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Example sentences for "deep ravine"

  • Immediately to the north lies a deep ravine, and beyond a single ridge is the wide valley of the Gambar, with numerous mountain spurs, which, from their comparatively lower level, are not prominently brought into view.

  • After a mile, passing round a projecting spur, a fine view was obtained of the river Sutlej at the bottom of a deep ravine, and of the mountain range north of the river, now in several places covered with heavy snow.

  • The front of the camp was covered by a deep ravine skirted by a dense forest, running nearly parallel with the lines, from the river hills westward.

  • Tekaharawa Falls, in a deep ravine north of the village, near the road leading to the Mohawk.

  • We followed him along a devious cattle-path that skirted a deep ravine, until we came to a spring that bubbled up from beneath a huge shelving rock whose face was smooth and mossy.

  • Sliding rapidly down the tree, I lit on another bench in the mountain, from which I made my way down into the bottom of a deep ravine.

  • They moved on toward us until nearly within rifle range, when they went down into a deep ravine, which ran nearly in a half circle around the house, and about one hundred and eighty yards distant from it.

  • There was, as I have said, a deep ravine in front of our left.

  • It was not only divided, but it was separated by a deep ravine of the character above described.

  • This movement carried the brigade over a deep ravine to a third ridge and, when Smith's troops were seen well through the ravine, Osterhaus was directed to renew his front attack.

  • This spur is separated from the main edge by a deep ravine.

  • The route lay towards the south-south-east, across a sloping plateau intersected by dry watercourses, towards a deep ravine, full of boulders and huge detached rocks.

  • Approaching Laruns, the valley appears terminated by high crags, and we could just distinguish the road to Spain, leading into a deep ravine, which seems scarcely more than a crevice in the rock.

  • From Pierrefitte the road suddenly turns into a deep ravine, with the river rushing below, and immense masses of crag rising many hundred feet above.

  • While we were crossing a deep ravine, on our way to camp, we ran into a small band of buffaloes that had been frightened by some of the hunters.

  • About 11 o'clock that day while Major Babcock was ahead of the main command with his company, and while we were crossing a deep ravine, we were surprised by about three hundred warriors who commenced a lively fire upon us.

  • We traveled until late in the night; when upon discovering a low, deep ravine which we thought would make a comfortable and safe camping-place, we stopped for a rest.

  • Our road then led up and down the south side of a deep ravine, with many tortuous windings.

  • Thence we descended several thousand feet into a deep ravine.

  • From the hamlet of Pa Sung we dropped down to a deep ravine at the bottom of which is a sparkling mountain stream spanned by a rustic bridge.

  • At length, about a quarter of a mile above the falls, he found a deep ravine, where there were some shelving rocks, under which he took refuge.

  • The valley of the river on one side, and a deep ravine on the other, render access to three-fourths of this fortification extremely difficult.

  • Some distance to the north-west of the enclosure, and on the opposite side of a deep ravine, is another small circle, one hundred and forty feet in diameter, with three entrances.

  • The largest circle is situated upon a detached point of land, of the same level with the adjacent plain, from which it is cut off by a deep ravine, in which flows a small stream.

  • On the right was a deep ravine, down which ran a brook; the hill beyond it was covered towards the top with a wood, apparently of oak, between which and the ravine were small green fields.

  • Between me and the hill of the burning object lay a deep ravine.

  • The northwest corner area (28 acres) was triangular and bounded on two sides by rock fences and on its third side by a deep ravine.

  • On its third (southeastern) side the area sloped into a deep ravine.

  • The largest pond, in a deep ravine in the northern part of the pasture, was constructed in June, 1956, and became filled in approximately one month (Pls.

  • From one of their openings descended a deep ravine, widening as it issued on the prairie.

  • We were skirting the brink of a deep ravine, when we saw Henry and the broad-chested pony coming toward us at a gallop.

  • The arid soil was cracked into a deep ravine.

  • There seemed no shelter near, but we discerned at length a deep ravine gashed in the level prairie, and saw half way down its side an old pine tree, whose rough horizontal boughs formed a sort of penthouse against the tempest.

  • Nègue with the Escoutay, which flows through a deep ravine.

  • Sioule, which traverses by a deep ravine a bed of lava from the crater of Puy de Dome.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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