Hillocky

After the barbed wire and vast flat landscapes of Californian agribusiness, she reveled in the small, irregular, hillocky Irish fields, their rainwashed drystone walls and ancient hedges. ❋ Raban, Jonathan (2009)

I clutched the handle as the rickshaw crested a hillocky part of the dirt road. ❋ Anuradha Roy (2008)

Headless, the body was that of a stranger, grotesque in the bumps that it was made up of: a large – no, hillocky – bump of a chest, an almost equally bulbous curve at the stomach, and then the falling away of thin legs beneath a cotton sari. ❋ Anuradha Roy (2008)

A long and hard tussle it was, I assure you, to fight against the indraught, and to drag my frame through the long hillocky gorge. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Up this lane I went to the very top of the mountain wall, and then, to my surprise, found myself facing a great, hillocky, rock-encumbered plain, across the other side of which rose the mass of the peak itself, not as a single cone, but as a wall surmounted by several, three being evidently the highest among them. ❋ Unknown (2003)

No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Its body — dusky, enormous, hillocky — lies spread upon the sea like an islet. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The constable, without waiting for an answer, precipitated himself in a gallop along the hillocky ground, waving his hands in the direction of the garden. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Two days without water in the hillocky, sand-covered, August furnace of the Gobi and I felt the first flutterings of fear. ❋ Underwood, Lamar (2001)

Head down, once again avoiding his eyes, she stepped clumsily through the soft hillocky dirt in Burton's grandmother's big rubber boots. ❋ Kilby, Joan (1999)

The potato flower seen in both Jacobean and Portuguese embroideries is an example of the habit of recording the latest novelty, the strawberry was also popular on this account, and is frequently introduced in those hillocky foregrounds, which, to me, appear one of the most interesting evidences of combined influences. ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)

The ruins of the early village cover a hillocky area of about 800 by 250 feet, but it is impossible to trace much of the ground plan with accuracy. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

The hill rose up behind him and sent him down its hillocky slopes as though before the horns of an avalanche. ❋ Unknown (1922)

It bounded on in great billows, green, hillocky and terribly swift, like a liquid toboggan slide. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The hillocky back of that lone ruminant grew black as ink in the glow of sunset. ❋ Various (1915)

Outside the verandahs, and all around the house, was what was to be known later as the garden, a grassy stretch of hillocky ground, well scratched and beaten down by dogs, goats, and fowls; fenceless itself, being part of the grassy acres which were themselves fenced round to form the homestead enclosures. ❋ Jeannie Gunn (1915)