He reached the top, and, looking down, saw a plan of reaching the ledge which promised more hope of success.
Evans then tried to get out of the gully by the ledge mentioned in Mr. Stocker's account.
From here he works upwards and outwards until with a long stride he steps out on to a little ledge on the right wall of the gully.
From that ever-to-be-remembered ledge the climbing was grand work up to the point where we had to turn from a westerly direction to go straight up the face.
The second may reach the terrace more directly, if the rope is available, by working directly up the middle of the gully till the level of the ledge is reached; but the climbing is very uncertain, on account of the treacherous footholds.
Finding the rocks above quite impassable, the party descended by means of an iron claw, which had to be left, and then by a ledge in the right wall and an awkward corner got out on the face of the west buttress.
A broad ledge brought them to a similar reach, where the outward slope of the holds became more and more pronounced.
A narrow ledge about 2 inches wide had below it a sloping face of rock with three minute cracks in it.
A tempting ledge to the left was climbed without result; ultimately they rounded the obstacle by keeping to the right.
If these two points are passed, the fissure is in reach, and an ugly wriggle will land the unwelcome intruder on his anterior surface upon the narrow ledge forming its base.
This ledge is divided in two parts by a huge outstanding buttress with very scanty footing.
After a few yards of easier work we came to a ledge about 6 inches wide and 4 yards long; the rock above was nearly perpendicular, with no hand-hold, and there was nothing below.
From the ledge the leader passes back across the centre and over a notched curtain of rock into the upper chimney.
Here a necessary grass ledge above the level of the top of the fall was loosened by heavy rain, and stopped the progress of the above party, who completed the ascent by climbing out to the left.
The first difficulty which presented itself was where the ledge was broken by a bold face of rock.
From this a ledge runs up to the right, and if it had only been continuous Lliwedd would present no very great difficulties.
On a slightly rising ledge of rock stood the mission buildings, and through the clear still air, children's voices came floating down to the hogan, where the white man and the young woman were silently watching.
When Masters had said that Clifford had almost gone over the edge of the ledge with Van Shaw's body, she had put out the hand nearest Clifford, as if to hold him back.
I forgot to ask when I was down there on the ledge and never thought of it again until just now.
At last he was near enough to drop down on the ledge but as he was about to do so, Van Shaw, with a groan of pain, turned over, and began to roll towards the edge.
Yes," said Clifford, "that ledge is smooth and no mistake.
And even when he was telling that night about it, I seemed to see him slipping, slipping over that horrible ledge and I just couldn't help actually putting out my hand to draw him back.
Yes, only he insists that he had a lantern and that he was greatly helped when he got down on the ledge by having the lantern to brace his feet against.
A Hopi came out on a ledge far above them and chanted his song to the sun.
He could feel himself slipping down across the smooth ledge which offered no place for his sliding feet.
Around him the conies cried and small birds skimmed from ledge to ledge, but his dark face did not lighten with joy of the beauty which shone over his head nor to that which flamed under his feet.
It was merely a cavernous opening in a high ledge of dark rock.
The whole mound was made up of a disintegrated ledge of porphyry and thousands of dollars were in sight.
There was no chance but to gain some ledge high above the Sea-Woman's Pool.
The sighing of it through the green-gloom avenues, warm with the diffused ruddiness of the pine-bark, was as the sound of distant water falling from infrequent ledgetoledge in a mountain gorge.
She saw that they were standing now on the extreme of the slippery ledge that overhung the seething depths.
Its occasional croak fell heavily as though from ledge to ledge of weighty air.
Down, down it went, leaning forward more and more, till it seemed as though it were standing upright on some unseen ledge of rock.
Ledge over ledge she heard it swiftly move: then suddenly there was a blank .
She forgot the shrew-mice, and thought only of the great salmon that Nial declared slept or lay waiting night and day under a ledge at the bottom of the linn.
From the glen alone came any break in the inland stillness, the noise of water running swiftly from ledgeto ledge.
He was crouching, with his back to her, on the extreme of the ledge overlooking the Kelpie's Pool--that deep caldron which received all that was at last disgorged from the maelstrom of the Linn.
But, undaunted by failure after failure, and these even after he had first caught hold, he raised it slowly to the shelving ledge which ran out a few feet below the surface.
Grey, looking across to the bushy ledgeof the cliff.
To fish this maelstrom you waded across a platform of shallow paved with slippery boulders bushel basket size, and stood in rough water about a foot deep on a narrow ledge of rock protruding a yard or so into the pool.
I had, therefore, to keep to the boat, and not only to bring the fish in, but to guide it past me to the ledge below.
They got behind a projection, and by crawling up a rocky ledge managed to reach a point above and to one side of the runabout and not over a dozen feet from it.
What to do they did not know, until Dick suggested they drop from the ledge and seek safety in the cave.
They now stood on a ledge of rock, and the top of the hole was still twelve feet above them.
No life was stirring on the brilliant waste; The trees rose like a wall on every side But where the ledge frowned darkly.
A ledge of rock rose up Beside the wounded tree, and at its base A space of blackest hue proclaimed a chasm.
Had a meeting at the Ledge in St. Stephen's at two o'clock.
On dizzy ledge and steep slope dense thickets of wild bamboo grow, and a few stunted trees fill some of the less deep clefts, wherever the sunshine can penetrate.
Their course now led for some distance along a mountain ledge covered with wild bamboo, through which the pathway wound.
Quickly I passed him, but he gave no sign that he knew any one was near him; and as I leaped down on to the first ledge of rock below me, I saw that he was not following me, but had disappeared among the brushwood.
A wild piece of water this; the foam dances furiously in the narrow cut, but it ends as swiftly as the joy of life; over a ledge of rock the waves are flung a couple of fathoms down into the whirlpool called Eva's Pool.
He was running along a shelving ledge when a piece of loose slate with which the ledge was covered slipped under his foot.
Crawling cautiously over a sharp ledge they came suddenly upon two mountain rams not a hundred yards away.
Roosevelt and his companion rode into a wash-out, and then, dismounting, led their ponies along a clay ledge from which they turned off and went straight up an almost perpendicular sandy bluff.
Feeling her way along the rock until the ledge rose beyond her reach, she bent low and waded through a still pool of eddying water straight under the mountain-side for more than a hundred feet.
The City might be the Desert--it was still God's world and not a sparrow that twittered in those bare trees or chattered on her window-ledge in the morning could fall to the ground without His knowledge.
Seizing the spade and lantern, she made her way slowly and carefully downstream for three hundred yards and paused beside a shelving ledge which projected half-way across the brook.
We are twenty feet from the top of the wall, and where this ledge ends, just before it gets to the sides of this stone, it seems to go straight down.
Beyond was a ledge a foot wide; beyond that rose a dome some six feet high and eight or ten feet along the ledge.
Coming thence one day she espied him on the mountain-side leaning against a projecting ledge in an attitude so rapt and immovable that she felt compelled to approach him.
She even pointed out the fateful shadow of the overhanging ledge on the road where she had picked him up--there was no response in his abstracted eyes.
A lithe figure balanced a moment on the ledge of the open window, then leapt with the silent elastic bound of a cat into the room.
Ahmed was alone in his apartment when the slave appeared, sitting on the broad window ledge gazing out from the window which overlooked his grounds, and beyond them the white minarets and shining cupolas of the city.
Above the ledge of the rocks was a steep declivity of loose shale sprinkled over with large and small boulders of radically different formations, and in no manner resembling the friable, uncertain bed upon which they rested.
The lower trail of the pass was quite well defined and we made famous progress, but the higher we climbed the more difficult the going became and more than once we were forced to pause on a ledge to rest and regain our breath.
I heard Pete give a sudden cry then there was a rattle of stones and dirt on the ledge in front of the mountain of brownish hair that was advancing in sort of side leaps or bounds like a big ball.
A rude ladder standing upon a narrow ledge beside him extended upward to lose itself in the shadows above.
At the window's ledge a firm, young hand reached out and, seizing his own, almost dragged him through the window.
The distance to the sill above was short, and a moment later Joseph had grasped the princess's hand and was helping her over the ledge into the room beyond.
She cautiously crept along the ledge until at last she was able to stretch out her hand and grasp the sill of the next window.
Penny Nichols had lowered herself to the narrow ledge not an instant too soon.
If only I dared lower myself to it I could reach Max Laponi's room, for the ledge is only a few feet below from his window!
Lowering herself to the ledge she flattened herself to the wall of the house and moved an inch at a time toward the next window.
However, when she walked to the window and raised it, she noted a wide ledge which ran the length of the building.
She passed along a ledge of the Mickle Crags, found a sheltered spot, and sat down.
While I was busied in reflection, my eyes fell upon a narrowledge in the eastern face of the rock, perhaps a yard below the summit upon which I stood.
This ledge projected about eighteen inches, and was not more than a foot wide, while a niche in the cliff just above it, gave it a rude resemblance to one of the hollow-backed chairs used by our ancestors.
During the busy hours spent on the ledge by their masters the two horses had been feeding and resting, and both Murray and Steve felt like following their example.
We belong to the outfit that set up thar own marks on your ledge thar last night.
After awhile Eustace began a slow tour of inspection over the crag, seeking some cave or rock shelter, some projecting ledge of stone on the leeward side that might screen their backs at least from the driving showers.
He clambered down the side, giving his hand to Cleer from ledge to ledge as he went.
Victoria coming from the south-south-east; followed it up for one mile and encamped where a ledge of rock gave easy access to the water.
With some difficulty we descended the western face of the hills; after which, an hour's ride over a scrubby plain brought us to the mouth of the Chapman River, running strongly over a ledge of limestone rock into the sea.
There's fully a couple of ounces on this ledge alone.
The man reached forward and placed his hand upon the ledge on which the bird was perched; the Bush Robin fluttered overhead, and then the man gave a cry of surprise.
My boy, where there's that much on a ledge there'll be hundreds of ounces in the creek.
