding day had, after taking his force into the foothills and utilizing the means at his command, attained the greatest rainfall of the season.

It looked just like a lumpy excrescence on the landscape; at hame we would not even think of it as a foothill.

They had come to a bend in the slowly flowing river, where, instead of torch-bright maples and poplars, rank upon rank of somber pines marched away to the summit of a steeply ascending foothill.

Then, winding in and out of the canyon through a foothill country, we made steady progress until we reached the main road from Raymond to Wawona.

The road to the château took its devious way through the little townout into the green foothill beyond.

These rounded hills that join the prairies to the mountains form the Foothill Country.

"It follows this foothill for a way," said Wander, striding ahead, since they could not walk side by side.