When Winter scourged the meadow and the hill And in the withered leafage worked his will, Then water shrank, and shuddered, and stood still,ö Then built himself a magic house of glass, Irised with memories of flowers and grass, Wherein to sit and watch the fury pass.

-Roberts, Sir Charles George Douglas
  'Ice'.

He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Evan Dhu Maccombich to EdwardWaverley.Waverley, ch.18.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

-Sharp,William pseudonym Fiona Macleod
  'The Lonely Hunter', stanza 6. Carson McCullers adapted the phrase as the title of a1940 novel,The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

I placed a jar inTennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

-Stevens,Wallace
  Harmonium,'Anecdote of theJar'.

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  'Requiem' (dated'Hy e' res, May1884'), collected in Underwoods (1887), bk.1, no.21.

Like a stone That rolls down a hill, I have come to this day.

-Takuboku, Ishikawa
  Ichiaku no Suna (translated by Sakanishi Shio).

And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

-Tennyson
  Poems,'Break, Break, Break', stanza 3.

   O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 3.

It is the necessary nature of a political in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change† The best carriage horses are those which can most steadily hold back against the coach as it trundles down the hill.

-Trollope, Anthony
  Phineas Redux, ch.4.

If you can take $20,000 in one-hundred-dollar bills and walk up on a windy hill and tear themup and watchthem blowaway, and it doesn't bother you, thenyoushould go into the commodities market.

-Tyson, Don(ald) John
  In the NewYorker, 30 May.

All thebusiness of war, and indeedall thebusiness of life, isto endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I call 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.

-Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of
Quoted inJohnWilson Croker The Croker Papers (edited by Bernard Pool,1885), vol.3, ch.28.

O flower of Scotland, when will we see your like again, That fought and died for your wee bit hill and glen And stood against him, proud Edward's army, And sent him homeward tae think again.

-Williamson, Roy
  'Flower of Scotland', stanza1.