1 Slowly he climbed the denuded knoll.
2 A fine cold draught blew over the knoll.
3 He went to the top of the knoll and looked out.
4 She found Mrs Bolton under the great beech-tree on the knoll, looking for her.
5 The whole knoll, which rose softly on the right of the riding, was denuded and strangely forlorn.
6 Clifford steered cautiously down the slope of the knoll from the hall, and Connie kept her hand on the chair.
7 As he pushed the chair up the steepish rise of the knoll in the park, he breathed rather quickly, through parted lips.
8 Then he came round the great trees at the top of the knoll, on to the drive, which made a grand sweep round a lozenge of grass in front of the entrance.
9 On the crown of the knoll where the oaks had stood, now was bareness; and from there you could look out over the trees to the colliery railway, and the new works at Stacks Gate.
10 Only a dank ride in a motor-car up a dark, damp drive, burrowing through gloomy trees, out to the slope of the park where grey damp sheep were feeding, to the knoll where the house spread its dark brown facade, and the housekeeper and her husband were hovering, like unsure tenants on the face of the earth, ready to stammer a welcome.