Salving his conscience with the idea that this was part of the inspection, he rode on to the clay-pit--a huge scar in a
hillside. But he did not linger long, swinging off again to the left and leaving the road.
A HOUND having started a Hare on the
hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
And when no specks at all were found in several pans, he straightened up and favored the
hillside with a confident glance.
I gather the larkspur Over the
hillside, Blown mid the chaos Of boulder and bellbine; Hating the tyrant Who made me an outcast, Who of his leisure Now spares me no moment: Drinking the mountain spring, Shading at noon-day Under the cypress My limbs from the sun glare.
And when the roaring
hillside broke, And all our world fell down in rain, We saved him, we the Little Folk; But lo!
On the
hillside grew dense bushes and small trees and among the bushes were little open spaces carpeted with long grass, now stiff and frozen.
For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road-- first on one side of a creek and then on the other--occupies the whole bottom of the ravine, being partly cut out of the steep
hillside, and partly built up with bowlders removed from the creek- bed by the miners.
We came at last to the foot of an exceeding steep wood, which scrambled up a craggy
hillside, and was crowned by a naked precipice.
George, I cannot say; but surely a dragon was killed there, for you may see the marks yet where his blood ran down, and more by token the place where it ran down is the easiest way up the
hillside.
The trouble was over in an amazingly short time, for from the judges' stand beside the track the announcer was bellowing the start of the boys' foot-race; and Bert, disappointed, joined Billy and the two girls on the
hillside looking down upon the track.
Just as we had finished talking about skeletons and were drifting into the subject of fossils, Harris and I heard a shout, and glanced up the steep
hillside. We saw men and women standing away up there looking frightened, and there was a bulky object tumbling and floundering down the steep slope toward us.
It was idle, however, to imagine that an airy guest from Monument Mountain, Bald Summit, and old Graylock, shaggy with primeval forests, could see anything to admire in my poor little
hillside, with its growth of frail and insect-eaten locust trees.
hillside - the side or slope of a hill