HILLS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains.
2 The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
3 The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress.
4 He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
5 The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.
6 The sun sank lower in the heavens; we passed the river Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the higher and the glens of the lower hills.
7 I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
8 I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
9 The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
10 In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.