Use hills in a sentence
Sentences ending with hills
- It only disappoints you as to its "vine-clad hills. [4]
- The world of work has thickened round us beyond the hills. [11]
- Instead of this, with only a smattering of civil engineering, he is at his mother's house, fretting and fuming over his ill-luck, and the hardness and, dishonesty of men, and thinking of nothing but how to get the coal out of the Ilium hills. [5]
- She watched him with an unwonted tugging at her heart as he stood for a long time by the edge of the railing, gazing over the tree-tops of the valley towards the distant hazy hills. [9]
- It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
- It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
- He thought of what had happened that very morning before he started for the hills. [11]
- In the farthest west rose the Libyan mountains with their innumerable graves, and the valley of the kings' tombs took a wide curve behind, concealed by a spur of the hills. [10]
- Beyond the mountain were unexplored regions, hill and valley floating into hill and valley, lost in a miasmic haze, ruddy, silent, untenanted, save, mayhap, by the strange people known as the Little Good Folk of the Scarlet Hills. [11]
- A hundred thoughts were busy in her brain--of her father; of the woman who had just left; of her lover over the hills. [11]
Short sentences using hills
- Desolate-looking rocks and scarred hills. [5]
- These hills are mine. [11]
Sentences containing hills two or more times
- And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
- And now face the hills rising nobly away there to the left, the memorable and friendly hills. [11]
- Notwithstanding the fact that a great many had driven a part of their stock to the hills some time ago, there yet remains a large quantity, which General York, who is working with indomitable energy, will get landed in the pine hills by Tuesday. [5]
- They had travelled inland from the coast through the great mountains by unknown paths, and as they travelled, the sailor died; and they came at last through innumerable hardships to the Kimash Hills, the hills of the Mighty Men, and there they stayed. [11]
- The neighboring country had a very different shape, at that time--the valleys have risen up and become hills, since, and the hills have become valleys. [5]
- There is a great valley between hills, the Kimash Hills, the hills of the Mighty Men. [11]
- Pretty hills and forests and temporary summer structures cannot have the poetic or the substantial interest of the ancient villages and towns clinging to the hills, the old stone houses, the vines, the ruins, the atmosphere of a long civilization. [4]
- The pursuing, watchful figure followed at a distance, on up the road, on over the little hills, on into the high hills, the dogs carrying along steadily the grisly load. [11]
- But down there come from the lofty hills Footsteps and eyes agleam, Bringing the laughter of yesterday Into the little house, By the winding stream and the hills. [11]
- Livy darling, we came through a-whooping today, 6 hours tramp up steep hills and down steep hills, in mud and water shoe-deep, and in a steady pouring rain which never moderated a moment. [5]
More example sentences with the word hills in them
- Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
- In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
- We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
- Among these western wooded hills my day-dreams built their fairy palaces, and even now, as I look at them from my library window, across the estuary of the Charles, I find myself in the familiar home of my early visions. [6]
- Then he said without lookin' at me,--'It is the spirit of the White Valley and the Hills of the Mighty Men; of which all men shall know, for the North will come to her spring again one day soon, at the remaking of the world. [11]
- The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
- He was alone with his solitary hills, leaning on his rifle. [11]
- Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
- And I yearned with a yearning I cannot express for our cabin in the hills and the old life there. [9]
- For thirteen years, winter and summer, this coachman had driven this monotonous, uninteresting route, with always the same sandy hills, scrubby firs, occasional cabins, in sight. [4]
- When the great winds and rains come down from the hills, do not let the floods drown us, nor the woods cover us, nor the snow-slide bury us; and do not let the prairie-fires burn us. [11]
- A flock of wild geese flew over the road and the hills, and Pellicanus cried: "Look there! [10]
- One morning, Pourcette, who had been off in the hills, came to say that he had sighted a little herd of wapiti. [11]
- And he, Felion, who had been lord and master of the valley, worked with them, but did not seek for riches, and more often drew away into the hills to find some newer place unspoiled by man. [11]
- He began to whittle again, and remarked: "It is only seventeen miles or so across these hills to Far Harbor, old chap, and you can get a train there for Asquith. [9]
- Not far from where the mule train crept along was a great hole in the mountain-side, as though antique giants of the hills had tunnelled through to make themselves a home or to find the eternal secret of the mountains. [11]
- He had camped where it stood now, when nothing was there save the wild duck in the reeds, the antelopes upon the hills, and all manner of furred and feathered things; and it all was his. [11]
- A little later, when the veil had lifted, it became a mirror for the hills and crags, the blue reaches of the sky. [9]
- It was open when Dyck first saw it, because she was singing little bits of wild lyrics of the hills, little tragedies of Celtic life--just bursts of the Celtic soul, as it were, cheerful yet sad, buoyant and passionate, eager yet melancholy. [11]
- How knew they what the new Dakoon would do--send them off into the hills, or kill them? [11]
- She must bring what is fresh--he must feel that the hills have come to him, she that the valley is hers for the first time. [11]
- It matters not what comes to Tekewani; he is as the leaf that falls from the stem; but for Summer Song that has far to go, it is the madness from beyond the Hills of Life. [11]
- Before joining the Western Army which was then, in May, encamped at Drissa, Prince Andrew visited Bald Hills which was directly on his way, being only two miles off the Smolensk highroad. [2]
- Down from the west, through hills that crowded on either side to divert it from its course, ran the sparkling Deerfield, from among the springs and trout streams of the Hoosac, merrily going on to the great Connecticut. [4]
- The Sparrow Hills were visible in the distance, with the village, the church, and the large white house. [2]
- To the east were the dreary wastes of Labrador, to the west were the desolate plains and hills, stretching to the valley of the Saskatchewan. [11]
- Spades and shovels were soon procured, and before the moon had set, the wild horse of the Pampas was at rest under the turf at the wayside, in the far village among the hills of New England. [6]
- The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
- Arches and poles were being put up, to be decorated against the feast- day, and piles of wood for bonfires were arranged at points on the hills round the village. [11]
- Hundreds, maybe thousands, were being killed off there in the hills. [11]
- Then the word went through the valley and the hills, that one evening he would play for all who came; and that day was "Toussaint," or the Feast of All Souls. [11]
- On Sunday the weather broke in a violent storm of wind and rain, and at sunset, when it abated, there were portentous gleams on the hills, and threatening clouds lurking about the sky. [4]
- No one showed weariness, and when the dawn broke slow and soft over the eastern hills, I motioned my good boatmen towards the shore, and landed safely. [11]
- In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor--a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills. [5]
- Day after tomorrow we leave for the hills beyond Elmira, N. Y. for the summer, when I shall hope to write a book of some sort or other to beat the people with. [5]
- I know the way to it up in the hills. [11]
- The great hills waved into each other like a vast violet sea, and, in turn, the tiny earth-waves on each separate hill swelled into the larger harmony. [11]
- It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. [5]
- Now, as she watched the day fleeing, and night with swift stealthiness coming on, that unforgettable picture of the Roumanian hills came to her again. [11]
- Governor Dinwiddie, Mr. Washington (alas that, as I write the fragment chapters of my life, among the hills where Montrose my ancestor fought, George leads the colonists against the realm of England! [11]
- And now it was peopled, for there came from a cleft of the hills an army of buffaloes lounging slowly down the waste, with tossing manes and hoofs stirring the snow into a feathery scud. [11]
- Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
- My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious: circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home. [14]
- A September stillness was in the air, a September purple clothed the distant hills, but to Hilary the glories of the day were as things non-existent. [9]
- Surrounded as he was by hills on every side, naked rocks dared the efforts of his energies. [5]
- If there ever was a restaurant there, it must have been in Smyrna's palmy days, when the hills were covered with palaces. [5]
- Beside the hall was a corner lot, heaped high with hills of ashes and rubbish like the vomitings of some filthy volcano; the unsightliness of which was half concealed by huge signs announcing the merits of chewing gums, tobaccos, and cereals. [9]
- We passed the Walnut Hills, the Nogales, the moans of the alligators broke our sleep by night, and at length we came to Natchez, ruled over now by that watch-dog of the Spanish King, Gayoso de Lemos. [9]
- Jack and I walked three or four miles, over the hills, and led the horses. [5]
- If I'm to walk the hills no more on the estate where you are master, let it be so. [11]
- Now, as the visitors came near, she did not turn towards them, but still sat, her chin on her hand, looking out across the hills, in resolute abstraction. [11]
- We left Jonesborough very early in the morning, and rode forever and forever and forever, it seemed to me, over parched deserts and rocky hills, hungry, and with no water to drink. [5]
- There was no valley so darkened by overshadowing hills that it did not see the American flag hauled down on the 13th of April. [6]
- A pleasant green valley lay to the north, and to the south, far off, was the wall of rosy hills that hid the captured town. [11]
- Slightly picturesque this valley is with its winding river and high hills guarding it, and perhaps a person would enjoy a foot-tramp down it; but, I think he would find little peculiar or interesting after he left the neighborhood of the Basin of Minas. [4]
- The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness. [2]
- The road wound upwards, by the valley of a brook, through the hills, now wooded, now spread with pastures that shone golden green in the evening light, the herds gathering at the gate-bars. [9]
- The Governor alone up there in Montreal has enough men to drive you all into the hills of Maine in a week. [11]
- On the way up the hills I had a chance to observe Roscoe closely. [11]
- Midway between the two extremities, on the eastern shore of the lake, is a valley between two hills, which come down to the very edge of the lake, leaving only room enough for a road between their base and the water. [6]
- Her face was turned away from me, towards the red glow of the setting sun above the hills. [9]
- She admired the trim, new houses in which they lived, set upon the slopes of the hills. [9]
- There warn't no trees, nor hills, nor rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea. [5]
- She had been tramping over the hills for a couple of hours, virile, beautiful, and alone. [11]
- In this cavern, tradition says, Saul, the king, sat at midnight, and stared and trembled, while the earth shook, the thunders crashed among the hills, and out of the midst of fire and smoke the spirit of the dead prophet rose up and confronted him. [5]
- It was a town that was compacted together upon the sides and tops of a cluster of small hills. [5]
- They passed away towards the high hills of the north-west-beautiful austere barriers. [11]
- Their path lay towards it, for Pango Dooni hid in the hills, where the sun hung a roof of gold above his stronghold. [11]
- The wise men told us of the Delightful Chateau at the gateway of the hills. [11]
- They walked out together to the summer-house, and stood watching the glory of the light on the western hills. [9]
- When we got to the last place where the pilot could land, the waves were running like hills to the shore, and no boat could live between the ship and the point. [11]
- It is impossible to make any estimate, for the people are fleeing to the hills, so rapid is the rise. [5]
- The hills seem to leap up against the sky as I describe that region where Cynthia Ware was born, and the very old country names help to summon up the picture. [9]
- And she cried to her lord, 'O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
- And she cried to her lord, "O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
- The best way to deal with the striped bug is to sit down by the hills, and patiently watch for him. [4]
- One needs, indeed, to be toned up by the glimpses, under the trees, over the blue water, of the wooded craggy hills, with their shelf-like ledges, which are full of strength and character. [4]
- It is not to be confounded with the French Broad, which originates among the hills of Transylvania, runs northward past Asheville, and finds its way to the Tennessee through the Warm Springs Gap in the Bald Mountains. [4]
- For a long time the silence of the great hills was broken only by the sweet jingle of the bells on the shaft. [9]
- Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. [9]
- The road ran through the forest, and Victoria reflected that the grade, on the whole, was downward to the East Tunbridge station, where the road crossed the track and took to the hills beyond. [9]
- It was as though there was a golden fire behind vast hills of mauve and pink, purple and saffron; but the glow was so soft as to suggest a flame which did not burn; which only shed radiance, colour and an ethereal mist. [11]
- It was as though Peace had made its habitation on the wooded hills, and a second summer had come upon the land, though wintertime was near. [11]
- G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
- You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
- A peaceful place, this Whykokomagh; the lapsing waters of Bras d'Or made a summer music all along the quiet street; the bay lay smiling with its islands in front, and an amphitheater of hills rose behind. [4]
- I have been this summer up in the hills, meditating. [4]
- They passed up this solid river of ice, this giant power at endless strife with the high hills, up towards its head. [11]
- Far back from this level land lay the dark, limestone hills, which had rambled down from Labrador, and, crossing the River St. Lawrence, stretched away into the English province. [11]
- The gate to this kingdom was placed in the West among the sunset hills, where the sun goes down daily,--where he dies. [10]
- Three sides of this charming park are enclosed by the cottages and cabins, which back against the hills, and are more or less embowered in trees. [4]
- In the morning they went forth, and rode into the White Valley where the buffalo were feeding, and sought to steal upon them; but the shots from their guns only awoke the hills, and none were slain. [11]
- In the darkness, they left the hut and passed into the woods, and slowly up through the hills. [11]
- Within these capes they found one of the most pleasant places in the world, majestic navigable rivers, beautiful mountains, hills, and plains, and a fruitful and delightsome land. [4]
- Day after day they followed that flying column, and night after night they heard the sleepers call from the hills. [11]
- For many hours they crept along the side of the mountain, then came slowly down upon pine-crested hills, and over to where a small plain stretched out. [11]
- On these hills there were two wild stallions, each with a small troop of mares; "and it is certain that these stallions would never have approached each other without fighting. [1]
- Out here, on the wind-swept hills that rolled onward and upward to the mountains, the world was his. [9]
- Far over in the western vista a long line of trees, twining through an oasis flanking the city, led out to a point where the desert abruptly raised its hills of yellow sand. [11]
- Caldwell itself, on the west side, is a pretty tree-planted village in a break in the hills, and a point above it shaded with great pines is a favorite rendezvous for pleasure parties, who leave the ground strewn with egg-shells and newspapers. [4]
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