What is "hilltop"

Usage examples of "hilltop".

In the far distance, miles away, on a hilltop overlooking Avignon, stood a palace stronghold with an Oriental appearance, like something from Arabia.

Cuman mercenaries appeared on the hilltop behind them: an entire barbarian nation, thirty thousand strong, and each and every one of them nursing a long-standing hatred of their Pecheneg and Bogomil neighbours.

The house was in the southeast corner of National City somewhere right down next to Chula Vista, on a low flat sandy hilltop behind the old freeway.

FerrasVansen was a child of Dalers Troth, and had grown up only a short distance from the haunted ruins of old Westmarchon days the south wind blew back the mists, the broken shell of its keep could sometimes be seen from the highest hilltops.

The fraters who squat beside us on the hilltop presumably are doing such shunting now.

The sun dappled the landscape in shades of white and gray and the gentle call of the meadowlark kept them company on the isolated hilltop.

It is set on a level hilltop overlooking the Mopan River and it guarded the route from the great city of Tikal, now in Guatemala, to the sea.

Patches of mosslike vegetation covered some of the hilltops, growing mostly on the rotting remains of long-dead trees and grasses.

On the plain below the hilltop where I stood, about a mile away, on tribal land, waited the Panamint Resort and Spa.

He pauses as he senses the concentration of chaos no more than a dozen rods before him on the hilltop.

He said that it, the wind or whatever, was like a cloud or a whorl that was quite a ways above the shrubs, twirling its way to the hilltop where we were.

Gher were looking out at the hilltop fort where Smeugor and Tauri were supposedly hiding.

Its telecamera caught a fleeting glimpse of a man waving from a hilltop, but nothing more.

Daily life on the Ark, however had the Noahs borne it, that yearlong drift in searching circles afloat above their ruined world as the lambs and goats and she-bears and tigers and workhorses and owls and swans and geese among them contended for the best cabin and a preeminent chair upon the deck, all the while scanning the lowering skies, bent against the gales, complaining of the rain, glossed by lightning snaps, watching the far horizon for the first hint of land, for the greening crest of the highest hilltop to appear which they recognized at once and reclaimed as their own.

On the farther side of the bay sprawled the walled city of Pangur Ban, rising from the quays at bayside in tier upon tier of white and gray, crowned by a hilltop castle with its distant blue-green pennant.