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Monday is likely to be a fairly grey day along with patchy rain and hill fog but brighter spells should develop later in the day for some areas.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

One-hit product wonders have a steep hill to climb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Fyrish Monument, near Alness, is a mock ruin called a folly on the summit of the hill Cnoc Fyrish, which overlooks the Cromarty Firth.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s also a good way to get daily exercise walking or jogging up the hill beyond school dorms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

What would Da say when he came up the road from Galway and Maggie wasn’t at the top of the hill waiting for him?

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

As I drove across the state line, I saw similar landscapes—rolling hills and vivid fall leaves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The main residence spans 5,035 square feet and features four bedrooms and five bathrooms, along with a wraparound porch with unencumbered views of the surrounding Tennessee hills.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Trump is not a fan of Camp David, having visited the presidential bolthole in the scenic Maryland hills near Washington on only a handful of occasions during his two terms in office.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Ronnie Eunson runs Uradale Farm on the west side of the islands and breeds native sheep and cattle which graze on the nearby hills and coastline.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

People said that many times, on moonlight nights, she would put on her wedding dress and go walking in the hills all alone—just walking along with her head bowed.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Then were they ware in the wind where came a rich vessel hilled over with red silk, and the vessel landed fast by them.

From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory

When the plants were about knee high they were "hilled up," as the Indian had done his corn, or the Englishman his cabbage, and considered "laid by."

From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by G. Melvin Herndon

Dusty and weary, but in excellent spirits over the large space that he and the hired man had "hilled up," he went whistling home through the long shadows of the June evening.

From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe

Yas, sah, jes' about the same way, only it has to be hilled higher an' hoed more'n corn.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

I think I hilled those spuds, too, with furrows—or a crop of Indian corn I put in later on.

From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson

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

In wet soils or seasons hilling may be advisable, but very seldom otherwise.

From Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use by F. F. (Frederick Frye) Rockwell