Lexicographical Neighbors of Hillcrests
Literary usage of Hillcrests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"From away to the north'ard fancy seemed to waft to her the dull reverberation of
hurtling shells bursting on defensive hillcrests. ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The first step of the Germans was naturally to strike the line where it was
weakest, that is, between the hillcrests, and bend it back, thus creating ..."
3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"... searchlights endeavor to intercept one another. To-night the Austrians are on
the offensive. Their lights sweep the hillcrests, pursued by Italian rays. ..."
4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Their lights sweep the hillcrests, pursued by Italian rays. "The moon is now high
in the heavens, the snow-clad peaks, the shadowy ravines, the villages ..."
5. Allegany County by Maryland Geological Survey (1900)
"The general level to which most of the hillcrests seem to rise is about nine
hundred feet above mean sea-level, but this is not an absolutely constant ..."
6. The Command is Forward: Tales of the A.E.F. Battlefields as They Appeared in by Alexander Woollcott (1919)
"That is the reason, too, why there has been less change in the look of the
countryside along the hillcrests of the once formidable ..."
7. Drum Taps in Dixie: Memories of a Drummer Boy, 1861-1865 by Delavan S. Miller (1905)
"The events of those days stand forth in his memory like the hillcrests of a
landscape. The shot electrified the north ..."
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