They were brought to a halt at the mouth of a certain cave, in a very desolate, inhospitable region--a country of sheer barren slopes, rugged peaks and turbulent mountain streams that descended thousands of feet in series of roaring cataracts.
In the Pass of Lyemun the traveller finds himself in the midst of an inhospitable grandeur, similar to that of the western Scottish isles.
However, she was used to low doorways, that did not scare her, and inside the room it was not so inhospitable as on the dark, stone, spiral stairs.
Captain Gardiner, and three or four Cornish fishermen, who volunteered for this labor of love, were landed by a passing vessel somewhere, on the inhospitable coast.
Beyond the Lixitæ dwelt the inhospitable Ethiopians, who pasture a wild country intersected by large mountains, from which they say the river Lixus flows.
Once more the order to retreat from the inhospitable Darling was given, and the weary march home recommenced.
Starvation was shortly looming ahead; the constant halts and delays had so protracted their journey that they were almost at the end of their resources, and still surrounded by a most inhospitable waste.
On their arrival at the station, Forrest learned that Giles and Ross had both been turned back by the inhospitable country that he had successfully traversed.
The visitors of the straits scorned the inhospitable coast, and returned north.
On one side was an impracticable lake of combined mud and salt; in another a desert of bare and barren plains; and on a third, a range of inhospitable rocks.
The bird was just over the high, close, inhospitable fence, on the top of which I rested my chin and watched and listened.
We may add that this inhospitableregion is entirely exposed to an observer stationed at any of several favourable points east of the Yser.
It must struggle ceaselessly with the weather and the treacherous water which oozes from the inhospitable soil and gnaws at the foundations of defences whereon shells and bombs fall day in, day out.
In the morning we informed our guard of the inhospitable treatment, and he sent the provost marshal to look after us.
It was to this bleak andinhospitable place that the eccentric genius, "Barney" Wiles of Company D, alluded when he spoke of "the place where fire froze and turkeys chewed tobacco.
You'll excuse my old-fashioned importunity, I was born in a time when a Scotchman was thought inhospitable if he left a guest alone a moment, except when he slept; but I trust you will tell me at once if I intrude.
In the Caucasus, a Turkish army corps had been severely dealt with by the Tsar's forces called to that inhospitable region; while an ambitious if reckless attempt on the Suez Canal, on the part of Turkey, had met with dismal failure.
Over the King's palace at Ravenna, with all its gloomy splendour and inhospitable spaciousness, lay an air of breathless anxiety.
A few weeks later he again was heard of on the north-east frontier of the kingdom, in the inhospitableregions of the Danube, where a bloody war with the Gepidae, Avari, and Sclavonians was raging.
And a lord he was; a peer of the realm pacing that inhospitable beach with his Greek Testament, and his plaid about his shoulders, set upon doing good, as he understood it, worthy man!
The mention of the Orange River has reference to the fact of the Bacas having wandered to its inhospitable source after being driven southward before the spears of Tshaka.
At one period of their wanderings the Hlubis were driven into the mountainous, inhospitable country that lies near the source of the Orange River.
We are hardly justified in supposing anything, and imagination is barely assisted in its effort to penetrate its inhospitable walls.
Her object is to make every foreigner pay for every step he takes along her rude and inhospitable pavements.
It was useless to remain longer beneath the looming caves, among the stones of so inhospitable a shore.
And there I do not doubt he stayed till his fellow-yahoo had passed across his inhospitable lands out of his sight for ever.
They had hitherto been keeping well out from the adjacent coast, by reason of their seeing its inhospitable look, and the scanty chance there was of their effecting a landing there.
The Nancy Bell had struck on some barrier reef, which guarded at a distance the desolate and inhospitable shore, just at the very moment everything was deemed secure and all danger past!
Quadrupeds, and even birds, are rare on these inhospitable shores, so that the Maories have always eaten human flesh.
From a distance along some of the channels that scarred the sides of the bluffs, could be seen a line of small cedars and a few shrubs that had fastened themselves in some way in the fissures of that inhospitable heap of indurated clay.
As we sailed along the coast the country seemed to be thickly populated, and the boat was frequently sent to try and land, but we always met with the same inhospitable reception.
On the other hand again there was the risk of falling among savages, for the natives of these latitudes were known to be fierce, treacherous, and inhospitable to strangers.
So we placed a half of the price demanded on the table, and giving our hostess to understand that this was equivalent to the price in Merida, shook the dust of her inhospitable dwelling off our feet.
They were thickly populated, and the natives were the most savage and inhospitable we had yet met.
These wild and dissonant sounds were associated with the idea of the barren and inhospitable wastes, in the midst of which we were then reposing, and vividly reminded us of our remoteness from the comforts of civilised society.
We had neither provisions nor blankets; and our clothing was by no means suitable for passing the night in so bleak and inhospitable a situation.
Their wandering and precarious manner of life, as well as the inhospitable character of the country they inhabit, precludes the possibility of advancement from the profoundest barbarism.
In ascending, when the traveller arrives at this point, he has little to expect beyond, but sandy wastes and thirsty inhospitable steppes.
In despair of finding fresh water in this inhospitable country, Dampier directed his course towards the Island of Timor.
A great many,' he replied, 'inhospitable and abhorrent to the sight.
When you have passed these, you will come to the great continent which is opposite your own; there you will have many adventures, traverse divers tribes, sojourn among inhospitable men, and at last reach your own continent.
Then there was a pause, and they both glanced vaguely about the inhospitable and very wooden room.
She led him, not into the inhospitable wooden academy, but into a very small room which like herself was dressed in muslin and bows of ribbon.
