He may be found at Easter and Whitsuntide in recondite gullies in Wales, the Lakes, Derbyshire, or Scotland.
Such may have their ledges and gullies picked out with snow, or even (as in the case of the Meije) a small glacier caught on a shelf, but snow must not predominate, must not even cover a considerable fraction of their surface.
All the neighbouring similargullies discharged such groups of mud avalanches during that period of the year.
Gullies are defined against slopes, which previously were lost in them.
Minor ranges have walls of rock as precipitous and grand, gullies as difficult to climb, valleys as beautiful and even as profound as the Alps.
Approaching the mouth of one of these side gullies we heard a noise like thunder and beheld a vast black wave bulging down it.
Oftenest, however, the whole mass will be riven intogullies and weathered into pinnacles of all heights and varieties.
Here and there in the hill country one comes upon blindgullies fronted by high stony barriers.
These years the gullies of the hills are rank with fern and a great tangle of climbing vines.
He had another method in the waterless hills, where he would work in and out of blind gullies and all windings of the manifold strata that appeared not to have cooled since they had been heaved up.
The shadowed heights on the right, scooped into blue gullies and mighty crests, carried a veil of cloud on their tops: the good little red path we were on, was without a stone.
In wet weather the track must be a bad one to follow: innumerable streamlets, which have eaten out deep gullies in the clay, have to be crossed, making the going hard upon heavily laden beasts, and after heavy rains impossible.
You have never seen the mountains and the dangerous gullies on their rocky sides.
Its character for the 8 miles they had followed it up was scrubby and sandy: its course nearly west--long gullies joined it from each side walled with sandstone.
A straight course was impossible, as all the boggy creeks and gullies had to be run up to their heads before they could be crossed.
The party followed down parallel with the Staaten, so as to avoid the scrub and broken sandstone gullies on the banks.
Many gullies were crossed filled with the screw-palm ('Pandanus Spirilas.
We commenced the descent toward the river: the valley was a succession of gullies and ravines, of landslips and watercourses.
Its complex wall, with its terraces within, and its buttresses, radiating spurs, and gullies without, forms a grand telescopic object under a low sun on a good night.
It is cut up by gulliesof basaltic rock, escarpments of which appear everywhere in the hills.
All bore testimony that they had found gold in greater or less quantities in the numerous small gullies or ravines that occur in that mountainous region.
Our road was bad along the bottom, being broken by gullies and impeded by sage, and sandy on the hills, where there is not a blade of grass, nor does any appear on the mountains.
The upper course of the Soane being in some places confined, and exposed to furious gusts from the gullies of the Kymore hills, and at others expanding into a broad and flat valley, presents many fluctuations of temperature.
Now and again they had obtained glimpses of the open plains through the gullies between the wooded hills--here a great stretch of lawn covered with short buffalo grass; yonder an open piece of country strewn with brilliant flowers.
There were many clumps of trees now, and the plain was cut up with gullies and rocky eminences which both parties wished to shun.
The drainage is good, but wherever the slopes are steep erosion proceeds rapidly, making gulliesand washed-out places that hinder or entirely prevent cultivation.
The gently rolling areas are not generally subject to excessive erosion, but the steeper slopes wash badly, deep gullies and ditches being formed on the hillsides.
The surface is well drained and on the steeper slopes the soil washes badly and deep gulliesare formed.
In my excursion I crossed the main branch of Robinson's Creek, and found the gullies of its right bank as steep and tremendous as those of the left.
The deep gullies were all without water, but occasionally filled with patches of rich brush.
Loose clayey sandstone cropped out in its bed, and also in the gullies which joined it.
We travelled about ten miles north-west, and avoided the gullies by keeping at a distance from the river.
We had to travel for a considerable distance in the bed of the river, for the hills approached close to its banks, and numerous deep gullies intercepted their slopes.
We crept like snails over these rocky hills, and through their gullies filled with boulders and shingles, until I found it necessary to halt, and allow my poor beasts to recover.
Now I was looking out of the car window at the wantonness that had turned hillsides into gullies and rich loam into beds of clay.
Shall I stamp with the degeneracy of gullies my own offspring, and scar with the red birth-mark of poverty the unborn of my own breed?
All they could do was try to turn the head up the long hill that ran on one flank, and keep the leaders from swinging to the other side, where a maze of gullies and precipitous ridges would have caught and killed the biggest half of them.
Poor Dolly Grey lost his way in some of the gullies when he was rounding them up for the night last night, and one brute killed forty-seven at a sweep.
Bowers of grown and scrubs of young ones adorned the hills and gullies in close proximity to the house, while groves of different species graced the flats.
He also mentioned that he was anxious to see some of thegullies around Caddagat, which, he had heard, were renowned for the beauty of their ferns.
He heard the water splashing from the eaves heavily into the gullies below, and then the constable once more raucously cleared his throat.
An' he kin ride jes' ez good 'mongst the gullies and boulders like ez ef he had been born in the hills.
The dwellings of Davy's Bend were built upon hills sloping toward the little valley where the business houses were, and which poured a flood of water and mud into the long streets in rainy weather through gaping gullies of yellow clay.
A terrible piece of next-to-impassable scrub, four or five miles through, lay right in our path; it also rose and fell into ridges and gullies in it.
I allowed the horses to remain and drink up the balance of the water, while I went away to inspect some other gorges or gullies in the hills to the west of us, and see whether any more water could be found.
Many beautiful flowers grew on the hillsides, in gullies and ravines; of these I collected several.
We traversed a country nearly all scrub, passing some hills and searching channels and gullies as we went.
Few of these gullies were more than six feet wide, and the trumpery little streams that descend, in even their most flooded state, would be of but little service to anybody.
There were a few little gullies about, which we wasted an hour amongst in a fruitless search for water.
Mr. Carmichael and I ascended the range, and found it to be 900 feet from its base; but in all its gullies water there was none.
We took a stroll up into the rocks and gullies of the ridges, and found a Troglodytes' cave ornamented with the choicest specimens of aboriginal art.
I descended and walked into dozens of gullies and rocky places, and I found some small holes and basins, but all were dry.
Though I rode and walked in gullies and gorges, no water was to be found.
At intervals roaring torrents rush down gullies overgrown with tree-ferns, and full of dicksonia-antarcticas and alsophilas.
I had always been told that these fern-gullies were charming, but I never thought anything could be half so lovely as this romantic ravine.
Plenty of tell-tale gullies declare the vehemence of the winter storms that beat above, and in many of these the rush of water never ceases.
Gullies we had crossed in coming out almost dry now ran noisy, muddy waters up to the horses' middle, and in some places halfway up their sides.
The crossing of these gullies by any rolling vehicle is something of a business.
Back in the dry gullies the drums would have been going night and day where the tingaivashes, the Medicine-Men, lashed themselves into a fury over this apostasy.
After fording the Cane River it entered a country of thickets, swamps and gullies so difficult of passage that five hours were spent in marching barely five miles.
All the steel throats in clumps of woods, under cover of road embankments, in gullies and on the reverse side of slopes, were speaking.
Other easy, relatively easy, places to hold are the dead spaces of gullies and ravines.
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