hill
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"After I had reached the top of the hill, I received a call from my father. He was tearful and I could not speak a word then," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
"We ran for our lives and spent more than 48 hours on a hill before help finally arrived."
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
“It’s a hidden location, like it’s way up a hill, so we didn’t get the foot traffic we usually would have. And it was way too short of notice.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
ALEDO, Texas—The vault lies inside a grassy hill, next to the rolling Texas prairie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
He trotted to the foot of the hill and stared at the right trail.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Its sweeping vistas of the region’s hills, mountains and rivers make visible Church’s lifelong engagement with nature; the landscape design of its expansive 250 acres was also his.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Little by little, Bordeaux’s sprawl has reached into the rolling hills of some of France’s most celebrated vineyards — Médoc to the north, Entre-Deux-Mers to the east, Pessac-Léognan to the south.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
She had travelled in the hills before and gone hiking with her family.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Among them was a Parton cousin, Brent Allen, who said he grew up a stone's throw from the music legend on the hills of Locust Ridge above Sevierville.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
I was firmly convinced that he was the smartest man in those Ozark hills anyhow.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
The corn, as soon as shot out of the earth, is weeded: when it mounts up, and its stalks are an inch big, it is hilled, to secure it against the wind.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
Holes were then to be dug at least 8 feet apart, one foot square, and one foot deep, and in each two or three roots planted and well hilled up.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler
Master of the games of the fair hilled Taillten, King of Tara of a hundred conflicts; Chief of Fodla the noble, Aed of Oileac who died too soon.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
At the end of the second season the vines should be pruned to about three eyes or buds, and the soil hilled up around them so as to cover them up completely.
From The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by George Husmann
These were immediately taken on board, and consisted of two sheep, an elk ready hilled, and a few fowls, with some vegetables and fruit.
That hilling up promotes leeks with longer white shanks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023
He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”
From New York Times ● May 27, 2020
On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016
High hilling up originated in England, where their cool, humid, cloudy atmosphere demands it, to secure more warmth.
From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden
