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He was kneeling with his forehead against the rocky wall and his emaciated hands were closely clasped over Magdalena's ring. [10]
The latter were wild specimens of rugged scenery, and full of interest--we were in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, now. [5]
It was a wild and rocky upland where our great pasture was, many miles from home, the road to it running by a brawling river, and up a dashing brook-side among great hills. [4]
The country was wild and rocky about here, but there were plenty of trees, plenty of moss, and grass. [5]
I asked him where he was going, and he said to the Rocky Mountains of Canada. [11]
The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. [5]
The rocky landscape was wild and desolate, and the path to be climbed steep. [10]
A message it was to Camp Pousette-- One that the half-breeds think on yet: "Dubois' gang are in Rocky Glen, Take a hundred and fifty men; Go by the next express," it said, "Bring them up here, alive or dead! [11]
This time she was on a great warship, in a storm which was driving towards a rocky shore. [11]
Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides! [6]
She pressed along vigilantly by a descending path, until her feet touched rocky ground. [11]
We left Jonesborough very early in the morning, and rode forever and forever and forever, it seemed to me, over parched deserts and rocky hills, hungry, and with no water to drink. [5]
The walk, as usually taken, is two or three miles along the bold, rocky shore, but an ambitious pedestrian may continue it to the light on Point Judith. [4]
On the right, upon rocky points, are remains of round towers, and temples perhaps. [4]
The meadow sloped up to a belt of balsams and firs, a steep rocky knob, and climbing that on foot we stood upon the summit of Mitchell at one o'clock. [4]
This basin of unbroken green rises away to the south and southeast into the rocky heights of Dix's Peak and Nipple Top,--the latter a local name which neither the mountain nor the fastidious tourist is able to shake off. [4]
The blare of trumpets, roll of drums, and shouts of command echoed from the rocky shores. [10]
The moisture was trickling down its steep sides and had gathered into a reddish torrent on the rocky bottom. [10]
A Mormon Emigrant Train--The Heart of the Rocky Mountains--Pure Saleratus--A Natural Ice-House--An Entire Inhabitant--In Sight of "Eternal Snow"--The South Pass--The Parting Streams--An Unreliable Letter Carrier--Meeting of Old Friends--A Spoiled Watermelon--Down the Mountain--A Scene of Desolation--Lost in the Dark--Unnecessary Advice --U.S. [5]
They brought him to Rocky Ridge, bound hand and foot, and deposited him in the middle of the cattle-yard with his back against a post. [5]
In two hours' time we are at Stalden, a village perched upon a rocky promontory, at the junction of the valleys of the Saas and the Visp, with a church and white tower conspicuous from afar. [4]
It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
The way lay through a parched tract of rocky desert, and the further they went the more intense was that wonderful flush in the west, till day broke behind the travellers and the glory of the sunrise quenched the vividness of its glow. [10]
And when you think of the leagues of blighted, blasted, sandy, rocky, sun-burnt, ugly, dreary, infamous country you have ridden over to get here, you think it is the most beautiful, beautiful picture that ever human eyes rested upon in all the broad universe! [5]
The sage and thickets of oak and brakes of alder gave place to pinyon pine growing out of rocky soil. [13]
To his mind there came on the instant the memory of a Rocky Mountain lioness that he had seen caged years before; lithe, watchful, nervously powerful, superior to its surroundings, yet mastered by those surroundings--the trick of a lock, not a trick of strength. [11]
As they passed the western point of the island, and made their course easterly by a channel between rocky bulwarks opening Havre Gosselin, they suddenly saw a brig rounding the Eperquerie. [11]
As we left the village, we passed a rocky hay-field, where the Gaelic farmer was gathering the scanty yield of grass. [4]
The destination of the travellers was a wide valley, closed in by two high and rocky mountain-slopes; it was called Ta Mafka by the Egyptians, Dophka by the Hebrews. [10]
He soon struck the trail of the wanderer, and, following it, discovered Mitchell's body lying in a pool at the foot of a rocky precipice some thirty feet high. [4]
In one place the road was tunneled through a shoulder of the mountain; from there one looked down into a gorge with a rushing torrent in it, and on every hand was a charming view of rocky buttresses and wooded heights. [5]
The tombs of the Pharaohs extending into the very heart of the rocky hills, and the grand temples that stood to the west of the city of the dead, shorn though they were of their ancient glory, filled the Emperor with admiration. [10]
News came to the Pacific coast that the Vigilance Committee in Montana (whither Slade had removed from Rocky Ridge) had hanged him. [5]
Below us, on the one hand, a rocky bluff reached out into the river, and on the far side was a timber-clad point round which the Mississippi doubled and flowed back on itself. [9]
The shipper in the little ship It effects with woe sad might; He does not see the rocky slip, He only regards dreaded height. [5]
It is not the fault of the railroad, but its present inability to climb a rocky hill, that it does not run into the city. [4]
They hung on the edge of the rocky chasm. [11]
The sons of the desert flew to arms; they retired before the close order of the Egyptian troops, who followed them, confident of victory, to a point where the valley widens and divides on each side of a rocky hill. [10]
The soil of the boiler deck was thin and rocky, but good enough for grazing purposes. [5]
The skipper put the boat on the starboard tack, close-hauled and close-reefed the sails, keeping as near the wind as possible, with the hope of weathering the rocky point at the western extremity of the Bay des Trepasses. [11]
It was on the bank of the crystal, rocky stream, at the foot of high and slender falls, which poured into a broad amber basin. [4]
There was a Swiss cottage, a milkmaid, with cows in the foreground; there were trees, and in the rear rose rocky precipices, with chamois in the act of skipping thereon. [4]
Coming to a stretch of rocky ground, he took advantage of it to cross the trail and then continued down on the right. [13]
The two hundred-mile stretch from Cairo northward to St. Louis is by no means so crooked, that being a rocky country which the river cannot cut much. [5]
Picking our way so stealthily over that rocky, nettle-grown eminence, made me feel a good deal as if I were on my way somewhere to steal something. [5]
With delight I should be bound To thy rocky house in deep ground. [5]
And all the shore, rocky and sandy, rough and smooth, happy and homely, shimmering in the radiance. [11]
She listened until she heard his horse's hoofs upon the rocky upland. [11]
Crushed and trembling she drew back into the inmost depth of her rocky chamber, starting at each flash that illumined the darkness. [10]
The sun had set, and darkness covered the City of the Dead, but the moon shone above the valley of the kings' tombs, and the projecting masses of the rocky walls of the chasm threw sharply-defined shadows. [10]
It was a sad parting, for now we had no swallow-tail coats and white kid gloves to wear at Pawnee receptions in the Rocky Mountains, and no stove-pipe hats nor patent-leather boots, nor anything else necessary to make life calm and peaceful. [5]
The recruiter-boat had run into a small nook on the rocky coast, under a high bank, above which stood a solitary hut backed by dense forest. [5]
In one dreary, rocky waste, away above the line of vegetation, we met a procession of twenty-five mounted young men, all from America. [5]
Returning down the rocky steep, I descried, solitary in that great waste of rock and snow, the form of a lady whom I supposed I had left sleeping at the inn, overcome with the fatigue of yesterday's tramp. [4]
About an hour's ride over a rough, rocky road, half flooded with water, and through a forest of oaks of Bashan, brought us to Dan. [5]
So, rested and refreshed, we fell into line and filed away over the barren mountains of Judea, and along rocky ridges and through sterile gorges, where eternal silence and solitude reigned. [5]
Long before we reached it, the Holston River which we followed had become the Laurel, a most lovely, rocky, winding stream, which we forded continually, for the valley became too narrow much of the way to accommodate a road and a river. [4]
It seemed a providential time to eat my luncheon; and I took shelter under a scraggy pine that had rooted itself in the edge of the rocky slope. [4]
But now the promontory has risen, the Capo di Sorrento has thrust out its rocky spur with its ancient Roman masonry, and the island itself has moved so far round to the south that Sorrento, which fronts north, has lost sight of it. [4]
All hands were on deck, all the afternoon, with books and maps and glasses, trying to determine which "narrow rocky ridge" was the Areopagus, which sloping hill the Pnyx, which elevation the Museum Hill, and so on. [5]
Pretty Pierre was off in the Rocky Mountains practising his profession --chiefly poker--and was not available for information. [11]
This upper branch of the Tennessee is a noble stream, broad, with a rocky bed and a swift current. [4]
On the morning of the sixteenth day out from St. Joseph we arrived at the entrance of Rocky Canyon, two hundred and fifty miles from Salt Lake. [5]
Over the snow-fields of the further mountain-ranges, a rosy shimmer spread that made him think of the peach blossoms at home; a purple mist obscured the rocky peaks behind him and there, far away to the south, was a tiny speck of blue. [10]
A long staff of iron-wood was in her hands, with which she jumped the dykes and streams and rocky fissures; in her breast were yellow roses, and there was a tuft of pretty feathers in her hair. [11]
The noble harbor of Halifax narrows to a deep inlet for three miles along the rocky slope on which the city stands, and then suddenly expands into this beautiful sheet of water. [4]
The stream was now swollen, and rushed in a deep and rapid current over the ledges, through the rocky straits, plunging at last in tumult and foam, with loud, continuous roar, into the depths below the cliff from which it tumbled. [6]
Fortunately, there were no clouds on the other side, and we looked down into a magnificent rocky basin, encircled by broken and overtopping crags and snow-fields, at the bottom of which was a green lake. [4]
He said, "You've never been to the Rocky Mountains? [5]
The Laurel became more rocky, swift, full of rapids, and the valley narrowed down to the riverway, with standing room, however, for stately trees along the banks. [4]
Lienhard's deep voice mingled with her furious cries until the roar of the sea, on whose rocky shore the hurricane must have dashed her, drowned every other sound, and rolled over her, sometimes in scorching crimson, sometimes in icy crystal waves. [10]
He was soon marching at their head through the narrow, rocky valley, and after moving silently an hour through the gloom the warriors enjoyed the refreshing coolness which precedes the young day. [10]
The Peninsula is lofty, rocky, and densely clothed with scrub, or brush, or both. [5]
In the dim light he forced his horse through a tangled thicket overhanging a steep and rocky declivity. [5]
Ahead of us lay the Snow Rapids and the swift channel at one side of the rapids which, hurrying through a rocky archway, was known as the Devil's Slide. [11]
We took the latter, and followed it more than a mile, turned a rocky corner, and came in sight of a handsome new hotel. [5]
No one saw just where she went,--indeed, no one knew its forest-recesses and rocky fastnesses as she did. [6]
But it kept its distance, as only a mountain can, while I stumbled and slid down the rocky way. [4]
You know what it is: those bare ice-plains and rocky unfenced fields stretching to all points, the heaving wastes of treeless country, the harsh frozen lakes. [11]
Guida, after the instincts of her nature, had at once sought the highest point on the rocky islet, and there she drank in the joy of sight and sound and feeling. [11]
Of all persons in the world to meet on top of the Rocky Mountains thousands of miles from home, he was the last one I should have looked for. [5]
Beneath the cliffs in the sea was a rocky islet called Janvrin's Tomb. [11]
At last Malachi, in the Rocky Mountains, heard of her trouble, for Norice wrote to him, but told him not to do the man any harm, if he ever found him--ah, a woman, a woman! [11]
The Lieutenant-General said, 'If I had the Rocky Mountain Rangers here, we would make those creatures climb a tree. [5]
Oleander shrubs, which I was to see later in rocky vales of Greece or Algeria, had possibly been put out here only the day before into the spring sunshine. [10]
Even in the Hudson's Bay country and in the Rocky Mountains, he had been called, "Tivi, The Man of the Other. [11]
Back of the house a meadow slopes down to a little beach in a curved bay that has rocky headlands, and is defended in part by islands of rock. [4]
He, Kosmas, and his two surviving comrades had effected their escape, while Apelles engaged the foe; but from a rocky height which they climbed in their flight they saw him fall, and from that hour they had always mentioned him in their prayers. [10]
Buonespoir put the helm hard over, she went about, and they close-hauled her as she trembled towards the rocky opening. [11]
Arsinoe as she heard these tidings felt like a sailor whose vessel has grounded on a rocky shore, and who realizes with horror that every plank and beam be neath him quivers and gapes. [10]
Some saplings which had stood in the way were bent to the ground, stripped clean of their bark, and buried under rocky debris. [5]
A human voice had at last pierced the awful exhaustion of the deadly labour, the peril and strife, which had numbed the brain while the body, in its instinct for existence, still clung to the rocky ledges. [11]
When the lightning glared out we could see a big straight river ahead, and high, rocky bluffs on both sides. [5]
When his young friend made the remark about the sessions and assizes, Calhoun was making his way up the rocky hillside to take the homeward path to his father's place, Playmore. [11]
We pierced the forest about half a mile, and took up a strong position, with some low, rocky, and wooded hills behind us, and a purling, limpid creek in front. [5]
The "Alta" has few exchanges in the East, and I suppose scarcely any of these letters have been copied on this side of the Rocky Mountains. [5]
The press was fearful, and the raging of the battle wild and deafening, like the roar of the surging ocean when it is hurled by a hurricane against a rocky coast. [10]
Again came a far-off rattle, like stones falling from a great height down a rocky bluff. [9]
From the rocky district on the north shore of the lake, where Misdral lived, a fearful thunder-storm had arisen, and spread over the city and ducal palace. [10]
He was the discoverer of Marcy, and caused the first trail to be cut to its summit, so that others could enjoy the noble views from its round and rocky top. [4]

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