What is "hillocks"

Usage examples of "hillocks".

We ground our way through the empty stream bed, past the twin hillocks that formed a natural gateway, and then we were out in the open with the raised line of the doum palms away to our left, and all ahead the land stretching flat like a salt pan to the El Molo manyatta and the port.

They came presently to round hillocks, over which they passed, then they saw a fertile valley, watered by a creek, and beyond that the roofs of a town with orchards behind it.

Beyond the wells, in the direction of the mountains, was an area of confused broken ground, steep but shallow wadis and square hillocks so low as to be virtually only mounds of dense red laterite.

The wash finally faded away, leaving her in prairieland with small hillocks packed as thick as horripilation on a wind-chilled skin, She glanced at the sun, unsnapped a belt pocket and consulted the compass, glanced at the chronometer on her thumb.

We came out between the twin hillocks, the wheels churning gravel as we hit the dip of the lugga, and van Delden had the Lee Enfield instead of his double-barrelled rifle gripped in his big hands.

The hillocks looked like little graves, overgrown with vetch or white cotton-flowers and they had to be careful to avoid sinking into the swamp.

They walked across stony hillocks, tree-roots, moors and fells, clearings and deep recesses, but Victor could not help turning round every now and then to see whether she was following him, for he could not hear her footsteps.

Behind him stretched the expanse of marsh, dotted with reeds and little hillocks of mud that gave way to the channel of the river.

Within a few steps the walls of the shrubbery widened to form a small clearing with a number of grassy hillocks with the grass well worn in parts, and I guessed, with a blush at the thought, that this was where the courting couples came.