He could already see it standing, stark and grey, among its ancestral oaks, when down the ravine streamed a band of huntsmen in full chase, the fox going wearily before, evidently near the end of his tether.
I slipped behind a large boulder near the mouth of the ravineand waited.
It happened thus: I had been following a ravine downward out of a chain of lofty hills and had paused at its mouth to view the lovely little valley that lay before me.
The poor fellow followed us, never venturing to leave either day or night, but finally fell into a deep ravine and broke his neck.
Four hundred against 2000 rode the Lancers, and somehow or another were into the ravine and out again, and with lance and sword and revolver had pushed and hacked their way through the dense mass of the enemy.
On the way they had to pass through a narrow ravine with precipitous cliffs on either side.
Then we drove about a mile away to the deep ravine called the Suttee Chowra Ghât.
As the steamer turned into the "Narrows" we saw a beautiful little waterfall, falling down the ravine in a feathery shower of spray, spanned in the afternoon light by a vivid rainbow.
From the one nearest, the first explosion is heard, sending up clouds of smoke and a shower of stones into the air, which rattle and roll down a rocky ravine on to the beach.
John had no doubt that it was the missing Muller, and it was altogether likely that in the storm he had made a misstep, and had fallen into the ravine to instant death.
The pines were now clear and little rivers were running down every ravine and gulch.
When they first adopted this plan, the ravine was about four hundred yards in width--so that less than one hundred lay between each two of them.
They had not gone far, when the baying of the dog told them that the chase had forsaken the ravine in which they had first started it, and had taken into a lateral valley.
The idea, however, had begotten new hopes; and all three walked down theravine with brisker steps.
There was no gorge orravine which they did not enter and fully reconnoitre.
Where they stood an abutment of the cliff hid the ravine below.
The glacier filled the whole ravine from cliff to cliff.
By the ravine only could the four-footed denizens of the place have gone out and in; and on the glacier they had observed a beaten path made by the tracks of animals, before the snow had fallen.
On the contrary, they had come almost direct from the hut to the ravine where he was found.
At first they kept close to the cliff; but, after a while, ventured out far enough to get a view of the ravine below.
They moved but slowly; but after about two hours' walking, including many stoppages and rests, they arrived within the ravine and under the ledge.
It crossed the ravinethat intersected the valley, stole quietly through the stubble to the fence, and there paused a moment, as if hesitating.
Across the ravine and to the fence the dogs came, their voices, as they got nearer, crashing through the silence like a chorus of demons.
In the Turner old fields the fox will make his grand double, gain upon the dogs, head for yonder hill, and come down the ravine upon our right.
At length he reached to where the ravine had opened through the cliffs to the amphitheater; but no traces of such opening remained.
All that we knew was that the winding ravine down which we retreated alternately exposed us to rifle fire from the enemy above and protected us.
We reached the point where the ravine ended, and in the scrub ahead of us we saw a number of men who fired upon us.
We wound wearily and painfully up a ravine more or less parallel to the one we had come down.
We hoped that the foot of the ravine would bring us out among our own supports at the bottom of the hill.
Near the top of the hill the ravine grew steeper, and at last ended.
The ravineitself was a steep descent leading up to the mountains; and its bottom, or bed, was covered with a conglomeration of large rounded boulders, that looked as if they had been rolled into this shape by water.
The sides and bottom of this ravine were covered with a stunted growth of pine-trees; but as they advanced further into it, the trees assumed greater dimensions--until at length they were riding through a tall and stately forest.
The ravine itself was not more than ten or a dozen yards in width, and its bottom was filled with snow to the depth of several feet.
There was a small ravine branching off from the bed of a dry river, in which our encampment lay, and its entrance looked like the dreary access to some deep cavern.
About a mile ahead of this, a small plain opened to view, studded with small bushes, at the extreme end of which the bed of the dry ravine took a direction to the left.
To complete the destruction these hills must have dealt upon us, they had poisoned a stream of water, either previous to our march from the ravine some ten days before, or since the treaty of peace was signed; but this was timely detected.
The Nandi Gorge, as I will term the last-named, is a narrow picturesque ravine leading through the mountains from Nandi to Ndriti.
The trio reached a turn in the ravine and passed beyond view of the cliff, so they were safe from the bullets of the men above.
Suddenly a sharp whistle rang through the ravine from above, and the party below answered in a similar manner.
They were about to seek a way out of the ravine when something happened that astonished them both.
Down in the ravinetwo boys gazed in unutterable horror at the falling form of the girl.
Five minutes after entering the second ravine they heard a clatter of hoofs behind them.
Out of the ravinethey made their way, and dropped over into the other, beginning to feel relieved by the non-appearance of their enemies.
The juggler was running toward them from the side of the ravine down which Dick had moved.
Where they stood, the cliff fell too precipitously to admit of descent; but the ravine farther on offered easy access.
They hurried down into the ravine and out of it, Colton in advance.
As his eye ranged to the west for the readiest access to the level, it was caught and held by the outstretched body of Dick Colton lying upon the hard sand out from the mouth of the ravine where Serdholm and Haynes had met their death.
Despite the necessities of the detour, they came surprisingly soon to a height from which they looked across a small ravine to the level space where the still perched by the stream.
A delicate medley of birds' songs throbbed from out the thickets; a tiny stream purled over its pebbled bed in the ravine that entrenched the trail.
But he went ever onward, slacking not His steps, nor heeding when the brow he reached Of Olivet and thence, across the deep Ravine of Kedron worn with rushing floods, Before him and beneath him saw outspread The city of David with its palaces.
The sound, the doctor decided, came from the deep ravine that divided the Robb estate.
Immediately below the amphitheatre the ground fell steeply, forming a ravine in which the cooks set up their field kitchens in comparative security.
General Hart ordered Colonel Cooper to move by the straightest line, first down a ravine across a spruit, and then over a hill.
It sloped gradually upward, narrowing as it went, until it terminated in a ravine which seemed to continue on to the top of the hill.
Then the blackness of the night settled down on the water and the forests, and they were compelled to move cautiously; for trees and bushes were thick, and here and there a ravine had to be crossed, or a brawling stream.
Don't venture far away from the camp, because I'm going up the ravine to look for a farmhouse.
One holds that it comes from Gaelic words meaning "dark glen," descriptive of the narrow ravine through which the Molendinar flowed to the Clyde.
Speaking of Kashmir, he says: "Leaving the ravine by which you enter Kashmir and entering the plateau, then you have for a march of two more days on your left the mountains of Bolor and Shamilan, Turkish tribes who are called Bhattavaryan.
He let the hand that held it drop upon the leaves, and he looked up the knife-blade ravine to where the green rim of the mountain touched the blue.
Back in front of Resaca, under the darkening sky, upon the mound in front of Stevenson’s line, above the ravine which had filled with a blue host, stood yet the four guns which had been cut off early in the day.
Standing in the deep and narrow ravine and looking upward he had a vision.
Watch thatravine and pick them off if they come up it.
He chose the bottom of a knife-blade ravine where was a trickle of water beneath laurels in bloom.
