It's the size of a hill, a lumpy hill with no sharp edges to it, ten meters at the tallest.

But to the north-east the ice seemed solid - a jagged, broken plain, with small, lumpy hills like rock outcrops, covered with snow, and broken edges where floes had been upended.

The name Clench dates from the 13th century and means a lumpy or massive hill.

In no time it flows past grassy seas of sugar cane, lumpy green hills dotted by silver-trunked palms and wide valleys where turkey vultures carve lazy spirals.

The rugged, lumpy little hills around the canal were covered in trees dis-playing a hundred different shades of green, broken here and there by clumps of bushes and stretches of grass smothered with bright blossoms.

On a gentle, lumpy hill that runs down to the Hudson River, a landscaper scatters wildflower seeds.

At first glance, it could have been Yorkshire: a crumple of green, lumpy hills.

From the toolshed on the knolly backland of his farm, Gareth Brewster could see across the dark lumpy hills to the town's business center.

He saw that indeed the next rounded, lumpy hills were slightly greener.

Carved out of the lumpy hills of Guangdong, often next to smoke-belching factories, the resorts have names like Shenzhen Tycoon and Noble Merchant.