The view from his window is of Palestinian homes on what, he says, was a bare hillside when he moved here 22 years ago.

For some miles his road lay through a wood, and when he left it he suddenly came out on a bare hillside.

He took his rifle and walked out on the bare hillside and sat down in full view of the town.

Now it seemed that he was his own father, crouched on a bare hillside in darkness, with strange fires exploding around him.

The bare hillside gave way to a grove of evergreens.

It came out at last high on a bare hillside, and there before them were the great dams and the ice.

She slowed her pace and scanned the bare hillsides ahead.

Where bare hillsides gave upon the sky, there were dark masses flowing slowly forward.

By then, he said, the fire would have reached the end of its fuel source as it approached roads and bare hillsides.

They came to a sere, bare hillside on which neither trees nor brushwood grew.