The last thing they had expected was to find the mound surrounded by combat units.
The summit is a small mound surrounded on three sides by precipices.
The ruins of the church lie at the top of a small mound, surrounded by the graveyard.
Alhana stood at the entrance of the mound, surrounded by her knights, peering into the storm.
Petrie describes the tumulus, between the second and third wall, as being a small mound surrounded by a circle of ten stones.
They are, in fact, foot-high mushroom-shaped grassy mounds usually surrounded by pools of water.
Also appealing were seared sea scallops, which surrounded a mound of lightly dressed greens.
They stood on a shifting mound of slime, surrounded by the smell of carrion.
Before them on the rising ground black shadows surrounded a huge mound of granite grey blocks, piled, it seemed, in tumbling disorder.
Sauteed seafood surrounding a mound of couscous was timid and uninspired.