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The school we are sent to is some distance away, past a cemetery, across a ravine, along a wide curving street lined with older houses.†
p. 50.1 *

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
After school Carol and I walk home, not the way the school bus goes in the morning but a different way, along back streets and across a decaying wooden footbridge over the ravine.†
p. 53.6
We've been told not to do this alone, and not to go down into the ravine by ourselves.†
p. 53.6
There are no girls in her class on our side of the ravine.†
p. 57.5
The gutters run with brownish water; the wooden bridge over the ravine is slippery and soft and has regained its smell of rot.†
p. 65.6
He takes it down into the ravine somewhere, in under the wooden bridge, and buries it.†
p. 69.9
Sometimes she sticks a few into a pot and puts them on the dinner table, but these are flowers she picks herself, during her exercise walks, in her slacks, along the road or in the ravine.†
p. 78.2
The reason the ravine is forbidden to us is not the dead people but the men.†
p. 82.4
I dream that the wooden bridge over the ravine is falling apart.†
p. 160.9
The others don't go skating on the neighborhood rink, or walk in the ravine by themselves.†
p. 173.9
Then she walks over to the railing and throws my hat down into the ravine.†
p. 206.3
She wants me to go down into the ravine where the bad men are, where we're never supposed to go.†
p. 206.7
I can see lights along the edges of the ravine, from the houses there, impossibly high up.†
p. 208.3
They are down in the ravine, covering over with snow.†
p. 211.5
I wonder if I will be punished for going down into the ravine.†
p. 211.8
All of us are at a different school now, one that's finally been built on our side of the ravine, so we don't have to take the school bus in the mornings or eat our lunches in the cellar or walk home over the collapsing footbridge after school.†
p. 221.1
The wooden footbridge over the ravine is torn down.†
p. 222.4
I go one day and stand at the top of the hill on our side of the ravine, watching the bridge come down.†
p. 222.5
At other times he indulges in manic bouts of physical activity: he splits huge piles of kindling, much more than is needed, or goes running down in the ravine, wearing disgraceful baggy pants and a forest-green sweater even more unraveled than his maroon one, and frayed gray running shoes that look like the kind you see one of in vacant lots.†
p. 238.7
Now the ravine is on our left, with the new concrete bridge just visible.†
p. 254.5
A girl is found murdered, down in the ravine.†
p. 265.1
Not the ravine near our house, but a larger branch of it, farther south, past the brickworks, where the Don River, willow-bordered, junk-strewn and dingy, winds sluggishly toward the lake.†
p. 265.1
I have long since dismissed the idea of bad men in the ravine.†
p. 266.2
They exist in the shadows, like the sinister men who lurk in ravines, not one of whom I have ever seen.†
p. 374.8
The ravine is more filled in with bushes and trees than it used to be.†
p. 458.7

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley

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(1) (ravine)
a deep, narrow, steep-sided gorge or valley -- especially one formed by running water
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In archaic literature, ravined may be used to mean ravenous.

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