Which preposition to use with hills
I asked myself; not at once grasping the grim significance of that little hill of ash.
Strangely enough, the range of low hills to my leftalready mentionedwas not entirely covered with the universal snow; instead, I could see their bare, dark sides showing in several places.
A few of us had climbed some of the hills in a half-hearted curiosity, but from their summits saw nothing to tempt weariness.
"The sun hid itself behind the hills on the West, and still he was alone.
They hire for the season a pair of strong Norman horses that go all day up and down hill at the same regular pace and who get over a vast amount of country.
The apple orchardwhere Dolly was stung by the beewas set on a fine breezy place at the brow of the hill with the valley in full sight.
They moved from St. Remy, selling the chateau, and built a house on the top of a green hill near Rouen, quite shut in by big trees, and with a lovely view from the Rond Pointthe highest part of the garden, over Rouenwith the spires of the cathedral in the distance.
I kept on running, until I reached one of Russell, Major & Waddell's freight trains which I had noticed going over the hill for the west.
They told me one could see the hills from near at hand, and a boy that I asked said I would get a rare view if I went to the rise beyond the river.
The mission house where they lived was high on a hill above the town.
"How can I say what a mother should say?" While she spoke he began pacing the apartment, each time, as he came to the double window near which she sat, peering out with a yearning, far-away look toward the river and the red lines of the hills beyond it.
They were in the hills behind the town; two miles would bring them into it.
It will be long, however, I trust, before the simple, earnest and independent type of character that has been nurtured on the Blue Hills of Massachusetts and the White Hills of New Hampshire shall cease to operate like a powerful leaven upon the whole of American society.
We pushed rapidly after them, following them across the North Platte and on through the sand-hills towards the Niobrara; but as they were making much better time than we, the pursuit was abandoned.
Ever and anon she would raise her head and gaze mysteriously in the direction of a cloud of dust which moved slowly over the hill toward the town.
Presently we left the savannah for the woods of the coast, and, dropping down hill by a very meagre path, we came in three hours to a creek of the sea.
It struck me as extraordinary that Sir Horace should have taken Hill into his service knowing what he was.
The storm-tones died away, and, turning toward the east, I beheld the countless hosts of the forests hushed and tranquil, towering above one another on the slopes of the hills like a devout audience.
The more enduring hills over which we rode were vanishing as surely as they, only not so fast, a difference which is great or small according to the standpoint from which it is contemplated.
But Kaviak daintily skimmed off the syrupy top, and left his mush almost as high a hill as before.
But it stood on a commanding site at the head of Mountain Hill between the Grand Battery and the Chateau St Louis.
We looked carefully over the summits of the hills before exposing ourselves to plain view, and at last we discovered the village, encamped in the sand-hills south of the South Platte river at Summit Springs.
Each department gave of its best, and from the moment when Beersheba was taken in a day and we secured its water supply, there was never a doubt that the enemy could be kept on the move until we got into the rough rocky hills about Jerusalem.
She declared that she had not gone to Riversbrook to see Hill after the final quarrel with Sir Horace.
"You haven't informed me who the nabobs are, nor why they choose to be sidetracked in this forsaken stone-quarry," remarked the stranger, eyeing the bleak hills around him in the growing light of dawn.