Word Finder - hills

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An elevated location smaller than a mountain.

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The park is sheltered from the wind by a hill to the east.

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A sloping road.

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You need to pick up speed to get up the hill that's coming up.

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A heap of earth surrounding a plant.

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A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them.

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a hill of corn or potatoes

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The pitcher’s mound.

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To form into a heap or mound.

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To heap or draw earth around plants.

The hills were beautiful.

The hills are the tough part.

I realized that when I went up into the hills that day.

He loved to climb hills, the higher the better.

The hills were a profusion of snowy dogwood and pink plumb and cherry blossoms.

You know, that's precisely why I don't want you up in the hills alone.

The Arakan Yomas starting from Cape Negrais extend northwards more or less parallel with the coast till they join the Chin and Naga hills.

It is a narrow strip of country lying between the Bay of Bengal and the high range of hills which form the eastern boundary of the province towards Siam.

I miss my house though... and my walks in the hills.

She told Sam what happened, including the part where she disobeyed Alex and rode up into the hills alone.

Settled into a backdrop of wooded hills, was the little log cabin.

Occasionally such hills are called plat, i.e.

Of these Arakan is a strip of country lying on the seaward slopes of the range of hills known as the Arakan Yomas.

First, there is the highland tract including the hilly country at the sources of the Chindwin and the upper waters of the Irrawaddy, the Upper Chindwin, Katha, Bhamo, Myitkyina and Ruby Mines districts, with the Kachin hills and a great part of the Northern Shan states.

But the greater part of this country is a mass of rugged hills cut deep with narrow gorges, within which even the biggest rivers are confined.

This tract consists mostly of undulating lowlands, but it is broken towards the south by the Pegu Yomas, a considerable range of hills which divides the two remaining tracts of the Irrawaddy basin.

The whole is comprised in the districts of Toungoo and Thaton, part of the Karen-ni hills, with the Salween hill tract and the northern parts of Amherst, which form the northern portion of the Tenasserim administrative division.

They then form part of a system of ranges which curve north of the sources of the Chindwin river, and with the Kumon range and the hills of the Jade and Amber mines, make up a highland tract separated from the great Northern Shan plateau by the gorges of the Irrawaddy river.

Compared with these ranges the Pegu Yomas assume the proportions of mere hills.

Spurs of the Chin hills run down the whole length of the Lower Chindwin district, almost to Sagaing, and one hill, Powindaung, is particularly noted on account of its innumerable cave temples, which are said to hold no fewer than 446,444 images of Buddha.

Huge caves, of which the most noted are the Farm Caves, occur in the hills near Moulmein, and they too are full of relics of their ancient use as temples, though now they are chiefly visited in connexion with the bats, whose flight viewed from a distance, as they issue from the caves, resembles a cloud of smoke.

The Chindwin, called in its upper reaches the Tanai, rises in the hills south-west of Thama, and flows due north till it enters the southeast corner of the Hukawng valley, where it turns north-west and continues in that direction cutting the valley into two almost equal parts until it reaches its north-west range, when it turns almost due south and takes the name of the Chindwin.

This river, rising in the Sham-Karen hills, flows first due north and then southward through the Kyaukse, Yamethin and Toungoo districts, its line being followed by the Mandalay-Rangoon railway as far south as Nyaunglebin in the Pegu district.

In the highlands of the Shan hills there are the Inle lakes near Yawnghwe, and in the Katha district also there is another Indaw which covers some 60 sq.

The climate of the Chin and Kachin hills and also of the Shan States is temperate.

Snow is seldom seen either in the Chin or Shan hills, but there are snow-clad ranges in the extreme north of the Kachin country.

The rainfall in the hills varies very considerably, but seems to range from about 60 in.

The chief races of Burma are Burmese (6,508,682), Arakanese (405,143), Karens (717,859), Shans (787,087), Chins (179,292), Kachins (64,405) and Talaings (321,898); but these totals do not include the Shan States and Chin hills.

Pt Kachin hills regulation.

The Chin hills were not declared an integral part of Burma until 1895, but they now form a scheduled district.

Iron is found in many parts of the hills, and is worked by inhabitants of the country.

So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

The Dogwood trees were in full bloom, their aromatic blossoms creating white blotches on the hills.

The triple summit of Beacon Hill, of which no trace remains to-day (or possibly a reference to the three hills of the then peninsula, Beacon, Copp's and Fort) led to the adoption of the name Trimountaine for the peninsula,-a name perpetuated variously in present municipal nomenclature as in Tremont; but on the 17th of September 1630, the date adopted for anniversary celebrations, it was ordered that " Trimountaine shall be called Boston," after the borough of that name in Lincolnshire, England, of which several of the leading settlers had formerly been prominent citizens.'

Northwards lie the Chin and some part of the Kachin hills.

On the east the Kachin, Shan and Karen hills, extending from the valley of the Irrawaddy into China far beyond the Salween gorge, form a continuous barrier and boundary, and tail off into a narrow range which forms the eastern watershed of the Salween and separates Tenasserim from Siam.

This tract consists of a succession of stony ridges of trap rock, enclosing valleys or basins of fertile soil, to which cultivation is for the most part confined, except where the shallow soil on the tops of the hills has been turned to account.

According to Ferishta, the Persian historian, these kingdoms engrossed in 1398 all the hills of Gondwana and adjacent countries, and were of great wealth and power.

She remained silent and gazed out at the hills.

Then she would have to buy some clothes suitable for climbing in the hills.

The narrow state highway stretched like a black ribbon through the forested hills.

Thunder clapped and echoed through the hills.

The chances are slim to none that a tornado will hit this cabin, as sheltered as it is by the hills.

She held the cool glass to the side of her face and gazed out over the hills.

If this cabin had only been in the California hills, instead of so many miles away, it would make an excellent investment.

They traveled through miles of wild country where the hills were covered with a dense undergrowth of brush.

Expensive cars lined the long drive to the mansion overlooking the hills.

He died on the 26th of February 1608, leaving a large fortune from lead mines discovered in the Mendip Hills.

It lies in the upper part of the Ribble valley, amid the wild scenery of the limestone hills of the Pennine system.

The Alleghany Plateau consists of nearly horizontal beds of limestone, sandstone and shales, including important seams of coal; inclines slightly toward the north-west, and is intricately dissected by extensively branching streams into a maze of narrow canyons and steep-sided hills.