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  • Laura had gone through a Danger barrier, then right off the St. Clair Avenue bridge into the ravine far below.†   (source)
  • AFTER HALF AN HOUR they descended a shallow alder-choked ravine that bottomed out in a creek six inches deep and filled with pale green grass laid over in the current like mermaid hair.†   (source)
  • Dark shadows materialized out of the white to trudge past us, walking along the ravine formed by the edge of the buildings where the snowbanks ended.†   (source)
  • That night they camped in a ravine and built a fire against a small stone bluff and ate their last tin of food.†   (source)
  • Do we really have to do something that involves trekking up mountains, or hanging over ravines?†   (source)
  • Once he'd been lost in the badlands for four days when a cliff gave way beneath him and his truck fell a hundred feet into a ravine.†   (source)
  • Icy rain kept them company for four days, during which time Celaena was so miserably cold that she contemplated throwing herself into a ravine, hopefully dragging Chaol with her.†   (source)
  • They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses.†   (source)
  • Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth.†   (source)
  • If you look closely, you can see the ravine in the left-hand corner of the tenth frame.†   (source)
  • The pitched ravine that dropped off immediately in front of them.†   (source)
  • The plane skidded for two thousand feet, severing an oil pipeline and snapping pine trees, before falling into a ravine and bursting into flames.†   (source)
  • From time to time promising features would appear on the distant horizon—ravines, maybe mountains, maybe even cities—but as they approached the lines would soften and blur into anonymity and nothing would transpire.†   (source)
  • As far as Jason could see in any direction, red and gray ravines cut through the desert like some crazy god had taken a knife to it.†   (source)
  • The air was foggy and the hills were cut with deep ravines.†   (source)
  • Black rats and a pig root around in a ravine where the children play.†   (source)
  • Long valleys and ravines opened beneath them.†   (source)
  • Down below, rivers forge deep ravines that cut through the greenery.†   (source)
  • Day 116 Each day I pace the confines of my cage-the flame, forests to the south and east, the forested ravines to the northeast, and the Cleft to the north and west.†   (source)
  • It was so bad we made up a song about it, which our resident expert banjo player put to the music of the Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire": I fell into a hundred-foot ravine, We went down, down, down, and busted up my spleen, And it burned, burned, burned-that Ring of Fire… Our dual targets on that next mission were two Afghan villages set into the mountainside, one above the other.†   (source)
  • A musher stopped at the end of the gorge fixing his broken sled grabs my team and pulls them to a stop as they pile into a small side ravine or I think it would have been worse.†   (source)
  • The car brushes by and hands reach out for me, pushing, grabbing, and I lose my balance, the bike wavers under me and heads for the ditch, the steep ravine by the side of the road, and I am helpless to halt its progress toward the ditch, and the wheels spin and I hear raucous laughter as I loom at the edge of the ditch and then feel myself falling, spinning, sucked into the ditch, sucked into the wetness and darkness of a sudden startling nighttime.†   (source)
  • He walked six miles to the riverbank; did a slide-run-slide down into a ravine made almost inaccessible by brush.†   (source)
  • To the north and west the country rose up in thick walls of wilderness, triple-canopied jungle, mountains unfolding into higher mountains, ravines and gorges and fast-moving rivers and waterfalls and exotic butterflies and steep cliffs and smoky little hamlets and great valleys of bamboo and elephant grass.†   (source)
  • They included hills, ravines and hollows.†   (source)
  • Babette and I and our children by previous marriages live at the end of a quiet street in what was once a wooded area with deep ravines.†   (source)
  • Andros dashed into the woods, running down a trail along the edge of a deep ravine.†   (source)
  • There was such silence all around that our footsteps echoed back from the'walls of the buildings as if we were passing through a rocky ravine in the mountains.†   (source)
  • On the third day a mule maddened by gadflies fell into a ravine with its rider, dragging along the entire line, and the screams of the man and his pack of seven animals tied to one another continued to rebound along the cliffs and gullies for several hours after the disaster, and continued to resound for years and years in the memory of Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • The Pinto veered off the road, the headlights streaming into the blackness of a deep ravine.†   (source)
  • We walk to where the ridge we are on creases inward to the start of a ravine.†   (source)
  • I straggled up out of another ravine and as usual found Farmer waiting for me.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist followed the shoreline to the southeast, but the way was so interrupted by ravines and so grown over with juniper shrubs that it was all but impassable.†   (source)
  • After checking in, Luke unloaded the coolers and filled the water trough for the horses while Sophia wandered off toward the ravine.†   (source)
  • They were running along the edge of a towering ravine.†   (source)
  • The girl and her hastily packed cardboard suitcase ended up as blood-soaked wreckage at the bottom of a ravine near Craig, Colorado; but not many hours after she had been shot and thrown there, her assassins were in fact performing before motion-picture cameras.†   (source)
  • 'Mom,' Peter interrupted, wishing that there were earthquakes in New Hampshire, that a ravine would open under her feet and swallow her mid-sentence.†   (source)
  • As we neared the bottom of the mountain, we came upon a ravine, a gaping raw hole etched into a plateau separating this mountain from the next one.†   (source)
  • Queenie struggles at the bottom of a ravine, a badger hanging from her leg.†   (source)
  • The land suddenly dropped away, going down in shelves and ravines, and changed in color from green to brown.†   (source)
  • The bus sped across the ravine, up the incline to Squirrel Hill.†   (source)
  • The little cabin in the gash of the hills owned for domain a rocky ravine that was the standing jest of the mountain-side.†   (source)
  • Twilight came mercifully early in the deep ravine of the streambed.†   (source)
  • Aunt Jeanette lived several miles out of town, way back up a wide ravine.†   (source)
  • The signs of Trina, Lana and Deedee's passage continued into a long, low ravine that made its way toward an almost hidden canyon.†   (source)
  • It's a solid hike through the trees, beyond the boathouse and the lake, and along a deep ravine.†   (source)
  • I could just chuck it down a ravine, like I've done before.†   (source)
  • Nobody in his right mind would fly a helicopter into this ravine, he thought—exactly why it had been chosen as their LZ.†   (source)
  • The sun disappeared early behind the steep valley walls and by late afternoon it was night-dark at the base of the ravine.†   (source)
  • They were tired from hoofing up and down the steep ravines with heavy packs and body armor.†   (source)
  • Hitching a ride there by jumping on a boxcar in the ravine.†   (source)
  • A mile further on they came to a narrow ravine that led away northwards through the steep lands on the left of the Road.†   (source)
  • I searched the ravines for several days before I found it, trees being very scarce on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.†   (source)
  • You fell about thirty yards down a pretty steep ravine, pal.†   (source)
  • 12 LET the COLORS RUN The bus rumbles along a ravine that winds down from College Hill onto a wide asphalt plain of pawn shops, convenience marts, and vacant stores.†   (source)
  • He passed houses, a small creek, and eventually found his way to Requiem Ravine, where the cops had found the body of Mr. Craig, Vlad's English teacher.†   (source)
  • He pulled the truck onto a dirt road that wound around the campground to a ravine along the north side.†   (source)
  • After another two miles the road dropped into a ravine and crossed Jacobs Creek.†   (source)
  • Ravines one instant, soaring cliffs the next, not rooted in the earth but tossing and leaping and never still.†   (source)
  • Arid ravines led down into the undeveloped land above Griffith Observatory and east of the Los Angeles Zoo, a rattlesnake-infested plot of desert scrub in the heart of the urban sprawl.†   (source)
  • Past the gates was a bridge over a narrow ravine.†   (source)
  • She was looking off at the ravine, her head lifted, strands of disordered hair stirring in the wind.†   (source)
  • The car had stopped smoking and now lay beneath a pile of branches and shrubs at the bottom of a shallow ravine.†   (source)
  • Two or three boxcars turned over and rolled down into the ravine.†   (source)
  • A little farther on, in a dry, rocky ravine they reached the cave of five Black Dwarfs.†   (source)
  • Soon he would lead them into enormous tracts of forest crossed at random with ravines, gullies, stone walls, and cattle fences, where a horse had to dodge like a boxer, and a rider had to be subde and quick to avoid hanging limbs and sharp brambles as thick as anacondas.†   (source)
  • Maester Luwin trotted up to him as they were following a game trail along the lip of a ravine.†   (source)
  • He had survived in the jungles; without thinking — only feeling — he knew their curvatures, their vines, the sudden pits and the abrupt ravines.†   (source)
  • On one side the wall of green, on the other a steep drop to the ravine below.†   (source)
  • Dr. Natalie Mizrahi was not yet permitted to park there; her space was located in a distant satellite lot at the edge of a deep ravine.†   (source)
  • The pups' new home, half a mile from the old den, was a narrow, truncated ravine filled with gigantic boulders which had been split off the cliff walls by frost action.†   (source)
  • I was about to reply "Presbyterian," but he had begun to ramble on like a beagle hound softly barking down the ravines of godly fellowship.†   (source)
  • As the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and 'sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful look and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of coal black.†   (source)
  • At midday they rested for a couple of hours in the shade of a steep-sided ravine.†   (source)
  • Everything could be seen clearly-the mountain, the thicket, and the ravine-but seemed unreal, as though made up.†   (source)
  • Then he saw that he was on the edge of a ravine that fell away, a red erosion, and that this was indeed the road's end.†   (source)
  • He came to a ravine which sliced across his route.†   (source)
  • The sky was serene and quiet, and somewhere a stream of water ran through the cool caverns and tree shadings of a ravine.†   (source)
  • Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.   (source)
    ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
  • We burn the wood we find in the ravine.   (source)
  • He is lying up now, in the big dry ravine of the Waingunga.   (source)
    ravine = a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
  • ...on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.   (source)
  • When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain.   (source)
  • Gray Brother, when we are gone, hold the cows together, and drive them into the foot of the ravine.   (source)
  • "Who calls?" said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.   (source)
  • At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine...   (source)
  • The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ravines.   (source)
    ravines = deep narrow steep-sided valleys
  • ...the weaker buffaloes being shouldered out to the sides of the ravine where they tore through the creepers.   (source)
    ravine = a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
  • ...but the walls of the ravine were straight and he had to hold on, heavy with his dinner and his drink, willing to do anything rather than fight.   (source)
  • Shere Khan heard the thunder of their hoofs, picked himself up, and lumbered down the ravine, looking from side to side for some way of escape,   (source)
  • They charged down on him, and he ran just before them to the foot of the ravine, as Akela drove the bulls far to the left.   (source)
  • I can take the herd round through the jungle to the head of the ravine and then sweep down—but he would slink out at the foot.   (source)
  • It was a long, long circle, for they did not wish to get too near the ravine and give Shere Khan warning.   (source)
  • "Now thou knowest!" and the torrent of black horns, foaming muzzles, and staring eyes whirled down the ravine just as boulders go down in floodtime;   (source)
  • He put his hands to his mouth and shouted down the ravine—it was almost like shouting down a tunnel—and the echoes jumped from rock to rock.   (source)
  • ...for he knew that after a meal and a full drink Shere Khan would not be in any condition to fight or to clamber up the sides of the ravine.   (source)
  • Once started, there was no chance of stopping, and before they were fairly in the bed of the ravine Rama winded Shere Khan and bellowed.   (source)
  • All he wanted to do was to make a big circle uphill and get at the head of the ravine, and then take the bulls down it and catch Shere Khan between the bulls and the cows;   (source)
  • The big ravine of the Waingunga.   (source)
  • At last a day came when he did not see Gray Brother at the signal place, and he laughed and headed the buffaloes for the ravine by the dhak-tree, which was all covered with golden-red flowers.   (source)
  • Akela and Gray Brother ran to and fro nipping the buffaloes' legs, and though the herd wheeled once to charge up the ravine again, Mowgli managed to turn Rama, and the others followed him to the wallows.   (source)
  • Mowgli heard an answering bellow from the foot of the ravine, saw Shere Khan turn (the tiger knew if the worst came to the worst it was better to meet the bulls than the cows with their calves), and then Rama tripped, stumbled, and went on again over something soft, and, with the bulls at his heels, crashed full into the other herd, while the weaker buffaloes were lifted clean off their feet by the shock of the meeting.   (source)
  • An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.   (source)
    ravines = deep narrow steep-sided valleys
  • In the meadow at the base of the ravine, several dozen sheep were milling around.†   (source)
  • The end of Pig's Head Lane was a narrow perch of earth above the deepest part of the ravine.†   (source)
  • He grabs my hand, and we take off in a quick trot toward where I hoped the ravine was.†   (source)
  • It would be weeks before the snow in the ravine melted enough to uncover him.†   (source)
  • He was falling …. plummeting backward toward an ice-covered river at the bottom of a deep ravine.†   (source)
  • Angelo told me to head for a wallow in a grassy opening at the bottom of a ravine.†   (source)
  • His only chance is to get across the ravine.†   (source)
  • In the morning they came up out of the ravine and took to the road again.†   (source)
  • In late evening he arrived at the edge of a precipitous ravine.†   (source)
  • Barefoot, she scrambles down the ravine after her mother.†   (source)
  • He would have to wait at the bottom of the ravine.†   (source)
  • I looked out across the floor of the ravine.†   (source)
  • Then I walked back to the rutted track that ran along the snow-filled ravine.†   (source)
  • They came out from the ravine into a hilly but gentler landscape.†   (source)
  • I see that we can follow this ravine down and eventually find water in it.†   (source)
  • He camped in a thicket near the ravine and watched the moonrise before going to bed.†   (source)
  • I met him by a leafless birch tree on the edge of the ravine.†   (source)
  • I begin to feel drowsy and in a small ravine ahead I see a turnoff and a picnic table.†   (source)
  • "What's closer, the woods on the other side of the road or the ravine?"†   (source)
  • Dirt washed down the mountain, flooded the ravine, and crumbled the sides.†   (source)
  • I felt the shock wave before I hit the muddy bottom of the ravine.†   (source)
  • The village lay between hills in a valley that dropped into a deep limestone ravine.†   (source)
  • And way down, if you fell head over toes, was the bottom of the ravine.†   (source)
  • Back that way the ash pit, and farther back the ravine.†   (source)
  • A flare drops into the ravine, ripping apart the dark with a hellish red glare.†   (source)
  • After I got you out of the ravine, I ran.†   (source)
  • The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south.†   (source)
  • She looked across the ravine to the old pavilion building.†   (source)
  • He sat listening as they rode up out of the ravine and then they were gone.†   (source)
  • Is he lying dead and frozen in some ravine …. or worse, is he dead and walking?†   (source)
  • Finally, I tumbled to a stop at the bottom of an overgrown ravine.†   (source)
  • A pair of cackling jackdaws spiraled upward from a nearby ravine.†   (source)
  • Down one side of the cliff, a highway cut through a ravine.†   (source)
  • The path around the ravine is too narrow, too dangerous.†   (source)
  • It opened on to the gar dens and looked south across the ravine of the Bruinen.†   (source)
  • The ridge took a sharper bend northward and was gashed by a deeper ravine.†   (source)
  • I drove until the four-lane highway crossed a meandering ravine about fifteen yards wide.†   (source)
  • The pups heard it too, and we all swiveled our heads to see Angeline at the edge of the ravine.†   (source)
  • It occupied the lowland in a steep ravine between mountains.†   (source)
  • It was dark when I got back to the ravine.†   (source)
  • Besides, her balance quickly was gone and the ravine had her.†   (source)
  • Across the ravine, I see her in the dry crackle of leaves.†   (source)
  • They have set up headquarters in the building across the ravine.†   (source)
  • The men must be throwing stones at random down into the ravine.†   (source)
  • We hiked through the ravine, trying to keep to the direction Tiny had indicated.†   (source)
  • The others don't go skating on the neighborhood rink, or walk in the ravine by themselves.†   (source)
  • He's carrying a shovel, and I know that he's going back to what he couldn't ignore in the ravine.†   (source)
  • I can see lights along the edges of the ravine, from the houses there, impossibly high up.†   (source)
  • I had found footsteps to the ravine twice again after the first time, but no closer to the cave.†   (source)
  • The ravine fall had shaken and battered him, but all his bones survived the trip uncracked.†   (source)
  • In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain.†   (source)
  • I settled myself among the spruces and scanned the floor of the ravine.†   (source)
  • Across the ravine, the windows of the pavilion were squares of yellow light.†   (source)
  • It was two hours after dawn when he reached the steep ravine.†   (source)
  • Then she trotted forward to the edge of the ravine and barked sharply.†   (source)
  • I waited while you traversed the edge of the ravine in your walk to the bridge.†   (source)
  • The wind grew louder and made wild noises in the ravine.†   (source)
  • The only time he stops is when we pass the ravine and the corpse of the deer we've left there.†   (source)
  • A girl is found murdered, down in the ravine.†   (source)
  • Always in the past I had gone to the ravine by a different way so as not to wear a trail.†   (source)
  • The ravine is more filled in with bushes and trees than it used to be.†   (source)
  • When I reach the ravine, Ann and Pippa are poised on the edge, breathing hard.†   (source)
  • His decision, which I applaud, was to make better time running along the ravine floor.†   (source)
  • And after that I was pushed two hundred feet down a rock ravine.†   (source)
  • The reason the ravine is forbidden to us is not the dead people but the men.†   (source)
  • I went slowly through the ravine because of my bow and arrows.†   (source)
  • I have long since dismissed the idea of bad men in the ravine.†   (source)
  • "Tutok," I cried, running down the ravine.†   (source)
  • He sat astride a white, studying the footsteps down on the floor of the ravine.†   (source)
  • She wants me to go down into the ravine where the bad men are, where we're never supposed to go.†   (source)
  • The tracks led away through the ravine which winds to the sea.†   (source)
  • Around, was my intention, but the ravine forced me to change.†   (source)
  • Then she walks over to the railing and throws my hat down into the ravine.†   (source)
  • Yuccas grew tall among the rocks of the ravine.†   (source)
  • For a moment, the man in black teetered at the ravine edge.†   (source)
  • From the bottom of the ravine, there came only silence.†   (source)
  • I had gone to the ravine for water and he stood on the hill above the spring, looking down at me.†   (source)
  • The wooden footbridge over the ravine is torn down.†   (source)
  • I carried five baskets up the ravine and hid them near my house.†   (source)
  • He jerked her to her feet, and they ran along the edge of the great ravine.†   (source)
  • I wonder if I will be punished for going down into the ravine.†   (source)
  • He takes it down into the ravine somewhere, in under the wooden bridge, and buries it.†   (source)
  • I went down to the ravine and bathed in the spring and put on my otter cape and my cormorant skirt.†   (source)
  • The pack had split up and were waiting on both sides of the ravine for me to pass them.†   (source)
  • They are down in the ravine, covering over with snow.†   (source)
  • A spring of water flowed from a ravine nearby.†   (source)
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