All 12 Uses of
ravine
in
A Great and Terrible Beauty
- It's a solid hike through the trees, beyond the boathouse and the lake, and along a deep ravine.†
Chpt 12 *ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
- This ravine's a bit tricky.†
Chpt 12
- We cross the ravine, walking over a small bridge into a spot where the trees open to form a small circular clearing.†
Chpt 12
- We chase it to the ravine.†
Chpt 35
- When I reach the ravine, Ann and Pippa are poised on the edge, breathing hard.†
Chpt 35
- My boot sends showers of dirt and rocks into the ravine, and I have to grab hold of a low-lying root to keep from falling in.†
Chpt 35
- Again till there's nothing moving in the ravine but her and creatures too small to detect from where we stand above her.†
Chpt 35
- When they move away, the thing at the bottom of the ravine no longer resembles a deer above the neck.†
Chpt 35
- The only time he stops is when we pass the ravine and the corpse of the deer we've left there.†
Chpt 37
- He's carrying a shovel, and I know that he's going back to what he couldn't ignore in the ravine.†
Chpt 37
- The frail beauty of the word takes root in me as I make my way back through the woods, past the caves and the ravine, where the earth has accepted the flesh of the deer, leaving nothing but a bone or two, peeking above Kartik's makeshift grave, to prove that any of this ever happened.†
Chpt 39
- Across the ravine, I see her in the dry crackle of leaves.†
Chpt 39
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In archaic literature, ravined may be used to mean ravenous.