What is "granite hills"

Usage examples of "granite hills".

The shark's-tooth silhouette of the granite hills began to alter most subtly.

Though he was still tall and erect, there was such sorrow in Gandang's eyes that made him seem as old as the granite hills that surrounded them.

An hour later he had visited one of the traders and exchanged the cart and the other meagre possessions he no longer needed for a good rifle and one hundred rounds of ammunition, and he sat the broad comfortable back of the mule, its head pointed southwards, as it skirted the granite hills of the indunas.

He struck the well-defined road, leading out of the west, broad enough for two men to walk along it, and aimed directly into the maze of smooth, granite hills.

Until now, the two of them had been traveling through lands fairly similar to those around the Wildwood: a landscape of high granite hills and deep river valleys filled with forests of hardwood and evergreen.

At least, she thought, viewing the bony landscape of granite hills beneath its thin garment of rusty autumn grass, I seem to have come to the right place.

Rivers flowed, more lucid than any water she had ever seen on the granite hills.

Golf courses and horse corrals gave way to steep granite hills covered with thick chaparral.

Fortunately none of us was injured, and when we had disentangled ourselves from the wreckage, and the lesser moon had burst again from below the horizon, we found that we were at the foot of a mighty ice-barrier, from which outcropped great patches of the granite hills which hold it from encroaching farther toward the south.

Pale gray granite hills rose to the west, capped by thick, violet phytids.

Yes, we really had our window onto the world, despite the lack of radio for the local Company newsno reception back in our canyon, because those granite hills kept the feeble broadcast out.

Eastward a belt of trees divides the dunes from a hard stony plain built upon with granite hills.

They crossed a cinderland of caked slurry and volcanic ash imponderable as the burnedout floor of hell and they climbed up through a low range of barren granite hills to a stark promontory where the judge, triangulating from known points of landscape, reckoned anew their course.