Distances were deceptive in such unremarkable terrain; one sandy hillock looked much like the next.

To the south-west a sandy hillock was observed, which proved to be on Captain Baudin's Peron Island.

The emperor looked down on the sandy hillock on which they stood, then upward at the bright-blue sky above their heads.

Upon the point there is a sandy hillock, and a reef of rocks extends out from it a quarter of a mile.

It is a town of above three hundred houses, built round the base of a sandy hillock, the church being on the hill.

I swayed for a moment in the wind like a tree, finding it hard to keep my upright position on the sandy hillock.

He was looking out of the window upon Pall Mall, but his eyes saw a little sandy hillock with blades of sprouting grass.

We were at the foot of a sandy hillock of peculiar shape, much like, as far as I could tell, a truncated cone.

She called for Jim, and from the back of the sandy hillock, where he had been reclining, a broad-shouldered rustic came lurching round to them.

A regiment could lie hidden in the hollows among the twisting deviating sandy hillocks and be passed unnoticed.

Meantime, by command of Vere, all those sandy hillocks and steeps had been thickly sown with musketeers and pikemen.

We were in a region of sandy hillocks feathered by tamarisk, and interspersed with poplar groves slanting like wheat in the wind.

Here he strolled across the links and threw himself down finally amongst a little wave of sandy hillocks close to the sea.

The Heads are low necks of sandy hillocks, one within another, that guard the entrance to the extensive bay of Port Phillip.

On the west are small sandy hillocks which render progress difficult, especially if the ground is at all damp from recent rains.

The party streamed along in laughing and chatting groups, through the warehouse and over the tracks and the sandy hillocks to the hotel.