On a jutting crag of rock, in plain view from the town below, is an ancient Roman castellum.
There is many a pine-clad slope, convent-crowned hill-top and castled crag in Italy as interesting as the more famous, historic sites.
When you have done that, come down the cragdirectly above the pond; but don't let your habit catch anywhere.
Then they boarded the yacht and started for their Crag Cottage home again.
And Crag Cottage will be ready and glad to accommodate you all as soon as the Dolphin can carry you there," added Evelyn in pleasant, playful tones.
A gratified acceptance, with an assurance that they would be ready in season, came in reply, and all the Woodburn company were jubilant over the prospect of the pleasant trip and the enjoyable summer at Crag Cottage likely to follow.
Oh, I am glad to think of being on our good Dolphin again and then at dear, sweet Crag Cottage," cried Ned, clapping his hands in delight.
So now I guess we are all pleased with each other and are going home to Crag Cottage quite happy.
A little way off there was a crag some forty feet high at whose foot rose a little stream.
Above this, the hill grows steeper till it meets a grey crag which drops sheer down from the fir wood, whose brow, shaggy with gorse and ling, overhangs the place.
But the day was wasting fast and the climb up the crag might be more difficult than it appeared.
Spending the night on the face of the cragwould mean a cold camp indeed.
Were the marine equivalents of the Forest-bed forthcoming we might well expect them to contain many Crag forms, but the facies of the fauna would most probably resemble that of the existing North Sea fauna.
Again, the appearance in the Weybourn Crag of a few southern shells common to the Forest-bed does not seem to prove more than that such shells were contemporaneous somewhere with an arctic marine fauna.
Rarely could a barren crag be discerned, and when it did appear it was only a sharp point, or a bald projection pushing itself forward from the midst of the thickest foliage.
The same stir of primeval forces which threw up the crag on which Valtetzi stood, must have cast them up bubbling and basaltic through some volcanic vent-hole, long after the great range behind was fixed.
Let the Londoner have his six weeks every year among crag and heather, and return with lungs expanded and muscles braced to his nine months' prison.
After a toilsome ascent of half an hour he reached the lofty crag called by the mountaineers the Warder of the Glacier, and sat down to recover his breath.
After breakfast I went down through the wood to the sea, not a mile distant, and a very fine bit of coast, with rich colour in the rocks and water, and Dunstanborough Castle on its crag as the great feature.
The German waiter at the inn asked with great gravity if we admired it more than 'the castled crag of Drachenfels.
All the little torrents were swollen by the storms, and the colours of the dying fern and the great purple shadows on Helm Crag and Bow Fell were most beautiful.
He clasps thecrag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
What’s the name of that strange-looking cragacross the valley?
In about half-an-hour I found myself nearly parallel with the high crag which I had seen from a distance in the morning.
I shouldn’t wonder,” said I, “if there was once an arm of the sea between that crag and this hill.
I, pointing to the torrent tumbling down the crag at the farther end of the gloomy vale.
With this crag the wall of rocks terminated; beyond it lay an extensive strath, meadow, or marsh, bounded on the east by a lofty hill.
Passing round this crag we came to a fountain surrounded with rushes, out of which the brook, now exceedingly small, came murmuring.
The water comes spouting over a crag of perhaps two hundred feet in altitude between two hills, one south-east and the other nearly north.
Through the profusion of long silvery threads or hairs, or what looked such, I could here and there see the black sides of the crag down which the Rhyadr precipitated itself with something between a boom and a roar.
Behind and between, huge outlines of dark hill and sharp curves of crag show like stiffened ridges of solid sea, amid heaving and glaring motion of vapour and fire.
Its highest crag spread out like the feathered head of a proud Aztec king.
Seated on a crag of the sierra in the cool of the afternoon breeze, Luis Cervantes gazed away in the distance, dreaming and killing time.
She remembered with horrible distinctness how she had once stood at the bottom of the crag and seen a stone that rolled over the top smash upon the rocks.
They were not all white; dark rocks with glittering veins edged the snowfield, and the scarred face of Force Crag ran down where the shoulder of the moor broke off four hundred feet below.
If the little slant towards the crag deceived you, it deceived me.
I like the view from the crag and sometimes go to watch the sunset.
It was hard to see through the snowy spray, but the top of the crag looked ominously near.
I held on because I thought I might fall over thecrag if I let go," she said with a laugh.
It was a deplorable adventure, and the fact of your encounter with the doctor at Hazel Cragmade it a great deal worse.
She could not help remembering how happy she had been upon the fine frosty morning when she and Ninian had driven together to the Crag Lough.
She was going off by herself to slake her desire to behold once more Duke's Crag and the Hotwells Lough.
No connection between the Crag and any Duke can be traced.
Yet on the summit of Duke's Crag he had sworn that he had told her nothing but the truth.
I want to see a blackcrag with a frozen lake at its base, and a low grey sky, a flurry of snow, the mist blotting out all the rest of the world--and in the midst of it all just one little place of refuge.
Within an hour after the rain started, a large crag near the top of the peak fell and came crashing and rumbling down the slope.
I slowly made my way down the slope, and at two in the afternoon, twenty-four hours after I had sent Scotch back, I paused on a crag and looked below.
One day when Scotch was busy driving the main pack into the woods, one that trotted lame with the right fore leg emerged from behind a rocky crag at the edge of the open and less than fifty yards from Scotch.
One of the results of the transformation was that great masses of crag had fallen, and a mightier mass than all hung trembling in a black abyss.
He would blast the crag from the breast that held it, and if only the heart of the mountain confirmed what he suspected, then he was rich, rich indeed!
On the eagles being so frequently robbed of their young, they became unsettled and removed from crag to crag.
Three hundred sunless summers past, We leave at length this loveless billow; Where oft we felt the icy blast, And made the shelving cragour pillow.
For these, In safety lead them, where the other crag Uninterrupted traverses the dens.
Scarcely he, though light, And I, though onward push'd from crag to crag, Could mount.
