We ought to love these lonely
hills and meadows far more.
The
hills and the rocks are rent asunder in places, excavations expose great blocks of building-stone that have lain buried for ages, and all the mean houses and walls of modern Smyrna along the way are spotted white with broken pillars, capitals and fragments of sculptured marble that once adorned the lordly palaces that were the glory of the city in the olden time.
We had come since sunrise from Bartlett, passing up through the valley of the Saco, which extends between mountainous walls, sometimes with a steep ascent, but often as level as a church aisleú All that day and two preceding ones we had been loitering towards the heart of the White Mountains -- those old crystal
hills, whose mysterious brilliancy had gleamed upon our distant wanderings before we thought of visiting them.
Three little
hills stood near each other, and down in the midst of them sunk a hollow basin, almost mathematically circular, two or three hundred feet in breadth, and of such depth that a stately cedar might but just be visible above the sides.
Those of you who did so with their eyes open have been aware, soon after leaving the Didcot station, of a fine range of chalk
hills running parallel with the railway on the left-hand side as you go down, and distant some two or three miles, more or less, from the line.
"Well, look at those
hills which surround the main one where the site for the Castle was wisely chosen--on the highest ground.
But unconsciously his feet drew him away northward and eastward; from the south to Rohtak; from Rohtak to Kurnool; from Kurnool to ruined Samanah, and then up-stream along the dried bed of the Gugger river that fills only when the rain falls in the
hills, till one day he saw the far line of the great Himalayas.
Hunt and his party were now on the skirts of the Black
Hills, or Black Mountains, as they are sometimes called; an extensive chain, lying about a hundred miles east of the Rocky Mountains, and stretching in a northeast direction from the south fork of the Nebraska, or Platte River, to the great north bend of the Missouri.
So and no otherwise - so and no otherwise hill-men desire their
hills!
Shortly after noon of the second day the storm commenced to abate, and before the sun went down, the little craft upon which Tara of Helium had hovered between life and death these many hours drifted slowly before a gentle breeze above a landscape of rolling
hills that once had been lofty mountains upon a Martian continent.
The four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, and when they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep
hill, covered from top to bottom with great pieces of rock.
and Miss Eynsford
Hill are the mother and daughter who sheltered from the rain in Covent Garden.