But hadn't Pauline once said she wouldn't live on a bleak hill like that for anything?

It was a white house, set against a background of bleak hills.

Three houses and an inn high on a bleak hill.

It occupies a bleak and treeless hill, a place where the wind never stops blowing.

Little clumps of people were sown all through the land, separated one from the other by the high, bleak hills.

The daylight glistened on the naked surface of bleak, metallic hills.

But foraging while traveling these bleak hills was difficult.

They looked uneasily round at the bleak hills and twisted cypresses.

Instead she turned back to watching the bleak hills beneath the threatening sky.