Use mounds in a sentence
Sentences ending with mounds
- They made a place for her at the foot of the two mounds. [6]
- At length the army came up behind the city to a place primeval, where the face of the earth was sore and tortured, worn into deep gorges by the rains, and flung up in great mounds. [9]
More example sentences with the word mounds in them
- The white mounds which had risen there had been recognized as tents, even from the Serpent Island. [10]
- But so it was; and the consequence followed that Old Sarum, with all its grand recollections, is but a collection of mounds and hollows,--as much a tomb of its past as Birs Nimroud of that great city, Nineveh. [6]
- He penetrated it to find a considerable stream of water and great half-submerged mounds of brush and sticks, and all about him were old and new gnawed circles at the base of the cottonwoods. [13]
- At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
- He rode along the edge of the stream which wound toward the western end of the slowly looming mounds of stone. [13]
- Nearly all her supplies were landed on one of the mounds to lighten her, and she was headed down stream to relieve those below. [5]
- Scrawled mounds of stone, like mountain waves, seemed to roll up to steep bare slopes and towers. [13]
- The neighbouring stream sparkled, and rolled onward with a tuneful sound; the dew glistened on the green mounds, like tears shed by Good Spirits over the dead. [12]
- Troy, or a portion of it, is situated on and around three large Indian mounds, circular in shape, which rise above the present water about twelve feet. [5]
- The day was perfect, the woods still heavy with summer foliage, and the only signs of autumn were the hay mounds and the yellowing cornstalks stacked amidst the stubble of the fields. [9]
- In the crevices of Cyclopean walls, --in the dust where men lie, dust also,--on the mounds that bury huge cities, the wreck of Nineveh and the Babel-heap,--still that same sweet prayer and benediction. [6]
- There were mounds of blo'monje, of the arrowroot variety,--that being undistinguishable from such as is made with Russia isinglass. [6]
- One of these mounds has been used for many years as the grave-yard, and to-day we saw attenuated cows lying against the marble tomb-stones, chewing their cud in contentment, after a meal of corn furnished by General York. [5]
- In fact a grave-yard, if the mounds were above water, would be appreciated. [5]
- A short distance from the lake were a great number of artificial mounds, three of which were especially noticeable from their size and height. [10]
- And continuous swerving from aisle to aisle between the brush, and leaping little washes and mounds of the pack-rats, and breaking through sage, made rough riding. [13]
- Horror lest her father at that moment be in mortal agony amongst the heaps left by the battle's surges; heaps in which, like mounds of ashes, the fire was not yet dead. [9]
- We looked from different points of view at the mounds and trenches which marked it as a strongly fortified position. [6]
- The houses are all built between these mounds, and hence are all flooded to a depth of eighteen inches on their floors. [5]
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