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Definition
a deep narrow steep-sided valley — especially one formed by running water
- The capricious ravine of streets did not cut this block of houses into too disproportionate slices.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (35% in)
- Continuing to mount the stories of this amphitheatre of palaces spread out afar upon the ground, after crossing a deep ravine hollowed out of the roofs in the Town, which marked the passage of the Rue Saint-Antoine, the eye reached the house of Angoulême, a vast construction of many epochs, where there were perfectly new and very white parts, which melted no better into the whole than a red patch on a blue doublet.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (55% in)
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