The top of each wave was a hill, from which the men could see, for a brief period, a wide area of shining sea.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Just two blocks down the hill from that great equestrian statue of George Washington, the Founder, you could find a huge slave jail owned by Hector Davis.

距离奠基者乔治·华盛顿巨大的骑马雕像,往山下两个街区,你会发现赫克托·戴维斯,拥有的一个巨大的奴隶监狱

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Hector Davis owned a two-story slave auction house and jail on 14th and Franklin Streets, just two blocks down the hill from Thomas Jefferson's glorious capitol building of the State of Virginia.

赫克托·戴维斯,在第十四和富兰克林大街,拥有一栋两层的奴隶拍卖行及监狱,仅仅距离托马斯·杰斐逊,那雄伟的弗吉尼亚州议会大厦,向山下两个街区远

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When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the dead lying all over the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

After he left the meeting, Paul ran down the hill from the school whistling.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

From his headquarters on the hill, Jackson watched the northern forces prepare for battle.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

Hundreds of men and women watched the fight from a hill near Centreville.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Hill,who also appeared Thursday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he hears from Iraqis every day who appreciate these sacrifices.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

At a hearing of the bipartisan Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill, lawmakers from both major U.S.political parties cited the November unemployment figure as welcome progress.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Army commandos dropped from a helicopter examined the mangled and burnt wreckage on the slope of a heavily-forested hill, in an area infested with Maoist rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

But selling the proposed budget on Capitol Hill became harder after Friday's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which projects significantly higher budget deficits than the administration estimates over the next decade, adding trillions of dollars to the national debt.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22