The way to heaven is set with briars and thorns; and they who arrive at the kingdom travel over craggy rocks and comfortless deserts.
There was but little snow on the mountains around, which are bare and craggy above, but sloping below.
To the south of Churra the lime and coal measures rise abruptly in flat-topped craggy hills, covered with brushwood and small trees.
Seen from the east-side valleys this range rises in daring relief, craggy in outline, snow spattered, awe inspiring.
This craggy point was the lonely watch-tower of eagles.
The fragile ferns and slender-bladed grasses peeping from the gray and amber mosses, and the flowers that hung from craggy ledges, had wisdom to impart.
He continued, all alone, this archaeological enterprise; he sounded the earth and discovered a hollowness on the level of the pond between two trees, at the foot of the only craggy part of the hillock.
The road of Santa Cruz lies on the east side of the island, at the end of a range of craggy hills, barren and very lofty, along with you sail west by south by compass into the road, with a sea unfathomable until near the shore.
We saw the entrance isles of New Year's harbour at the back of which the land is very craggy and mountainous.
Toorns island is about four leagues in circuit and has a craggy and uneven appearance.
In the back ground, veiled in dark neutral tint, arose a craggy mountain, whose base was richly dotted with groves of larch and spruce.
The turret-like craggy gorge, the beetling rocks high overhead in the gloom, all seemed familiar.
In front, a high craggy ridge, sheering up in a steep slope, dotted with aloes and a sparse growth of mimosa bush.
The Valle Castle or St Sampson's, is situated on a craggy eminence overlooking the sea.
In other positions he will also make a tolerable discovery of the craggy line of coast scenery from the precipitous crags and ravines of Fermain Bay, to the little point of Jerbourgh.
And as she enter'd the cavern wide, The moonbeam gleamed pale, And she saw a snake on the craggy rock, It clung by its slimy tail.
They led in a narrow track, scarcely two feet in breadth, through dense thickets, over craggy hills, and along the banks of placid streams or foaming torrents.
Mary, with her hands clasped upon her knees, her eyes fixed on Wetherlam, upon whose steep brow a craggy mass of brown rock clothed with crimson heather stood out from the velvety green of the hill-side.
Further off again is craggy Ischia, while blue and infinitely vague upon the skyline one can see the mountains behind Gaeta.
Then, at some unseen change in the order of the heavens, suddenly the craggyisland lost its colour, and Monte Epomeo stood out sharp and black against the flushed sky.
Round the shoulder of a sheer grey cliff which overtops the road, there is suddenly thrust out into the sea a craggy precipice, in which one recognises the familiar face of Capri, unseen since we passed Torre dell'Annunziata.
The widening strait of water between the low shore and the craggy one played its part in a tale as passionate, though not so famous, as that of Hero and Leander.
The roads are mere mule-paths straggling amidst rocks and along the verge of precipices, clambering vast craggy heights, or descending into frightful chasms and ravines, with scanty and uncertain foothold for either man or steed.
From the openings of the craggy defiles he pointed out the fertile plains of Andalusia, and regaled the eyes of his soldiery with the rich country they were about to ravage.
Spurring his horse up a craggy height which commanded an extensive view, he beheld, to his consternation, the country about Ronda white with the tents of a besieging army.
It is built round the craggy cone of a hill, on the lofty summit of which is a strong castle.
The country also inland had a more rude and desolate appearance; the high ground, as far as we could see, being all barren, craggy rocks, very much resembling that part of Terra del Fuego which lies near Cape Horn.
Here runs the mountainous and craggy ridge That tempts ambition.
By the craggy hillside, Through the mosses bare, They have planted thorn-trees For pleasure here and there.
The Shepherd to His Love Come live with me, and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield.
Late in the afternoon the spars and rigging of the shipping in Poole Harbour rose up before us, and in another hour we had descended the steep and craggy path which leads to the town.
Very lanky he was and very thin, with a craggy hard face, clean-shaven and sunburned, with a thousand little wrinkles intersecting it in every direction.
