All 11 Uses of
ravine
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Then he saw that he was on the edge of a ravine that fell away, a red erosion, and that this was indeed the road's end.†
Story 1.15 *
- I could catch me my mule an' git me my ropes, an' before long I'd git your car out the ravine.†
Story 1.15
- He'll git it out the ravine right shortly.†
Story 1.15
- In a ravine she went where a spring was silently flowing through a hollow log.†
Story 1.17
- Joel followed him along behind the dark houses and through a ravine.†
Story 2.18
- The road went into a ravine and wound into the shade… .†
Story 2.21
- Under the blue sky, skirting the ravine, a half-ring of twenty cedar trees stood leading to the cemetery, their bleached trunks the colors of red and white roses.†
Story 2.25
- On one of the days, while she sat there on a stile, Jenny looked across the ravine and there was Floyd, standing still in a sunny pasture.†
Story 2.25
- When he reached the ravine and leaped down into it with widespread arms as though he jumped into something dangerous, she stood still on the stile to watch.†
Story 2.25
- There was an old mimosa closing in the ravine-the ancient fern, as old as life, the tree that shrank from the touch, grotesque in its tenderness.†
Story 2.25
- A good jump-an impossible jump-separated the bridge from land, for the Old Road-overgrown, but still coming through the trees this far-fell away into a sandy ravine when it got to the river.†
Story 4.36
Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water