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Sentences starting with rocks

Rocks scattered about,--Stonehenge-like monoliths. [6]

Sentences ending with rocks

By six we were well over the line, and consulting our chart, we selected a cove behind a headland on our left, which seemed the best we could do for an anchorage, although it was shallow and full of rocks. [9]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
So I sat upon a favourite seat on the cliff, set against a solitary tree, fixed in the rocks. [11]
This trip he turned to the left and wended his skulking way southward a mile or more to the opening of the valley, where lay the strange scrawled rocks. [13]
There was nothing to shoot at but rocks--he knew quite well that there would be nothing to shoot at but rocks--and he knew that artillery and rifles have no effect upon rocks. [5]
Much of the time she was among the woods and rocks. [6]
In wandering along the cliff path in the afternoon, Irene and Mr. King were separated from the others, and unconsciously extended their stroll, looking for a comfortable seat in the rocks. [4]
The sails flapped, the boat seemed to hover for a moment, and then a wave swept her towards the rocks. [11]
I was at the beginning of a deep gorge or valley, on one side of which was a steep sloping hill of grass and trees, and on the other a huge escarpment of mossed and jagged rocks. [11]
They all said that he had gone on the rocks. [11]

Short sentences using rocks

Desolate-looking rocks and scarred hills. [5]
Nothing but rocks. [5]
In the rocks. [5]

Sentences containing rocks two or more times

He worked the Maxims so hard upon the rocks that five of them became disabled--five of the Maxims, not the rocks. [5]
The river had by this time entered a deeper gorge; walls of rocks rose perpendicularly on either side, --picturesque rocks, painted many colors by the oxide of iron. [4]

More example sentences with the word rocks in them

There's some rocks you'll have to look out for. [4]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
This beautiful miniature world had exactly the appearance of those "relief maps" which reproduce nature precisely, with the heights and depressions and other details graduated to a reduced scale, and with the rocks, trees, lakes, etc., colored after nature. [5]
We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
The single open window resembled a cleft in the rocks, and looked out upon the road. [10]
Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind the waterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, and scatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. [5]
It was Joan who, at last, as dawn drew up, discovered the hollow between two great rocks where the treasure lay. [11]
The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
But twelve bitter white men looked down upon this scene from the scrub and rocks above, and their teeth were set. [11]
Always, always the white foam beats the rocks, and always must man go warily along these coasts. [11]
Behind the rocks which hemmed in the plateau on which Paulus met her, at last, when she was quite exhausted, she found a shady resting-place. [10]
She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when she addressed him. [10]
In the valley where the moonlight fell in icy coldness a herd of cattle was moving, and their breath rose like the spray from sea-beaten rocks, and the sound of their breathing was borne upwards to the watchers. [11]
The Mokattam Hills were like vast dun barriers guarding and shutting in the ghostly place, and, high above all, the minarets of the huge mosque upon the lofty rocks were impalpable fingers pointing an endless flight. [11]
Some rocks, indeed, were like vast animals round which molten granite had been poured, preserving them eternally. [11]
I thought those were large rocks, but they sank into insignificance compared with those which formed another section of the platform. [5]
Here and there were groups of river-drivers and their foremen, prying twisted heaps of logs from the rocks or the shore into the water. [11]
I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep. [5]
After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and fixed rope to firm rocks, in addition to being tied together. [5]
The valley which we followed down probably owes its celebrity to the uncommon phenomena of occasional naked rocks and precipices. [4]
Taking what provisions we could, we left our poor craft upon the rocks, and fought our way to safety. [11]
However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
One day I was up among the rocks, looking for a strayed horse. [11]
Fresh green life was springing from the stump of every dead tree; even the rocks afforded sustenance to a hundred roots, a mossy covering and network of thorny tendrils clung closely to them. [10]
He found it was not common,--that it grew only in certain localities,--and that one of these was among the rocks of the eastern spur of The Mountain. [6]
Surrounded as he was by hills on every side, naked rocks dared the efforts of his energies. [5]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began--and was going to waste all the while. [5]
Electricity, in limitless volume, has existed in the air and the rocks and the earth and everywhere since time began --and was going to waste all the while. [5]
It is a very agreeable climb up Newport, and not difficult; but if the sun is out, one feels, after scrambling over the rocks and walking home by the dusty road, like taking a long pull at a cup of shandygaff. [4]
The rocks rise up to the sky behind. [4]
The villains came up and searched a bundle Dr. Birch had in his hand, and scowled upon him when they found it had nothing in it but some holy rocks from Mars Hill, and these were not contraband. [5]
If Professor Peirce undertakes to pilot me into Boston Harbor and runs me on Cohasset rocks, what answer is it to tell me that he is Superintendent of the Coast Survey? [3]
One does not understand why rocks and landslides do not plunge down these declivities daily. [5]
On it went, under the wide spans of the old wooden, covered bridge, swirling around the great rocks on which the piers stood, spreading away below in shallows, and taking the shadows of a row of maples that lined the green shore. [4]
Yet it was undeniable that the artist and Marion had a common taste for hunting out picturesque places in the wood-paths, among the rocks, and on the edges of precipices, and they dragged the rest of the party many a mile through wildernesses of beauty. [4]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
There warn't no trees, nor hills, nor rocks, nor towns, and Tom and Jim had took it for the sea. [5]
He was lured too strongly by that siren, the ever-alluring woman who sits upon the rocks and sings so deliciously to youth of the sweets of authorship. [4]
I would have told him that 300 Boer sharpshooters behind rocks would be an overmatch for his 500 raw young fellows on horseback. [5]
They drew on to where the rocks of the Paternosters foamed to the unquiet sea. [11]
On the way to the ridges they passed clean pasture fields, bowlders, gray rocks, aged cedars with flat tops like the stone-pines of Italy. [4]
How was he to tell her of the rocks upon which his love was built? [9]
Not being able to see where they are going, these poor creatures dash themselves to pieces against the rocks or are precipitated over the cliffs and thus many valuable lives are lost annually. [6]
I like better to go to a little garden in the village of Meta, under a sunny precipice of rocks overhung by the ruined convent of Camaldoli. [4]
Our thirst began to be that of Tantalus, because we could hear the water running deep down among the rocks, but we could not come at it. [4]
We grew very tired of seeing wooden quails and chickens picking and strutting around clock-faces, and still more tired of seeing wooden images of the alleged chamois skipping about wooden rocks, or lying upon them in family groups, or peering alertly up from behind them. [5]
It was the time between the sowing and the hay-time, and there was a feeling of alertness in everything that had life, while even the rocks and solid earth seemed to stir. [11]
The fore-claws of this tiger are the lacerating pinnacles of the Corbiere and the impaling rocks of Portelet Bay and Noirmont; the hind-claws are the devastating diorite reefs of La Motte and the Banc des Violets. [11]
Impeded, impounded as they riot through the flumes of sea, they turn furiously, and smite the cliffs and rocks and walls of their prison-house. [11]
The bones of these unfortunates, whitening on the rocks, of which Virgil speaks, I could not see. [4]
Scattered here and there over the rocks, like conies, are peasants, tending a few lean cattle, and digging grasses from the crevices. [4]
A moment, and there came across the valley from the other side, stealing deep sweetness from the hollow rocks, the answer of the bird which had heard her master's call. [11]
He probably reached there about two or three o'clock in the morning, after having been afoot among the rocks and glaciers during two days and two nights. [5]
Yet now and then the staring light was broken by sudden and deep shadows--great fissures in the rocks and lanes between. [11]
The whisking of their forms among the trees and over the rocks was fine, gracious, and full of life-life without alarm. [11]
I have seen the woman that danced the capstone on to Bunker Hill Monument, as Orpheus moved the rocks by music, the Elssler woman,--Fanny Elssler. [6]
The rocks by the wayside still threw long shadows on the sandy desert-road, when a party of Arab horsemen came from Fostat to meet the travellers, shouting the latest news to the prisoner's escort. [10]
Some crawl to the tops of the rocks and lie like gunny bags stuffed with meal, or they repose on the broken surfaces like masses of jelly. [4]
Just off from the summit, amid the rocks, is a complete arbor, or tunnel, of rhododendrons. [4]
He thought of the spring that came from the rocks in the glen behind the house, where he was born in Derbyshire. [11]
It was like the snow-summit of a mountain below which are the ragged escarpments of trees and rocks, making a look of storm and warfare. [11]
Striking out for the shore, he swam with bold, strong strokes, his judgment guiding him well past rocks beneath the surface. [11]
You may range the seas from the Yugon Strait to the Erebus volcano, and you will find no such landing-place for imps or men as that field of rocks on the southeast corner of Jersey called, with a malicious irony, the Bane des Violets. [11]
Now I'm on the rocks, because you insisted on saving my life; and you just got to take care of me. [11]
Do you feel the rocks tremble as my huge billows crash against them? [6]
She looked from the rocks to the approaching frigate. [11]
Some fell on the rocks of hardened conservatism. [6]
The moss on the rocks had changed from brown to green, and the vagrant birds had fluttered back from the south. [11]
Jameson shot at the ridges and rocks with his artillery, just as General Colley had done at the Nek; and did them no damage and persuaded no Boer to show himself. [5]
Walking ahead of the procession, which gets slowly down the rugged path, I lose sight of my companions, and have the solitude, the sun on the rocks, the glistening sea, all to myself. [4]
Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place, and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there, for it was bent up at that place and didn't quite touch ground. [5]
He rode down the perpendicular path in the rocks, from the Castle of Banias to the oak grove, at a flying gallop, his horse striding "thirty feet" at every bound. [5]
No rocks, across the pathway lie, --No fallen trunk is o'er it thrown, --And yet it winds, we know not why, And turns as if for tree or stone. [6]
The shore below the landing is a line of broken, ragged, slimy rocks, as if they had been dumped there for a riprap wall. [4]
With Fulkerson at the helm, I tell you the rocks and the lee shore had better keep out of the way. [8]
Murmuring and plashing, the forest stream dashed down its steep bed over rocks and amid moss-covered stones and smooth pebbles to the valley. [10]
You could make the engine out of the rocks themselves? [5]
If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with. [5]
More than once the canoe half jammed between the rocks, and the stern lifted up by the force of the wild current, but again the paddle made swift play, and again the cockle-shell swung clear. [11]
Before we reached the bottom of Caribou Pass, the water burst out from the rocks in a clear stream that was as cold as ice. [4]
Lured on by the apparently short distance to the backbone of the ridge, she had climbed the rocks a mile or more above the hotel, and come to meet me. [4]
The next day, the 28th, we were creeping towards our harbor through one of those dense fogs which are more dangerous than the old rocks of the sirens, or Scylla and Charybdis, or the much-lied-about maelstrom. [6]
He has heard that whoever stretches himself out on one of those rocks there and asks for a deathless life can have his wish. [5]
The engineers reported that there was little probability of any further convulsion along the line of rocks which overhung the more thickly settled part of the town. [6]
The vagrant vessels that are idly watched from the rocks at the Pier may be coasters and freight schooners engaged seriously in trade, but they do not seem so. [4]
What softness and tenderness of color in the gray rocks, with the browns and reds of the vines and lichens! [4]
The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base. [10]
To fish, to swim, to snooze on the rocks, that is all, for ever and ever. [4]
I don't want surprises; I want what you've got--the thing that's kept you good-tempered while we lie here like snails on the rocks. [11]
Cumner's Son was supple and swift, and scarce an hour had passed ere he came to a steep place on the other side, with rough niches cut in the rocks, by which a strong man might lift himself up to safety. [11]
Nevertheless when the sun disappeared behind the rocks he bent over her once more, and said: "It is growing cool; shall I carry you indoors? [10]
Then, stooping, he stole from one cover to another, taking advantage of rocks and bunches of sage, until he had reached the thickets under the opposite wall. [13]
He stayed his steps when he heard men's voices, but the rocks hid the speakers from his sight. [10]
Even as he spoke the hillsmen gave the word, and two score men ran down behind the rocks, mounted, and were instantly away by the road that led to the Koongat Bridge. [11]
As the fisherman sped shrieking and beckoning to the villagers, David, Lacey, and Mahommed fought for their lives in the swift current, swimming at an angle upstream towards the shore; for, as Mahommed warned them, there were rocks below. [11]
In the night sometime he came to the smooth, scrawled rocks dividing the valley, and here set the burro at liberty. [13]
You can do something with a ship that has headway; it will drift upon the rocks if it has not. [4]
The tender was small, holding but two beside the man at the oars, and owing to the rocks and shallow water of which I have spoken, the Maria lay considerably over a quarter of a mile out. [9]

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