The Douglas Spruces, with long sprays drawn out in level tresses, and needles massed in a gray, shimmering glow, presented a most striking appearance as they stood in bold relief along the hilltops.

From the highest summit, far as the eye could reach, the landscape was one vast bee-pasture, a rolling wilderness of honey-bloom, scarcely broken by bits of forest or the rocky outcrops of hilltops and ridges.

" The Boy stood up, back to the fire, eyes on the hilltops whitening in the starlight.

The sky above the eastern hilltops was aglow with crimson; in the zenith it was like the color of the sweet pale rose.

the hilltops all aglow With purple and with amethyst; While the whole valley deep below Is filled, and seems to overflow, With a fast-rising tide of mist.

Oft on this terrace, when the day Was closing, have I stood and gazed, And seen the landscape fade away, And the white vapors rise and drown Hamlet and vineyard, tower and town While far above the hilltops blazed.

"Everywhereon hilltops crowned with primeval forests, in the depths of gorges and shaftsNature met her favorite with friendly advances, and revealed to him many a desired secret.

And over all, like a monstrous race of ants, was flung an army of menmud-covered, dirty, dishevelled men, who crawled in and out of the holes of their digging, crept like big bugs along the flumes, and toiled and sweated at the gravel-heaps which they kept in constant unrestmen, as far as the eye could see, even to the rims of the hilltops, digging, tearing, and scouring the face of nature.

In the bombardment the shells mostly appeared to have passed above the townwhich was natural enough, seeing that the principal Belgian forts stood on the hilltops westward of and overlooking the city; and the principal German batteriesat least, until the last day of fightingwere posted behind temporary defenses, hastily thrown up, well to the east and north.

Thin tissues detached themselves and hung like a frayed hem, lengthening, streaming to the hilltops in the west.

Then pick out the hilltops and ridges and you have a body to clothe with ail the details that will be revealed by a close and careful study of what the map maker has recorded.

Sinuous and swift curving as a snake it twisted over hilltops and dipped across hollows, three streaks of silver light one above the other, and endless.

As these caravans moved over the country, were there military scouts lining the way, to intercept deserters?a corporal's guard at each pass of the mountains, sentinels pacing the hilltops, and light-horse scouring the defiles?

For the latter building some commanding position was apt to be selected, and hence we so often find the old village streets of New England running along elevated ridges or climbing over beetling hilltops.

For a fearful thunderstorm had terrified them while I slept, and the fires of death, they said, had danced over Perdóndaris, and now the thunder had gone leaping away large and black and hideous, they said, over the distant hills, and had turned round snarling at them, showing his gleaming teeth, and had stamped, as he went, upon the hilltops until they rang as though they had been bronze.

He had already seen the towers of Verneuil from the hilltops behind them and indicated.

Hilltops clear.

Selden M. Loring & Robert M. Loring (C); 14Nov60; R266369. LORING, ROBERT M. Hilltops clear.

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I left La Crosse in a steamer, just as the rising sun lighted the hilltops and gilded the Mississippi.

The Douglas Spruces, with long sprays drawn out in level tresses, and needles massed in a gray, shimmering glow, presented a most striking appearance as they stood in bold relief along the hilltops.

Archbishop Harry has a modest home on one of the numerous hilltops.

As soon as the watchers on the Mount of Olives saw the moon rising, they lighted a beacon fire, other fires were already prepared on a succession of hilltops, reaching all the way from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Over these hilltops, I know, mists will drift and touch all day; and often they darken threateningly, and creep softly down the slopes, and fill the next-lying valley, and roll, and lift again, and reveal the flank of Monte d'Oro northward on the far-reaching range.

As they proceeded on their course, lighted fires were observed on all the hilltops of the coast country, as far as to another mountain eighty miles distant.