When patrols from the 21st Marines tried to link up with the 3d Marines, they were driven back by the fire of cleverly hidden machine guns, all but impossible to spot in the welter of undergrowth and rock-strewn ravines.
The leading square now came to the edge of a large nullah or dry river-bed, sixty feet deep and two hundred yards wide, thickly strewn with boulders, and having larger masses of rock rising from its depth.
The first thing to be done is to loosen the skin all round as far as the white skin is visible; the whole deposit is then extracted, and a little snuff strewn in the empty space.
Inside are several images of Vishnu and Siva, wreathed with flowers, and strewn over with grains of rice and wheat.
They consist of massive fragments of walls and columns, strewnon either side of the Euphrates.
After bringing up the blankets and the bags he paddled back to the camp, leaving them to themselves in the solitude of the woods, under the black, star-strewn sky.
The table, strewn with sweet jasmine and glossy leaves, was adorned with all the handsome gold and silver service and glass that Isabelle had received at her marriage.
This languid spring day while Conny turned over her mail that lay strewn in disorder on her bed, she apparently had one of her worst fits of dubitation.
His ten years of inertness had strewn his path with thorns and briars, even beyond his own household; and when he looked back to his neglect of his son, he felt that even the worst consequences would be but just retribution.
The question was needless, for the table was strewn with snips of calico.
Skeletons of tall pine-trees beneath us in the dell, and above our heads,--their stems and shattered branches as grey as the stream of the Vedra or the crags strewn at their feet.
And the solemn woods were saddened with a melancholy knell, as often as the thick-strewn leaves were swept away from the virgin soil, for the burial of an Indian chief.
When Washington, in the fulness of his glory, rode through our flower-strewn streets, this was the tongue that bade the Father of his Country welcome!
That night was but one great crash and we were strewn in the middle of it among black puddles, upon a ghostly background of earth.
One makes out the shining dust of old age strewn in his stubbly beard.
Slaked lime and seasoned soot may be mixed together, and then strewn over the surface of the soil.
Fresh soot from the chimney should on no account be strewn amongst the young crowns or growths of plants, as the poisonous matters in it may kill them as well as the slugs.
Ahead of him lay the city, a dun stretch of roofs and walls, with here and there a splotch of green beneath a blue sky strewn with snowy clouds.
He saw Aunt Maria, Zeke's portly wife, approach from the kitchen door and begin to fill her apron with the chips his ax had strewn upon the ground.
With how many banal loves might not the fellow in that time have strewn his soldier's path!
The sun shone, the air was still and warm, and but for the strewn leaves and the faint smell of decay with which the breath of autumn is ever laden, one might have fancied it a day of early spring.
They had dined, and the table was still strewn with vessels and the fragments of their meal, for the cloth had not yet been raised.
The stern was already submerged, and the surface of the water was strewn with all sorts of wreckage.
Empty Norwegian preserved-meat tins and old Christiania newspapers were strewn about in the cabins.
As soon as the Englishman's eye caught sight of the wood strewn all round the sides of the hold he asked what the explanation was.
She was never seen again, next morning the shore was strewn with wreckage and with dead, but no fragment bearing the name of the ill-fated ship was ever found.
In 700 the Irish Clergy[9] attended their Synods sword in hand, and fought with those who differed from them on doctrinal points, leaving the ground strewn with corpses.
A long gash of earth laid bare and of foliage ripped and strewnaside stretched up the incline to mark the track of the fallen boulder.
The little valley, strewn with motionless, blue-clad figures, lay wrapped in such silence that they could hear the murmur of the rivulet beyond.
The huge masses of rock, looking like fallen buildings, which are strewn along the valley in inextricable confusion, defy calculation.
We were huddled into a clumsy boat, some standing and some sitting on the wet seats, and paddled off to the steamer which stood off; our baggagestrewn on the pier, to be transported hereafter, if the captain chose to wait.
As the two boys rode up the boulder-strewn slope it set them talking of the first time they had gone that way on their fruitless hunt for arrow points about the foot of Winnedumah, and of all that happened to them at that time.
So while he lay there very weary, between sleeping and waking, he gazed out along the ground, which was all strewn with rubble between the stiff, scant grass.
The floors were strewn with shavings and chips which the carpenters had left, and in the music-room these had been blown into long irregular windrows by the draughts through a wide rent in the linen sash.
The rancho for which they were heading lay still two hours away, and while they rode the sahuaro pillars gave place in turn to pinon and juniper thinly strewn over rolling grassland.
In place of the familiar seas of sage, cactus and spiky yucca were thinly strewn over a land whose unmitigated drought was accentuated by the parched windings of waterless streams.
A stronger gust still; as if the western storm which had strewn those dead over the sea wished to deface the very inscriptions which kept their names in memory with the living.
Around this cross stretches the evergreen waste, strewn with short rushes.
His funeral was thronged by them, his coffin strewn with flowers which they and his comrades had plucked, and then his remains were borne to his native town, where burial-rites were again performed in the old church of Dorchester.
The deserted houses were generally found strewn with religious periodicals, mainly Baptist magazines.
Onward through rugged defiles and rock-strewn passes, over which the sure-footed steeds are constrained to clamber like chamois.
So, one by one, we lie down to rest with the lulling sound in our ears of the turbulent, rock-strewn river.
