All 5 Uses of
ravine
in
Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Before the hour was done they did indeed come upon a wretched adobe house, so poor and mean that they might not have seen it had it not lain close beside the trail, on the edge of a steep ravine.†
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- The general growth on its sides was evergreen, but the canyons and ravines were wooded with aspens, so that the shape of every depression was painted on the mountain-side, light green against the dark, like symbols; serpentine, crescent, half-circles.†
Part 5
- This mountain and its ravines had been the seat of old religious ceremonies, honeycombed with noiseless Indian life, the repository of Indian secrets, for many centuries, the Padre remarked.†
Part 5
- It must be a wagon of very unusual design, capable of carrying a great deal, yet light enough and narrow enough to wind through the mountain gorges beyond Pueblo,—where there were no roads at all except the rocky ravines cut out by streams that flowed full in the spring but would be dry now in the autumn.†
Part 8
- The second time he rolled down a ravine, near Central City, his thigh-bone was broken just below the joint.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water