The Mariposa trail runs by sharp zigzags up the southern wall, taking advantage of every rock and bush where an Indian could find a foot-hold, and we found it a long and toilsome climb, before we got to the top.
I do not wish to suggest that all zigzags included within parallel lines, as in Fig.
We have seen that birds' head designs may degenerate into zigzags (Figs.
Further to the left is a dark beam, on each side of which are zigzags (y y); these are branches.
A, but the two lines are fused into one; the zigzags are clearly limbs.
He would follow the road to the left then, down the zigzags that must lead to the river, and to some means of crossing it.
Dieppe watched until the party reached the zigzags and was hidden from view, though he still heard the crack of the whip.
Mrs. Tracy watched the two figures cross the grass and turn down the narrow passage whence the road descends in zigzags to Florence.
And she had not gone down the zigzags of the carriage-road; he went down to see.
On the northern side of the pass the descent is long and tiring, a succession of steep zigzags and rocky staircases.
The track was unusually good, and steep, well-constructed zigzags carried us up and down the hills.
We steer on a similar mean course, but the angles of our independent zigzags make our progress irregular in company.
Two of these zigzags are male, and two female, for all things, even inanimate, have sex among this strange people.
Soon, however, as we followed him, we found ourselves on a rocky shelf, and then began the most stupendous series of zigzags I had ever been on.
The mountain being extremely steep and rugged, the path necessarily running into innumerable zigzags to render the ascent at all practicable was cumbered with sharp stones, as was the entire mountain-side.
Over this mass we struggled, a violent icy blast in our faces, to a point where the path turns off to the left, and climbs upwards by zigzags to the more gradual slope under the summit.
An impetuous horse whirled us down a steep vine-clad hill, rounding the zigzags at a pace which made perils by mountains sink into insignificance compared to the perils by road.
The ascent then became hot and tiresome for a time, where the path perversely left the woods and chose for its zigzags a loose, dusty, shadeless slope.
It then zigzags down rhododendron-covered slopes to the floor of the valley.
The road plunges into the narrowest, and forces its way near the torrent, until, suddenly turning in steep zigzags to scale the hillside, it breaks off altogether.
After several zigzags the road boldly turns on to the face of the rock.
Anyhow he must make up his mind to reascend the final zigzags to the Costonzella Pass.
Steep zigzags carried us up through a picturesque tangle of trees and crags to where the road turns the northern corner of the huge promontory.
With occasional step-cutting and frequent zigzags we got clear of the thickest labyrinth and stood victorious on the upper snow-fields.
As we mounted the steep zigzags of the path the first arrows of sunlight, shooting over the hills and striking obliquely across the rock-face, caught the most outward-flung part of the fall, leaving the crags behind still in shadow.
The whole mass of the Orteler group, from the longzigzags of the Stelvio road to the Gavia, was in sight.
A well-contrived path, winding up by steep zigzags amidst underwood and creeping pines, lifted us from the glen to the upper alp, a sloping shelf of pasturage on the east of the glacier.
From out fate's blackening wave Calamitous, just zigzags some shot star, Poor promise of faint joy, and turns the laugh On dupes whose fears and tears were all in waste!
This great road, which zigzags steeply up the pass, is partly composed of smoothed boulders and partly of natural rock, somewhat dressed, and much worn by the continual passage of shod animals.
The valley which it ascends is packed with large and small boulders, with round water-worn stones among them, and such track as there is makes sharp zigzags over and among these rocks.
Diderot, at any rate, must rank in the second class among those who have attempted to tread a measure among the whimsical zigzags of unreason.
Threads of coloured molten glass were spirally coiled round the body, and, whilst still viscid, were dragged into zigzags with a metal hook.
The system of decorating vases and vessels by means of strands of glass trailed upon the surface in knots, zigzags and trellis work, was adopted by the Moors and is characteristic of Roman craftsmanship.
The tart was especially pathetic, for the quirls and zigzags stuck up in all directions from the blackened jelly, like the walls and chimney of a house after a fire.
It was necessary to ascend by zigzags to make the slope more easy, for it was very steep, and the footing being exceedingly precarious required the greatest caution.
The lamp emerges from the dark and zigzags about the room like a portable fairy.
I have seen conflagrations and the explosions of mines, and plumes of smoke which flow disordered and spin out in long black zigzags like the locks of the God of War!
Not so is the Lachalang, though its well-made zigzags are easy for laden animals.
The dreary stretches of the ascent, though at first white with edelweiss, of which the people make their tinder, are surmounted for the most part by steep, short zigzags of broken stone.
Below Doian the road descends rapidly by zigzags towards the Astor stream: soon all vegetation is left behind, and one enters a parched and barren land.
A small outlying fringe lay below the broad white wagon road twisting away between the hills in long curves or terraced zigzags to the railhead.
The Bar Cross had shipped the north drive of steers from Engle; the wagon had then wandered southward for sixty miles to Fort Selden, there to begin the south work in a series of long zigzags across the broad plain.
The fine new road winds through dark pine woods, climbing the hill in long zigzags above wild chasms, past the old monastery of Ettal, and then slowly descends to the soft Ammer meadows.
Along the lake margin winds the narrow bridle-path, which follows rushing rivulets in zigzags down steep flower-carpeted slopes to the pine woods of Saint Rémy, far below.
The same thought was in their minds: a vivid mental picture of the raiders from Las Bocas ascending the precarious zigzags of the Bowl staircase.
Except where the stream slipped out over a precipice between two narrow walls, the mountains rose sheer around the Bowl, unscalable save where the trail rose by precarious zigzags to where Sliver held the pass a thousand feet above.
The road winds to the top of one of the cliffs in zigzags cut in the solid rock.
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