Ridges
[rɪdʒ]
Examples
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Shirley said she liked the green sweep of the common turf, and, better still, the heath on its ridges, for the heath reminded her of moors. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Our line was generally along the crest of ridges. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The ridges upon which Vicksburg is built, and those back to the Big Black, are composed of a deep yellow clay of great tenacity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In this there are no steps, it being composed of hardwood cleats moving in longitudinal ridges and grooves, there being a handrail on either side moving at the same speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Ridges of faces are thrown to this side and to that, and the ploughs go steadily onward. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The ridges thrown to this side and to that, now crumble in and close behind the last plough as it passes on, for all are following to the Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, lying in ridges on his dress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were the two ridges, and there were the tanks ahead and there were his two good brigades ready to leave the woods and here came the planes now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The edges of the lower mandible are crossed by numerous fine ridges, which project very little. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It embraced hillocks, pits, ridges, acclivities, one behind the other, till all was finished by a high hill cutting against the still light sky. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A file whose teeth are in parallel ridges only is called single-cut or float-cut. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When there are two series of ridges crossing each other the file is double-cut, which is the file best suited for iron and steel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He was between two ridges, in a hollow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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