Hummocks

Between the hummocks was a slimy, black ooze that covered the bones of more than one unfortunate animal. ❋ Henry Herbert Knibbs (1909)

The whole ice-pack seemed one vast plain, like a bleak moorland in winter, only with little hillocks of ice here and there called hummocks, for the flat pieces of ice were all frozen hard together, and Ara wondered where "Greenland's icy mountains" had all got to. ❋ Gordon Stables (1875)

As the land rose in nine roundish points, which seamen call hummocks, this place was named Nine Hummock Bay. ❋ Arthur Phillip (1776)

Yet the waste has its oases, the "hummocks," where the live-oaks are hung with long festoons of grape-vines, -- where the air is sweet with woodland odors, and vocal with the song of birds. ❋ Various (N/A)

At rare intervals the forest would fall away on either hand, opening up a wide view of cultivated fields, sweeping grandly down in long stripes of tender green to the billowy verdure of the broad savanna, where silvery-sparkling lakes lay imbedded and great round "hummocks" of dark trees uprose like islands in the grassy sea. ❋ Various (N/A)

Time was when they could hardly perceive the advantages of a road laid through the treacherous "hummocks" of the Dismal Swamp, and they called the iron bridge over the Elizabeth "Mahone's Folly" when it was first built, thinking that it would cripple the line. ❋ Unknown (1875)

He had evidently sat still a good while for him, honest man; and he got up with this, and began to pace up and down, looking at the "hummocks," which signified greater meanings to him than to his wife. ❋ Unknown (1865)

The ice in this neighbourhood was covered with innumerable "hummocks," and the floes were from seven to ten feet in thickness. ❋ William Edward Parry (1822)

This research, which appears in the January-February 2010 issue of Journal of Environmental Quality, reports that airborne laser scanning instruments are capable of measuring fine-scale peatland structures such as hummocks and hollows that typically measure less than four meters in size. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Masses are forced up like colossal tombstones on all sides; our sailors call them "hummocks;" here and there the broken ice displays large "holes of water." ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern. ❋ M. Sanjayan (2011)

Here in coastal NC the Oak trees tend to be bunched together in groves (or hummocks if you will) on high ground surrounded by marsh or other lowland scrub. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In it the young Davey Burnie travels by dugout canoe through the Everglades on his way to the Florida Keys, sleeping on island hummocks and eating stew made from alligators that were captured by Seminoles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was terrified of the dark water distance between these hummocks and finally stood marooned and bawling on a quivering clump, unable to make it to the next one. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Mr. Shoemaker probed with a stick the hummocks where they hang out and found the morning's first bog turtle that way. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

There was virtually no outside. he stockade fence, crazily staggering an up-and-down course never more than ten yards from the hut, enclosed a wilderness of brushwood, hummocks, rocky slopes and boulders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[I love] to [hummock] with [my girl] ❋ Hummock (2021)

[I love] to [hummock] [with friends] ❋ Hummock (2021)