hommock
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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This path would conduct me by the hommock, the bathing-pond, and the orange-groves, without much danger of my approach being noticed by any one.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
The herd—an antlered buck with several does—had browsed close up to the hommock.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
There stretched the savanna; beyond it the home-fields of indigo and maize; beyond these the dark wood-knoll of the hommock; but beyond this last there was nothing—nothing I could recognise.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
Another tract of hommock lay to the north, separated from the larger one by savannas and open forests of pine timber.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
In a few seconds we were upon the island, and advancing by rapid strides towards the hommock.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
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