Hill
A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.
The earth raised about the roots of a plant or cluster of plants. [U. S.] See Hill, v. t.
A single cluster or group of plants growing close together, and having the earth heaped up about them; as, a hill of corn or potatoes.
To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon; as, to hill corn.
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Hill Quotations
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron
Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Albert Schweitzer
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo
Hill Translations
hill in Danish is bakke
hill in Dutch is aanaarden
hill in Hungarian is domb, hegy
hill in Italian is collina, pendio, eminenza
hill in Portuguese is monte, colina
hill in Spanish is colina, cerro, cerro
hill in Swedish is kulle, backe
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