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"A wall of orange flames came roaring up over the hill," Barnes said.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

It should be noted, however, that before construction began, Universal Studios did place speakers on its old special effects and stunt buildings to see how noise traveled down the hill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The next hill to conquer is social control.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Home to more than 115,000 residents, Manshiyet Nasser is a predominantly Coptic Christian neighbourhood nestled beneath the Mokattam hill and facing Cairo's historic Citadel.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

I asked, glancing back toward the house on the hill.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Authorities said they hadn’t yet pinpointed a cause for the Dove fire, which burned in the hills southwest of Sonora — a town outside of Yosemite National Park in southern Tuolumne County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO—In the months after Sam Kirchner disappeared in November, Matthew Hall searched for him on city streets where homeless live and in wooded hills where campers hide away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

They wander among the houses -- painted mostly in shades of white, yellow or brown -- and go biking or hiking in the surrounding hills of central Slovakia.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

“Set against a backdrop of rolling hills, this thoughtfully upgraded residence delivers a lifestyle defined by comfort, connection, and effortless indoor-outdoor flow,” the listing notes.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

The rising sun was quickly burning off the fog, and if Clare squinted his one good eye, the mounds of trash almost looked like the rolling hills of a multicolored countryside.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

When the plants were about knee high they were "hilled up," as the Indian had done his corn, or the Englishman his cabbage, and considered "laid by."

From Tobacco in Colonial Virginia "The Sovereign Remedy" by Herndon, G. Melvin

Yas, sah, jes' about the same way, only it has to be hilled higher an' hoed more'n corn.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

The corn, as soon as shot out of the earth, is weeded: when it mounts up, and its stalks are an inch big, it is hilled, to secure it against the wind.

From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz

Holes were then to be dug at least 8 feet apart, one foot square, and one foot deep, and in each two or three roots planted and well hilled up.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)

This frame is placed with the small end down at the point where the seeds are to be planted, and the earth is hilled up about it and firmly packed with the feet.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

Prevailing industry practices often involve the concentrated application of fertilizers during the planting or hilling phases, particularly in Atlantic Canada.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2023

At the usual first hilling time, Dowding pulls a little nearby compost around each plant in a minimound, later adding more from the heap as the plants need hilling again.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

He mentions that the Potawatomi word for “hill” is a verb: “Hills are always in the process of hilling, they are actively being hills.”

From New York Times ● May 27, 2020

On an afternoon in March, Loïc Gouzer, a specialist in contemporary art at Christie’s New York, attended a hilling session to survey several works that had been secured for an upcoming auction.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

New England Homestead: Nearly level culture, hand-hoeing and slightly hilling but once, and keeping the cultivator running, was recommended at the Waterbury meeting as the best culture for potatoes.

From The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various