Word Finder - hill

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An elevated location smaller than a mountain.

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The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

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A sloping road.

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You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

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A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

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A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

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a hill of corn or potatoes

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The pitcher’s mound.

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To form into a heap or mound.

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To heap or draw earth around plants.

She climbed the hill with dragging steps.

The car spun around at the bottom of the hill, spraying gravel in a wild circle.

She reached the top of the hill and gasped.

We know that a hill is not highest at its narrowest part.

That's one beaut of a hill.

Slowly she made her way down the hill and into the barn lot.

She ran harder up the hill.

Winter was on hill and field.

He reached her and turned, walking beside her as they started back up the hill to the house.

He turned his mount and started up the hill at a lope.

Resolved, she trailed her father down the hill, through the people who couldn't see them, and to the awaiting car.

As they started back down the hill, he finally spoke.

At the bottom of the hill a sharp turn waited.

The scene from the hill was breathtaking.

We climbed high hill and teacher fell and hurt her head.

Leaving her thoughts behind, she started up the hill to meet Alex.

At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving.

I can see them at the crest of the hill.

She glanced back over her shoulder at the log house on the hill.

Together they slid down the hill on make believe sleighs and waded the creek.

Other institutions include the Woolwich polytechnic and the Brook fever hospital, Shooter's Hill.

The two Pavlograd squadrons, having crossed the bridge, retired up the hill one after the other.

She was reaching for her phone when she saw Josh coming up the hill.

The Tell el-Amarna letters show that, long before the invasion by Joshua, it was occupied by the Egyptians, and was probably a stronghold of considerable importance, as it formed a good strategical position in the hill country of southern Palestine.

The exact position of the Jebusite city is unknown; some authorities locate it on the western hill, now known as Zion; some on the eastern hill, afterwards occupied by the Temple and the city of David; while others consider it was a double settlement, one part being on the western, and the, other on the eastern hill, separated from one another by the Tyropoeon valley.

According to his theory, the part of Jerusalem known as Jebus was situated on the western hill, and the outlying fort of Zion on the eastern hill.

He established his royal city on the eastern hill close to the site of the Jebusite Zion, while Jebus, the town on the western side of the Tyropoeon valley, became the civil city, of which Joab, David's leading general, was appointed governor.

Nehemiah mentions a number of places on the eastern hill, including the tomb of David, the positions of which cannot with our present knowledge be fixed with any certainty.

Other writers again have placed the Acra on the eastern side of the hill upon which the church of the Holy Sepulchre now stands, but as this point was probably quite outside the city at the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, and is at too great a distance from the Temple, it can hardly be accepted.

The Greeks held out for a considerable time, but had finally to surrender, probably from want of food, to Simon Maccabaeus, who demolished the Acra and cut down the hill upon which it stood so that it might no longer be higher than the Temple, and that there should be no separation between the latter and the city.

When Titus and his army withdrew from Jerusalem, the 10th legion was left as a permanent Roman garrison, and a fortified camp for their occupation was established on the western hill.

Bethlen accepted the title but refused to be crowned, and war was resumed, till the defeat of the Czechs at the battle of the White Hill gave a new turn to affairs.

The Broken Hill lode is the largest yet discovered.

At Broken Hill mines about 11,000 miners are employed.

Deposits have also been found in the New England and southern districts, as well as at Broken Hill, showing that the mineral is widely distributed throughout the state.

The association of this metal with silver in the Broken Hill mines of New South Wales adds very greatly to the value of the product.

Asbestos has been found in New South Wales in the Gundagai Bathurst and Broken Hill districts - in the last-mentioned district in considerable quantities.

Nebuchadrezzar placed in the city a garrison which appears to have been quartered on the western hill, while the eastern hill on which were the Temple and the city of David was left more or less desolate.

The exact size of the city is not known, but it probably extended as far as the present north wall of Jerusalem and included the northern part of the western hill.

Behind the Royal Military Academy is a mineral well, the "Shooter's Hill waters" mentioned by Evelyn.

The Roman Watling Street crossed Shooter's Hill, and a Roman cemetery is supposed to have occupied the site of the Royal Arsenal, numerous Roman urns and fragments of Roman pottery having been dug up in the neighbourhood.

They consist of a number of circular or rectangular pits sunk from the cap of a hill, and going down to a depth of in some cases as much as 120 ft., until in fact the miners have been stopped by being unable to cope with the quantity of water made when the level of the valley was reached.

The city consists of two parts; the modern French town, built on the level ground by the seashore, and the ancient city of the deys, which climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the kasbah or citadel, 400 ft.

The hill on which Sessa lies is a mass of volcanic tufa.

In 1712 the Blue Hill lands were divided between Milton and Braintree, and in 1868 part of Milton was included in the new township of Hyde Park.

On the 22nd of August 1620 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Bourchier, a city merchant of Tower Hill, and of Felstead in Essex; and his father having died in 1617 he settled at Huntingdon and occupied himself in the management of his small estate.

The Scots under Leslie followed him, occupied Doon Hill commanding the town, and seized the passes between Dunbar and Berwick which Cromwell had omitted to secure.

But Leslie descended the hill to complete his triumph, and Cromwell immediately observed the disadvantages of his antagonist's new position, cramped by the hill behind and separated from his left wing.

Faringdon House, close to the church, was built by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, who also caused to be planted the conspicuous group of fir-trees on the hill east of the town called Faringdon Clump, or locally (like other similar groups) the Folly.

When the prisoners were landed a fortnight later Sir George Hill recognized Tone in the French adjutant-general's uniform.