In Europe, in old times, the bowlders were called devil-stones; they were supposed.
Geikie says: "Possibly these bowlders may have come from some ancient Atlantis, transported by ice.
The material runs in streaks, just as if blown by violent winds: "When cut through by rivers, or denuded by the action of the sea, ridges of bowlders are often seen to be inclosed within it.
The face of nature was desolated as by a tornado, and the gigantic bowlders and loose rocks found on the prairies are the missiles hurled by the mighty combatants.
They are not very large, and they differ in this and other respects from the bowlders found in the other portions of the Drift.
In the Lower Silurian of the south of Scotland, large blocks and bowlders (from one foot to five feet in diameter) [1.
They almost invariably afford marks of having been subjected to the same action as the stones and bowlders by which they are surrounded.
The first came from somewhere among the bowlders down to the southeast, and this second whizzed from across the cañon.
Here they can see nearly one hundred and fifty more ahead of them, and here some loose bowlders are hurriedly shoved or rolled to form a rifle-pit, and these volunteer allies are placed in position.
There they will leave their horses and their wounded, and then come creeping up the winding gorge or crouching among the bowlders from the east to join in the attack on the hated pale-face.
An examination of their graves in 1876 brought to light the fact that in some cases the dead were buried in stone cists; in others small, round, drift bowlders were placed around the skeletons.
The walled graves or vaults and altar-shaped mass were built of water worn bowlders and clay or earth merely sufficient to hold them in place.
Beneath these was a layer of rounded drift bowlders aggregating several wagon loads.
Three times they wheeled about the interior of the oval chamber, to settle finally upon the damp, cold bowlders that fringe the outer edge of the pool.
Benches surrounded this open space upon three sides, and along the fourth were heaped huge bowlders which rose in receding tiers toward the roof.
They marched directly across the arena toward the rocks upon the opposite side, where, spreading their bat-like wings, they rose above the high wall of the pit, settling down upon the bowlders above.
Directly below me the water lapped the very side of the wall, there being a break in the bowlders at this point as there was at several other places about the side of the temple.
The walls of this village were built of flat bowlders and slabs of limestone, and there is now practically no standing wall remaining.
Its northern or outer edge is a trifle higher than the space between it and the village proper and is marked by several large bowlders and a small amount of debris.
The whole surface of the terrace within the limits described is covered by small water-worn bowlders scattered so thickly over it that travel is seriously impeded.
This small ruin, like all the smaller ruins described, was built of river bowlders, or river bowlders with occasional slabs of sandstone or limestone, while the ruin last described consists exclusively of limestone slabs.
In many parts of it these bowlders are arranged so as to inclose small rectangular areas, and these areas are connected with the old ditch just described.
As in the latter, bowlders were used in the wall, but unlike the latter rough stone predominates.
The ruins occur along the western rim of the mesa, overlooking the river and the bottom lands on the other side, and are now marked only by bowlders and a slight rise in the ground.
Plate XXXIX shows something of this surface character; and in the right hand portion of it may be seen some of the rows of bowlders forming the rectangular areas.
The bowlders which now mark these sites were probably obtained in the immediate vicinity of the points where they were used.
But few lines of wall are visible, most of the ruins consisting only of a few bowlders scattered without system.
Although the walls are built entirely of river bowlders the masonry presents almost as good a face as some of the ruins previously described as built of slabs of limestone, and this is due to careful selection of the stone employed.
The bowlders usually occur only in the lower part of the wall, near the ground, and in several cases, where nothing exists of the wall above the surface of the ground, the remains consist entirely of bowlders.
The pass is narrow, walled in on each side by precipices of granite, and blocked up with bowlders and fallen trees, and beset with pitfalls in the roads ingeniously covered with fair-seeming moss.
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss.
The material from which these lamps are made occurs in isolated bowlders on the surface of the ground at various places in the region.
The cache in which the flesh is deposited is simply a few stones or bowlders laid on the ground and the meat put upon them.
Perhaps the old Chiricahua guessed that he had been hidden among the "heap rock" bowlders and crags at one time, and knew why Tah-nu-nu did not join him.
Down it came, slowly at first, then more swiftly, and the tall pines were snapped off and swept away, and great bowlders were caught up and carried with it.
Not far away, on the left, were the tall pines under one of which Ping had curled down, while outside of all was a bare ledge of rock, littered with bowlders and fragments.
It will be remembered that he was near the roof of the cavern, among a mass of bowlders and rocks which touched the dome.
She nodded her head in acquiescence, and, still clasping hands, they began picking their way down among the bowlders to the spot where they had left their canoe a short time before.
Ashman observed the chieftain, as his eyes followed the ledge until they rested upon him, crouching behind one of the bowlders with his rifle leveled at the war party.
He knelt beside her, so that thebowlders shut both from the view of any prowlers who might seek to reach them.
Then he drew the craft still further up, and, taking her hand again in his own, began picking their way over the jagged bowlders and stones to the edge of the volcano.
On the right of the road the hill was too rugged and uneven, being strewn with bowlders and sown with shrubs and trees, to allow of any formation, and was in fact one great ambuscade, the men being hidden by the trees and stones.
The main road from Corinth to Nauplia, through Argos, lies up a long hill-side, passing at length into a barren and mountainous region set with gray bowlders and only peopled with lizards.
Beyond that was a corresponding hill, covered sparsely with pines, which grew up big among big bowlders of white limestone, lying like some petrified flock of gigantic sheep.
The great green lizards alone seemed not to have been turned brown by the drought, and slipped pattering over the bowlders into cracks and crevices as Yanni passed.
Its bed was a succession of bowlders from the size of a man's head to that of a small house, and its waters, coming direct from the snow, were ice cold.
The bed of the stream is composed of glacial drift, all the rapids being paved with bowlders varying in size from an inch to two or three feet in diameter.
He is of the opinion that both slabs and bowlders were in many cases carried long distances.
Other figures are said to be engraved upon thebowlders and stones used in constructing the burial cists.
They rose behind the bowlders and delivered a deadly volley of arrows that threw the Crows into confusion.
The Sioux took shelter behind the bowlders and fought with the fury of despair.
They are built of flat stone slabs placed on edge, and rest on bowlders that have fallen from the cave roof, which is here lower than in the middle part of the cavern.
Many of these greatbowlders remained on the floor of a cave where it was broad enough to retain them.
If he could but reach the shelter of the bowlders before the Pimans discovered them!
These bowlders were so placed that he could easily spring from one to the other dry-shod, and his chance of intercepting me would be excellent.
As there was moonlight, and I knew the channels well, I had no dread of this rapid till suddenly I remembered three large bowlders crossing the stream like stepping-stones.
Bowlders of all sorts harassed the free passage, stones rolled under the feet, holes of striking unexpectedness lay in wait, and the water was icy cold.
The world was a flat plain of snow, with here and there a stunted spruce, knee-high, protruding above it, and with here and there an inequality of hidden bowlders and rounded knolls.
At the same moment a light curl of smoke was wafted from the heaped bowlders in the chasm above, and the echoes of a rifle-crack reverberated among the rocks.
Huge bowlders lay jammed and crowded in clefts of the mountain before them.
On the surface they lie chiefly as bowlders of less or greater size, usually of hard and durable kinds.
Twice we came to masses of bowlders which made it impossible for a horse to travel in the stream, and we found that the pony had skirted them.
The front of the camp looked towards the creek, which flowed over bowlders and pebbles with a great rush and roar.
Groping his way between the narrow walls, he presently emerged through a natural crevice in a mass of bowlders near the spring.
Townsend assented, and followed a path which zigzaged around bowlders and stumps up to the red cluster on the hillside above him.
Small trees that had grown up since the dam had been built were uprooted in the bed of the cañon, and great bowlders pulled from their sockets and sent resistlessly downward.
Farther down, the slope becomes more precipitous and is covered with bowlders and stunted evergreens, some of which have been broken off by rocks tumbling from the cliff above.
Instead of coming forward to the path, which the bushes and bowlders hide from their view, they go pushing straight on up the rocks.
Little else than huge rocks, bowlders and stunted trees met the eye, while there was no appearance of vegetation, nor was the slightest vestige of a human habitation visible, let them look in whatever direction they chose.
Ice-pushed bowlders strew the shore, which is here a gentle meadow slope, based by a gravel beach.
A few big bowlders rolling down from the cliffs would topple Bridgeport over into the river.
Strewn with bowlders and hung with bushes and an occasional thicket of elms and oaks, the path was rough but sure.
The muddy torrent, at a velocity of fully eight miles an hour, went eddying and whirling and darting and roaring among the gnarled and blackened stumps, the prostrate trees, the twisted roots, the huge bowlders which studded its course.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowlders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
