All 13 Uses of

ravine

in

The Man of the Forest

He crossed the wide, grassy plain and struck another gradual descent where aspens and pines crowded a shallow ravine and warm, sun-lighted glades bordered along a sparkling brook.†
Chpt 2

During a steady trot for a long hour, Helen's roving eyes were everywhere, taking note of the things from near to far—the scant sage that soon gave place to as scanty a grass, and the dark blots that proved to be dwarf cedars, and the ravines opening out as if by magic from what had appeared level ground, to wind away widening between gray stone walls, and farther on, patches of lonely pine-trees, two and three together, and then a straggling clump of yellow aspens, and up beyond the…†
Chpt 6

Roy led down into a shallow ravine, where a tiny stream meandered, and he followed this around to the left, coming at length to a point where cedars and dwarf pines formed a little grove.†
Chpt 6

The forest that he struck into seemed ribbed like a washboard with deep ravines so steep of slope as to make precarious travel.†
Chpt 8 *

But it was necessary to cross these ravines when they were too long to be headed, and this crossing was work.†
Chpt 8

At last Roy led into a ravine so deep and wide and full of forest verdure that it appeared impossible to cross.†
Chpt 8

Leading down the ravine for a hundred yards or more, he essayed another attempt.†
Chpt 8

From far up the slope came a faint, wild cry, high-pitched and sweet, to create strange echoes, floating away to die in the ravines.†
Chpt 12

They zigzagged up the slope, took to a deep ravine, and followed it up to where it headed in the level forest.†
Chpt 20

And at that moment, from far up the dark ravine, drifted down the same wild cry, only changed by distance, strange and tragic in its meaning.†
Chpt 26

Definition:

(ravine)
a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water