A monstrous boulder was lying up there in the right position to go down-hill, once started.
The huge boulder kept to the ground at first, then, gathering momentum, it went bounding into the air.
The boys would get a stone poised, then wait until they saw a team approaching, and, calculating the distance, would give the boulder a start.
At the junction of four cross roads, she sat down on a boulder of granite, and thoughtlessly began to break off the beautiful fronds of Ferns which grew all around.
But the boulder burst into a thousand pieces, and only one little piece bruised Buddha's toe, and drew a few drops of blood, whence sprang the sacred flower, the Bohdda Tharanat.
The gods, in spite of the wolf's struggles, drew the end of the fetter Gelgia through the rock Gioll, and fastened it to the boulder Thviti, which was sunk deep in the ground.
Four miles from Amazon we pass through Boulder and can see that it is a thriving town.
Passing Amazon we follow Boulder River for 12 miles as it courses through the beautiful valley of the same name.
Boulder is the county seat of Jefferson County,” says Mr. Donovan, “and has a population of about 1200.
As they were abandoned the stream rushed by them with the roar of a river in flood, while the crash of boulder upon boulder turned masses of rock into shattered fragments.
Down to the boulder playhouse, up the trail to the summit, but nowhere were the children to be found.
Then realizing that once more she had let go of her fiery temper, she fled from the house up the trail to a great boulder on the summit of the mountain, and threw herself face down in an abandon of shame, remorse and despair.
Maen Llia, or the Stone of Llia, is a huge boulder of granite some eleven feet high by the Roman road of Sarn Helen, which, far up near the source of the Llia, crosses the mountains with the recognised audacity of a Roman thoroughfare.
Where he had twenty breaking-teams following one another, if one broke his plow, or ran on a boulder and had to file it, the whole gang had to stop for him, or run around him and make a balk in the work.
She soon went over to a big granite boulder left there by the glaciers ages ago when the hill was made by the melting ice dropping its earth and gravel, and sat down as if to rest.
We encountered a group of Tibetans, encamped to leeward of an immense boulder of gneiss, against which they had raised a shelter with their salt-bags, removed from their herd of yaks, which were grazing close by.
These consist of Tertiary sandstones, clays, andboulder conglomerates, the débris in fact which the Himálaya has dropped in the course of ages.
The noble but sluggish river of the lowlands, which he crossed at the town of Jhelam, is here a swift and deep torrent, flowing over a boulder bed, and swirling round waterworn rocks in a gorge hemmed in by mountains.
I looked upward, and right over the snow-brow which closed the view perceived a large brown boulder in the air, while a roar of unseen stones showed that the visible projectile was merely the first shot of a general cannonade.
I crouched instinctively against the rock, which formed a by no means perfect shelter, when a boulder buzzed past me through the air, smote the rocks below me, and with a savage hum flew down to the lower glacier.
To the south-east, on the very top of a hill of older formation, was perched at a dangerous angle another great yellow boulder like the one we had seen on the north side of the crater.
The summit, even when the beholder is only half a mile away from it, appears like a flat straight line against the sky-line, a great boulder that stands up higher on the south-west being the only interruption to this uniformity.
By the roadside an enormous boulder weighing several tons could be seen, the presence of which could not easily be accounted for unless it had been shot out by volcanic action.
In this case, the group is dominated by one large central boulder with four ancillary rocks spread about its base like the feet of a granite beast.
They sat there in silence, and the thoughts of both recurred to that other scene where they had sat on the great boulder under the shadow of the Alps, and watched the rose-film steal over their white summits on the golden summer eve.
They sat on a huge boulder of granite, which some avalanche had torn down, and tumbled from the mountain's side, and there enjoyed the icy wind which tempered the warm evening air, as it swept over the leaping waves of the glacier stream.
I swept the lichen aside, revealing a boulder that had been rolled into the mouth of an opening in the rock, which it fitted so accurately that, covered as it was by the overhanging lichen, it might well have escaped the keenest eye.
We dragged the boulder out; it was two men's work to do it.
One boulder leaped past me and struck down a Kaffir behind; another fell from the roof of the arch on to a man's head and killed him.
He knew very well that a prop put under an unstable boulder may obscure the manifestation of gravity; but he never deceived himself with the thought that it had been eliminated.
Simultaneously every neighbouring boulder blossomed forth in tufts of creamy white that writhed and widened till they melted in thin air like noisome, dark-grown fungi that wilt in the light of day.
Then, letting the sail flap, he took the oars and was soon alongside a large flat boulder which, at low tide, was uncovered, although an occasional wave did wash over it.
Dories stood in the open front door watching as her friend ran lightly across the hard sand, climbed to a boulder and beckoned to the boy who was not far away.
The first settlement near the site of Boulder was made in the autumn of 1858.
Placer gold was discovered on an affluent of Boulder Creek in January 1859.
Occasionally, within the boulder clay, there are irregular lenticular masses of more or less stratified sand, gravel or loam.
Middle Boulder Creek, a branch of the St Vrain river about 30 m.
Oil and natural gas abound in the vicinity; there are oil refineries in the city; and in Boulder county, especially at Nederland, 18 m.
With the exception of foraminifera which have been found in the boulder clay of widely separated regions, fossils are practically unknown; but in some maritime districts marine shells have been incorporated with the clay.
Adam piled on the logs till the blaze leaped far up in the darkness; then they went back to the boulder and sat down to think and wait.
Seated on a boulder close by, her sombrero tipped well over her eyes, Robin fanned the grain, and converted it into a coarse cracked wheat with a venerable coffee-mill.
The scene was flooded with moonlight when the travellers passed the gate on their homeward way, and sat down on a boulder a few yards without the frowning portal.
The hour was wearing toward midnight when they sank down by the boulder once more to watch the darkness disappear, and wait for they knew not what.
The summit is burnished and scored like the sides and base, the scratches and strife indicating that the mighty Tuolumne Glacier swept over it as if it were only a mere boulder in the bottom of its channel.
I found it somewhat difficult to keep up with him in dense, tangled brush, though in jumping on boulder taluses and slippery cobble-beds I had no difficulty in leaving him behind.
If for a moment you are inclined to regard these taluses as mere draggled, chaotic dumps, climb to the top of one of them, and run down without any haggling, puttering hesitation, boldly jumping from boulder to boulderwith even speed.
In this work of beauty, every boulder is prepared and measured and put in its place more thoughtfully than are the stones of temples.
I was now convinced before a single boulder had fallen that earthquakes were the talus-makers and positive proof soon came.
Still, as the mound, if artificial, must have been constructed from the boulder clay and its unstratified contents, this is not surprising.
Here and there a boulder blocked the way; the undergrowth became dense; great clumps of fern and rhododendron sent out their heavy, rank odors.
Lightly running over the crest of the hill, she came in sight of the huge boulderat which she and Helen had experienced their never-to-be-forgotten adventure the winter before.
These rowing shells are made so lightly that a mere scraping of the keel over a sunkenboulder would probably completely wreck the craft, and well the girls knew this.
I believe that fire is up near the big boulder we looked at--you remember?
The boulder stood in a small open space, and it was so high and bulky that it sheltered the fire and the camper quite comfortably.
There was a single figure between the fire and the veryboulder of which Helen had spoken.
There is an old glacial clay and boulder drift below the gravel at Albany, but Professor Hall says it is not the estuary stratified clay.
At the same moment a native from behind a boulder fired at that officer at ten paces' distance; the bullet missed him and Lieutenant Lloyd rode at the man, but fell, shot through the head.
Scarcely one of them but was a dead-shot, and no sooner did a head or a shield appear above rock or boulder or tuft of grass than the deadly rifle rang out, and in most cases there was an enemy the less to encounter.
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