It was perched like an eagle’s nest on the summit of a mountain, and the cragged steepness of its position, and its high and thick walls seemed to render it proof against all assault.
It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills.
It was at present crowned by an immense castle, which, from its lofty and cragged situation, its vast walls, and mighty towers, was deemed impregnable.
The only ascent to this cragged fortress was by roads cut in the rock, so rugged in many places as to resemble broken stairs.
It was situated on a rocky height, nearly surrounded by a river, and defended by a fortress to which there was no access but by a steep and cragged ascent.
When the remnant of this fierce African garrison descended from their cragged fortress, they were so worn by watchfulness, famine, and battle, yet carried such a lurking fury in their eyes, that they looked more like fiends than men.
With toil he climbed the cragged cliff, And there the ladder found; And o'er the yawning gulf he clomb The ladder round by round.
It was down a cragged defile of these mountains, called the Pass of Lope, that the Christian armies descended into the Vega.
To the right the Rock of the Lovers stretched like a cragged promontory into the plain, whence the daughter of the Moorish alcayde and her lover, when closely pursued, threw themselves in despair.
At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged defile, sometimes descending precipitous cliffs, so as to present themselves in full relief against the sky, sometimes toiling up the deep arid chasms below you.
Without waiting the arrival of the residue of his men, for whom the canoes had been despatched, Arnold led those who had landed to the foot of the cragged defile, once scaled by the intrepid Wolfe, and scrambled up it in all haste.
As darkness came on, the dimming outline of the cragged hills rising on either hand carried the thoughts more than ever back to the savage, Bedouin-skulking solitudes of Asia Minor.
Further they could not flee, for behind them the world falls away by sheer cragged cliffs into the fathomless sea.
The tips of the cragged Alaskan ranges rose up against the blue of a cloudless sky, and the morning sun was flashing in rose and gold at their snowy peaks.
Gazing over thecragged summit, he beheld her approaching with a gentleman at her side.
Down Mount Franklin and over the narrow path cut in the cragged side of Monroe, where a single misstep would hurl the horse and rider down a fathomless abyss, into whose depths the eye dares hardly for a moment gaze.
Ere proceeding far in this direction, another road branches off to Cortes, winding up towards somecragged eminences that serrate the mountain-chain on the left.
To descend a cragged mountain, however, was more difficult and dangerous than to ascend it.
The mountains were lofty, with snowy peaks and cragged sides; it was hoped, however, that some practicable defile might be found.
A short march brought them to the foot of the mountain, but its steep and cragged sides almost discouraged hope.
On the left the cragged hill sweeps round in a quick semi-circle to shut in the valley.
It was with Inman as with Gordel, when thin watery mists soften the cragged outlines and veil its threatening features—he was no longer “fearsome” and forbidding: he was even attractive in his own way.
