The barranca was here deeper than at any point above; so deep that I could but indistinctly see the rocky boulders at its bottom.
The barranca lay between them and me, but I saw that if I could entice them to its brink, they would be within range of my rifle.
The barranca turned off by an angle at no great distance.
After some reflection, it occurred to me that by following the barranca downward, I might find water; at least, this was the most likely direction in which to search for it.
The only path by which I could cross the barranca had just been taken by the bear.
When my eyes first rested upon the brute, he was just emerging out of the barranca at the very spot where I had climbed up myself.
Rhodes guided his horse carefully around a barranca edge, honeycombed by gophers, and then let his eyes rest again on the lustrous confiding eyes, and the rose-leaf lips.
Some such vagrant thought drifted through his mind as the sweet calls of the drowsy birds cut the warm silence, now from some graceful palo verde along a barranca and again from the slender pedestal of an occotilla.
We rode over hill and dale for four or five hours, and then along the edge of a barranca for the rest of the day.
This great barranca is between two and three thousand feet deep, and the view is wonderful.
Next morning, we went off to get a view of the great barranca of Regla.
The trail from Camp Diaz to our fifth camp in the Arroyo de los Angelitos along the western side of the Grand Barranca of the Urique, was as picturesque as the most poetical imagination could conceive.
Although we had dropped from the crest of the range and land of pines to the land of palms, seven thousand feet, still we had many miles to wind up the great tropical barranca before we would reach the village.
This camp on the picturesque brink of the Grand Barranca I called Camp Diaz, after Mexico's president.
The Grand Barranca of the Urique is one of the most massive pieces of nature's architecture that the world affords.
There are undoubtedly many other, but unknown, places where these savages dwell, if possible more primitive than those of the Barranca del Cobre.
The brink of the barranca was armed by stony mounds and the wrecks of half a dozen pines of the giant species, which must have been an imposing sight for miles around before the lightning or the tempest shattered them.
As soon as they could wheel, which was done on the edge of the barranca by sharp reining in and spinning round whilst the horse's fore hoofs were in air, they returned at full speed.
And after he'd left Pojuaque he'd got along all right, he said, except he had to go slow through the sandhills, till he come to the Barranca Grande.
They mounted their horses, paid the landlord, and in their turn quitted the meson de San Juan, walking their horses in the direction of the barranca del mal paso, where the colonel had preceded them.
He will see what they are about at the barranca del mal paso (the gorge of the evil step).
A quarter of a mile from Glen Ellen, after the second bridge is passed, to the right will be noticed a barranca that runs like a scar across the rolling land toward a group of wooded knolls.
The barranca is the site of the ancient right of way that in the time of private property in land ran across the holding of one Chauvet, a French pioneer of California who came from his native country in the fabled days of gold.
Communication is kept up between Barranca and Moyabamba by way of the Aypena river to its head and thence by land.
Barranca is situated on a red clay bluff, about seventy feet high, on the north or left bank of the river, which is here narrow.
Barranca has been used as, but is not well adapted to be, a military post; gunboats could lay out of sight below, around a bend of the river, and shell it without being themselves exposed to its fire.
The canyon or barranca began just opposite the ford, and there was no doubt but that the Mexican army had followed this, the sole practicable road, for the traces of its passage were deeply marked in the ground.
A few of the scatophagic shells were found about the bramble-marked graves at Pozo Escalante, and a single one at Barranca Salina.
Commonly the barranca water is too saline for Caucasian palates save in dire extremity, but the salinity diminishes as the arroyos are ascended.
He had not felt such pain since his barranca mule had crashed on the rocks with him and broken his ankle not long after he had come to Mexico.
We were riding horseback through a barranca in San Luis Potosi; men had been digging a ditch for irrigation.
In 1868 Don Jose Barranca published a Spanish translation, from the Dominican text of von Tschudi.
In the barranca we shall find a fonda with liquors and a girl, none prettier in all Chihuahua.
In five days we reached the Barranca del Oro, and passed the old mine, the scene of our bloody conflict.
At sundown we reached the head of the Barranca del Oro, a vast cleft that traversed the plain leading down to the deserted mine.
Approaching this point, the road on each side of the barranca suddenly dips, the trails converging downward, and meeting among the ruins.
After leaving the Barranca del Oro, we struck the head waters of the Rio Mimbres; and, keeping on the banks of that stream, followed it down to the Del Norte.
Nearing the bunkhouse they cheered lustily as they caught sight of the hectic cook laboring profanely with two balking pintos that had backed his wagon half over the edge of a barranca and then refused to pull it back again.
The barranca then abuts on the river, except in one place, where there is a farm and wharf used for loading salt, forming a cliff close to the river bank as far as Carmen.
About a league to the west the barranca blended with the declivities of high precipitous mountains, and the river appeared to force its way from the south between steep precipices before trending into the valley.
I then proceeded to scale the barranca bordering the river valley, and soon reached the desolate undulations of the higher Pampa.
At night we encamped under a barranca or steep rising to the eastward.
His answer was invariably 'a league;' and we rode along vainly expecting every moment to see the place, rounding innumerable promontories or points where the barranca advanced into the valley.
On the northern side the valley, though dotted here and there with clumps of trees, was more open, and the distance to the barranca greater than that on the southern side.
Having passed through the canyon, we halted on a slight eminence immediately underneath the barranca bordering the southern side of the valley of the river.
The barranca at this spot advances as it were to meet the river bend, and leaving but a narrow intervening space.
Ascending the slope we crossed the higher bench, a barren, dreary waste, for about a league, until we came to a lagoon covered with upland geese, and lying just below what may be termed the barranca of the Upper Pampa.
We halted at the head of an abra, or lateral opening which ran up into the barranca from the main valley, and saw in the distance a solitary rancho, the first civilised dwelling beheld since my departure from Santa Cruz.
After leaving this hill a walk of about two hundred yards brings one to the edge of the barranca and to the narrow natural causeway by which alone the city or stronghold of Utatlan could be approached.
On crossing this narrow bridge one finds oneself on a fairly level space of ground about eighteen acres in extent, with almost precipitous sides, over which one can look down to the bottom of the barranca four hundred feet below.
The short twilight faded away as we crossed the plain, and it was dark before we entered the deep barranca which had to be crossed before the town could be reached.
We scrambled up the other side of the barranca and soon reached a small tableland on which stands the village of Chiché.
Then came a gradual descent through a forest of small trees, followed by a steep dip into thebarranca through which the Motagua flows.
The town itself is not visible until the traveller approaches within a mile and a half, when it is seen below following the turns of a deep barranca or ravine, of which the mountain of la Bufa, with a chapel on its crest, forms one side.
The district of the municipality of San Juan del Rio contains the village of Tequisquiapam, the hamlets of San Pedrito, San Sebastian, and the rancheria of La Barrancade los Cocheros.
The whole Barranca will throw up hands of horror--the hands that applauded the greater sin when I gave myself without love in marriage.
A hundred feet deep, the waters are pouring down the Barranca de Tigres, and if they once top it the dam will go.
As they drew into the shadow of the Barranca wall the moonlight grew fainter, and, drifting later over the submerged jungle, they were hard put to avoid the treetops which upreared like huge mushrooms above the flood.
From the rim of the Barranca de Guerrero on both sides, and as far up and down from a given point as a man may ride in a day,' so the deed ran.
They might as well stand in the path of a barranca flood.
Rising almost sheer from the edge of the bench behind him, the Barranca wall shut off the western breeze, and from its face the fierce sunblaze was reflected in quivering waves of heat.
We go to build beacons along the rim of the Barranca to give warning against the bursting of the gringo dam," he answered Seyd.
Tis told all over the Barranca that she has this man in her blood, and count me for a liar if she comes with him this far for any purpose but marriage.
A huge earthen structure, nearly a hundred feet high, it spanned the Barranca just where the valley nipped in from a wide angle to a passage a quarter mile wide.
So this is the fellow who has been bucking old General Garcia in the Barranca de Guerrero?
No, senor, at this time of the year one would perish of the cold, and there is an inn in the Barranca with the finest of accommodations.
All at once a loud noise was heard, and the bottom of the barranca was illumined by a number of torches.
Barranca proposes Ulla as a derivative of Ullu, “the power of love.
Rosa says that Lopez is mistaken in his etymology, that the suggestion of Barranca is more plausible; but that he thinks he has himself hit upon a more rational derivation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barranca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
