He will attack the crags from below, finding his own way up the great screes that border the tarn, and attack the couloirs,--those great chasms that furrow the precipice.
Take the path to the left, and in five minutes reach the gate of the intake, with lovely sunset and moonlight views of the Bell and the Scrow to the left, and Yewdale beyond; Red Screes and Ill Bell in the distance.
To the east of Helvellyn are Fairfield, Red Screes and Ill Bell, above the russet sides of Loughrigg and the distant detail of Ambleside.
Jagger was half-way up the screes by this time, and the shingle was giving away the secret of the ascent as it clattered down into the beck.
They were at the very entrance to the chasm and at the foot of the rocks with the screes above them.
In several places it crosses screes {89} of loose stories, which repeated avalanches have ground down in their career from the overhanging cliffs above to the deep fjord below.
Every winter this mountain path across the screes is wiped out of existence, and a new one has to be made when the spring comes.
The disjointed line was toiling painfully along the gullet; the slippery screes rose unscalable on either side; and the jutting crags that frowned at every corner afforded both ramparts and missiles to the unweariable mountaineers.
The rock (quartzite) is broken into screes and heavy shingle in many places.
It is clearly marked all the way up, and is most readily approached by crossing diagonally up the screesbelow the great gully and then skirting the base of the rocks of the western buttress.
Above the upper screes at the foot of the higher crags several ascents may be planned from below.
Between their bases and thescrees below tempting ledges wind upwards, but here the strata are almost vertical, rendering them extremely treacherous.
From here screes lead up each part to the crest of the ridge, but a small rock arete separating the two branches give us climbing all the way.
Bwlch Tryfaen and the steep roughscrees on the right hand beyond it.
The first pitch may be varied by striking up from the screes a few yards to the left of the main gully, by the cleft shown in the illustration.
The most thickly populated districts were to be found on the screes immediately below the cliffs.
In fact, these screes on which the nests are built have been formed by these landslides taking place from year to year, and no doubt form the graves of thousands upon thousands of former generations.
The screes at the foot of the cliff at Cape Adare are perhaps the most thickly populated part of the rookery.
From a narrow ledge about two hundred feet up the sheer rock-face Mr. Garrett slipped, and the others, not being well placed to sustain a shock, were plucked one after another from their holds and dashed to the screes below.
An agonized shout from Petty caused Mr. Robinson to turn sharply, and he saw his companion shooting head downwards with terrific velocity to the screes below.
Leisurely they rounded a corner, and there, about fifty yards away, in the vicinity of the screes where they had lunched, saw four figures stretched out and lying quite still.
Near Silfrastathir on screes and among stones in river bed.
The screes were formed of rough angular blocks with very little soil between them, and the poppy was only growing in the most barren spots; where moraines occurred the poppy did not grow.
After crossing the "col" some very rough screes were passed, on which the Iceland poppy, P.
I followed it through the undergrowth and over the screes till it turned inside the fold of the gully.
It grew very hot, and the screes above the thicket were blistering to the touch.
I was hideously frightened, but not without hope, for the screes and shelves of this right side of the gully were known to me from many a day's exploring.
Only a desperate resolution took me through the tangle of juniper bushes into the red screes of the gully.
We did not stop to relight it, but scrambled down the screes till we came to the long slabs of reddish rock which abutted on the beach.
A little further, however, I lit on a bank of screes which slipped with me to the right, and I lost most of the ground the bush had gained me.
With my wrist-rope in his hand, he preceded me down the hill till we got to the red screesat the foot of the kloof.
Can't understand why those lads are cutting it so fine," says George Abraham, and he hastens our pace down cracks and grooves and over ledges until we reach the screes and safety.
And then by the screes of Great Gable to the hollow among the mountains.
Men who have spent the day on the Pillar sometimes return to Wastdale Head round the head of Mosedale, and wind up by racing down these screes from the col to the stream below.
A stone thrown down from here falls over both blocks and rolls down the snow out of the mouth of Lord's Rake on to the screes far away below.
Should it be preferred to make the circuit of Mosedale on the return journey, an equally fine glissade may be enjoyed from Dore Head; but the screes require judicious selection and dexterity on the part of the slider.
And now the screes of Bow Fell, flecked with snow, were not more cold and hard than her face as she gazed at the postilion's moving back and saw it not.
The Langdale Pikes lifted themselves sharp and glittering from the line of grey screes that run southward to Wetherlamb and the Coniston Mountain.
And the rough awakening from the maiden dream which she had taken for love--she must bear that too, though it left her world cold as the sheet of grey water before her, and repellent as the bald, rugged screes that frowned above it.
It hung heavy above Langdale Pikes and over the long ragged screes of Bow Fell.
After a while the way grew better, though here and there, where the cliffs lowered, were wide screes of loose stones that they must needs climb up and down.
It was always such black nights, nights of wind and weather, when no man would be abroad, that the murderer chose for his bloody work; and that was how he became known from the Red Screes to the Muir Pike as the Black Killer.
And tower'd screes that pierce giant hell Are treasure-houses for the dead: Each rich man writhes within a den, Society dames proclaim their shame.
From the loose screes we turn naturally to the stone walls, where some at least of the scattered blocks have found lodgment and reconstruction.
Cold gray clouds were beating from the north, hanging now over the cliffs on the western side, now over the bare screes and steep slopes of the northern and eastern walls.
We slid down screes of ashes, carefully avoiding the lava streams which glided sluggishly by us like fiery serpents.
These trees grow from screes of broken rock--great blocks of white dolomite; but the deep-searching tap-roots penetrate to black alluvia beneath.
Our objects that day were boar and roe-deer; but presently a partridge was descried sprinting up the rugged screes above.
Many weary detours I made among moss-hags and screes and the stony channels of burns.
I left the road accordingly, and took to the hillside, which to my undoing was one long cascade of screes and tumbled rocks.
Then he came upon a plain strewn over with cinders, having a grim crag frowning upon it, like the bank of a smelting-house, with its screes of refuse rolling down.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "screes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
