1 The front window was darkened by torn net curtains and by a mound of geraniums and rubber-plants.
2 The country seemed to stretch unchanging to the North Pole: low hill, brush-scraggly bottom, reedy creek, muskrat mound, fields with frozen brown clods thrust up through the snow.
3 The foot of one of them suddenly rested on the mound, and he stopped to examine its nature.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 4 But in discovering the character of the mound, the attention of the Hurons appeared directed to a different object.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 5 He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 6 At the inner angle of the mound he met the sisters, walking along the parapet, in search, like himself, of air and relief from confinement.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 15 7 Unable any longer to quiet his uneasiness, Duncan spoke in a low voice to the scout, requesting him to ascend the mound to the place where he stood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 Haply there lay a mound hard at hand, crowned with cornel thickets and bristling dense with shafts of myrtle.
9 But when the last rites are duly paid, and the mound smoothed over the grave, good Aeneas, now the high seas are hushed, bears on under sail and leaves his haven.
10 Himself he traces the city walls with a shallow trench, and builds on it; and in fashion of a camp girdles this first settlement on the shore with mound and battlements.
11 Under the mountain height was a great earthen mound, tomb of Dercennus, a Laurentine king of old, shrouded in shadowy ilex.
12 Standing on the high mound amid them, he speaks: 'Be there no delay to my words; Jupiter is with us; neither let any be slower to move that the design is sudden.'
13 With quiet fingers he threaded a few forget-me-not flowers in the fine brown fleece of the mound of Venus.
14 He kissed her belly and her mound of Venus, to kiss close to the womb and the foetus within the womb.
15 It rose from the semiglobular mound like a spike from a helmet.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble