hommock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“It may be proper to observe that the attack was not made from a hommock, but in a thinly-wooded country—the Indians being concealed by palmettoes and grass.”
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
In a few seconds we were upon the island, and advancing by rapid strides towards the hommock.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
The herd—an antlered buck with several does—had browsed close up to the hommock.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
When we would wake up, after a short nap, every old log and hommock about us would be covered with 'gators.'
From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger
About noon we passed from it into a large tract of hommock, that stretched right and left of our course.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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