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Example sentences for "narrow path"

  • A narrow path, an ancient one, stretches there, a path untrodden by men, a path I know of.

  • A narrow path leading so far up will be found round the N.

  • A narrow path leads to the top of the lofty cliff on which is the chapel of Notre Dame, rebuilt in 1703, commanding a most extensive prospect.

  • A narrow path leads up to the top in 45 minutes, whence there is an extensive prospect.

  • The shepherd was kind to him, and bade him beware of one called the Maceman, who guarded a narrow path with a sheer cliff above, and a sheer precipice below.

  • He was walking in the middle of the day along a narrow path at the crest of a cliff above the sea, when he saw the flickering of a great fire in the blue air, and steam going up from a bronze caldron of water that was set on the fire.

  • Soon they plunged deeper and deeper into the woods by a narrow path, descending till they reached one branch of the Baraudee, which, foaming and dashing amidst rocks, brawled on its way to the plain.

  • They saw nothing of the defenders, though from time to time a fatal shot struck the dense mass, and one of their number fell headlong from the narrow path, or sinking down wounded, was thrown over by his comrades.

  • Night overtook us while we were in a narrow path, bordered on one side by the sea, and on the other by a range of perpendicular rocks.

  • We traversed the forest by a narrow path, along a rivulet, which rolls foaming over a bed of rocks.

  • A narrow path led, after many windings, into an open but extremely humid country.

  • We were assured that in the event of our meeting a jaguar in a narrow path he would spring on the dog rather than on a man.

  • Next we climbed up a narrow path, so close to the edge that a false step would have precipitated us ten or twelve feet to the rock below.

  • The perpendicular cliff forms its protection above, and the access from below is by a narrow path, so steep as not to allow of a horse mounting it.

  • In the evening we rode along a narrow path, parallel with the sea, for two hours and a half.

  • At two hours and three quarters we had to pass round the bottom of another bay, of red and white sand-stone, where steep rocks advance so close to the water as to leave only a narrow path.

  • We left the usual road, and turned down a narrow path, which leads to this lake; it was overhung with trees.

  • The guide led, and we followed, through a narrow path, very little frequented, as the bushes oftentimes nearly took off our hats, and were continually brushing against us the whole way.

  • The road to it is through the plantation of Paulistas, from whence, after crossing the Paratibi, a narrow path leads to the left through a deep wood for nearly one league.

  • The ascent was by a narrow path, running straight up the incline, with a deep depression of rough land on the left, and on the right a banana-plantation.

  • Fifteen minutes later the pedestrians came to a sort of guard-house gateway, built of mud and wattles, across a narrow path.

  • It was a narrow path, between a perpendicular rock and a precipice, which made even the chamois dizzy.

  • We walked in a narrow path, single file, separated from each other by our disagreeable companions.

  • We were in a narrow path, which evidently led towards Athens.


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