On the left of my position, looking towards the sea, rises a lofty sombre cliff, whence a chain of sloping rocks extend to the fortress above Nauplia, the castellated Palamide.
Close under the western shore, where the island of Paros terminates in bold perpendicular cliffs, lay the little island of Spotico; while all around, the sea bristled with rocks as far as the eye could reach.
They found no very bad water for some little distance, although occasionally there were stretches with steep rocks where the water rippled along very noisily.
You'll see how long it needs to be in order that the men on shore can get it over all the rocks and stumps and still leave the steersman headway on the boat.
All of them perfect, however, which shows that he hasn't been digging among the rocks very much, but has been feeding in low country for quite a while.
He scraped away the bed of spruce needles and loose soil until he got down to the moist and sandy layer, with some rocks here and there projecting through.
Sometimes, when the shore was strewn with rocks alongside a rapid which interrupted the passing down of the boats, all of the party would be as much in the water as out, wading, shoving and pulling at the boats.
In such contractions of the stream as they met it seemed to them that the rocks were larger, the water deeper, and each hour becoming more powerful than it had been.
We won't build a big fire, and we'll have rocks under and around it all we can.
I suppose when we get down farther there are fewer creeks," said John, "and therocks and trees are bigger.
There seemed to be a slight moist place among the slate rocks where perhaps some sort of saline water oozed out, and it was this that these animals had visited so often as to make a deep trail on the mountain-side.
The boys, following more slowly around the curve of the beach, finally saw both Alex and Moise poised on some high rocks and pointing at the wild water which stretched below them for the distance of two or three hundred yards.
He'll not want to set woods on fire, so he'll build it by those big rocks which always stood by that lake.
Alex was following the long V which ran down in the mid-channel stream, on either side of which were heavy rocks and sharp, abrupt falls in the water.
In places the water seemed very wild, tossing over the rocks in long, rolling waves or breaking in foam and spray.
Our way lay over the bridge; for beyond, the Arve raves deep below the road, and rends itself a passage throughrocks and darkness.
Mounier pointed out the Grands Mulets on Mont Blanc, the place where those who ascend pass the night, four or five black rocks in the snow, looking like monuments for the frozen.
The highest of the numberless pointed rocks which shoot upwards like white spires against the blue sky, is the Aiguille Verte, for it is about seven thousand feet above the summit of the Montanvert.
Mont Blanc was invisible, but the rocks of La Meillerie appeared, and the approach to Morges is picturesque beneath dark and old trees,--the pretty arbour and old castle of Wufflens on the right.
Above the rocks of Meillerie, opposite us, the moon was rising,--yet too young to diffuse more than the faintest glow.
The grey cliffs look solemn and majestic in the pale light of the moon; the shadows are deep and unfathomable; everywhere you see black rocks standing out from the steely sea, and little lines of breakers mark the place of the sunken rocks.
Only round the foot of the cliffs and about the rocks they break into spray that serves as high lights against the sombre grey and black of the landscape.
She got on the rocks and gazed over the precipice.
These birds flew over the ship with rocks in their claws, and let them fall on to the ship, so that it was wrecked.
It was difficult work, as the rocks were wet and the night was very dark.
I saw that the stretch of green sward between the rocks had been a lake.
When I tell you that I saw the tide go out, and leave the rocks bare, you will think I surely released myself from my perch, and got down upon the reef.
I knew that the rockswould be all covered, for I had often seen them so; but I had been all my life under the impression, and so were people who lived on the shore, that the water rose only a few inches above the reef.
This portion of the staff was coated over with some slimy substance--the same that covered the rocks around--and this rendered it as slippery as one of the greased poles that I had seen at merry-makings in our village.
I did not leave off my exertions until long after the rocks were covered.
The stroke that brought me up to the edge of the rocks, would have been my last, had no rocks been there; for it would have been the last I could give, so much was I exhausted.
Rocks that, from the shore, appeared to rise only a foot above the surface, were actually more than a yard.
The other Indian divers immediately plunged over the boat's side and swam headlong down, groping among the rocks and sunken cannon.
The boat was intended for the purpose of going closer to the reef of rocks than a large vessel could safely venture.
It has been discovered even as late as the 15th of September; but never in October, although it may exist through the entire year, and be found, if the rocks were excavated to a sufficient depth.
You go some little distance for this purpose, as in the vicinity of the bridge the rocks are far too precipitous.
Among the sand-rocks are found layers of slate and coal; this latter being also, by the same upheaving, made more conveniently accessible than in most other parts of the country.
The body of rocks where ice is found is subject to the full rays of the sun from nine o'clock in the morning until sunset.
The rocks are chiefly sandstone of various qualities, lying in beds, or strata, from two inches to several feet in thickness.
The face of these rocks is perforated by a vast number of cavities, which no doubt lead to caves or cells within the mountain.
Every part of it was steep and filthy, abounding in rocks and rough mountains.
The Faery was in hot pursuit of a smuggling craft, which in order to elude her pursuer sailed through a narrow channel between the Enys rocks and the shore.
She had evidently struck on a reef of rocks a mile or so from the coast, only to slip off them during the wild, tempestuous night and to disappear in the depths of the sea.
We can picture them making their observations through the silent hours of some still star-lit night, with the ceaseless slumbrous swell of the sea on the rocks far beneath them.
The Speedwell was cast away on the rocks at Pengersick.
The fishermen would see him sometimes as the night closed in sitting on the rocks overhanging the sea round Pengersick; or cottars would see him in the twilight wandering over the uplands.
In the south, the older beds disappear and the whole chain is formed chiefly of Cretaceous beds, though Eocene and probably Jurassic rocks are [v.
The Bajocian rocks of Europe are mostly limestones of various kinds, very frequently oolitic.
That "soil" is thus prepared on barren rocks and mountain peaks may be concluded with some certainty.
In some parts it rises into irregular uplands and elevated plains, interspersed with detached rocks of granite; in others it sinks into marshy lowlands, which frequently remain under water during the rainy season.
Besides the Cretaceous and Tertiary beds, Jurassic rocks are known to take a considerable part in the formation of the hills of British Baluchistan.
Masses of laterite, buried in hard ferruginous clay, crop up as rocks or slabs.
In Shropshire this series is represented by the Caradoc and Chirbury Series; in southern Scotland by the Hartfell and Ardmillan Series, and by similar rocks in Ireland.
Up came the stout rope, knotted here and there to add safety and strength to the hands and feet that were to climb down that frail ladder, unless some cruel fate dashed the poor boy dead upon the rocks below.
Propping it on therocks so it shone on the entrance, he hurried back to shelter beside Ulv.
It could be the stone of the tower, some of these heavyrocks got a high natural count.
This child should be happy; the rocks on which her mother was wrecked she should never strike upon,--they were all marked on Elsie's chart.
Doubtless a high mountain covered with vegetation has its compensation, but for me the naked granite rocks in sun and shower are more cheerful.
Towards night the wind hauled round from the south to the northwest, and we went to High Bluff, a point on the north edge, where some rocks are piled up above the evergreens, to get a view of the sunset.
From the top of the high ridge on the right, a nearly perpendicular cascade pours over the ledge of rocks and is lost in the forest.
The valley which we followed down probably owes its celebrity to the uncommon phenomena of occasional naked rocks and precipices.
The way was also exceedingly steep in places, and what with roots, and logs, and slippery rocks and stones, it was a desperate climb for the horses.
Between the two refusals we enjoyed the most picturesque bit of scenery of the day, at the crossing of Camp Creek, a swift little stream, that swirled round under the ledge of bold rocks before the ford.
He returned, to find that Corydon had rushed out to the end of the point, and flung herself down upon the rocks in hysterics.
She meant to throw herself over a precipice--and the higher the precipice, and the more jagged the rocks beneath, the greater was the thrill which the prospect brought her.
The rocks of the island are principally calcareous and in a very advanced state of decomposition.
Another patch of dry rocks was seen by me from the summit of a hill at the west end of Percy Island Number 1, whence they bore South 60 degrees West (magnetic) and were supposed to be distant about eight or nine miles.
In passing between Cape Grafton and Fitzroy Island, eight or ten natives were observed seated on the rocks at the south end of the beach: one of them waved his spear to us as we passed, but the distance was too great to take any notice of him.
Jack and another native were down on the rocks at an early hour, hallooing and waving to us, and at eight o'clock some natives appeared on the opposite shore with spears and knives to barter, but we had no communication with them.
It is of irregular depth, and has somerocks in mid-channel, which are dry: the deepest channel is near the eastern shore, the depth being from ten to fourteen fathoms.
She was, however, afterwards got off the rocks and repaired, and is now a very serviceable vessel in the colony.
The rocks that formed its base were ornamented with a prostrate capparis, or calyptranthus (Calyptranthus orbicularis, Cunningham manuscript) which afforded me good flowering specimens.
The coast is lined with a barrier of rocks on which the sea was breaking high with a roar that was heard on board although our distance from the shore was at least three miles.
The piled-up rocks made Hugh shiver to look at them; he thought they seemed so like a cairn or a burial place.
It landed in a heap upside-down--something of a wreck, with the rocksscattered in all directions.
Looks almost as if someone had piled those rocks up, doesn't it?
Once it fed the stream that ran there, but now only the rocks lie there.
Immediately all of them felt greatly relieved, for above the rocks there suddenly popped into view several tousled heads as the children stared around in search of the one who had brought them new hope.
The motor sped on, the mist wreaths of the hyacinths grew dulled by young green sprouting ferns, and the rocks closed in for the swift turn by the school.
Then on the crest of a wave he saw the creek in front of him, but saw also that a giant roller just behind him must swamp the boat unless he steered straight towards the rocks on the north-east.
Aura's ears as she sat down at last among the rocks of a sheep-shelter on the crest of a hill.
Among the rocks above the small cleft of sandy beach on which the tide lapped lazily, grew all the kindly green things innumerable which have learnt to do without the rest of winter sleep.
And through it, over all, was the fine scent of the winter heliotrope that clung to the crannies of the rocks or grew lush by the little stream, which, falling in tinkling cascades, slid along the sand into the sea.
The wind rose at every gust, and in the fast growing dusk, the sheep sought shelter behind rocks and boulders for the night.
It was matchwood already amongst those devilish rocks to the eastward.
Most of the Spaniards flung themselves from the castle walls into the river or upon the rocks beneath, preferring death to capture and possible torture; many who were left were put to the sword, and some few were spared and held as prisoners.
Accordingly, one fine day there came half a dozen great boatloads of armed Spaniards, who landed upon the Turtle's Back and sent the Frenchmen flying to the woods and fastnesses of rocks as the chaff flies before the thunder gust.
Naked rocks and barren soil stretched illimitably to the far horizon in a vast monotony of utter desolation.
There is nothing moving on the jaggedrocks for miles about the red castle, but there are growing in crevices some wild green weeds that are full of fair sweet life.
And the ragged edges of the rocks make bruises on our foreheads.
So oft from castle hall he crept Where mid the rocks grim shadows slept, And where the mist reached down and kissed The waters as they wailed and wept.
The king his son of Yvytot Stood once and saw the waters go Boiling around with hissing sound The sullen phantom rocks below.
There were blue lights seen out beyond the bar last night, and a sea-gull dropped from the sky and fell dead on the rocks of Dooey.
II How lifeless the scene looked; the hollows white with snow, the gale-swept edges of the rocksdarkly bare!
II Between the ragged rocks the grass was soft to the feet and refreshing to the eyes.
See and turn the cattle into the holm below the Holy Rocks before you go away.
And maybe fall down between the rocks and break our bits of legs.
At first sight it appeared to be completely deserted; nothing could be seen but the leaden grey sea and the sharp and jagged rocks protruding through the snow that covered the shore.
The sand sloped sharply from her feet to the bottom of the pool, which was bedded with sharp rocks covered with trailing, slimy seaweed.
The strange fear, that which had taken possession of her three years before on the rocks of Dooey, seized her again.
See and don’t let her go to Greenanore for yarn any more, or it will be the death of her, sleeping out at night on the rocks of Dooey.
Between these rocks the people till for crops, plots of land which seldom measure more than four yards square, and every rock conceals either a potato patch or cornfield.
All over the district gigantic boulders are strewn, huge rocks that might have been flung about in play by monstrous Giants who forgot, when their humour was at an end, to gather them up again.
When we were here the last day we couldn’t get a taste of yarn and we had to sleep all night on the rocks of Dooey.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
