| 1. | Only the fact that a hummock of heathery sand intercepted the lower part of the Heat-Ray saved them. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 2. | We had just floundered and flopped round a bend, when I saw an islet, a mere grassy hummock of bright green, in the middle of the stream. - from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |