Sentence examples for lofty hill from inspiring English sources

It stands on a lofty hill, and serves as a landmark to sailors.

Right at the center of town, where Main Street gave rise to a lofty hill, not one but three big white churches stood sentinel over a triangular patch of park dubbed God's Acre.

This well-known camp crowns the top of a lofty hill in the parish of Uley, six miles south-west of Stroud.

Cemented, heavily shaded and squeezed against a lofty hill, the little plot seemed hopeless.

This distinctive, steep topography means that Carr Hill sits atop "a lofty hill" and, where not spoiled by house building, this provides residents with good views to Newcastle upon Tyne in the north, the north-west and north-east towards the North Sea.

"Their country is a broken mass of wild rock, lofty hills, and useless forests.

St. John three miles east across Pillsbury Sound from St. Thomas and lying closest to the British Virgin Islands—has steep, lofty hills and valleys but little level, tillable land.

Raffaele Sollecito, a bespectacled computer science student, three years older than her, had been asked by a friend to take her to the bus station at the foot of the two lofty hills on which Perugia sits.

For the loftiest hill, Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty,….

The new leader began to travel the world with unwelcome tidings: his country, whose loftiest hill rises eight feet above the waves, would soon, courtesy of global warming, be submerged entirely.

Pergamum, Greek Pergamon, ancient Greek city in Mysia, situated 16 miles from the Aegean Sea on a lofty isolated hill on the northern side of the broad valley of the Caicus (modern Bakır) River.