Hill

Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. Hills often have a distinct summit, although in areas with scarp/dip topography a hill may refer to a particular section of flat terrain without a massive summit (e.g. Box Hill, Surrey).

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Famous quotes containing the word hill:

    “The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “In the schoolyard,in the cloakrooms, the children boasted their
    scars of dried snot;wrists and knees garnished with impetigo.”
    —Geoffrey Hill (b. 1932)

    “What rein can hold licentious wickedness
    When down the hill he holds his fierce career?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)