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- noun Plural form of
hillside .
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Examples
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Carving houses into the hillsides was the norm here for centuries, but all the residents had been moved into brick homes over the previous twenty years.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Carving houses into the hillsides was the norm here for centuries, but all the residents had been moved into brick homes over the previous twenty years.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Carving houses into the hillsides was the norm here for centuries, but all the residents had been moved into brick homes over the previous twenty years.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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The dark green cedars peppering the hillsides were the only spots of color on the wintry landscape.
Unforgivable Laura Griffin 2008
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Dry rice on the hillsides was the kind which was formerly exclusively cultivated, but from some Indians who came from Sumatra to Perak the Malays have learned the mode of growing the wet variety, and it is now largely practiced.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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Thus far, the only man who has been telling us anything about planting roots upon the hillsides is the forester.
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Where these little towns to-day stand on the hillsides was a howling wilderness of forest, with never a footprint but the zigzagging trail of the Indians back from Georgian Bay to what is now Lake Simcoe.
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The hillsides are a typical example of those in the South which have been left to the tender mercies of the "renter."
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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Dry rice on the hillsides was the kind which was formerly exclusively cultivated, but from some Indians who came from Sumatra to Pêrak the Malays have learned the mode of growing the wet variety, and it is now largely practiced.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883
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All round on the hillsides was the forest, but there was one landmark that I knew.
A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex 1884
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