It moves me more than a hillside with its earliest flowers.

Then Santa Catarina and the long low brown hillside of San Marco.

There was one such little group on the hillside in the middle of our Battery position, between two of our gunpits.

They kept close to a run all the way out of the camp and up the hillside to the two detached tents where Donnegan and the girl slept that night.

The valley takes a turn to the left below the ridge and upon the hillside above this corner the white irregular line of smoke now became visible.

"We lay down on a hillside for the night near some captured German guns, and until dark I watched the cavalry, some 4,000, come up and take positions.

The snow melting on the mountains had transformed each hillside into a torrent which had swelled the river.

Furthermore, it seemed important to me to dig a tunnel into the Ayahuaycco hillside at the exact point from which we took the bones in 1911.

Perhaps the most wonderful thing was the immense distance he could see, when he looked away from the hillside across the plain and saw the great dark forest where he had been, and the earth stretching far, far away beyond.

Sir Peter enlarged the old Elizabethan homestead to suit his new dignity; built a picture-gallery, which he stocked handsomely with family portraits; designed terrace gardens on the hillside after a fashion he had learnt in Italy, and adopted his eldest nephew as his heir.

On the hillside near La Raya, Mr. Cook, Mr. Gilbert, and I visited a healthy potato field at an elevation of 14,500 feet, a record altitude for potatoes.

Not until his twenty-sixth year did he acquire the art of penmanship, which he learned "upon the hillside by copying the Italian alphabet, using his knee as his desk, and having the ink-bottle suspended from his button."

The bottom of the storm is broken up into innumerable waves and currents that surge against the hillsides like sea-waves against a shore, and these, reacting on the nether surface of the storm, erode immense cavernous hollows and cañons, and sweep forward the resulting detritus in long trains, like the moraines of glaciers.

On sunny hillsides around the principal trees they lie in big piles,bushels and basketfuls of them, all fresh and clean, making the most beautiful kitchen-middens imaginable.

It is not difficult to find the way from Beck Hole to the Roman camp on the hillside towards Egton Bridge.

Having arrived on the hillside over the Woodbach, the best spots were sought; if one was found which was plentifully sprinkled over with strawberries, then the whole company was called together and the place cleared, and afterwards each went out again for new discoveries.

They could not spare men to take up positions on the rocky hillside behind them.

It had been with a beating heart that I had passed up the hillside on an evening in early June, and approached the hushed green temple, wherein I was to take Summer sanctuary from a wicked world.

The hotels, villas, boarding houses, hospitals and asylums are scattered all over the hillside without regularity of arrangement.

Oftenest the stream drops bodily from the bleak bowl of some alpine lake; sometimes breaks out of a hillside as a spring where the ear can trace it under the rubble of loose stones to the neighborhood of some blind pool.

The western slope of the foothills of the San Jacinto, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Zaca Lake and Pine Mountain, and Santa Ynez reserves, are clad only in chaparral, yet the preservation of these hillsides from fire is of vital importance to the people, since the mantle of vegetation protects, to a certain degree, the sources of the streams from which the supply of water is derived.

And it was a solemn procession which wound up the hillside through the darkening trees.

The apple-trees were yet in blossom, and the snowy orchards were scattered over the hillsides between patches of golden gorse.

The guns were silent when they came to the wood, which rolled down the hillside below the road.

To Selwyn, as he toiled begrimed with smoke and sweat, came running a boy, young Nelson Hector, whose father, a lawyer, was in charge of a gun in position on one of the hillsides outside the town.