hillside

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With encouragement from Kincaid, Lee, 49, began by planting small sages that would grow quickly and help prevent erosion, since water, mulch and rain often ran down the hillside to the sidewalk.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

On the morning of 21 October 1966, a colliery spoil tip collapsed on the hillside above Pantglas Junior School, sending tonnes of slurry crashing through the building and nearby houses.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

On Jan. 7, 2025, a monstrous fire ravaged his Pacific Palisades neighborhood on the hillside edge of the ocean, reducing his home to ashes.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

In the local hospital, a modest building nestled within the hillside town's trees and high grass, healthcare workers are rinsing both floor and walls with a chlorine solution.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

Persephone was the radiant maiden of the spring and the summertime, whose light step upon the dry, brown hillside was enough to make it fresh and blooming, as Sappho writes,

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton