Definition of Hillcrests

1. hillcrest [n] - See also: hillcrest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hillcrests

hill climb
hill climbing
hill myna
hill of beans
hill partridge
hill plot
hill station
hillbillies
hillbilly
hillbilly heroin
hillbilly music
hillclimber
hillclimbers
hillclimbing
hillcrest
hillcrests (current term)
hillebrandite
hilled
hiller
hillers
hillfolk
hillfort
hillforts
hillier
hilliest
hilliness
hillinesses
hilling
hillite
hilllike

Literary usage of Hillcrests

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"From away to the north'ard fancy seemed to waft to her the dull reverberation of hurtling shells bursting on defensive hillcrests. ..."

2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The first step of the Germans was naturally to strike the line where it was weakest, that is, between the hillcrests, and bend it back, thus creating ..."

3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"... searchlights endeavor to intercept one another. To-night the Austrians are on the offensive. Their lights sweep the hillcrests, pursued by Italian rays. ..."

4. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Their lights sweep the hillcrests, pursued by Italian rays. "The moon is now high in the heavens, the snow-clad peaks, the shadowy ravines, the villages ..."

5. Allegany County by Maryland Geological Survey (1900)
"The general level to which most of the hillcrests seem to rise is about nine hundred feet above mean sea-level, but this is not an absolutely constant ..."

6. The Command is Forward: Tales of the A.E.F. Battlefields as They Appeared in by Alexander Woollcott (1919)
"That is the reason, too, why there has been less change in the look of the countryside along the hillcrests of the once formidable ..."

7. Drum Taps in Dixie: Memories of a Drummer Boy, 1861-1865 by Delavan S. Miller (1905)
"The events of those days stand forth in his memory like the hillcrests of a landscape. The shot electrified the north ..."

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