How To Use Ravine In A Sentence

The river up which we came after leaving the Helmund, is fully equal to that in size; it is very rapid: the ravine is very narrow, occasionally widening into swardy spots. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
He hoped to strike the camp simultaneously from the north and south, but had not counted on the maze of bluffs and ravines he would have to contend with to get there.
I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance.
The escarpment has been shaped into numerous irregularities, indentations, and promontories, and is pierced by thalweg ravines, gorges, and rocky passages connecting the plain and plateau. Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
They offer an up-close view of a life-size, red-blue-and-white clad young woman in an overgrown ravine before a chain-link fence.

But the holes soon become bracketed by trees and tumble down side slopes, across ravines and up hills.
Highland Territorial battalions crossed the Grand Ravine and entered Flesquieres, where fierce fighting took place.
Cliff and ravine vegetation is often very diverse and dense; the chasmophytic flora includes Cissus quadrangularis, Ficus lecardii, Boscia angustifolia, Euphorbia sudanica, Lannea microcarpa and Combretum lecardii. Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali
Soon the rectangular farms gave way to rugged ranch land, canyons, ravines , red earth-and lots of mesquite trees.
He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded cleuch, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered. The Monastery
The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
The terrain is bumpy, crisscrossed by steep elevations and ridges not running parallel to the river and bisected by numerous ravines.
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
The ravine was a perfect corral for the horses once they were in it.
The Castle's gardens lie in a dramatic ravine which was once a quarry, and are particularly pretty in autumn.
The river washed a ravine into the mountainside
In fact there are river banks and bluffs, coulees and crowns, sandhills and blue hills and unnamed prominences, ravines.
And furthermore, the community of Val Bavona “continues to celebrate the beauty of a lifestyle reduced to essentials (houses still do without electricity) as a real utopia, a simple, practical way of continuing, conserving and innovating the resolute search for living space that has characterized its history, finding a use even for the great rocks dislodged in landslides by using the earth they brought down with them to create fragments of vegetable garden and pasture or by the exploitation of jagged ravines to make grondàn, cantìn and splüi.” Archive 2006-05-01
Suspended some 300 feet above a ravine, the footbridge would span a quarter mile between two mountains.
However, the gorges and ravines were breathtaking.
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
As you drive west toward the coast, seeps and springs in the ravines form small braided waterfalls, full of their own monsoon song.
I can hide from the patrols, using ravines and deep gorges.
The mixed mesophytic forest is restricted mostly to the deeper ravines and escarpment slopes, and the upland forests are dominated by mixed oaks with shortleaf pine. Ecoregions of Tennessee (EPA)
The squatters settled in the flat part of the ravine, on top of the cemetery, but did not build a good city in terms of urban development.
Its capital is the pretty little city, also called Luxembourg, which is surrounded on three sides by ravines.
The neighborhood's main attraction, however, is Glen Canyon Park, a 70-acre swath of city-owned wilderness nestled in a sweeping ravine and just out of sight of several major roads.
They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the cloud — they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace. Chapter 10
From this plateau _barrancos_, or ravine-valleys, said to number 103, radiate quaquaversally. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Paragon looked to see a smooth trail that diverted from the ravine, leading into the passive earthen walls.
Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
The island is crumpled by mountains and creased by deep ravines just begging to be explored.
With precipitous limestone cliffs, deeply shaded ravines, and clear rocky streams, the Driftless Area is a rugged landscape.
In contrast with the chasm of two years ago, the rival politicians are now fighting over a somewhat narrow ravine. Times, Sunday Times
The savanna is broken by gallery forests which extend up mountainside ravines between 1,000 m and 1,600 m. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
Midweek, Stefan's group will visit the villages of Magura and Pestera, where houses are built along the mountain ridges which flank deep ravines and valleys.
She shouted desperately, but her voice was lost against the backcloth of night and the ravine. PASSION IN THE PEAK
We were awestruck by the amazing views down the ravine and on to the river.
This so-called 'drainage' grate is located at the west end of the ravine. West Lynn Avenue
The hour-long flight takes in both sections of the Gregory National Park and passes over luxuriant river valleys, yawning gorges, rocky ravines and a chain of magnificent flattop sandstone mesas.
First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle. English Villages
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
After ten minutes the road curved west and dipped down into a shallow ravine.
Farther out he can hear hoof-beats and voices, so he edges along westward until he comes suddenly to a depression, a little winding "cooley" across the prairie, through which in the early spring the snows are carried off from some ravine among the bluffs. Marion's Faith.
His remains were found in April eight miles away in a ravine close to the seaside town of Théoule sur Mer.
Then one, two, three bronze figures dash down a steep ravine below the Convent walls, and plunge into the river – a shrill chorus of voices, growing momentarily more audible, is borne upon the wind – and in a few minutes the boat is beset by a shoal of mendicant monks vociferating with all their might Ana Christian ya Hawadji! A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Before the days of regular garbage pick up, farmers used to dump their unwanted junk in fields and ravines behind their barns.
Deep ravines cut the northern shoreline off from inland settlements and transportation routes, and steep shale bluffs made it difficult to land goods on the shore.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a keen Gandhian and social reformer, convinced the dacoits terrorising the Chambal ravines to give up arms in 1960, signifying the victory of non-violence.
The scene of the conflict is in the neighborhood of the village of Senones and the forest of Ormont, and the ground is described as undulating and cut by deep ravines. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
(thus running out into the sea in steep promontories) occurs -- what they would call a 'chine' in the Isle of Wight; but instead of the soft south wind stealing up the woody ravine, as it does there, the eastern breeze comes piping shrill and clear along these northern chasms, keeping the trees that venture to grow on the sides down to the mere height of scrubby brushwood. Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1
Extremely steep slopes encircle the northwestern terminus of the ravine and conglomeratic sandstone slump boulders lie on the lower elevations of the ravine.
The scarp was a tangle of gullies, boulders, and ravines. Ice Hunt
In the morning we wheel south into the vast, rocky ocean that is the Namibian desert, an endless retreat of buttes and ravines, ridges and terraced escarpments, the compacted age lines of the earth as deep and hard and revealing as the dark weather-carved face of an aged German miner. Richard Bangs: Following Brad and Angelina to Namibia, Part I
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
Symbols and letters in mustard yellow and white were daubed on seats and rocks in the wooded ravine off Wells Road.
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
As they crested the hill, Paragon saw that this side of the ravine was not so steep.
Motionless at the edge of the ravine, they were miles from the city and the wide flat river that snaked into the glow, the sun going gray, smoldering in a towering heap of dust like a cloudbank. Excerpt: The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
The path wound in and out of deep ravines, through thick oak and pine forests and dense undergrowth.
One who does not know the topography of mountains and forests, ravines and defiles, wetlands and marshes cannot maneuver the army.
He arrived at length in a narrow and secluded _cleuch_, or deep ravine, which ran down into the valley, and contributed a scanty rivulet to the supply of the brook with which Glendearg is watered. The Monastery
Within the space of a few minutes, I was at the river edge in the bottom of a deep ravine.
Flying over the high mountain ranges emphasises why road travel is so tortuous, but the sight of these peaks and ravines is awe-inspiring.
The ravines are deep, and the sides of the hills are covered with the same stone, of which a pile was erected on the summit of the head to mark the spot where the circumferentor was placed. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
In contrast with the chasm of two years ago, the rival politicians are now fighting over a somewhat narrow ravine. Times, Sunday Times
The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland.
Into and across tree-ferned ravines, through dashing streams of icy water, past cataract and morass, the party plowed its devious way until long past noon. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
Almost all the streams round the Chesapeake, in spite of their being perpetually "thrashed," and never preserved, abound in small trout; but farther afield, in Northwestern Maryland, where the tributaries of the Potomac and Shenandoah flow down the woody ravines of Border and Bastille
The ravine is one of the world's most popular sites for "canyoning" (canyoneering is the American term), the new high-risk, high-thrill sport that combines rock climbing, hiking and white-water river running. A Wall Of Black Water
One of them steps forward and with his knife cuts the burden free and it falls to the bottom of the ravine.
You can hike ravines like Emma Gorge, arriving at a circular pool fed by waters plunging over a high cliff.
Miniature ravines, waterfalls and cascades created effervescent sounds as the water gushed between the rocks.
The soldiers shot down into the ravine.
He said the woman had clipped the near-side kerb and left the road, plummeting at least 200 feet down the ravine.
Woods and thickets ran up the sides of the mountains, and disappeared among the sinuosities formed by the winding ravines which separated them from each other; but far above these specimens of a tolerable natural soil arose the swart and bare mountains themselves, in the dark grey desolation proper to the season. The Fair Maid of Perth
Our tiny bus wound up through the Inguri Valley whose precipitous road hugged cliffs and ravines, worming through crude tunnels and skirting thick forests.
The plan of the house has been developed to make a two and three storey L-shaped building with an attenuated wing extending back to the ravine.
-- Halted and encamped eight miles up the Erak ravine on a swardy spot: the road easy, ascent bad in some places, but generally good, particularly for the latter part of the march: the rocks in some places rising in abrupt rugged cliffs, generally rounded, slaty. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The sunlight showed, too, that the fissure was the skylight of a cave which opened out on the ravine. Tropic Days
She fell five metres to the bottom of the ravine.
Sharpe, lacking those landmarks, supposed there was still further to go, that they yet had to drop down into the ravine, but the blacksmith checked under the trees and, in dumbshow, indicated that the city lay to their left. Sharpe's Rifles
It is curious that no green spots are found above, all the water passing down under the soil, the swardy ravines scarcely extend beyond an elevation of 1,500 feet above the camp on Upper Kaloo. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
The road will bring trade, and better access to health care and the outside world, to the villages strung along the banks of the Panjsher River as it courses through steep gorges and ravines from the Hindu Kush mountains.
Small, unsurfaced roads dipping through gullies and ravines are apt to get wiped out from flash flooding, and help in remote areas usually is slow in coming.
Down on the beach, accessible behind the 10th green, and especially in the small, wooded ravine in front of the 15th tee, there were stray balls foozled by hapless amateurs, who were presumably too mortified to halt play and look for them.
These hollows detained the concentrations of the denudated alluvium from the altitudes, and were generally closely beneath the surface, and by such guidance and means of discovery the miners traced the gold up the ravines to their sources in the lofty mounds and deposits, or hills of cemented conglomerate, near Eureka in Nevada county; and by constructing canals from a higher level began the new system of "hydraulic mining" and washing, and gradually extended their operations over the area of the metallic zone mentioned, of 40 miles long by 20 wide, using the Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884
The school toilet was a festering, diseased shed at the ravine's edge.
The descent was rugged and romantic, along deep ravines and defiles, overhung with crags and cliffs, among which they beheld numbers of the ahsahta or bighorn, skipping fearlessly from rock to rock. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
The area where they are located is precarious because the ravine is a main watercourse.
In some of the dampest ravines tree-ferns flourished in an extraordinary manner; I saw one which must have been at least twenty feet high to the base of the fronds, and was in girth exactly six feet. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
_Ooravine_, and grow on the head of the green paraquet: Indeed, all red feathers are esteemed, but none equally with these; and they are such good judges as to know very well how to distinguish one sort from another. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
More-over it is divided by long traces of waterfall and steep ravines and there are slithery slopes of shale.
And the golf cart almost goes careening off into a ravine.
The ditch is out of the question; in fact it's out of sight, long gone in a cactus clad ravine. Free riding the roads of Mexico
We saw the cannonier march up to the margravine's carriage for orders. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 3
Washington in this area is quite hilly and Rock Creek Park has some very steep ravines.
But only is a relative concept when at any moment a capricious up-, down-, or cross-draft might have dashed the dangling deputy against the side of the cliff or sent the helicopter spiraling into the ravine. THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ
In winter, two mountain rivers flowing in spate from the great springs higher up mingle their torrents at a watersmeet in some deep ravine.
The area where the accident happened is a narrow ravine behind Buckden village where there are a number of waterfalls.
But instead of going to his horse, he followed what she called the ravine—really a trickle of muddy water that flowed past the shack and down toward another gully between the rock formations … in which, Reilly saw after only a little climbing, there sat a lean-to made of sticks, peat, and rock. LADY of SKYE
I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee. The Amateur Garden
With its maze of undulating ravines and dense forests, the Chambal Valley has provided perfect cover for the hideouts of numerous dacoit gangs for decades.
On the other side of the road a steep ravine led to a babbling stream. Times, Sunday Times
The officers pursued them on foot for a short distance until Mantzios, hiding in a ravine just off Westmount Road, blew his cover and surrendered when the officer approached him.
The Ravine Forests were distinguished from other deciduous woodlands by their high, steep bank slopes, calcareous soils and their associated calciphilic flora.
The sun was dipping below the ridge of a steep ravine. Times, Sunday Times
We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path.
At the head of the glen they found another fall which they estimated at two hundred and thirty feet in height; crossing above this cataract, which was called Bathurst's Fall, the eastern course was once more resumed, and tempests and storms found them wandering amongst the deep ravines and gloomy forests of the coast range, seeking for a descent to the lower lands. The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
This word gulch is applied to the peculiarly abrupt, short ravines, which are a characteristic feature in Californian more than in any other mountains. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
As he made haste and 'tiptoed' into our lane in front of us (again, traveling at 75MPH), he spun out in the side-ravine. Metal Underground.com
Unfortunately, he did not lead us to the road, but instead managed to end us up at a ravine, and in the darkness it seemed unpossible to tell north from south. Enjoyment
For the next 15 days, she looked for his body in ravines and morgues, on hillsides and in rivers.
Working on a film in St Lucia, he almost crashes a bus over the side of a ravine.
One takes the outline of cliff or shore, dashing in what I may call the aggregated tints of forest and hill; the other paints by turns each special crag or ravine, with their colours in detail; yet both are correct, and we want both if we are to understand the island. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
The bed of this immense ravine is at this day called the Charsoo, a Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
(better "Ravine" _nahal_) of Egypt or Musri, on the southern frontier of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
Judy Laverne in the flaming cage of her car crashing down into the ravine. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Through the entranceway we glimpse a lifesize hologram of sawtooth ravines, razorback spurs and tree-serrated skylines.
It can be detected in the deep boulder-strewn ravines that cut across the moors.
Poison ivy is not too common, but in some ravines with more moisture, it is smart to look out! Peace and beauty - roaming the hills around Morelia
As we stood above the huge ravine I could not even imagine how our diggers survived in such a place.
A total of 313 species in 85 families and 204 genera were collected at the 30-hectare preserve which occurs on a glacial kame and has a rugged ridge and ravine topography.
Jeremy jumped into the ravine as well now, just before the pine tree fell right on top of us.
In the bottomland forests and ravines along the river, look for a variety of warblers, including cerulean, blackburnian, and black-throated green warblers, as well as acadian flycatchers and hermit thrush.
But for the rest, and that's close on half the top 20, ambition now revolves around grasping the coat-tails of the boom-boom bandwagon and hanging on for dear life as it rattles along a road ridged around a ravine.
A ravine delimited the property on the south.
The glen which was to afford us access to it, we named Glenfinlass: it might, perhaps, be properly termed the glen of many windings, as it was formed of several detached lofty hills; between each of which deep ravines were formed, communicating in times of rain their waters to this main one. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
Some of the cracks were small, yet some were very large, like a ravine or a gorge.
The ravine would also need to be cleared of undergrowth and trees.
The ridgy precipices, which formed the sides of these huge ravines, showed their splintery and rugged edges over the vapor, as if dividing from each other the descending streams of mist which rolled around them. Anne of Geierstein
Hemlock trees love cool, running brooks and rivers; there's hardly a ravine anywhere in the East that isn't clothed with hemlocks.
Somehow he made a misstep and lost his footing, sliding awkwardly down to the bottom of the ravine and bruising himself painfully.
At the top of a steep ravine, I heard a chattering scream and was overtaken by a giant shadow. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
Duarte Ribeiro, Francisco Braga, and Teofilo Costa were cheerful companions and took him to the border and directly to the temporary camp of the Spanish guerrillero leader with a sureness that suggested a long familiarity with the rugged hills and the deep clefts of ravines that tended all to look alike to Captain Blake. Beyond the Sunrise
A driver who escaped without a scratch when his car plunged 50 feet down a moorland ravine has told of his amazing escape.
The mist parted as he cut through it and color poured in to fill the exposed ravines.
Now the tangled rainforest has mostly gone, except in the deepest ravines, and a tall eucalypt forest has grown up. Wildwood
A little before dawn, when the saw-tooth tips of the mountain range on our left were first touched with opal and gold, we turned off the araba track along which we had so far come and entered a ravine leading toward Marash. The Eye of Zeitoon
A ravine delimited the property on the south.
The ravine soon became a favorite and picturesque spot for adventurous campers and climbers, but the first skier didn't appear until April 1914.
She saw groundswells for the first time - no mere waves, these; the waves themselves were dwarfed by undulating hills and ravines of water.
In the ravine Gordonia, Photinia, Pothos flammea and another species, Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
It then hit the side of a bridge before plunging into the eight-meter-deep ravine.
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In the woody ravines Panax curcasifolia was common, in these I noticed Cerastium scandens, Elaeagnus, Clematis, Tetrantheroidea habitu, Sedgewickiae! Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
But the impending doom of a plunge into the ravine is still there. Times, Sunday Times
When no gunshots followed, he continued to roll down the side of a ravine towards the swollen river below.
As they passed over the great viaduct at Aricia, the thick Chigi woods to the left masked the deep ravine in torrents of lightest foamiest green; and over the vast plain to the right, stretching to Ardea, Lanuvium and the sea, the power of the reawakening earth, like a shuttle in the loom, was weaving day by day its web of colour and growth, the ever brightening pattern of crop, and grass and vine. Eleanor
In moister valleys, ravines, and on steep, lower, north-facing diabase ridges, hemlock-mixed hardwood forests are native. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
He could only watch helplessly as the car plunged into the ravine.
At the Gynn, the ravine was bridged and an elaborate tramway layout constructed, facilitating cars reversing in both directions.
It is in Ile Bourbon, on the verge of a precipice, on the summit of the cliff from which the transparent cascade, surmounted by a gorgeous rainbow, plunges into the lonely ravine of Bernica. Indiana
Towering bridges crossed creeks, ravines and canyons, while down below huge waves swept across rocks and deserted beaches.
On Lammergeiers, Berridge (1934) wrote ‘A favourite method of dealing with [ibex and chamois] is to swoop down suddenly upon a prospective victim that may be poised somewhat insecurely upon the steep hillside, so that the startled beast loses its foot-hold, and goes tumbling to death in the ravine below’ (p. 219). Archive 2006-01-01
In some cases the ravine could well be shown as virtually bottomless.
It's like dancing on a tightrope across a ravine carrying a china cup and saucer. Times, Sunday Times
Trebah Gardens, Falmouth, Cornwall is famed for its ravine gardens and this is one of the best.
The Navajo man kicked at the snake with his moccasin-clad feet, until it fell down the ravine in a series of coils.
We struggled through long lines of heavy-laden country carts, and swarms of clattering _droskies_, all striving to force their way along with that hurry-skurry that adds to confusion and lessens speed; and we came at last to a long pontoon bridge, over which we crossed the Oka, and beyond which rises the hill-range or ravine, on the top and at the foot of which is built the straggling town of Nijni-Novgorod. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
After tracking in the frost awhile, I sat downwind and across a ravine from a doe and two fawns. Everyday Enlightenments
You'll traverse a series of high valleys, ravines, and washes filled with a variety of plants, including purple barrel cactus and stands of ocotillos.
On her fifteenth birthday she had stupidly agreed to jump off a branch of a willow tree over a shallow ravine some ten feet below on a dare.
According to local police, Hatch was speeding when her car slipped through a gap between guardrails on the windy road, sending her car to the bottom of the ravine.
He would spend one full happy day in that ravine seeking to recatch the emotions that had thrilled his boy's heart on that great night five years ago, and having thus filled his heart, he would take his departure without seeing her again. The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan
A solitary figure had climbed up out of the ravine and stood against the sun on the clough-top. The Alaskan
The East Coast consists of several narrow bands of lowlands that lead to an intermediate zone of steep bluffs and ravines abutting a 1650 foot escarpment which provides access to the central highlands.
Then _pat, pat, pat_ came the kissing of the water against the bows of the gig, and the sides of the ravine seemed as weird and strange as ever, while the darkness if anything grew more profound. Fitz the Filibuster
The whole place stank of sulphur and the terrain, full of rocky ridges, caves, and deep ravines, was a honeycomb of concrete and steel.
Steep hills, mountains, and ravines with narrow areas of flat terrain characterize the interior.
Before heading to the floor of the ravine stop and pay homage, and also use the moment to think about not becoming the next name scribed on the memorial. Sun Journal
The rill was a parched ravine now, as though some convulsion of the earth had bled the region dry of its lifeblood.
By daylight, and with the aid of a compass, which I always carried about me, I should have had little difficulty, even though the country we had to get over was intersected by ravines and water-courses, not to speak of the uncompromising _jhil_ near the Jalalabad fort. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
They penetrated ravines and reached precipitous mountain peaks inaccessible to mechanized troops.
The ravine soon became a favorite and picturesque spot for adventurous campers and climbers, but the first skier didn't appear until April 1914.
They sit beside every road junction, crown every hilltop, lie deep in the bottom of the island's wildest ravines.
A row of houses followed the crest of the ravine, some built of small logs, and some of shiplap lumber which had cracked with exposure to the sun, but all having a neglected and poverty-stricken air. The Intriguers
We could say our boat's pulled up in the ravine cove for repair of a sprung garboard strake. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
All are equipped with complex camera systems that can peer into mountain ravines or terrorist compounds, instantly relaying images back to safely situated ground stations.
Back in the capital, ebullient Creole evangelical hymns still reverberate in the mornings from the mountainsides and ravines that crisscross the city, and radios still pump out a non-stop diet of sinuous konpa music of the kind that first brought Michel Martelly to prominence along with the driving racine rhythms of vodou and endless political chatter. Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
During the attack, one Marine fell into a shallow ravine and suffered a serious back injury.
The cow pony halted with a start; the rider jerked straight in his saddle; the echo of the call barked back from some angling cliff face down the ravine. Way of the Lawless
Glaciers from this great mass of ice extend through mountain valleys and ravines to reach coastline fjords at many points.
We set out early in the morning, and by mid-day reached the ravine of Paypote, where there is a tiny rill of water, with a little vegetation, and even a few algarroba trees, a kind of mimosa. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The term masonry work covers all types of structures made from stone-Masonry work is used in soil conservation projects for the construction of gully or ravine erosion protection work when the necessary materials are found in adequate quantity close to the site. 1.1. Survey of local conditions and site reconnaissance
It was ideal for for engaging targets in ravines, reverse slope positions, and in other defiladed positions.
On a terrace beyond the ravine an umbrageous oak spreads his great boughs indulgently beside the sombre Persian forms.
Over the past 80 million years, the sand and mud of the sauropod nesting grounds have solidified into sandstone and mudstone that are visible today as distinct bands or layers in the site's ridges, buttes, and ravines.
As for Edith, she rambled at will among the bushes of the nearest ravine, under the faithful guardianship of Chimo, and hurried back to the camp almost every hour, laden with cloudberries, cranberries, blaeberries, and crowberries, which grew in profusion everywhere. Ungava
Then he went to what he called the ravine, still avoiding the path, so that as a matter of fact he made his way up on his hands and knees mostly, very carefully and slowly amongst the loose stones, till by holding on to a bush he brought his eyes on a level with the piece of flat ground in front of the farmhouse. The Rover
Now there were sharp ravines and barren gray slopes and narrow red spires looming above a clay basin that had, for 600 millennia, been eroded by rivers and wind.
Steep hills, mountains, and ravines with narrow areas of flat terrain characterize the interior.
Listening to these draggings and concussions, I thought me of the haunt from which they came; an isle full of metallic ravines and gulches, sunk bottomlessly into the hearts of splintered mountains, and covered for many miles with inextricable thickets. The Piazza Tales
Across this ravine lay a wooden footbridge, built to link the high ground on either side just where the ravine opens into the valley. The Education of a Gardener
This lonely ravine is called Far Easedale, and at the upper end there formerly stood a cottage named Blentarn Ghyll. A Book of Golden Deeds
Another evil omen was sent to deter him from his enterprise: arriving at the rambla, or dry ravine, of Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada
All sorts of plants grow in rock gardens, thriving in sunny warm spots, dry ravines, damp gullies, and many other variations of temperature and soil conditions.
In 1959, an Inspector-General of Police killed the dangerous dacoit, Gabbar Singh, in an encounter in the Chambal ravines of Madhya Pradesh.

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