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Molehill   /mˈoʊlhˌɪl/   Listen
Molehill

noun
1.
A mound of earth made by moles while burrowing.





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"Molehill" Quotes from Famous Books



... dirty hole That painful animal a Mole: Above ground never born to go, What mighty stir it keeps below? To make a molehill all this strife! It digs, pukes, undermines for life. How proud a little dirt to spread! Conscious of nothing o'er its head. 'Till lab'ring on, for want of eyes, It ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber
... that he hadn't been able to walk a foot unassisted for the past week, and could not, therefore, be in any way connected with young Carboys' mysterious disappearance. Still, even that had its contra aspect. He might be one of those individuals who make a mountain of agony out of a molehill of pain, and insist upon a dozen ...
— Cleek, the Master Detective • Thomas W. Hanshew
... a mountain out of a molehill, Mary, and I won't hear any such nonsense. You heard an absurd story, as to what someone had been doing, and you naturally made a hero of him. You were hurt by my speaking slightingly of this hero of yours, and naturally thought I was jealous ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty


Words linked to "Molehill" :   hummock, knoll, hillock, mound, hammock


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