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The spot was like a little ravined, hillocky wilderness of sterile rocks, draped with rude vegetation, clinging creepers that twined and twisted through every crevice like green serpents.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile

The hillocky back of that lone ruminant grew black as ink in the glow of sunset.

From The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

First, a prospect, strange to me, of an enclosure of rough and hillocky grass, with a grey stone ruin in the midst, and a wall of rough stones about it.

From A Thin Ghost and Others by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)

On the fourth night, as they crossed the hillocky stump-lot behind the barns, the scent became overpowering, and they found the body of the skunk, where fate had overtaken him, lying beside the path.

From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

A long and hard tussle it was, I assure you, to fight against the indraught, and to drag my frame through the long hillocky gorge.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)