Ravna sat back in the hollow formed by the hummocky moss. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
Two grown-up people riding on one bicycle over a hummocky road!. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
Ecoregion 67d is composed of broken, dissected, almost hummocky ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
Ecoregion 67i is composed of broken, dissected, almost hummocky ridges. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
"Just above the spray line," he said, nodding up the rock's hummocky surface. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The hummocky greenness reminded one of nothing so much as a seaside golf-course. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Ecoregion 56a is a hummocky morainal area with cropland, woodlots, and many lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)] Reference
Near the ice sheet, it has a hummocky smooth surface with relatively few crevasses. From Wordnik.com. [Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland] Reference
In places, beach ridges, hummocky stagnation moraines, kettles, and kames can be found. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)] Reference
With his unengaged arm, he clasped me to his side as we walked across the hummocky ground. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
They were almost a mile away, in camouflage jackets, belly crawling across the hummocky terrain. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
In front of me stretches a frozen field of hummocky ice, like that I had seen in my first vision. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
Pieces, about the size of a cottage, of glacier – ice or of hummocky pack washed clear of snow. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
The Salt Plains ecoregion is composed of salt flats, scattered hummocky mounds, islands, and lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
Their meeting place was a small hummocky island in the swamp near the edge of the Skyshroud Forest. From Wordnik.com. [Nemesis]
Ecoregion 54f is a hilly, hummocky to rolling area containing moraines, kames, eskers, and outwash plains. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)] Reference
A more restricted use than the above, to include hummocky floes or close areas of young ice and light floes. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
He got out his pick and resolutely set off on a prospecting jaunt to a hummocky field that might yield some oxides. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar] Reference
De Geer moraines, drumlin fields, transverse moraines and hummocky moraines occur there but do not form archipelagoes. From Wordnik.com. [Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden] Reference
We went through a garden transformed into a dust-bin, and dipped down a hummocky slope that rose again to a chalky ridge. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
But he repeated the order in an angry voice, pointing to a water-flooded hummocky spot where there could not be anything. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Even when a slag-heap sinks, as it does ultimately, only an evil brown grass grows on it, and it retains its hummocky surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
We passed at least two hundred bergs during the day, and we noticed also large masses of hummocky bay – ice and ice – foot. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
It is nearly level to hilly, and is physiographically distinct from the hummocky, lake - and marsh-studded Kettle Moraines (53b). From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)] Reference
For the first few miles it was quite wide, and as I kept to the eastern side there was a great expanse of hummocky snow to my right. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
Associated with the rougher hummocky glacial till are a large number of small lakes, ponds and sloughs occupying shallow depressions. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Aspen forests and parklands] Reference
The course during the afternoon was east – south – east through loose pack and open water, with deep hummocky floes to the south. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
Precambrian bedrock outcrops and discontinuous shallow and deep deposits of hummocky to ridged moraine are the main surface materials. From Wordnik.com. [Taiga ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
It was a big berg, and we noticed as it lay on the north – west horizon that it had a hummocky, crevassed appearance at the east end. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
They were all sprawled, posed, lounging on low benches and some hummocky hassocky things which seemed to have grown up out of the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth] Reference
The surface of the uplands is dominated by peat-covered, rolling to hummocky, sandy morainal deposits with sloped that range 5-30 percent. From Wordnik.com. [South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens] Reference
This ice develops its distinctive hummocky appearance through thermal weathering, becoming harder and almost salt-free over several years. From Wordnik.com. [Marine Arctic] Reference
Up she rose and down she fell upon a great hummocky swell which came lazily up from the S.W., making our horizon from the boat all uneven. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
The route, however, lay over very hummocky floes, and required much work with pick and shovel to make it passable for the boat – sledges. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
It is archaeology that has broken up the hummocky ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Economist: Correspondent's diary]
The barrier is not yet entirely cut away, and several lakes are held in shallow basins on its hummocky surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
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