My car was enveloped by the waves... luckily when the water receded, I managed to start it up and revved it to a hill slope about 100m from my house.

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Dozens of words, none of them synonymous, described the look of a hill, the angle of slope and the way trees grew upon it.

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Late in the day, achy in the legs, I reached Cradle Hill, into whose eastern slope a great white chalk horse has been cut.

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Last January, Mr. Schoenfeld and his wife, Elisa Herr, a financial editor, moved from Park Slope, Brooklyn, to the Forest Hill neighborhood of Newark, N.

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Its glittering bulk, squeezed into a narrow plot beneath the Acropolis hill, contrasts sharply with shabby blocks of flats nearby and the pale-coloured rocky slope.

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