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ravine
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I made my way through the heavy brush and, moving swiftly, down the ravine until I came to the sea cliffs.†
p. 4.2

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
But this is not to say that we did not know what they did—what they ate and in what way they cooked it, how many otter were killed each day, and other things as well—for someone was always watching from the cliffs while they were hunting, or from the ravine when they were in camp.†
p. 10.4
With the seeds I had gathered in a ravine, we had a plentiful meal, although I had to cook it on a flat rock.†
p. 40.5
A spring of water flowed from a ravine nearby.†
p. 48.5
I searched the ravines for several days before I found it, trees being very scarce on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.†
p. 53.1 *
Wherever I went now, whether to the shore when I gathered shellfish or to the ravine for water, I carried this weapon in a sling on my back.†
p. 53.7

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
I had gone to the ravine for water and he stood on the hill above the spring, looking down at me.†
p. 53.9
Besides it was much easier to reach since it came from the side of a hill and not from a ravine as the other one did.†
p. 67.3
Sweet odors came from the wild grasses in the ravines and from the sand plants on the dunes.†
p. 69.1
In that time there were tall trees, but now there were only a few in the ravines and these were small and crooked.†
p. 71.8
It was necessary then for me to go to the spring in the ravine.†
p. 82.4

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
I reached the ravine when the sun was overhead The spring was not far off and I rested there, though I was very thirsty, cutting a lobe from a cactus bush to chew on.†
p. 82.8
The wild dogs could not attack me from any of these directions, so I lay on the earth and drank, watching the ravine below me.†
p. 83.8
Suddenly I saw brush moving on the opposite bank of the ravine.†
p. 84.2
The pack had split up and were waiting on both sides of the ravine for me to pass them.†
p. 84.3
I could hide in the cave which I had stored with food and water, for it was surrounded by thick brush and the mouth of the ravine could only be reached from the sea.†
p. 95.5
They came out of the south and stayed for two suns, hunting food in the ravines, and then flew off in one great flight toward the north.†
p. 102.4
The sound came from far off, perhaps from the ravine, and taking my bow and arrows, I hurried in that direction.†
p. 103.8

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
The tracks led away through the ravine which winds to the sea.†
p. 104.1
I went slowly through the ravine because of my bow and arrows.†
p. 104.1
He trotted past me and up the ravine.†
p. 107.4
Yuccas grew tall among the rocks of the ravine.†
p. 108.3
The next time they feathered out, I did not trim their wings, but they never flew farther away than the ravine and would always come back at night to sleep and, no matter how much they had eaten, to ask for food.†
p. 110.3
I still was not sure that it belonged to the Aleuts, but I decided to pack the things that I would take to the cave in the ravine.†
p. 125.7
Always in the past I had gone to the ravine by a different way so as not to wear a trail.†
p. 126.9
The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots.†
p. 128.9
The ravine was tangled with brush, which was hard to walk through, but in the ravine grew seeds and roots.†
p. 128.9
I thought of everything I could do, of the different places I could go, and at last decided to stay in the ravine.†
p. 129.2
Nor did the girl come near the cave, though I found her footsteps far down the ravine where she had been to dig roots.†
p. 129.9
I had found footsteps to the ravine twice again after the first time, but no closer to the cave.†
p. 130.9
I carried five baskets up the ravine and hid them near my house.†
p. 134.4
At dawn I went back to the ravine.†
p. 135.2
The sun rose and shone through the ravine.†
p. 135.4
"Tutok," I cried, running down the ravine.†
p. 136.2
I waited for her all that day and at dusk I left the cave and went to the ledge where I could watch the ravine, fearing that the men had learned that I lived here and would find me.†
p. 138.6
It was dark when I got back to the ravine.†
p. 139.1
The wind grew louder and made wild noises in the ravine.†
p. 139.5
CHAPTER 24 Spring again was a time of flowers, and water ran in the ravines and flowed down to the sea.†
p. 145.1
When I was away from the house, she always found some way to get into the food, no matter how well I hid it, so I had to let her go back to the ravine.†
p. 155.5

ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
I went down to the ravine and bathed in the spring and put on my otter cape and my cormorant skirt.†
p. 169.9

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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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