The road from the head of the pass to San Martino, once a monastery, is by stupendous zig-zags cut through a splendid forest.
The road ascended by zig-zags through pine forests, in which the large blue gentian, with flowers and leaves in double rows on a gracefully bowed stem, were abundant.
The celebrated Furca road zig-zags up the mountain side for a thousand feet close to the glacier, and when you drive up it and reach the height of the Belvedere, you can step on to the ice close to the road.
We pursued the zig-zags until we were enclosed by a semicircle of enormous precipices and stupendous rocks, on whose beetling brows the toppling fir-trees clung.
At one point of our progress we observed a long Moorish wall, with its ancient battlements, scaling in yellow zig-zags the steep mountain's side, till it joined a fortress on the summit.
They had gone on their way by this time, and reached a corner of the path where it turned abruptly in zig-zags round a great rocky precipice.
They mounted the steep slope, and rose by gentle zig-zags towards the upland hamlet.
The road zig-zags up the mountain side all the way from Cattaro to a Col, then zig-zags down on the other side to Cettinje, which lies nestling at the foot of steep hills and at the end of a cultivated valley.
The road continues winding along this elevated heather-clad ridge for four miles, and then descends by rapid zig-zags towards Ximena.
The road, for the first eight miles, is one continuation of zig zags over a very mountainous country, and must be kept up at an immense expense to the government, for there is but very little traffic upon it.
Now the Aar was left behind in the icy glen where it rises, and the road went in an artificial and carefully built set of zig-zags up the face of the cliff.
I would not be bound by the exaggerated zig-zags of the road, which had been built for artillery, and rose at an easy slope.
Only in the afternoon, and on those little zig-zags which are sharper than any other in the Alps (perhaps the road is older), something changed.
It is a stony and steep path, cut in zig-zags through the thick undergrowth where there is no room for the long poles of the chair to turn, so we have to walk.
They have great zig-zags of sands running up and down their sides, indicated by a sparse vegetation.
Ducy; climb a ridge and descend by zig-zags to =Baron= (27 km.
After passing through the lower part of La Celle, the road begins to mount, traverses a level-crossing, and then by a series of zig-zags reaches the height on which the other part of the village of La Celle is built.
We descended on foot the zig-zags that lead from the Great Wall to Kalkann.
In one part seven or eight zig-zags have to be walked to rise to an elevation of about sixty or seventy feet, so steep is the south end of the island.
So on this occasion I strolled quietly down the pathway, which zig-zags seven or eight times before it ends abruptly on the brow of a little cliff facing La Fauconnaire.
The zig-zags or tortuous trenches in the approach of a besieger.
Lucy also walked down some three or four of the innumerable zig-zags of the road.
Yet our ascent was not so steep as might be expected, being modified, when necessary, by zig-zags from one direction or one side of the chasm we followed to the other.
I suspected before that this trotting down zig-zags was not the thing, and now I know it, and shall remember it, at least for one week.
It is not absolutely necessary to count the threads for the little flowers and stalks, but it is as well to do so for the border, that you may be sure to get the zig-zags perfectly regular.
She is upwards of seventy horses power, and is now employed on the inclines and zig-zags of the Great Western (of Australia), between Redfern and Pyemont.
Behind the shimmering olives, first on one side, then on the other as we turned with the zig-zags of the dusty road, was the purple blue of the sea flecked with the white sails of fishing-boats and with the crests of whiter waves.
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