HILLS in Classic Quotes

1  His gun burst while out on the hills by himself; a splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal of blood before he could reach home.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

2  In winter nothing more dreary, in summer nothing more divine, than those glens shut in by hills, and those bluff, bold swells of heath.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

3  A sorrowful sight I saw: dark night coming down prematurely, and sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

4  We deferred our excursion till the afternoon; a golden afternoon of August: every breath from the hills so full of life, that it seemed whoever respired it, though dying, might revive.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

5  Catherine, last spring at this time, I was longing to have you under this roof; now, I wish you were a mile or two up those hills: the air blows so sweetly, I feel that it would cure you.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

6  Such an individual seated in his arm-chair, his mug of ale frothing on the round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or six miles among these hills, if you go at the right time after dinner.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

7  I have passed it really in my walks, twice or thrice; it lies in a hollow, between two hills: an elevated hollow, near a swamp, whose peaty moisture is said to answer all the purposes of embalming on the few corpses deposited there.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III