"Hummock" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... E. The 19th, reckoning ourselves 17 leagues from Cape Mensurado, we set our course E. by N. the said cape being E.N.E. of us, and the river Sesto E. The 20th we fell in with Cape Mensurado or Mesurado, which bore S.E. 2 leagues distant. This cape may be easily known, as it rises into a hummock like the head of a porpoise. Also towards the S.E. there are three trees, the eastmost being the highest, the middle one resembling a hay-stack, and that to the southward like a gibbet. Likewise on the main there are four or five high hills, one after the other, like round hummocks. The south-east ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII • Robert Kerr
... to a heavy floe, each boat having its painter fastened to a separate hummock in order to avoid collisions in the swell. We landed the blubber-stove, boiled some water in order to provide hot milk, and served cold rations. I also landed the dome tents and stripped the coverings ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... out of the way," he yelled. The warning came too late. The ball skimmed over the grass, struck a hummock which had been overlooked by the builders of the diamond, and ricochetted upward into the hapless Mosher ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... it was, the boys clambering up the tree were near enough for the perception of the great beast which burst over the hummock, and it charged directly at them, the tree quivering when the shoulder of the monster struck it as it passed, though the boys, already in the branches, were in safety. Checking herself a little distance beyond, the rhinoceros mother ...
— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo
... his arm across the little hummock of gritty ash that had sheltered him and sent six flashes of flame through the night ...
— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin
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