All 17 Uses of
ravine
in
The Bonesetter's Daughter
- I went down into the ravine.†
Chpt 1.3
- The village lay between hills in a valley that dropped into a deep limestone ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- The ravine was shaped like the curved chamber of a heart, and the heart's artery and veins were the three streams that once fed and drained the ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- The ravine was shaped like the curved chamber of a heart, and the heart's artery and veins were the three streams that once fed and drained the ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- The end of Pig's Head Lane was a narrow perch of earth above the deepest part of the ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- And way down, if you fell head over toes, was the bottom of the ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- But over the centuries, with each heavy rainfall, the walls of the ravine had collapsed and widened, rumbled and deepened.†
Chpt 2.1
- Sometimes the men of our family argued among themselves whether we still owned the land that had crashed down into the ravine.†
Chpt 2.1
- The dry ravine filled, and before you could run to the cliffs, climb up, and cry out, "Goddess of Mercy," the gullies ran by like thieves, grabbing you and whatever else was not deeply rooted in the soil.†
Chpt 2.1
- An ancestor from the time of the Sung Dynasty had found the cave in the deepest ravines of the dry riverbed.†
Chpt 2.1
- To get there, we went down into the End of the World and walked along the middle of the ravine, away from the walls, where the grown-ups said there were things that were too bad to see.†
Chpt 2.1
- And now I pictured Precious Auntie struggling up the ravine, a rock rolling toward her, striking her, then another and another, as she tumbled back down.†
Chpt 2.5
- The cliff broke off again last year during the rainstorms, a ledge the length of five men. Collapsed all at once and buried everything along that side of the ravine with rocks and dirt three stories deep.
Chpt 2.5 *ravine = a deep narrow steep-sided valley
- Dirt washed down the mountain, flooded the ravine, and crumbled the sides.†
Chpt 3.2
- The ravine.†
Chpt 3.2
- And when we were little and bad, our parents made us behave by threatening to throw us in the ravine—as if we too were the most useless things!†
Chpt 3.2
- Her death was like that ravine.†
Chpt 3.2
Definition:
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(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided valley -- especially one formed by running water