Hills in example sentence

"I certainly dare not," replied the subaltern, gravely shaking his head, "unless you will take the responsibility of an order; but Major Dunwoodie will be back again in two hours, and we can carry the tidings through the hills before daylight; so that by spreading patrols across, from one river to the other, and offering a reward to the country people, their escape will yet be impossible, unless they can join the party that is said to be out on the Hudson."

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A long time ago, a series of events was set in motion by a people who look like me, by wasichu, eager to take the land and the water and the gold in the hills.

Then there was the congregation who had left their usual church building on the shore to hold a service in the hills.

And I wander about the hills, and I have found a few things.

Is this how we feel about the pressures of our world, that in order to get inside ourselves, you have to run for the hills?

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