What is "desert hills"

Usage examples of "desert hills".

For many weeks they wandered over grasslands, desert hills, and at last they came into the great forest, a thousand fighting-men with their women and children.

When he awoke, finally, the dawn was lemon yellow above the desert hills.

Laden trucks tended to pass her going uphill, but she made it, and Anne dropped with a sigh of satisfaction down into the disturbingly unnatural green of California's central valley, where rice paddies grew at the base of desert hills.

Mage-sight showed only exactly what stood before her in normal sight, not the bandit of the desert hills!

How many people insist on running up desert hills in boots to cut stone?

But, as she stood with one hand on either side of the rock archway, she felt a faint, obscure vibration in the rock, and on the chill, stale air was the trace of a scent that did not belong there: the smell of the wild sage that grew on the desert hills, overhead, under the open sky.

She had him wildly off balance and he didn't know how to cope with her or this, to say the least, remarkable situation: sharing a house, a small bungalow, really, on the edge of a secret airfield in the midst of desert hills.

Rudy's hobby of hunting with bow and arrow had given him a familiarity with half the wild country left in Southern California, a knowledge of these silent desert hills as casual as his knowledge of the inner workings of a V-8 engine or of the floor plan of his own sparsely furnished apartment.

If Berfir invades Kyphros, I'll get plenty of warning, and it's easier to fight in our desert hills than in the mountains.