And I want there to be a knights army in ships come to invade them, and hill-forts and ... and we can take it in turns to do the writing and the drawing ... ❋ Zornhau (2010)
Old English/Anglo-Saxon adopted this word, in the context of hill-forts, to mean the hills themselves; and as tūn became our word "town", dūn became "down" as in the North and South Downs. ❋ Nwhyte (2008)
Certain it is, she received large sums of money, under pretence of paying off her troops, surrendering of hill-forts, and Heaven knows what besides. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He was too apt to contrast it with Damascus: the wind-swept Istrian hills with the zephyr-ruffled Lebanon, the dull red plains of the Austrian sea-board with the saffron of the desert, the pre-historic castellieri or hill-forts, in which, nevertheless, he took some pleasure, with the columned glories of ❋ Unknown (2003)
A good two hundred and fifty miles lay between the camp and Sammael's great hill-forts across a plain of grass where a fifty-foot rise was considered a tall hill and a thicket of two hides a forest. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1994)
There was a ... place ... that he knew how to enter, a strange, unpeopled reflection of the real world, and he had walked the wooden walls of those massive hill-forts there. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1994)
They dug themselves into the best of the local hill-forts, mended its walls, provisioned it, and waited upon events. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)
Alexander took the hill-forts one by one, except those that surrendered. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)
He learned wonderful skill and cunning in taking hill-forts. ❋ Renault, Mary (1972)
Hitherto we have seen the Zouaves only in time of active war, or in the defence of hill-forts, obliged to unity through fear of an ever-menacing foe, and laboring for their own preservation or comfort only; but now commenced a new training for them, no less severe and dangerous, in which they showed themselves equally willing and competent, -- a war against stubborn Nature in all her most forbidding aspects. ❋ Various (N/A)
He was too apt to contrast it with Damascus: the wind-swept Istrian hills with the zephyr-ruffled Lebanon, the dull red plains of the Austrian sea-board with the saffron of the desert, the pre-historic castellieri or hill-forts, in which, nevertheless, he took some pleasure, with the columned glories of Baalbak and Palmyra. ❋ Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 (1906)
There were two hill-forts in Numidia which still remained in ❋ Charles Morris (1877)
The captives were carried first to Peshawur and afterwards to a succession of hill-forts in the direction of the Caucasus, while their countrymen at home, long before they had become familiar with the tragedy of the Indian Rebellion, burned with indignation and thrilled with horror at the possible fate of those victims of a treacherous, vindictive Afghan chief. ❋ Sarah Tytler (1870)
Passing between the river and a detached conical hill of limestone, capped with a flat mass of sandstone, the spur of Rotas broke suddenly on the view, and very grand it was, quite realising my anticipations of the position of these eyrie-like hill-forts of India. ❋ Unknown (1864)
As soon as they heard of you, they obeyed you; but the strange children dissembled with you: 'yet before you, too,' the strange children failed, and trembled in their hill-forts. ' ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)
In many parts of our country our old sepulchral cairns, hill-forts, castles, churches, and abbeys, have been most thoughtlessly and reprehensibly allowed, by those that chanced to be their proprietors for the time, to be used as mere quarries of ready stones for the building of villages and houses, and for the construction of field-dikes and drains. ❋ James Young Simpson (1840)
As they had carried off all their provisions into hill-forts, the Greeks could obtain no supplies, but lived all the time upon the cattle which they had acquired from the Taochi. ❋ George Grote (1832)
Nothing can be more probable than that in the first class of cases we have eminences that had been selected as beacon-stations, which had not previously been occupied by hill-forts; and in the last, eminences that had been occupied by hill-forts which, from their want of prominence in the general landscape, had not been selected as beacon-stations. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
George, -- that there are detached vitrified masses to be found on eminences evidently never occupied by hill-forts; or that there are hill-forts on other eminences only partially fused, or hill-forts on many of the less commanding sites that bear about them no marks of fire at all. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
