All 24 Uses of
ravine
in
The Jungle Book
- The valley opened out into a great plain dotted over with rocks and cut up by ravines.
Chpt 5.ravines = deep narrow steep-sided valleys
- An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
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- When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhak tree in the center of the plain.
Chpt 5.ravine = a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
- 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.
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- He is lying up now, in the big dry ravine of the Waingunga.
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- The big ravine of the Waingunga.
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- 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.
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- Gray Brother, when we are gone, hold the cows together, and drive them into the foot of the ravine.
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- 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.
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- 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;
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- ...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.
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- It was a long, long circle, for they did not wish to get too near the ravine and give Shere Khan warning.
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- At last Mowgli rounded up the bewildered herd at the head of the ravine...
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- ...on a grassy patch that sloped steeply down to the ravine itself.
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- ...what Mowgli looked at was the sides of the ravine, and he saw with a great deal of satisfaction that they ran nearly straight up and down, while the vines and creepers that hung over them would give no foothold to a tiger who wanted to get out.
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- 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.
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- "Who calls?" said Shere Khan, and a splendid peacock fluttered up out of the ravine screeching.
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- 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.
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- "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;
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- ...the weaker buffaloes being shouldered out to the sides of the ravine where they tore through the creepers.
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- 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,
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- ...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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water