Rising somewhat precipitously almost out of the sea, three ridges extended far back into the country, with deep ravines between.
We also were doing our best to push on, lest the bursting out of melting snow from the various ravines should render the ice impassable.
There in the breaks and ravines would be a famous place to lie in ambush, leaving to Stabber the duty of drawing the soldiers into the net.
Revolving sinister projects in his brain, he crossed torrents and ravines without checking his horse's career.
A rifle-shot rang out from the landing and rolled in multitudinous echoes around the lake, dying away in faintest thunders and murmurings from the ravines on the side of the mountain.
The army encamped among the hills, whose deep ravines obstructed communication between its different quarters; while the level plains below were intersected by numerous canals, equally unfavorable to the manoeuvres of the men-at-arms.
Jerusalem's strength consisted not in its elevation, but in the deep ravines which encircled it on the east, south, west, and in part on the north.
From the masses of snow which cover its broad top far into the summer and lie in its ravines throughout the year, come the copious waters of the upper Jordan.
On the rocks, which are divided by ravines into broad rounded shapes, like towers, the Virginia red cedar grows, and falcons build their nests.
In the sheltered ravines buffalo grazed by the hundreds of thousands, and the march was delayed by frequent buffalo hunts to gather pemmican--pounded marrow and fat of the buffalo--which was much esteemed by the Mandans.
The interior of the great moraines is yet frozen, and at the head of one of the little ravines formed by former glacial river discharges, a little stream still trickles forth from a diminutive ice cavern.
The peasants had been robbed of their teams of cattle, the flocks had been driven off from the shepherds, and when a vine-dresser, who was training his vine saw the little troop approaching, he fled to the ravines and forests.
Lentil-broth and hard bread in abundance, but a very small quantity of water was given to them before they started; then they set out through the gorge, which grew hotter and hotter, and through ravines where they could pass only one by one.
The original bluffs are cut by numerous ravines leading towards the rivers, and those streets running parallel with the rivers and therefore crossing the ravines are necessarily in many cases very steep.
The city boasts of one great park of a thousand acres, on the hills and ravines out by the sea.
Immediately behind them are craggy ravines worn by winter torrents.
The narrow valleys and ravines were blood-red with gigantic poppies.
It is traversed by ravines and water-courses, and strewed over it are the usual fragments of stone, brick, and pottery.
Round the base of this mountain, over loose stones and sharp rocks, and through ravines deep in snow, we dragged our weary horses next day.
Through these ravines are carried the steep and narrow pathways leading to the top of the mound.
The direct road by Tiyari to Mosul is carried along the river Zab, through ravines scarcely practicable to beasts of burden.
Having examined the town, I visited the Armenian bishop, who dwells in a large convent in one of the ravines branching off from the main valley.
It is a vast mound, little inferior in size to Nimroud, irregular in shape, uneven in level, and furrowed by deep ravines worn by the winter rains.
In the ravines large earthen jars and portions of brick masonry are occasionally uncovered by the rains.
The most typical habitat is along rocky ravines on wooded slopes.
The shiver that thrills through the earth ere she rouses from her night sleep had already begun, and the cool wind that heralds the daybreak was drawing downward from the lofty, snow-traced ravines of Mount Orontes.
By night the jackals prowled and barked in the distance, and the lion made the black ravines echo with his hollow roaring, while a bitter, blighting chill followed the fever of the day.
We crossed many ravines and hills, and once more crossed the creek.
We found a great many places along the selected route which required improvement--there were hills to grade, stone walls to build, ravines to fill, and one bridge to construct over Muddy Creek.
After some marvellous riding among the ravines and tangled mountain scrub--during which a few long-range shots had been exchanged--Hennessey began to draw upon the outlaws.
The most characteristic feature of the southern shore is a vast ridge of fossil salt, called Jebel Usdum, which is cut into ravines and hollows by the action of winter torrents.
It dates from 1348, and is well situated in a position naturally defended by ravines on the north and east, while it is further protected by a great wall.
It passes through ravines and among mountains, descending through successive plateaus, from the mountain region to the Shefelah, or low hills, and thence to the plain by the Mediterranean.
Near the Dead Sea is the Wilderness of Judaea, an uninhabitable region, without verdure, and penetrated with ravines and caves; sometimes called Jeshimon.
Vistas of sheer cliff and stretches of the muddy on-sweeping Missouri and the full-bosomed Kaw, with scrubby timbered ravines and growing groves of forest trees, offered themselves at every turn.
Small reason was there then to hope that a city, great and gracious, would one day cover those rough ravines and grace those slopes and hilltops in the angle between the Missouri and the Kaw.
As I stared with half-seeing eyes toward the wooded ravines beyond the fort, suddenly through the budding branches I caught sight of a horseman riding down a half-marked trail into a deep hollow.
Behind us the long trail stretched back, past mountain height and cañon wall, past barren slope and rolling green prairie, on to where the wooded ravines hem in the Missouri's yellow floods.
Under rocks in mountain ravines and on the ground.
Moist alpine ravines in a few limited localities on or near Mt.
Moist ravines on alpine summits of the White Mountains, and of Mt.
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