Beyond Mount Taurus is Breakneck Hill, rising nearly twelve hundred feet, with a chain of mountains stretching far to the northeast, among them the Old Beacon and the towering Grand Sachem, sixteen hundred and eighty feet high.
Provost went off to the Opposition camp, and when he returned told me that a Porcupine was there, and would be kept until I saw it; so Harris drove me over, at the usual breakneck pace, and I bought the animal.
We had passed over some very rough roads, and at breakneck speed, but I did not feel stiff as I expected, though somewhat sore, and a good night's rest is all I need.
Up the hill, too, these tortuous pathways ran, changing, now and then, to breakneck stairs where the declivity was specially steep.
A few minutes later he might have been seen on the breakneck trail that leads across the mountains to the Ruidosa.
Billie, his face twisted with pain, watched the youngster disappear at a breakneck gallop into Escondido.
Chapter XXII The Rustlers' Camp From Live-Oaks a breakneck trail runs up the side of the mountain, drops down into the valley beyond, and twists among the hills and through cañons to the Ruidosa.
It was a rough cattle trail he followed, strewn here with boulders and there tilted down at breakneck angle of slippery shale.
Illustration: At a breakneck speed towards the wharf] For once in his life Percival was indifferent to appearances.
Cunningham, whose theories on the value of seconds when tackling reforming infantry were worthy of the Duke of Wellington, or any other officer who knew his business; and again he led his men at a breakneck charge.
The summit reached, the Tokaido now leads through glorious pine-woods, descending toward the valley of the Sakawagawa by a series of breakneck zigzags.
He was quite ready to display that endurance and enthusiasm, in thebreakneck ride across the fields of Normandy, which Lydie had thought to find in him for the good of a noble cause.
After that His Majesty was pleased to dismiss Monsieur de Stainville and myself, being most specially gratified with Gaston's enthusiastic offer to ride at breakneck speed to Le Havre, as soon as he could get to horse.
It would mean long gallops at breakneck speed, whilst slowly the summer's day yielded to the embrace of evening, and anon the glowing dusk paled and swooned into the arms of night.
He immediately jumped into the buggy, seized the reins, and drove at a breakneck pace through the pouring rain to Dan's cottage.
His companions were not slow to follow his example and a moment later they were whizzing at breakneck speed along the highway.
Jacques did the same thing and earthward the big monoplane rushed at breakneck speed.
On reaching the opposite bank, a charge was ordered, and executed in so gallant a manner that several Rebels were made prisoners, and the remainder of the squad was driven away at a breakneck speed.
So Roosevelt and the driver of his buckboard dashed on through the night, over the uncertain mountain road, dangerous even by daylight, at breakneck speed.
Two or three other gentlemen came, and we started off at what seemed to me a breakneck pace, which soon brought us out of the city.
It takes a steady head to cross it, but the Irish are fond of just such breakneck bridges.
I have referred already to the Irishman's love for breakneck bridges, and the prize one of all is at the village of Ballintoy, into which the road drops down the steepest of hills.
His monitor accused him of breakneck recklessness: "Too much confidence, madness, fantastical humor.
Decorated at the age of twenty-one, the enlisted mechanician of Pau continued to progress at breakneck speed.
Night perimeters were established on the edge of Breakneck Ridge.
The tanks proceeded along Highway 2 up Breakneck Ridge and down its reverse slope.
With the occupation of Limon, the battle of Breakneck Ridge was over, but a number of bypassed pockets of resistance were not eliminated until mid-December.
There it set up a defensive position just short of a ridge of hills that was later to be known as Breakneck Ridge.
At the close of 6 November the 57th Infantry of the 1st Division securely occupied Breakneck Ridge and its northern approaches.
In the meantime Company I moved to the left and against stiff resistance secured a ridge later known as Corkscrew Ridge, which was about 1,200 yards southeast of OP Hill and which formed the southeastern spur of Breakneck Ridge.
It would be necessary to maintain control of Kilay Ridge and deny its use to the enemy in order to give complete support to units advancing south from Breakneck Ridge.
At the same time Company L, 21st Infantry, passed through Company I and attacked the center of Breakneck Ridge as Company G started a wide envelopment to the west from Company E's position to assault OP Hill from the west.
At the second sentence Daniel Burton's fingers were in his pocket, and at the third his pencil was racing over the paper at breakneck speed.
And then in the same whirlwind he rushed down the stair and called for his horse, his man, his baggage, and in a few minutes rode down the hill at a breakneck speed.
There was prancing and rearing, and three riderless horses tore back breakneck in the direction they had come.
The reading was instantly suspended, and every eye strained toward the unusual object coming toward the house at such a breakneck speed.
In a few moments they joined the Indians, who were coming at a breakneck gait toward the on-rushing mass.
As we made our way down the breakneck stairway, the foremost of my captors stepped on a large flat rock.
They shot away in a cloud of dust, followed hard by the other two cars, dashing at a breakneck speed over the good roads.
They Quirted Their Horses at Breakneck Speed In the Direction of the Bad Lands.
Let nobody with corns come to Pavilionstone, for there are breakneck flights of ragged steps, connecting the principal streets by back-ways, which will cripple that visitor in half an hour.
Zo whun ai coom to the voot of Breakneck hill, I zeed the public kept by Pewter Will: The virelight showed the glasses in the bar, And 'um danced and twinkled like the avening star.
Glancing back they saw four Crow warriors racing down the slope at breakneck speed.
