All 9 Uses of
ravine
in
The Border Legion
- The pack drivers led across the stream and the valley to enter an intersecting ravine.†
Chpt 8 *
- Smith soon led away from this valley up out of the head of a ravine, across a rough rock-strewn ridge, down again into a hollow that grew to be a canon.†
Chpt 13
- Farther on and up the slope, along the waterways and ravines, were miners so close they seemed almost to interfere with one another.†
Chpt 13
- It could be approached by a shallow ravine that wound away toward the creek.†
Chpt 13
- She could peer out of her little window and see dark, silent forms come up from the ravine at the back of the cabin, and leave the same way.†
Chpt 14
- There was a man sitting on the far side of the little ravine.†
Chpt 14
- The mountains flung down their shadows, impenetrable, like the gloomy minds of men; and everywhere under the bluffs and slopes, in the hollows and ravines, lay an enveloping blackness, hiding its depth and secret and mystery.†
Chpt 15
- The ravine seemed to send forth stealthy, noiseless shapes, specter and human, man and phantom, each on the other's trail.†
Chpt 15
- Joan imagined she recognized the brushy ravine out of which Jesse Smith had led that day when Kells's party came upon the new road.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water