All 20 Uses
ravine
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoriae.†
Chpt 11 *ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
- The winding way up the ravine between these was scarcely three yards wide, and was disfigured by lumps of decaying fruit-pulp and other refuse, which accounted for the disagreeable stench of the place.†
Chpt 12
- The little pink sloth-creature dashed at me, and I gashed down its ugly face with the nail in my stick and in another minute was scrambling up a steep side pathway, a kind of sloping chimney, out of the ravine.†
Chpt 12
- I had fallen into a precipitous ravine, rocky and thorny, full of a hazy mist which drifted about me in wisps, and with a narrow streamlet from which this mist came meandering down the centre.†
Chpt 12
- Presently the ravine grew narrower for a space, and carelessly I stepped into the stream.†
Chpt 12
- Almost immediately came a turn in the ravine, and the indistinct blue horizon.†
Chpt 12
- I turned and stared, arms akimbo, at the thick green behind me, into which the steamy ravine cut like a smoking gash.†
Chpt 13
- The Kanakas founded some huts near the ravine.†
Chpt 14
- In the afternoon, Moreau, Montgomery, myself, and M'ling went across the island to the huts in the ravine.†
Chpt 16
- We crossed the ravine down which smoked the stream of hot water, and followed the winding pathway through the canebrakes until we reached a wide area covered over with a thick, powdery yellow substance which I believe was sulphur.†
Chpt 16
- We three blue-clad men, with our misshapen black-faced attendant, standing in a wide expanse of sunlit yellow dust under the blazing blue sky, and surrounded by this circle of crouching and gesticulating monstrosities,—some almost human save in their subtle expression and gestures, some like cripples, some so strangely distorted as to resemble nothing but the denizens of our wildest dreams; and, beyond, the reedy lines of a canebrake in one direction, a dense tangle of palm-trees on the other, separating us from the ravine with the huts, and to the north the hazy horizon of the Pacific Ocean.†
Chpt 16
- He found the ravine deserted.†
Chpt 17
- The heavy smoke drove up the beach away from me, rolling low over the distant tree-tops towards the huts in the ravine.†
Chpt 19
- I began walking along the beach in the opposite direction, designing to come round the eastward corner of the island and so approach the ravine of the huts, without traversing the possible ambuscades of the thickets.†
Chpt 20
- So in solitude I came round by the ravine of the Beast People, and hiding among the weeds and reeds that separated this crevice from the sea I watched such of them as appeared, trying to judge from their gestures and appearance how the death of Moreau and Montgomery and the destruction of the House of Pain had affected them.†
Chpt 20
- I passed them, and went down into the shadow and odours of the almost deserted ravine.†
Chpt 20
- But now it was night, and all the miasmatic ravine about me was black; and beyond, instead of a green, sunlit slope, I saw a red fire, before which hunched, grotesque figures moved to and fro.†
Chpt 21
- The moon was just riding up on the edge of the ravine, and like a bar across its face drove the spire of vapour that was for ever streaming from the fumaroles of the island.†
Chpt 21
- Then as the moon crept down from the zenith, one by one the listeners began to yawn (showing the oddest teeth in the light of the sinking fire), and first one and then another retired towards the dens in the ravine; and I, dreading the silence and darkness, went with them, knowing I was safer with several of them than with one alone.†
Chpt 21
- The Beast People by that time had, with one or two exceptions, left the ravine and made themselves lairs according to their taste among the thickets of the island.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(1)
(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided gorge or valley -- especially one formed by running water
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In archaic literature, ravined may be used to mean ravenous.