Ever and again they were startled by the sudden crash of the snow sweeping in long-drawn avalanches from the steeps of the hills.
Captain Allen and his men scaled the steeps of Mount Defiance till a cliff was reached which they could not climb.
In this manner the load is "tailed down" steeps where it would be impossible for the "tongue oxen" to resist the pressure of the load.
Other than this no sound could reach the strained ear of Wolfe but the gurgle of the tide and the cautious climbing of his advance-parties as they mounted the steeps at some little distance from where he sat listening.
Ammunition was wet on both sides, and the grassy steeps became so slippery that was impossible to climb them.
Valerius, who knew his feet were shaped for human ways, would have understood that he could not scale the cold steeps of thought.
It was in the spring, when the little marble Pan looked rosy in the warmer sunlight, and the white oxen must have been climbing the steeps of Assisi, that the boy's mother let go her slight hold on life.
The stars shone forth in unwonted splendor in the heavens, while wild and grassy hills, and rocky steeps pierced with deep vales and chasms, extended far and wide on all sides, as if reposing in eternal and undisturbed quiet and loneliness.
I have climbed the steeps 'mid the golden ore, And roamed o'er the lone Pacific shore.
Joy from truth's own glass of fire Sweetly on the searcher smiles; Lest on virtue's steeps he tire, Joy the tedious path beguiles.
There she views the steeps below,-- Close behind, her mortal foe.
The third and fourth oil-soap steeps are given in the same way, but without the dung.
The temperature of the two laststeeps should be at least 90 deg.
Use the souring steeps freely, giving them after each ley, whether of lime or soda, since the calcareous base, with which the greasy spots get charged merely from hard water, is an obstacle to the further action of the leys.
Then, mounted on a donkey, the writer alternately scrambled up the stony steeps or dragged the sure-footed beastie behind.
Overhead and to the right the rocky steeps rise abruptly until they culminate in the crags of Kohinar, and on the left the snow-fed Lidar roars "through the cloven ravine in cataract after cataract.
Towards evening the clouds broke a little, and the forest-clad steepsappeared through them, powdered thickly with new snow.
If a pulse but throb alarm, Headlong down the steeps they fall; For a pulse will break the charm, Bounding, bursting, burying all.
Towards the east these steeps become gradually depressed until they are lost in the vast and uncultivated regions of the Bolson de Mapimi, whose elevation above the sea is still 3,800 feet, according to the measurement of Dr.
It was the dusk of an evening, sweet and debonnair, when we left the castle which had been so long our home, and descended the perilous steeps to the foot of Ailsa.
So our boat, being poised upon the crest of one of these smooth steeps of water which rolled onward into the cave, advanced swiftly into a more spacious cavern, where the oar could be used without touching the rock at either side.
By earthly nature had the effect been wrought Upon the dark materials of the storm Now pacified; on them, and on the coves And mountain-steeps and summits, whereunto The vapours had receded, taking there Their station under a cerulean sky.
White wastes before me miles on miles With one low, ruby sunset bound-- Thou fleest before, I follow on: a far off sound Of oceans gnawing at dark steeps Swells to a roar.
Alas, how oft thence driven By yelping hounds o'er craggysteeps she fled!
But with that voice which once high on his steeps Mingled with vespers, sung to blissful Mary-- MS.
That cottage has behind it a small orchard-plot or garden ground shelving upwards toward the woody mountains above, and in front it looks across the peaceful lake with its one green island, to the steeps of Silver-how on the farther side.
Continued to walk for some time along the top of the hill, having the high mountains of Loch Voil before us, and Ben Lomond and the steeps of Loch Ketterine behind.
We now came under the steeps by the sea-side, which were bold rocks, mouldering scars, or fresh with green grass.
At this part of the vale, which is narrow, the steeps are covered with old oaks and every variety of trees.
No meadows thrown between, the giddy steeps Tower, bare or sylvan, from the narrow deeps.
Mid the dark steeps repose the shadowy streams, As touch'd with dawning moonlight's hoary gleams, Long streaks of fairy light the wave illume With bordering lines of intervening gloom, 1793.
My horses ran away, ran directly towards the steeps above the river, and would have plunged over if he had not started forward and turned their heads in time; but the horses, as they turned, knocked him down and ran over him!
He threw himself before my horses to stop them as they were running down the steeps over the river; and he turned them aside, but they knocked him down and ran over him!
I toiled up the miraculous steeps of hoary-headed, granite-crowned Mount Washington, to realize a double joy.
It has been doubted whether steeps are of any use, except so far as they facilitate the separation of the light grains, and wash off the seeds of the parasite plants, which are thought to occasion smut, &c.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
