Sentence: A line of kopjes stood up before us, rising out of the bare plain like islands out of the sea, and as we rounded the point and opened up the inner semicircle of hills, we could distinguish the white waggon tops of the Boer laager in a deep niche in the hillside, and see the men collecting and mounting and galloping about.
Combination: islands out of the sea (root: island, modifier: sea)
Property: elevate
Property type: emergent