At last Monte-Cristo and Zuleika came upon the Nubian, who had stopped beside a huge bowlder that seemed to have lain for ages where it had fallen from the cliffs above.
All that had passed since they came to the bowlderwas strange, bewildering and terrifying to her.
Lively work was necessary to prevent being wrecked upon the rocks, and occasionally we did turn over, when a bowlder was struck side on.
One morning I slipped on a bowlder in the river and strained my side, and for me the remainder of the day was very trying.
Here the wind had swept the snow clear of the ice, and it was as smooth as a piece of glass, broken only by an occasional bowlder sticking above the surface.
The flats largely formed of silting while they still constituted beds of lakes, have a deep soil of fine sand and mold resting on coarse gravel and bowlder drift.
At Knoxville we forded the river at a point where a giant split bowlder made a tunnel and the water dashed through with roaring speed.
But the boat would float on, and the bowlder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface.
In the terminal deposits of these, especially in the materials pushed into the Lake, it is somewhat difficult to find a bowlder which has not been subjected to severe attrition.
Early the following morning just such a metaphorical bowlder fell right into the middle of the Snake's Fall stream.
Well, we got over the bowlder field--Fitz as spryly as any of us.
Half-way up the mountain he stopped to lean against the kindly breast of a bowlder blocking the path.
Apparently some mountain girl, wearied by the climb or in a spirit of fun, had mounted her cow while driving it home; and with a smile at the thought of the confusion he would cause her, Clayton stepped around the bowlder and waited.
Breathless, he reached at last a bowlder from which the path was easy to the valley below, and he leaned quivering against the soft rug of moss and lichens that covered it.
He began his effort well, but in the darkness he could not observe the obstructions in his way; so, when at his most dignified point, an obtruding bowldersent him sprawling over it.
Larry had risen from the bowlder on which he had seated himself, and decided to move farther back in the woods in search of the camp-fire that he knew was burning there.
Who is the man, however little of a poet he may be, who has not in his memory a bowlder that occupies more space than the most famous landscape visited at great expense?
We had spied a man seated on a bowlder of granite, and he had looked at us.
Now and then a small bowlder or a little dirt came down from above, where the hill rose sheer above the slip.
On another occasion a bowlder had fallen upon the trail, partially embedding itself.
Angus glanced casually at the bowlder and passed by; but he had taken no more than three strides in the new direction when a voice behind him commanded: "Stop!
You might come and rest," he coaxed, pointing to another bowlder that cropped out in friendly nearness to his own.
Stephen brushed the top of a low bowlder with his handkerchief and invited Deena to sit down.
The game was quickly lifted to the bowlder pointed out by Murray, and he and Steve pressed on up the great beautiful gateway deeper and deeper into the secrets of the mountain range.
He had seen that a mighty bowlder was blocking the greater part of the former entrance.
He stuck his head through the fissure beside the bowlder and seemed about to leap when Coroner Huffman fired again.
Next he turned his attention toward the passage from which the heavy bowlder had been rolled.
No one dared to suggest that the passage from which they had rolled the bowlder would lead to any possibility of escape.
High up on the ascent were poised several huge bowlders, and hence its name of Bowlder Mountain.
By a series of boosts, Byron, Frank, and Fes climbed over the big rock, the latter stopping on top of the bowlder to reach assistance to Walter.
He advanced toward thebowlder and flashed his lantern over it.
Even in the farther chamber they were somewhat puzzled until by flashing their lights over the sloping wall, they perceived two shining eyes high up near the bowlder that choked the upper exit.
On a level and treeless spot several acres in extent between Flathead and Bowlder Mountain, the Boy Scouts and Mr. Porter began their search for the missing bag of specimens.
There was no possibility of creeping around the bowlder and gaining a footing on the slanting cave wall.
I bet it dropped right on the peak of Bowlder Mountain, or maybe on the top of Flathead," one boy even declared.
The bowlder was wedged fast, effectually blocking their only avenue of escape from the steep-walled mountain.
Though the stone thrown down by the man at the entrance prevented our heroes from escaping, the bowlder did not fit so tightly but what water could come in.
He managed to break off several pieces, but it was easy to see that it would take much more work to loosen the retaining ridges so that the bowlder that imprisoned them would fall outward.
The overhanging bowlder was a scant ten minute's walk up the creek.
They sat on the bowlder for a few minutes, then scrambled downhill to the jack-pine flat, and built their evening fire.
Presently they sat down on a bowlder to take a breathing spell after a stiff stretch of climbing.
On a flat bowlder back of the cooks, Morris Blood, Ed Smith, and the roadmasters were sitting down to coffee and sandwiches, and Glover joined them.
Gertrude, resting one hand on a bowlder against which she steadied herself, neither spoke nor moved.
From Union county, Mississippi, there is a flattened bowlder with a shallow cavity on each side; a shallow cup has been pecked on the edge of one of them.
A dislodged bowlder or the tell-tale rattle of sliding gravel would be quite sure to reach the sharp ears of the suspicious sentinels who had just passed.
As they stood gasping for breath they heard an ominous rumble above them, and looking up they saw a large bowlder bounding down the incline directly toward them.
Almost recklessly they darted down the cañon, slipping swiftly along from bowlder to bowlder, but before they had covered half the distance the panther made his spring.
There he was now, at all events, preparing to take possession of the game on the top of that bowlder without asking leave of anybody.
Murray's bullet struck a vital part, and the fierce beast sprang from the bowlder with a ferocious growl of sudden pain and anger.
It is chiefly alluvial in character, whereas the next higher one is composed chiefly of bowlders and is fronted by a pronouncedbowlder train, which includes a remarkable perched bowlder of huge size.
There was a granite bowlder near-by on which he dropped gratefully for a minute's rest.
It was due to his swift pace that he was in the open, in plain view, before he noticed two figures seated on the big granite bowlder near the tomato-patch.
In the canyon, which was very narrow, a largebowlder blocked my progress.
The girl went to the jacal and brought two stones, one a heavy bowlder with a hollow in its top, which had been made partly by stone axes, but more by use; the other stone fitted into this hollow.
We pass Eagle Rock, a great bowlderhigh upon the green hillside, one of the landmarks of the region, and enter the valley of the Los Angeles River.
In the evening, however, and still better, in the early morning, one may cross with safety; the streams then have the appearance of mere mountain brooks wandering harmlessly over broad bowlder beds.
Below each dome there is, as a rule, a deep hollow partly inclosed by trailing ice ridges, analogous to the whirling eddy that occurs normally below a bowlder in a brook.
The bowlder was smooth and ready, and that whole generation of Daleswood men could find no words to say what was in their hearts about Daleswood.
It was a great bigbowlder with plenty of room on it.
They said they would carve with their knives on the big bowlder of chalk all that they knew about Daleswood.
Then I hid the Great Secret in a deep niche at the back of my cave, rolled the bowlder before my front door, and with bow, arrows, sword, and shield scrambled down into the peaceful valley.
The opening was comparatively small, so that after considerable effort I was able to lug up a bowlder from the valley below which entirely blocked it.
I awoke rested but hungry, and pushing the bowlder aside crawled out upon the little rocky shelf which was my front porch.
Another, worth mention, was a round tower, beautifully laid up, which surmounted an immense bowlder that had somehow rolled to the very verge of a lofty cliff overlooking the whole valley.
While we were commenting on this streak of luck, we noticed a change in the water, its partially clear hue began to grow milky, and in less time than it takes to tell it, a bowlder six inches under the surface was out of sight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowlder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
