It was calculated that he would reach a certain hillock not far from Warnsfeld by dawn of day. – History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete by John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
Keeping his eyes much on such a heaven, our inexperienced walker thought little of close- fitting boots until he had to sit down, screened from the public road by a hillock, and, with a smile of amusement but hardly of complacency, smooth a cruel wrinkle from one of his very striped socks. – John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
Small or young, as hillock, bullock, etc. – 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway