hommock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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When we would wake up, after a short nap, every old log and hommock about us would be covered with 'gators.'
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We waded about in the water, tall grass and cane, and after a while found a little mound or hommock, which projected above the water, and on which we perched ourselves for the night.
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Outside the hommock extended the fields under cultivation, until bounded in the distance by tall forests of cypress and white cedar—a sort of impenetrable morass that covered the country for miles beyond.
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My father had procured for me a brace of splendid greyhounds; and it was a favourite pastime with me to conceal myself in the hommock, wait for the deer and turkeys as they approached, and then course them across the savanna.
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An indigo flat lay between the hommock and the maize.
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