The hilliness of West Virginia. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But to me it's not the hilliness of the fairway terrain that is most surprising. From Wordnik.com. [Hills in Them There Greens] Reference
It takes about half an hour each way, and hopefully if I do it often enough eventually the hilliness will stop hurting so much. From Wordnik.com. [Embrace the Princetonness] Reference
Associated Press Hills like these at Augusta National are expected, but the hilliness of the greens are particularly hard to pick up on television. From Wordnik.com. [Hills in Them There Greens] Reference
The invalids and animals have improved during their stay here, and we start this morning on about our last bearing generally, although we cannot go direct from the hilliness of the country. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
Their hilliness has allowed them to miss out on cultivation and act as wilderness preserves, though a couple have been partly quarried or suburbanized, and Mount Royal itself is either downtown or park. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference
That section will also get better shoulders and grading work will cut down the hilliness. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The town already has one or two small wind farms, according to Gibbons, who said the hilliness of the town may attract commercial wind farm builders. From Wordnik.com. [BangorDailyNews.com - News] Reference
Precious will ride from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Tweeting his stats along the way and making assessments over time including comments on the weather, hilliness of the terrain, and speed. From Wordnik.com. [TechCrunch] Reference
The dirty little secret of living in a hilly area like Los Angeles is that, with careful planning, much of the hilliness can be avoided (unlike Ithaca, where, well, you're hosed if you want to get anywhere.). From Wordnik.com. [communicatrix] Reference
Actually it wasn´t particularly difficult mountain biking terrain in terms of hilliness but the roads were a mess and many sections were still covered with water even though the brunt of the rainy season would have been weeks ago. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
My experience enables me to pronounce without hesitation that the disorder, for such it is though it appears here to mark a distinct race of people (orang-gunong), is immediately connected with the hilliness of the country, and of course, if the circumstances of the water they use contribute thereto, it must be only so far as the nature of the water is affected by the inequality or height of the land. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
It's the hilliness of the greens. From Wordnik.com. [Hills in Them There Greens] Reference
But the king’s left wing being broken up by the hilliness of the place, Titus observing it, and cherishing little or no hopes on that side where his own gave ground, makes in all haste to the other, and there charges in upon the Macedonians; who, in consequence of the inequality and roughness of the ground, could not keep their phalanx entire, nor line their ranks to any great depth, (which is the great point of their strength,) but were forced to fight man for man under heavy and unwieldy armor. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference
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