Hills
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"What! were you ever so near death as that?""Have I not been the hunted beast of these
hills
for three years past?" resumed Harvey; "and once they even led me to the foot of the gallows itself, and I escaped only by an alarm from the royal troops.
"Had we not better leave our horses," said Henry, "and make for the
hills
across the fields, on our left?
At the foot of the hills, and for some distance up the dark valley that wound among the mountains, a thick underwood of saplings had been suffered to shoot up, where the heavier growth was felled for the sake of the fuel.
"Remember, they have foot as well as horse, and, at any rate, we shall starve in the hills."
"Fear nothing, Captain Wharton," returned the peddler, with confidence; "this is not the mountain that I would be on, but necessity has made me a dexterous pilot among these
hills.
"No man can travel these
hills
after dark, unless used to the passes.
"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."
All of the neighboring
hills
were distinctly visible by the aid of the moon, and Frances was able, where she stood, to trace the route of the highway, from the plains into the mountains.
Miss Wharton," he added, advancing before Frances, and speaking with the bitter melancholy that was common to him, "I am hunted through these
hills
like a beast of the forest; but whenever, tired with my toils, I can reach this spot, poor and dreary as it is, I can spend my solitary nights in safety.
Instead of taking the road that led by the encampment, they turned short to the left and entered the
hills.
But I waste the precious moments; we must go through the
hills
to-night, that we may be refreshed in time for the duty of to-morrow.
Two hours will take me through the hills; and by noon to-morrow I will return with Washington's pardon for your brother, and Henry will help to enliven our nuptials."
After walking at a great rate for three hours, they suddenly diverged from the road, which inclined to the east, and held their course directly across the hills, in a due south direction.
Come, then, and eat, for no horse will be in our way, if we can hold our legs for four hours longer, and the sun keeps behind the
hills
as long as common."
He wound among the
hills
and vales, now keeping the highways and now avoiding them, with a precision that seemed instinctive.
To the north, the broken fragments of the Highlands threw upwards their lofty heads, above masses of fog that hung over the water, and by which the course of the river could be traced into the bosom of
hills
whose conical summits were grouping togather, one behind another, in that disorder which might be supposed to have succeeded their gigantic, but fruitless, efforts to stop the progress of the flood.
The boat pulled from the shore, and Birch turned on his heel, drawing his breath, like one relieved, and shot up the
hills
with the strides for which he was famous.
But, after traveling a few miles on the immediate banks of the river, during which, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the Skinner to establish something like sociability, he maintained a most determined silence, keeping a firm hold of the gun, and always maintaining a jealous watchfulness of his associate, the peddler suddenly struck into the highway, with an intention of crossing the
hills
towards Harlem.
The bugle of the Virginians struck up its martial tones; and in a few moments both the hills, the one held by the royal troops and the other by their enemies, were alive with armed men.
The dragoons retired slowly through the hills, conveying their wounded commander, and the body of Lawton.
Then Tom marched out of the house and over the
hills
and far away, to return to school no more that day.
Yet he was as lithe as a boy, and he was as tough as whalebone, walking all day over the
hills
or rowing on the sea without turning a hair.
I remembered then that on that day she had driven over to Berwick, while de Lapp had been away on a long walk, as he said, among the
hills.
A scene more full of peace you could not think of, and look where you would over the low curving corn-covered hills, you could see the little village steeples pricking up their spires among the poplars.
And with this kind of disposition she does more harm in this country than if the plague had got into it, for her affability and her beauty draw on the hearts of those that associate with her to love her and to court her, but her scorn and her frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so they know not what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and hard-hearted, and other names of the same sort which well describe the nature of her character; and if you should remain here any time, senor, you would hear these
hills
and valleys resounding with the laments of the rejected ones who pursue her.
And driving his ass before him he begged his master to follow, who, feeling that Sancho was right, did so without replying; and after proceeding some little distance between two
hills
they found themselves in a wide and retired valley, where they alighted, and Sancho unloaded his beast, and stretched upon the green grass, with hunger for sauce, they breakfasted, dined, lunched, and supped all at once, satisfying their appetites with more than one store of cold meat which the dead man's clerical gentlemen (who seldom put themselves on short allowance) had brought with them on their sumpter mule.
Well, then, as this is clear to my mind, I can venture to make him believe things that have neither head nor tail, like that affair of the answer to the letter, and that other of six or eight days ago, which is not yet in history, that is to say, the affair of the enchantment of my lady Dulcinea; for I made him believe she is enchanted, though there's no more truth in it than over the
hills
of Ubeda."
I am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and here in a second thou hast shot out a whole litany of them, which have as much to do with what we are talking about as 'over the
hills
of Ubeda.'Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar."When
To this Sancho made answer, "The three kerchiefs I have; but the garters, as much as 'over the
hills
of Ubeda.'"
"And I am for north," said I, "because there are no
hills
there, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up any.""Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty diversity of opinion.
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