Ravine

Examples

• His right extended to the back-water up the ravine opening into the Cumberland south of the village. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was not only divided, but it was separated by a deep ravine of the character above described. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Tennessee River was very high and there was water to a considerable depth in the ravine. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• This line ran generally along the crest of high ground, but in one place crossed a ravine which opens into the river between the village and the fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That was before my father built the mill, when it was a perfectly solitary ravine. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There was, as I have said, a deep ravine in front of our left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She did not turn her head to look at a group of dark creatures further on, who fled from her presence as she skirted a ravine where they fed. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We descended from Mount Tabor, crossed a deep ravine, followed a hilly, rocky road to Nazareth--distant two hours. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• We passed the bridge of Pelissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before us, and we began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The beautiful wild ravine shall be a smooth descent; the green natural terrace shall be a paved street. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the bottom of this ravine the work commenced. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There shall be cottages in the dark ravine, and cottages on the lonely slopes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This line of artillery was on the crest of a hill overlooking a deep ravine opening into the Tennessee. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• After her attentive survey of the wild slopes and hollow ravines a gesture of impatience escaped Eustacia. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He found the ground over which he had to pass cut up with deep ravines, and a morass difficult to cross. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Deep ravines of the description given lay in front of these defences. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Before me were low hills pierced by narrow and inviting ravines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What are picturesque ravines and mists to us who see nothing else? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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