"Hilltop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... flour to mix a wad of dough, and but a heel of a bacon side to furnish a breakfast. It was so unpromising in his present hungry state that he determined to tramp on a few miles in the hope of lifting Tim Sullivan's ranch-house on the prominent hilltop where, he had been ...
— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden
... standing on a hilltop when she first saw him, facing the east and as motionless as the monument of stones beside him. His ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart
... churchyard seems to be anything but on the hilltop, for one descends to it; but it stands on a ridge, and seen from the north, or, as at the old Blakesware house, from the west, it appears to crown an eminence. The present spire, though slender and tapering, is not that ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... hunt to which the young braves had dashed from the canoes to be in readiness behind the thicket. Before the scattered Hurons could get together for defence, the Onondagas had closed around the hilltop in a cordon. The priest ran here, there, everywhere,—comforting the dying, stopping mutilation, defending the women. All the Hurons were massacred but one man, and the bodies were thrown into the river. With blankets drawn over their ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut
... Republican party in State and Nation marched to imperial triumph. On every hilltop and mountain peak our beacons blazed and we awakened the echoes of every valley with songs ...
— The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays - 1909 • Ambrose Bierce
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