The gardeners piled the soil into a small hummock at the side of the garden. From LearnThat.org.
Just outside the hummock was a cabbage-palm, which, as I have said, abounds in Florida. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting] Reference
Running straight out from behind the hummock was a furrow in the snow like the trail made by an otter. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Snare] Reference
We had to cross what is called a hummock, which was in reality a depression, but not low enough to be swampy. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting] Reference
The next minute he understood, for the hummock gave. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
Graeboe asked as she set him down on a nearby hummock. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
A hummock of earth shaped itself into a receptive chair for him. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Rounding the hummock she stopped, staring at the scene before her. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The greatness of other men is a hummock, over which we can still leap. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
From the north-east point of the three-hummock land, the shore trended. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
Then all in a moment -- they disappeared around the edge of the hummock. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Instead, he gestured at first this rootlet and then that hummock of moss. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Found a dip behind a hummock in the grass and pressed himself down into it. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
Near a small hummock, a loudspeaker rose from its stand, to face the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Made Plans] Reference
Whitey did not know what time it was when he sat down on a hummock to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
The vigilantes peered into the darkness, and made out a hummock on the prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Injun and Whitey to the Rescue] Reference
Only the peaks of the house were visible above the hummock where the cemetery lay. From Wordnik.com. [Old Tin Sorrows]
"Vineyard" I had rested on a hummock and leaned my back against a crumbling pillar. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
With one accord they dropped the thongs and leaped down the side of the ice hummock. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
Then came a cry from their lookout on the hummock crest, and they climbed up beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
There is a small hummock called Bumpers Island Ground on the northern end with depths of. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
But before Orah had finished hers she leaned her head on a grassy hummock, and fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
It was pounded earth, two wheel-ruts with a hummock of brittle dispirited grass running between. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
By the side of the hummock lay a short piece of pine board, once the movable thwart of the float. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
This is a small hummock on the outer parts of a ridge extending out to it from Great Duck island. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
Said a Polar bear'd popped out forninst a hummock an 'chased um -- like tu th' tale av Morley, here. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Dropping to earth again it slouched heavily in the direction of the hummock where Lollie had disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
As Loll neared the tree they saw him branch off the trail and a few minutes later disappear around the hummock. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
The moss clump crept over a fragment of old wood, devoured it and then joined itself to a fellow hummock of moss. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
His black-booted feet balancing the big bike, he hauled it up, over a hummock of ground and onto the narrow ridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
He poised himself on a little hummock of rock, balanced himself for a moment, and then hurled himself through space. From Wordnik.com. [Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds] Reference
The summit of the rafted ice hummock was less than twenty feet above the level of the ice pack and not quite high enough. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
Not a hummock, road, road-house, even to farmers 'residences and blacksmith's shop of which he did not have exact knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
The Harley bounced over a hummock of hard-packed clay and stone, and the bike came down hard, Rourke's jaw set against the impact. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsayer]
Here the soil had not been packed and the roadbed was not yet leveled It was easier for the trees to hummock their roots across it. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
And then I dimly began to realize that part of the effort was owing to the fact that this was by far the highest hummock we had found yet. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
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