| 单词 | escarpment |
| 例句 | We stand on the escarpment for a long time, staring up at the cloud through which Frightful sped to freedom. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We scramble to the top of the escarpment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At the far end of the boulevard, looming like an escarpment in the Rockies, stood the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z High rock bluffs on the far side of the canyon with thin black trees clinging to the escarpment. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much left of it then anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it, and it splashed from the pools to the dry vegetation. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to climb, sailed sideways over the grass and disappeared northward below the edge of the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Another draft of warm air swept up the escarpment, struck her open wings, and ringed her up again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I take Alice’s hand and pull her to the edge of the escarpment, where I had seen a ledge about ten feet down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The goshawk brushes me with her wing as I throw my legs over the escarpment and scramble down to our camp. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel took Bigwig and Blackberry to the edge of the escarpment, whence they could look across to Nuthanger on its little hill. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Soaring back toward the escarpment, she scanned twenty miles in all directions for the one mountain where the one gigantic tree grew. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I see the stars in their places and hear the waterfall shooting to its destiny out over the edge of the escarpment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I climb to the top of the escarpment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just sixteen miles to the south, beyond an escarpment of the Outer Range, hundreds of tourists rumble daily into Denali Park over a road patrolled by the National Park Service. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z To the surveyors who shot it, all but the summit nub of Peak XV was obscured by various high escarpments in the foreground, several of which gave the illusion of being much greater in stature. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The north-facing escarpment of Watership Down, in shadow since early morning, now caught the western sun for an hour before twilight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail led them north along the top of the escarpment, and at length they came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, as we all watch the sun slide down the western edge of the great escarpment, we sit in thoughtful silence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Turner said that once the Indians felled a tree against the escarpment. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I shout and climb up to the top of the escarpment to greet him. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Pipkin needed no further persuasion and they set off together, over the grass track, across the turf beyond and down the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was little sign of activity in the village behind the rebel lines, for it was hardly in their interest to appear above their trenches and petty escarpments while the guns were trained upon them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The air was cooler and the sun was beginning once more to reach the north escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stroking her softly, I place her in Alice’s backpack and scramble to the escarpment top. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the escarpment stretched a valley almost obscured by industrial haze. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To the northeast the rolling mountains ended in a steep escarpment. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Without a sound, the leaves shone and the grass coruscated along the miles of the escarpment. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept glancing at that rocky escarpment, expecting the face of Gaea to appear in its shadows. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Taking advantage of this, Frightful dropped over the edge of the escarpment. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The escarpments above camp were draped with hanging glaciers, from which calved immense ice avalanches that thundered down at all hours of the day and night. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In moments she was looking down on the escarpment and waterfall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z High above the escarpment he saw Frightful hovering above Sam Gribley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He’s a whole mountain range, with numerous crags, crests and escarpments for ambitious musicians to scale. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z From the higher escarpment section of the peninsula, about halfway between the two Great Lakes, the landscape descends toward flatter land at Lake Ontario and the climate warms. Exploring Canada’s Fertile Niagara Wine Region 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z I dismounted, threw my pack in a tent and ran up the escarpment, slipping and stumbling in the powder. Morocco, From Coast to Desert 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Miyakoo said he uses the paintings to find fish: “When I see a rock art on an escarpment I don’t know, I know this is where I can find barramundi,” he said. From Top End to Tasmania: Two Very Different Sides of Australia 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Jagged volcanic escarpments with panoramic lookouts, cavernous mountain gorges and glittering lakes remain. Explorer: Walking With the Herds in Kenya 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z Tickets were acquired through our concierge, and the next day we took our seats in a stadium flanked by dramatic rocky escarpments and surrounded by tough-looking fans clad in pink, Palermo’s team color. In Sicily, Tasting Seafood With a Skeptical Son 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Muybridge was a daredevil who had himself lowered over precipices by ropes, and ventured on to escarpments where his team of pack-carriers refused to follow. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z The apparatus travels up a steep escarpment, connecting Tomé De Souza Square with the waterfront down below. 9 Cities Where Public Transit Offers Eye-Popping Views 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z On islands from Shaw to Decatur, pastoral hills give way to broody forests and scrappy escarpments that overlook fjordlike inlets. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z Its one million square feet straddle a 150-foot-high escarpment where the lush Nile River plain transitions to the high, dry desert on which the mighty pyramids of Egypt were erected. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z What remains are mostly tiny and tricky lots like 1490, which faces onto a subway viaduct and is partly taken up by a rock escarpment. The Housing Situation Is Dire. But Progress Is Still Possible. 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z These small scattered outcrops,escarpments and boulders offer a climbing experience unlike any other. Rock climbers scale heights of indignation at poet's Cultural Olympiad trail 2012-08-01T15:39:00Z The visual craft is lovely and subtle — the orange glow of Mediterranean sunsets; the narrow streets and craggy escarpments; the evocations of Italy and Italian movies. ‘Luca’ Review: Calamari by Your Name 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Its full name is the Bob Marshall wilderness – a land of huge escarpments, ridges, grassland and forests full of wildlife. 10 of the best US hiking trails: readers’ travel tips 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Archaeologists estimate that the 17 miles of escarpment within the park hold more than 25,000 images. 36 Hours in Albuquerque 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The current one lifts ships 326 vertical feet up the Niagara escarpment over 27 miles and eight locks. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z We began a long climb to the top of the escarpment, arriving at last at a monolithic sandstone plateau offering panoramic views of the acacia-speckled emptiness of the Sahel. Personal Journeys: Hiking Deep Into Dogon Country in Mali 2010-03-05T04:11:00Z Rocketing down from a chopper towards a jagged escarpment, Polli needed absolute precision and commitment to hit his mark. Into the void: the fast life and shocking death of a wingsuit-flying superstar 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Driving up and down the valley along Highway 97, where escarpment mingles with vineyards to create a stunning tableau, it’s easy for U.S. wine lovers to think of California. In British Columbia, a burgeoning wine region that’s showing its muscle 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z One of my favorites is the easy walk across a dramatic escarpment called the Quiraing, where landslides caused the jagged formations. Exploring Scotland’s majestic Isle of Skye 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The Asmara escarpment — barren and dun colored — rose just beyond the shore. In Eritrea, a Diver’s Dreamscape 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z On an escarpment on the Arnhem Land side of the river, Miyakoo pointed out rock art. From Top End to Tasmania: Two Very Different Sides of Australia 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Even in the dead of winter, the property is stunning, with its undulating textures of ridges, glades and limestone escarpments. The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z As we climbed the valley’s escarpments, eventually reaching a height of 8,000 feet above sea level, I felt the air become thinner. Explorer: Walking With the Herds in Kenya 2010-07-09T16:48:00Z Among its many wonders is the Great White Wall, a sunken escarpment blanketed in luminescent white corals. Fiji's Rainbow Reef 2011-06-30T08:55:00Z The property is in a picture-book village with a local pub, on the top of the Cotswold escarpment. The best garden B&Bs, cottages and campsites in the UK 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Feeling duly warned, we checked our spare, aired down our tires and headed for the mountain’s seldom- reached western escarpment. There Are No Real Roads in Guadalupe Park. You Earn the Incredible Views. 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “Everyone had work, and children stayed here instead of going abroad,” Mr. Bulkhak said, gesturing at the now mostly empty village from an escarpment overlooking the valley. How a Chance Discovery of Old Negatives Revealed a Master Photographer 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z In recent years, he has worked on an increasingly vast scale, as he searches for the most minimal means to convey nature’s immersive enormities: dark forests, distant escarpments, moonlight on water, wintry fields. Review | At 95, Alex Katz is having another moment. His Guggenheim show is a knockout. 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z Capturing your interest for geology: in front of an escarpment in Newfoundland. What Mike Davis' family put into his ofrenda, and what he offered them 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z We turned east, climbing up the Hat Creek Rim, an escarpment 1,000 feet above the Hat Creek valley floor and an overlook showcasing multiple volcanic peaks and cones. Chase Cascade lava on a Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway road trip 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z "Unfortunately, it's gentrifying. Too many people from inner city Sydney are arriving - 'weekenders' - which is a shame, because it's beautiful: the trees, the escarpment and the waterfalls are lovely." Miriam Margolyes: 'I now look up to Australian bogans' 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z As the disturbed material moves out of place, a step slope forms and develops a new hillside escarpment for the undisturbed material. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z The design is intended to echo the landscape, as if five huge boulders had been brought together to make a shelter in the escarpment. Saudi artists confront change as kingdom shifts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Fire crews are working in one of the deepest, largest river canyons in Northern California, navigating terrain “punctuated with sharp corners and huge rock escarpments that are very much like sheer cliffs,” Estes said. Wildfire in Northern California burns in 'dangerous' terrain, grows to 904 acres 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z They navigated woodlands, grasslands, scrublands, farmlands, scrambled over steep escarpments, skittered down mud-slicked gorges and traversed the legendary East African Rift three times. The Incredible Journey of Three African Wild Dogs 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z What impresses is an improbable blend of escarpments, ravines, windblown crags and banks of talus, all on a plateau that rises abruptly from the surrounding countryside. In New York’s Shawangunk Mountains, old haunts and old friends 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The escarpment of Meridian Hill was also forbidding. Perspective | Dusty and desolate: 16th Street NW wasn’t always a prestigious thoroughfare. A new ‘biography’ recounts its history. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z There are environmental concerns and questions over whether it is too late for an oil boom - but there is no disputing change that is coming to the wide valley floor, below the steep escarpment. Why Uganda is investing in oil despite pressures to go green 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z He said he decided to propose when they got to the top of the escarpment but on their way up he became worried about the weather. 'Cloud inversion proposal was an amazing experience’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z At a time when post-pandemic adventure travel beckons, Valencia knows that passengers boarding gondola cars — which costs $39 round trip — are seeking exhilaration as they soar over icy forests, granite chasms and escarpments. UFOs, cannon fire and 184-mph winds: Life gets weird atop this California volcano 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Dizzying varieties of chiles rose around me in steep escarpments of roachlike red verging on black. Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z I distinctly remember our vehicle rounding an escarpment along the coast when the fire revealed itself, the plume rising and then disappearing into a cloud cover of its own making. Perspective | Sending us to fight fires was abusive. We preferred it to staying in prison. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z We drove down a rocky escarpment on a road scarred by tank tracks. This Ethiopian Road Is a Lifeline for Millions. Now It’s Blocked. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z At one point Saturday afternoon, a fire whirl was reported at the southern end of Constantia Road as the fire backed down an escarpment. Northern California wildfire grows, destroys homes amid extreme conditions 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z There is also concern over a 400ft-high escarpment called Apache Leap that is vulnerable to the proposed mine. Revealed: Trump officials rush to mine desert haven native tribes consider holy 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z It was fitting, then, to have Biden refuse to answer the question about strip mining the last escarpments that separate our republic from mob rule. The mistake on the lake 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “Pretty much most of the escarpment around here is Carlsbad National Park,” Neighbor said. Oil well pad converted into campsite at NM national park 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Most reefs were found on seamounts, escarpments, and submarine ridges in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, with a small minority in the Indian Ocean. Deep beneath the high seas, researchers find rich coral oases 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Petroglyph National Monument, a National Park Service site, contains more than 25,000 petroglyphs along a 17-mile-long escarpment, one of the largest collections of rock carvings in North America. You’re going where? Albuquerque 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z The road heaved, and the bus emerged from a gap in an escarpment into a parched emptiness of plain that stretched to the end of vision. A Season on the Rez 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z I glanced up at "The Persistence of Memory": eroded escarpments, barren plain, ants swarming over a watch’s case. How to build a clock that detects gravity 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z From the escarpment above the plain, the North Mara facility is so large that it at first resembles a bare hillside. Murder, rape and claims of contamination at a Tanzanian goldmine 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z On its western side was a slumping escarpment, nicknamed the Lee-Lincoln scarp. Apollo-era Tremors Reveal a Dynamic, Active Moon 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Do the major issues of the day stand at the escarpment of a Congressional event horizon, ready to be siphoned into a political black hole? Black holes and Congress’ accomplishments at 100 days 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z One side of the deposit was cut through by a sandy wash, or dry streambed; the other ended in a low escarpment. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The ninth is especially scenic, as it drops down an escarpment into a narrow stream valley to a double green it shares with the 18th hole. Forest Highlands Golf Club (Canyon) - Golf Digest 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Sitting on the edge of an escarpment, among the ruins of Harrow’s Scar milecastle, a ruddy-faced walker is taking a breather. A border fence from ancient times: Hadrian’s Wall in England 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Farther up the mountains rose escarpments of stone, buffeted by wind. War Without End 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The Bicentennial trail follows the foothills of the Great Dividing Range and the eastern escarpment. The woman who rode Australia's longest trekking route – a photo essay 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z DeCavitch took her students into Bangs Canyon to see the mica mine and found the defaced escarpment “as we were stepping over broken beer bottles and charcoal” from fires. Western Colorado rock art vandals begging for attention 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The rollback has not been felt on farms like Indian Ladder, which lies at the foot of the Helderberg escarpment, between the Adirondacks and the Catskills. When Picking Apples on a Farm With 5,000 Rules, Watch Out for the Ladders 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Okinoshima is lush yet austere, a few emerald green hills ringed by escarpments that plunge into the sea. A sacred Japanese island juggles secrecy and survival 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z The "unpleasant task" involved lifting bins up an escarpment and transporting them to a landfill site, he said. Whale exhumed in Australia after backlash 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Behind, the hills and rocky escarpments of Burgos, in northern Spain, shimmer in the summer heat. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly location reborn in Spain - BBC News 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Black 98 and her lamb moved alone to the base of an escarpment Wednesday afternoon. Biologists track bighorn sheep in northwest Nebraska 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Arguably its most stunning feature, the Chinese Wall is a huge limestone escarpment that rises more than 1,000 vertical feet and extends a distance of 22 miles. The 5 best day trips from Great Falls, Montana | Provided By Genuine Montana 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z “Over here in the Top End we’ve got easy initiation forced by the Arnhem escarpment,” says Owen, who’s fortunate that he finishes work about 4pm most days, just as the storms begin bubbling. The storm chasers hunting bolts in Australia's Top End 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z Now police reinforcements have arrived and from the overlooking escarpment are trying to decide how best to restore law and order. Are Kenya ranch invasions driven by drought or politics? - BBC News 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He and Dr. Schmitt found themselves in a desolate but recognizable landscape near the Taurus Mountains and the Littrow Crater, a region of hills, cliffs and escarpments littered with tumbled rocks. Eugene Cernan, Last Human to Walk on Moon, Dies at 82 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z They live north of Toronto along an escarpment. Baking Sweets From Childhood Tales 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z A memory of Doss: “We were right below the escarpment. This colonel walks up from way down below, an artillery officer. He says, ‘I want to see where my artillery’s landing.’ Another view of ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ from a World War II veteran who experienced it 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The mining craze has left an ineradicable mark, with one escarpment after another clawed by greed. Death Valley Is Alive 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Soon after we set out, the paved road ended, and we began dropping down the eastern escarpment of the Andes, zigzagging through cloud forest and into the humid lowland jungle. An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z “The escarpment that rises abruptly from the central plain is in heavy shadow. ... What endless labor those small, peculiarly shaped terraces represent! And yet, on them the welfare of this tiny principality depends.” Luigi Ghirri’s Brilliant Photographic Puzzles 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Cameroonian soldiers watched helplessly from their own outpost on a rocky escarpment above. Refugees or Terrorists? Cameroon Grapples With Exodus From Nigeria 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Another memory: A ladder leans against the escarpment. Another view of ‘Hacksaw Ridge,’ from a World War II veteran who experienced it 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The huge delta of unstable sediment descended down a steep escarpment into the third basin in a giant underwater landslide, Brothers said. Researchers find source of 1964 devastating Alaska tsunami 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z We skirted the red sandstone escarpment that spills down to the seashore, continuing out onto the craggy stretch of coast where, Mr. Muir wrote, he “grew fond of everything that was wild.” Scotland’s Newest Hiking Trail: Beginner-Friendly With Killer Views 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z I am standing on an escarpment at a place called Denniston in New Zealand’s South Island. Saint Francis of Assisi Inspired the Pope—and Me 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z From a young age they cut their teeth on mountainous roads and at high altitude: Asmara is 2,325 metres above sea level, at the tip of an escarpment of the Great Rift Valley. 'Next wave of riders is even better' – Eritrean cycling preparing to peak 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The state Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation in 2013 announced proposals for the park that included an adventure course and opening sections of the park along the escarpment to cliff climbing. New York officials to lay out plan for state park by Albany 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The highway curled through rawboned mountains and saguaro and prickly pine cactus before climbing past limestone escarpments into the Ponderosa pines and ancient red rock canyons of Navajo. Amid the Red Rock, a Fever Pitch for Rez Ball 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Then look up to where the horizon line should be to find the Himalayas towering like upthrust fangs, each snowy crag or escarpment crisply articulated, every draped and drifting cloud bank ethereal. Far Cry 4 Review: The Best Far Cry Yet 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z When Mongolia was a communist state, these escarpments were largely unpopulated, save the occasional herder with their flock. Life in Ulanbataar's tent city is hard – but Mongolians won't give up their gers 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z French troops, their armored personnel carriers aligned on an escarpment overlooking the town, now keep the two sides apart. Gold, diamonds feed Central African religious violence 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The southeastern United States also appears to be far from equilibrium, with the Blue Ridge escarpment migrating to the northwest and the coastal plain rivers reorganizing in response to this change in boundary geometry. [Research Article] Dynamic Reorganization of River Basins 2014-03-06T20:25:56.540Z The vegetal escarpments sometimes tower waist-high in public stairwells, competing for space with rusting bicycles and neatly stacked piles of the honeycomb coal briquettes that still heat countless homes here. Beijing Journal: As Winter Nears, China Is Blanketed in Green 2013-12-12T01:28:19Z Known for their spectacular escarpments, eucalyptus forests and scattered small communities, they are a popular tourist spot for Sydneysiders on weekends. Australians told to flee homes as hot winds fan Sydney fire threat 2013-10-23T00:41:18Z We are standing together on the terrace of his newly restored monastery, high on a remote escarpment near Nusaybin, looking south over the Mesopotamian Plain. The monk reviving a dying community 2013-08-10T23:02:16Z Little over 10 miles to the north, however, the road along which Kurds once retreated to escape the forces of Saddam Hussein winds steeply to an escarpment and then on to the mountains. IHT Rendezvous: Welcome to Erbil, Tourism Boom Town 2013-05-04T17:51:50Z Shadows fell over the rugged escarpment in the distance as the afternoon wore on. Can Endangered Animals Coexist with Big Ag? [Excerpt] 2013-02-22T19:15:00.507Z Also no prominent fault or escarpment was until today discovered in the Strait of Messina or along the coasts of Sicily. December 28, 1908: The Tsunami of Messina 2012-12-28T20:45:03.683Z The wreckage of the Douglas DC-3 Dakota, a twin-propeller aircraft, is reported to be spread over a wide area near the Giant's Castle, a famous peak on a steep escarpment. S Africa military plane crashes 2012-12-06T10:41:43Z The predator's efforts inspired me: I dropped down the western escarpment of the moors and climbed back up via the Kilburn White Horse. Cycling the Tour de Yorkshire 2012-06-29T21:45:04Z But the escarpments in front of us were imposing. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Beyond this, against the escarpment of the Palatine, a part of the Walls of Romulus has been discovered, built in large oblong blocks. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z And its surface is strange, a jagged, ragged landscape of soaring escarpments, snaking faults, half-buried “ghost craters,” dead volcanos and mysterious pit-marked “hollows.” NASA probe offers new view of Mercury: an alien world right in our back yard 2012-03-26T20:32:11Z The Virgin River Valley in Zion National Park is in the bottom of a relatively deep, narrow canyon which has sheer rock escarpments. The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. 2012-03-19T02:00:23.340Z The raft had shot clear of the gorge, and was floating with almost oily smoothness on the river below the escarpment. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z Another pair of lines was run in a grassy area two miles south of the northern escarpment of Wetherill Mesa. Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 2012-02-24T03:00:32.243Z Between the site of Philip's wigwam and the shore, where the escarpment is fifty feet, is a natural excavation, five or six feet from the ground, called "Philip's Throne." Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Imagine a long escarpment of land, facing the midday sun and the sea, and raised above the sea some forty or fifty feet. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z The surrounding country is desertlike and cut by gullies and washes with sheer escarpments and precipitous draws. The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. 2012-03-19T02:00:23.340Z "Is there any other way up the escarpment?" asked Ferrier, anxiously. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z La Hire had no sooner made up his mind to move than a red flame glowed on the summit of the escarpment, and passed. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z Hanging Rock, named for a high sandstone escarpment, is on the right bank of the river, three miles below Ironton. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Their northern escarpment is, at this point, still in its prim�val condition, a steep slope of virgin turf, known as Royston Heath, the common property of the township. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Turning to climb the steep escarpment, the lead vehicle hit yet another bomb. The Hard Way Out of Afghanistan 2012-02-01T22:05:17Z The plateau has an abrupt descent, almost an escarpment, into the great Appalachian Valley on its E., while the W. slope is deeply and roughly broken. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Food fishes are relatively not abundant, presumably because the deep sea escarpments of the N. are unfavourable to their life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z And crowning the domed escarpment the stately column spoke forth a people's patriotism and love, a memorial to the brave, the scene harmonizing with the feelings of the great gathering. Brock Centenary 1812-1912 2012-01-21T03:00:06.650Z All progress halted for 17 days at Cape Union, a 15-mile escarpment of sheer cliffs on the northeast coast that works like a geologic icebreaker. Arctic Adventure: A 1,500-Mile Trip by Sea Kayak 2012-01-17T16:00:30Z "Warriner's Shelf" at last, a natural bench in the escarpment, not larger than ten feet by six, with a comparatively level floor, and partially sheltered by the overhanging rock wall. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z Steep escarpments, leading to the rugged uplands of the interior, reach almost everywhere down to the shores, leaving only here and there a few strips of beach. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The high black escarpment, crowned by the massive black walls of Diarbekr, and fringed by a swampy tract of willow gardens, rose up sharply above the mud flats. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z These mountains rise generally in a succession of terraces and broad plateaus, with steep or even sheer sandstone escarpments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z The fort of Manila was at this date a weak affair, without ditches or escarpment, and it was here that the struggle took place. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z About a league further the valley terminated in a fine amphitheatre of crags, showing remarkably bold and abrupt escarpments. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z At a distance of about fifteen feet the top of an elm extended its immense arms so far as to touch the steep declivity of the escarpment. The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence 2011-11-28T03:00:23.427Z The great plateau gradually dies away to the south ending with a low escarpment across the state of Rio Grand do Sul. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z The southern frontier is formed by the escarpments which separate the Niger basin from those of the coast rivers of Liberia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z The shapely escarpment of the nearest point looks, indeed, as if it belonged to Donegal, which is 7 miles away. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z Snow-wreaths hung in majestic forms over each prominent escarpment, threatening destruction to the villagers' stock of olives, figs, and vines which grew beneath. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z A range of sandstone hills, for example, presents a marked contrast to one of limestone, and a line of chalk downs to the escarpments formed by alternating bands of harder and softer clays and shales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Perched on an escarpment by the line was a row of tents, and at the back of the tents some flimsy huts built of forest stuff. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The Muni river, the northernmost in the colony, is obstructed by cataracts in its passage through the escarpment to the coast. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z Our camp was pitched on a low escarpment, at the bottom of which, and some 300 feet away, lay the water. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z They came out upon the Niagara just north of the Queenston escarpment. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z Thus, among comparatively undisturbed strata, a hard bed resting upon others of a softer kind is apt to form along its outcrop a line of cliff or escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z There was a magnificent view of the terraced hillsides below, with traditional Yemeni mud-brick houses set on escarpments overlooking the city. Magazine Preview: Yemen on the Brink of Hell 2011-07-21T01:01:35Z Late as usual,” he went on, as some new arrivals hove in sight, toiling up the steep escarpment. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z The escarpment ran east and west, and extended beyond the camp some 500 yards, where it ended abruptly in a cliff forty or fifty feet high. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z Other specialists have been involved in monitoring the rare acid grassland which covers parts of the park's steep escarpment and which Locog says will be restored and improved post Games. Testing time 2011-07-05T08:43:34Z With eager strides he mounted the gentle slope of the long escarpment between Pomfret Vicarage and Pomfret Court, keeping to the right of the main drive. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z The majestic bluffs with their rugged escarpments of limestone stretched away in solitary grandeur on either side of the river. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z I leaned on the massive stone coping that crowns the wall of the escarpment; below me the hill sloped sharply to the flats of the Harlem. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Some of my men, who were at the end of the escarpment gathering wood, came running into camp and said that great numbers of game were coming toward the water. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The escalade of masonry escarpments eighteen feet high can never be successful without much preparation. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z A portion of this escarpment rises above the sea and forms the remarkably straight and exceedingly 23 rugged south coast of Cuba in the region of Santiago. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Under cannon-fire and through flights of arrows, the assailants leaped into the fosse and swarmed up the escarpment, "as if they believed themselves immortal." Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z This great castle, with ditches and escarpments cut out of the solid rock, and extensive outworks, was completed in one year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z I took my servant and we ran to the end of the escarpment, where a sight thrilling indeed to the sportsman met our eyes. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z He had a gun in his hand, and was endeavouring to get a shot at some of the large seabirds now and then sweeping along the escarpment of the cliff. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z This ca�on opens out in the seaward face of the plateau and forms a deep notch in the generally uniform crest-line of that escarpment. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z From the left edge of the American political escarpment comes a different kind of hissing about the New Deal. The fight that just won't die 2011-04-10T15:01:00Z Here and there cliffs rise sheer up from the water’s edge, grand mural escarpments of the mountain limestone, such as show the “tors” and dales of Derbyshire. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z It is, indeed, a table fit for such a celebration—a rock plateau with sheer escarpments of grey granite dropping away from it, and a close cover of purple heather for a cloth. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z When the earthquake struck, one of the many hazards came from boulders hurtling down the steep escarpments and hills that edge parts of the city. NZ quake boulder 'Rocky' sold at auction 2011-03-08T08:23:45Z Separating the bold eastern escarpment of this series of plateaus from the generally higher mountains to the eastward lies the great Appalachian Valley, which under various names extends from the Hudson to central Alabama. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z It will be noticed that the contemporaneous igneous rocks form a series of escarpments rising one above the other. Geology 2011-02-20T03:00:12.660Z These mountains are much higher than the others, and are quite impassable, presenting a rugged outline and bold and precipitous escarpments. The Cape and the Kaffirs A Diary of Five Years' Residence in Kaffirland 2011-02-19T03:01:12.480Z Upon the plantation of Mr. Chamberlain in Mississippi, the temple is flanked with several bastions, besides squares, parallels, half moons, and ravines with perpendicular escarpments for its defence. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z It was the tree-yucca, and a huge bole of bayonet-shaped leaves crowning its corrugated trunk shaded a spot of grass-covered turf, on the very edge of the escarpment. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z It is bordered on nearly all portions of its periphery by descending escarpments which lead down to the adjacent valleys. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z It stood upon the very edge of the abyss, its back being flush with the escarpment of the cliff! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z This cliff is called by geologists the Niagara escarpment. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z The "Temples" are generally situated among the hills and ravines, with perpendicular escarpments, improved by artificial fortifications. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Mahone was carried with a rush, the men mounting the escarpment and jumping into it, regardless of the fire poured upon them by the Rebels. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z The escarpment rises in general from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above the desert valleys to the eastward, and reaches a maximum of about 14,000 feet in the vicinity of Death Valley. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z When I next set eyes upon them, they were upon the opposite side of the stream—climbing up the escarpment of the cliff, by a zigzag path that appeared to conduct to its summit. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z This drained a great extent of land and dropped the surface of Ontario far below the present level of the Niagara escarpment. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z On shooting days the air may sometimes echo to distant gunshot reports, but it will be another seven months before the cuckoo's call sounds upon this escarpment. Country diary: North Derbyshire 2010-09-27T23:05:00Z We headed up the main road, which is a rough and rocky path that quickly winds its way up the lava escarpment. How to Catch a Bird: Make Your Own Trap 2010-07-19T22:21:00Z It is not known, however, how much of the escarpment is due to the upheaval of the west side of the belt of fracture, or how much to the sinking of the eastern side. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z There are streams in the area every 300 feet or so across the whole escarpment. Maya Plumbing, First Pressurized Water Feature Found In New World 2010-05-06T17:57:00Z He found the ramparts giving way, the turfing all crumbled off, and the escarpment and counter escarpment of the fosses much filled up. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z The mountain region has a width of 70 to 150 m., and is filled with short parallel ranges trending parallel to the plateau escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The mountain chain, too, is less distinctly marked, and becomes little more than the seaward escarpment of the plateau which intervenes between the coast and the Hadramut valley. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" From the locality indicated, the boundary passes through central Utah, and is sharply defined for most of the way by the bold western escarpment of the Wasatch Range. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z All the rivers flow from the central heights north and south,—go straight for the walls of chalk downs, and cut through the escarpment in deep clefts to flow into the Thames and the Channel. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight From the valleys their rugged, deeply indented escarpments, stretching away to the horizon, have the appearance of a continuous chain of mountains. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Their northern border is marked by an escarpment of 500 to 700 ft. in height. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" If it had been up yonder, with the jutting escarpments of the hills about them, this wild moment would have shaped itself in more orthodox fashion with the eternal fitnesses. The Tempering At times the breaks cross the courses of streams and cascades, and rapids are formed by the waters flowing down escarpments thus produced in loose material. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z When, as in the south side of our central downs, the strata are sharply cut away by denudation, we call this an escarpment. The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight A little drift of white reek was rising from the mouth of a cavern on the opposite escarpment of the Montblanch. The Firebrand The entire region is very much dissected by streams, and the topography is characteristically of a terrace and escarpment type. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" To the north and west the escarpment sloped away abruptly. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana The most conspicuous topographic features of the better known portion of the Great Basin are long, narrow, and frequently sharp-crested ridges, with a gentle slope on one side and a steep escarpment on the other. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z A glance upward revealed to Tharn the escarpment's top not more than twenty feet distant. The Return of Tharn The long range of rocky precipices often constituting rather lofty escarpments, along the northern borders of the valley of the Loire, are a portion of the extensive cretaceous formations which surround Paris. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France The mountains do not fill the N.W. quarter of the state, and are separated from a lower, greatly eroded highland region on their N. by a bold escarpment 500 to 1000 ft. in height. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" On gently sloping hilltop edge 15 feet from the outcrop and escarpment, built around a forked walnut sapling having both trunks approximately five inches in diameter. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana Another range, or escarpment, crosses the state from east to west, but is broken into two principal divisions, each having several local names. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" In that case, it would have required thirty-five thousand years for the retreat of the Falls, from the escarpment of Queenstown to their present site. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology It stands at the foot of a mountain between two rocky escarpments, in one of the most beautiful and picturesque vallies in France. Memoranda on Tours and Touraine Including remarks on the climate with a sketch of the Botany And Geology of the Province also on the Wines and Mineral Waters of France Those who got to the shore rushed to join the Dublins under the scanty cover afforded by the low sandy escarpment. The Irish at the Front At edge of escarpment, 25 feet from No. 2, on a flat boulder approximately six feet long, three feet wide and one foot thick. Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana Beyond this rises a range of hills terminating in abrupt escarpments along the course of the river. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" Let us, then, imagine the termination of the Skaptá branch of lava to rest on the escarpment of the inferior and middle oolite, where it commands the vale of Gloucester. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology The village is within the Warwickshire border, 5½ miles to the north of Banbury, and is built on the slopes of a continuation of the Edge Hill escarpment. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield The low escarpments of the harder beds of the Lias are the real, though often scarcely perceptible, boundary between the Triassic plain and the Jurassic belt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" The escarpment of ice was thirty-five to forty toises high; and, according to the report of the Tungusians, the animal was, when they first saw it, seven toises below the surface of the ice, &c. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series And after dark had fallen, mists arose and trailed in moonlit beauty across the granite escarpments of the hills. The Three Mulla-mulgars In the steep simicircular escarpment of Somma, which faces the modern Vesuvius, we see a great number of sheets of lava inclined at an angle of about 26°. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Urb sat crouched near the foot of a lofty escarpment that contained the tribal caves. Warrior of the Dawn The great feature of the region is the long line of the Oolitic escarpment, formed in different places by the edges of different beds of rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Honath peered dubiously out from under the sedges at the still distant escarpments. The Thing in the Attic This platform, on which a kind of thick, short grass grew here and there, came to an end on the sea side in an open space, leading to a perpendicular escarpment. Toilers of the Sea A great, mile-square blind cube topping a ragged mountain; bare escarpments falling away to a turbulent sea. Turning Point Early the next morning a little band of Neanderthal men descended the escarpment and set out toward the rising sun. Warrior of the Dawn The Chalk Country.—The dominating surface-feature formed by the Cretaceous rocks is the Chalk escarpment, the northern edge of the great sheet of chalk that once spread continuously over the whole south-east. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" They reached the bottom of the escarpment as the brief twilight closed in and they hurried to gather firewood. The World That Couldn't Be The escarpment, rising about sixty feet above the level of the sea, seemed cut down by the aid of a plumb-line. Toilers of the Sea A great mile-square blind cube topping a ragged mountain; bare escarpments falling away to a turbulent sea. Turning Point Gradually she sank farther and farther from the lip of the escarpment. Warrior of the Dawn The towns of the belt are comparatively small, not one attains a population of 75,000, and the favourite site is on the Lias plain below the great escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" To the east, the escarpment was a dark-blue smudge against the pale-blue burnished sky. The World That Couldn't Be Over all the dark escarpment of the rock there was a light like the reflection of a fire. Toilers of the Sea There were two towers of the castle left standing, and they gave upon a broad terrace of which the escarpment was gone to soft decay, moss-grown and beautiful. Francezka Finally they descended to the ground and crossed the ribbon of grassland to the base of the lofty escarpment. Warrior of the Dawn It appears as a series of rounded hills of no great elevation, running in a curve from the mouth of the Axe to Flamborough Head, roughly parallel with the Oolitic escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" They stood poised on the brink of a great escarpment and looked far out to great tangled forests and a flowing river. The World That Couldn't Be Holding his knife between his teeth, Gilliatt descended, by the help of feet and hands, from the upper part of the escarpment, and leaped into the water. Toilers of the Sea The old towers and escarpments echoed with it. Francezka The southeast front of the Blue Ridge is a steep escarpment, rising abruptly from the Piedmont Plateau of Carolina. Our Southern Highlanders The narrow strip of Greensands appearing from beneath the Chalk escarpment on its northern side is crowded with small towns and villages on account of the plentiful water-supply. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" The train takes a swift swirl round an escarpment of the mountain; and you are in the Forests proper, serried rank upon rank of the blue spruce and the lodgepole pine. Through Our Unknown Southwest Gilliatt raised himself by means of his hands, feet, and knees to the escarpment, and then turned his back, pressing both his shoulders against the enormous lever. Toilers of the Sea In the Chiltern Hills especially, and generally along the chalk escarpments, a flat-bottomed valley with an intermittent stream winds into the hill and ends suddenly in a cirque. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" As the railway winds, we obtain excellent views of the chalk escarpments on the series of hills opposite, these being the result of centuries of quarrying. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land A third class of streams, tributary to the second, flows down the steep face of the escarpments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Westward towards the Thames gap the elevation falls away but little, but eastward the East Anglian ridge does not often exceed 500 ft., though it continues the northward escarpment across Hertfordshire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Its escarpment, completely perpendicular at the southern extremity, curved a little towards the north, like a bent sheet of iron, presenting the steep slippery face of an inclined plane. Toilers of the Sea During the winter this upper layer becomes saturated and some of the water drains away along joints in the escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" He came upon the village, a cluster of clay huts high upon an escarpment. One Purple Hope! From the crest of the escarpment, all round on south, west and north, the dip-slope of the Chalk forms a gentle descent outwards, the escarpment a very steep slope inwards. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" From the sea this plateau escarpment has the appearance of a range of flat topped hills closely following the coast line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" The cave being almost everywhere open to the sky, the smoke issued freely, blackening the curved escarpment. Toilers of the Sea An abrupt retreating escarpment commonly forms on arid plateaus underlain by horizontal rocks of unequal strength, and characterizes the borders of mesas. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Cannon roared and volleys of musketry were fired at the assailants, but they dashed over the redoubt, up, still up, to the escarpment, and over it they tumbled. The Little Book of the Flag Wenlock Edge, running from south-west to north-east, is an escarpment of Silurian limestone, while the broad upland of Long Mynd, nearly parallel to it on the north, is a mass of Archaean rock. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" On the north and west the Mongolian and Tibetan tablelands present towards China steep escarpments across which are very few passes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Clubin moved cautiously towards the edge of the escarpment, and watched him descending. Toilers of the Sea Such an escarpment forms the North Rim of the Mesa Verde. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado The escarpment gave the three some slight advantage of a higher position. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Next in order come the Greensands and Gault, which lie at the base of the Chalk escarpment, between that formation and the Oolites. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" But this wonderful highway was blocked here and there by natural obstacles to navigation, long series of rapids and the giant escarpment of Niagara. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 He had approached the edge of the escarpment, and stood there motionless, his gaze immovably fixed on the horizon. Toilers of the Sea However, the dip of the rocks has channelled drainage southward and erosion has cut numerous, deep, parallel-sided canyons rather than a simple, retreating escarpment. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado "Who's got all that land stretching away there; that little blunted sierra of pines and escarpments I mean?" The Passionate Friends Steep towards the west, where it overlooks the low Lias plain as the Oolitic escarpment, the land falls very gently in slopes of Oxford Clay towards the Cretaceous escarpments on the south and east. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" Now there is a bed of basalt on this northern side of the cañon with a bold escarpment, that seems to be a hundred feet high. Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers The curved escarpment of the Little Douvre sloped away out of sight beneath him. Toilers of the Sea In the breaking down of this escarpment, popularly styled Battery Rocks, numerous caves have been formed, the largest of which gave the place its name. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo All these efforts were in vain, however, and finally the troops returned to the protection of the escarpment along the shore. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources The rivers from the gentle southern slopes of the Oolitic heights pass by deep valleys through the Chalk escarpments, and flow on to the Tertiary plains within. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" In his zeal, he led the way at a gallop around the craggy hill and across the intervening valley to the escarpment of High Mesa. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation A portion of the rock broke away, and the knotted rope with its heavy iron came down once more, striking the escarpment beneath his feet. Toilers of the Sea Carrsville, Ky., is another arid, hillside hamlet, with striking escarpments stretching above and below for several miles. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Just at the edge of the strip of sand, however, was a continuous escarpment about four feet high, which afforded a cover in which troops once ashore might be re-formed. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources After years of privation, I had, at last, secured a niche in the frowning escarpment of Boston's social palisade. A Son of the Middle Border As his horse patiently clambered with him up towards the top of the escarpment the man gazed indolently about between half-closed 2 eyelids and inhaled the smoke from an unbroken “chain” of gilt-tipped cigarettes. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation The overflowings of this reservoir caused, a little behind the escarpment, a fall of water of about an inch in breadth, and descending four or five fathoms. Toilers of the Sea Our route led us in a right line to one of the crevasses which opened at the base of the escarpment. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories A few scrambled ashore and reached the shelter of the escarpment that rimmed the beach. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources The cup-like summit of the highest is 13,000 feet above the sea, and snow always lies on the north escarpment. Our Italy The cañon at this point ran towards the mesa escarpment as if it had originally intended to drive through into Dry Fork Gulch, but twisted sharp about and curved back across the plateau. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation The escarpments were festooned with large-flowered bindweed, sustaining itself with graceful ease, and ornamenting the walls as by intelligent design. Toilers of the Sea We advanced slowly, making frequent halts, and at last reached the plateau which overlooks the second escarpment of the Rouges rocks. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories A few hundred British troops had succeeded in reaching the escarpment on the shore and there they huddled, not daring to lift their heads above the four-foot natural cover. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources This last refers to the necessity two travellers are under, who, having to ascend a steep escarpment of slippery grass, can only do so by mutual assistance. Somehow Good There were, too, escarpments of rock, with galleries and caves known only to the Vaudois. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge The oxydes of the rock showed on the escarpment here and there in red places, like marks of clotted blood; it resembled the splashes on the walls of an abattoir. Toilers of the Sea We remained thus, suspended between life and death, for an hour, which seemed an eternity; at last we reached the bottom of this terrible escarpment. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories About 1,500 men were left, composed of the survivors of the Dublins and the Munsters and two companies of the Hampshires, under cover of the escarpment on the beach. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources The Chalk escarpments indeed are everywhere, though of course only slowly, crumbling away. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In All is dry at the base of the escarpment, up to the point at which they commence; and then all is equally dry at the point at which they terminate. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Furnished with a grappling-iron and with a ladder of that sort, the steepest rocks become accessible, and a good sailor will find it possible to scale the rudest escarpment. Toilers of the Sea The third route consists in ascending directly to the summit of the Corridor, crossing an ice-wall seven hundred and fifty feet high, which extends along the first escarpment of the Rouges rocks. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories There runs around the shores of Great Britain and Ireland a flat terrace of unequal breadth, backed by an escarpment of varied height and character, which is known to geologists as the old coast-line. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The long lines of escarpment which often stretch for miles across country, are now ascertained, mainly through the researches of Whitaker, to be due to the differential action of aerial causes. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In It lay under the escarpment of the cliff; and I purposed pursuing it from Portree to Holm, a distance of about six miles, and then returning by the flat interior valley. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Westward this tableland slopes gradually and imperceptibly to sea level; to the south it reaches the Atlantic in the series of terraces and escarpments already described. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government It certainly appeared impassable—trending along the sky like the escarpment of some gigantic fortress. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness In that case it would have required thirty-five thousand years for the retreat of the Falls from the escarpment of Queenston to their present site. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed We must remember, however, that the Chalk escarpment is gradually moving eastwards. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In Up its escarpments, rough and grim, To its bleak summit rimmed with moss, The monks of old with prayer and hymn Hewed out the weary “Way of the Cross.” Sprays of Shamrock In daylight it would have been difficult enough, yawning chasms to be crossed barransas—with cliffs to be climbed, in comparison with which the escarpments of the Pedregal were but as garden walls. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley It varied in this respect, but its lowest escarpment was too high to be ascended. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains He shut his eyes to the blue sky and pictured her as she stood in the light, on the ragged escarpment, with her garments beaten by wind and rain. The Rough Road The water plunges into a deep basin hollowed out of soft shale, which, as well as the escarpment, is being constantly worn away. The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. You see this is an escarpment, or cliff, over sixty miles long, and varying from about 600 feet to 900 feet in height. To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story The outlying protection of this great castle consisted of triple moats and escarpments. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Their soil is clay, and though the height of the hills is only three hundred feet above the plain, their escarpment or steep side is towards the east, whence an invasion may be expected. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work He couldn’t reconcile the beautiful letter, written in faultless handwriting and impeccable French, with the rain-swept girl on the escarpment. The Rough Road On March 26, 1872, a sudden earth movement left an escarpment twenty-five feet high at the foot of the range in Owens Valley. The Book of the National Parks The greater kudu, almost unknown elsewhere in East Africa, inhabits the flanks of the Laikipia escarpment to the east of the lake and comes to the foot-hills around Baringo to feed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" The situation is highly romantic; and the view from the summit of the bold escarpment, upon which the town is perched, extends over a wilderness of mountains. Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc When the boys caught sight of them the trio had just gained the summit of the rocky escarpment. The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code The defenders had abandoned it, and they could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw the dangerous mountain escarpment by which they had escaped in the night. The Huguenots in France Then came Fort Pillow, guarding the city of Memphis; then at Vicksburg frowned earthworks, bastions, and escarpments that rivalled Gibraltar for impregnability. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 N. of the lake rise the Karosi hills; to the E. the land rises in terraces to the edge of the Laikipia escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" They surprised us by their great elevation, and by the sharp and straight escarpments with which they descended. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Another unfavourable circumstance was that all the places of the escarpment where shelter could be obtained were full of smoke from the shells which had burst either in the protecting wall or in the ditches. World's War Events, Vol. I It was not until they had changed at Bristol and crept under the escarpment of the lower Cotswolds that the air cleared. The Tragic Bride The only time you really notice them is when you climb the escarpment at the northern end. The Judas Valley They left the two stallions grazing at the base of the rocky escarpment. A World Called Crimson Yet the untrained mountain man seeing a stream gushing down a steep escarpment knows how to divert it to his own best use. Blue Ridge Country The escarpment was damaged, the protecting walls of the left flank battery destroyed, and the shutters of the windows pierced. World's War Events, Vol. I The horn-work is about three acres in extent, surrounded by a wall 15 feet high, which is of the nature of an escarpment, the ground rising above it. Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures Then he put his boots against the wall and began to move up the steep escarpment. The Judas Valley Coal-measures extend along the eastern escarpment of the Rocky Mountains, and these are destined at no remote day to create a centre of steel and other manufactures. Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges From La Cisa the road descends suddenly; for the southern escarpment of the Apennines, as of the Alpine, barrier is pitched at a far steeper angle than the northern. New Italian sketches What was my amazement when I perceived that the fort was blown up, and that the front was strewn with ruins, forming a quay reaching from the escarpment to the counter-escarpment. World's War Events, Vol. I The plain terminated towards the sea with a steep escarpment. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Silently he went on climbing the escarpment, digging into the rough rock. The Judas Valley In an angle of a cliff they built a roaring pine-log fire whose flames, leaping up the gray wall, made wild sport of the bold corners and strange-looking escarpments of the rock. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Along the escarpment of a low table, five dark objects broke the line of the horizon. The Scalp Hunters There was no escarpment or slope of any kind. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico After we left the lagoons at Pitlekaj and Yinretlen, the coast began gradually to rise by escarpments, each about five metres in height. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II He crawled slowly out of the niche and wriggled along the escarpment, heading south, keeping low so the men in the valley wouldn't see him. The Judas Valley He was just climbing out of the ravine when I first saw him—slowly dragging his huge body over the escarpment of the cliff. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse A dark disc of triangular shape, the apex inverted, proclaims a break in the escarpment. The Death Shot A Story Retold They grow at the bottom of a huge hill or escarpment 200 feet high at the top of which is his planting of 20 mollissima chestnuts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 Seven or eight hours' way from the vessel we met with such a rivulet, which farther to the S.S.E. unites with another which runs between two rocky escarpments twenty metres high. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Bountiful to the south and east, it is niggardly elsewhere, and only two small springs, Grierson and Mescalero, escape from its western escarpment. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier I could have advanced more rapidly, but for the necessity of keeping my head and that of my horse below the escarpment of the bank. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse To avoid this they keep back from the crest of the escarpment; so far, it would not be possible to see them from any part of the bottom-land below. The Death Shot A Story Retold Aldershot is a fruit and vegetable growing district, about six miles from Hamilton, below the escarpment, on the Toronto-Hamilton lake shore highway. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 On the other hand there are to be seen around Yugor Straits only low level plains, terminating towards the sea with a steep escarpment. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II A remarkable feature of most of these hills, as of many all over the plateau, is that they are flat-topped, and have often steep, even craggy escarpments. Impressions of South Africa Many small pines grew upon the escarpment; and selecting one, we knotted the rope securely around its trunk. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse He put his hands beneath the heated, smoking bottle of death, lifted it, and rushed on to the edge of the escarpment fifty feet away. The Long Roll Consequently the climate is not so severe as that of localities situated a few miles farther from the lake and above the Niagara escarpment at higher altitudes. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947 The plains between the escarpments are full of lagoons or marshes. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II The escarpments of the cliffs sank away beneath him into the chill turmoil of the winter sea. Patsy They scrambled on in the heat over the rough stone escarpments and amidst the gorse. Will of the Mill It was admirably adapted for the purpose, there being an abundance of thorns, with a steep rocky escarpment to act as the back of the kraal. Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers I encounter huge basins like the craters of volcanoes, formed by the circling swirl; deep chasms and valleys, whose sides are walls of sand, steep, often vertical, and not unfrequently impending with comb-like escarpments. The Rifle Rangers They commonly breed high up on some mossy or grassy oasis, among the stone mounds of the coast mountains, or on the summit of a steep strand escarpment in the interior of the fjords. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II About half-distance between this prolonged escarpment and the outlying hills six large “Conestoga” waggons, locked tongue and tail together, enclosing a lozenge-shaped or elliptical space—a corral—inside which are fifteen men and five horses. The Lone Ranche In a few minutes they had reached the escarpment of the butte; and, raising themselves by their hands they peeped over, and at once obtained a view of its whole table-like summit. The Boy Hunters The Mexican Cordillera conceals, beyond and above it, the famous Great Plateau; the mesa central, running to the northwards eight hundred miles or more, and reaching westwardly to the steep escarpments of the Pacific slope. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Through drifts of snow and over fields of ice, up steep ledges, along the slippery escarpment that overhangs the giddy abysm, with wearied knees, and panting breath, and frozen fingers, onward and upward I go. The Rifle Rangers After two or three more miles over an expanse of parched turf, we reached what geologists would call the bluff escarpment of the stratum. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 For before riding far his eyes fell upon a dark list, which indicated an opening in the escarpment. The Lone Ranche The vultures, of course, did not regard their presence; but continued to alight, both upon the escarpment of the precipice and upon the loose rocks at its foot, as if no one was near. The Boy Hunters The long shadows which were projected across the wilderness, and the roseate flush which the setting sun had cast upon the westward-facing escarpments behind us, have both disappeared together. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Outside there had been no tampering with the natural rugged features of the escarpment, and within, the silence was almost complete. Storm Over Warlock Now remained a difficult stretch, where the mighty river breaks in foaming falls and rapids through the escarpment which follows the line of the west coast of Africa. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Often the traveller comes upon them without sign or warning of their proximity, till, standing on the edge of a precipitous escarpment, he sees yawning below a chasm sunk several hundred feet into the earth. The Lone Ranche It was the eastern escarpment of the famous “Llano Estacado,” or “Staked Plain.” The Boy Hunters Up through the tropical forests and among the appalling escarpments of the Sierra. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development More noticeable is the "V" in spruce firs planted on the escarpment to commemorate the Jubilee of 1887. Highways and Byways in Sussex The cliffs terminating each plateau form intricate escarpments, meandering for many miles, and they might be likened to a series of irregular and complicated steps. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 The St. Lawrence is frozen over, and the copings and escarpments of the old fortress sparkle white under a flying moon. Fort Amity On the convex side were slight ridges with gentle forward slopes; on the concave were steep escarpments. With the British Army in The Holy Land One of the most troublesome tribes proved to be the Nandi, who occupied the southern part of the plateau west of the Mau escarpment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" The vale is remarkable for its grove of yews, some of enormous girth, which extends along the bottom to the foot of the escarpment. Highways and Byways in Sussex Yet the current flowed smoothly onwards, through a wealth of vegetation which clung precariously to every ledge and natural escarpment. The Captain of the Kansas Hamlets are built where there is scarce foothold in the detritus, below perpendicular escarpments of rock, cut clean like the façades of a Gothic temple. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma Our reserves and our day positions were behind the escarpment, where was excellent cover from hostile shelling. With the British Army in The Holy Land Upon this platform, foundations with a distended escarpment were built to carry the walls, the weight of which was thus distributed equally over a wide area. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Here were villages, fertile fields, and wooded valleys; but beyond the rugged escarpment all was different. Garthowen A Story of a Welsh Homestead Under the clayey slope of the northern escarpment and close by the roadside, a dry well rears its light canopy of open ironwork. The Well of Saint Clare Pushing his way through the drifting foliage, Dalgard swam ahead to the foot of the rocky escarpment. Star Born Our front line companies manned a continuous system of trenches, while the reserve company and headquarters occupied dug-outs dug into, or constructed with sand bags upon, the steep slopes of the escarpment. With the British Army in The Holy Land The trail was now running along the edge of an escarpment no wider than a saddle, sheer drop below, sheer wall above. The Freebooters of the Wilderness A mountain mass projecting from the escarpment of the Apennines, in N. lat. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features The bluffs, both above and below, are very precipitous, the middle and lower beds22 of the Third Magnesian Limestone forming perpendicular escarpments, frequently studded with cedar, some occurring on top of the bridge. Cave Regions of the Ozarks and Black Hills These rocks, these blocks, these peaks, these streaks, these cones, these cracks, these ramparts, these escarpments,—what are they but a set of spillikins, though I acknowledge on a grand scale? All Around the Moon The growth in importance of the seaward escarpment dates only from the days when Thanet became practically a London suburb. Science in Arcady They came, when the path had run past a swelling of the bank, to the neck of a little valley that cleft the escarpment and ran obliquely inland for half a mile or so. The Judge About it and through it climbed such walls, planted on such bold natural escarpment, that made it the most inaccessible fortification in the world. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The bottom of the bay terminates in a bold escarpment of rock, some four hundred feet high, on the top of which is seen a solitary cocoa-tree. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific The view of its rocky escarpments and silver peak may fairly be called stupendous, it is so sharply at variance with the smooth carpetings of the lower mountains about it. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees From La Cisa the road descends suddenly; for the southern escarpment of the Apennine, as of the Alpine, barrier is pitched at a far steeper angle than the northern. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The long, stratified faces of rock escarpments caught the glow of the sliding sun and became battlemented towers of ancient story. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West The slim marks of the well-shod feet led him across the dust of the road up into gravel on the slope and finally eluded him on the escarpment that soared away above him. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem We were now in the floor of the Rift Valley, and both along the escarpments and in the floor of the great blue valley itself mountains were all about us. African Camp Fires The entire picture, framed in by the sharp blackness of the pines and the broken escarpments of cliff and mountain, has been well compared to a scene in Norway. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees The buildings lay in a little valley, where an arroyo ran down at a right angle and broke the rock escarpment. A Man Four-Square The forest abruptly ends, and in its stead rises the face of this colossal rocky escarpment, like some barrier built by the mountain gods. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Standing higher than the others on the edge of the breach was that giant who had brought Grandfather Fragini in pickaback, looking a young god on an escarpment of rock on Olympus. The Last Shot They came up thick and black behind the escarpment, and rapidly spread over the entire heavens. African Camp Fires They came over a rise and there they rested because, across the small aspen rose an escarpment a few hundred meters in height. Scorched Earth He crept forward and peered through a clump of cactus growing at the edge of the escarpment. A Man Four-Square Then Swain and I reconnoitred the wall, and chose for the crossing a spot where the glass escarpment seemed a little less formidable than elsewhere. The Gloved Hand And thanking me with great fervour, but briefly, he went largely and strongly down the escarpment of the Combe to Duncton and the weald; and I shall never see him again till the Great Day.... Hills and the Sea We were paralleling the highest ridge of the escarpment, and so alternated between the crossing of cañons and the travelling along broad ridges between them. African Camp Fires They sat on the southern part of the escarpment and stared at the awesome sight. Scorched Earth The escarpment was of disintegrated granite which rang beneath the hoofs of the animal. A Man Four-Square We wondered how high the escarpment was, and if we could take our boats over its top. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico A flight of steps cut in the hillside led up to a ledge running out from an escarpment which was something above sixty feet high before giving off into the slope of the mountain. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 The escarpment opposite Henley offered a good site for an eleventh-century castle—but the steep cliff of Windsor had this advantage beyond all the others—that it was at exactly the right distance from London. The Historic Thames Boyce shrugged and smacked his lips as he looked beyond the path and straight down to the base of the escarpment, strewn with rock and dotted with dry bush. Scorched Earth Once a mule deer stared at him in surprise from an escarpment back of the mesa. A Man Four-Square The same rapid was described by Major Powell as having a bold, lava-capped escarpment at the head of the rapid, on the right. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico No doubt the moon has come out—I cannot see as high as the cloud escarpments, as high as the sky's opening. Light The Little Buffalo carries to the Athabasca its noisy current between two high escarpments, and on the shelf leading back from the banks of the main stream is a far-reaching plateau of splendidly-fertile land. The New North To keep on schedule, they had to scale the escarpment walls by evening. Scorched Earth This lower wall of Præneste occupies the same line as the ancient wall and escarpment, but the most of what survives was restored in Sulla's time. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste The city was built on escarpments, on ridges, on hills, and sagged here and there into great hollows. The Roll-Call The northern escarpment and southern flanks of the hills are clothed in vast forests of beech which add that grandeur to the great ramparts of chalk which the eastern ranges lack. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Rampart House on the Porcupine near the Mackenzie Mouth A hundred yards from the entrance to the Ramparts, a group of Indians has found foothold at the base of the escarpment. The New North Overhead, a black bird was circling, quickly nearing the ground with each successive round, until it finally came to rest in the top of a tree between them and the cliffs of the escarpment. Scorched Earth The arches are older than the present opus quadratum wall, and the road swung round and up to align with the road below and the old wall or escarpment of the city above. A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste A rounded, tall island lies, or rather stands, below the falls, towards the north shore, whose sheer escarpments and densely wooded top are very curious and striking. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 Of equal interest are the so-called "dew ponds," of which a number are scattered here and there close to the edge of the northern escarpment. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End An escarpment of grass banks guards a hollow like a shallow crater on the very summit. Witness for the Defense They began to climb the escarpment which was almost a straight vertical rise of brittle rock. Scorched Earth Along the face of this smooth, snowy escarpment, which rose directly out of two or three fathoms of water, lay our only route to Yamsk. Tent Life in Siberia A wide floor of rock at its base made beautiful walking to a place where the lofty escarpment showed exposures of limestone underlying an enormous mass of dark sandstone, topped by tar-clay. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 From the leafy recesses of the layers of beech on the escarpment of the Downs, there rises in unsettled weather a mist which rolls among the trees like the smoke out of a chimney. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End The trail led us along the brink of a steep escarpment from which we could look over the valley and away into the blue distance toward Li-chiang. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China XI I lay there for some moments slowly recovering, eyes on the far distant escarpments, now darkly red and repellent to me. Tales of lonely trails Unsupported from beneath, the whole escarpment had caved away into the sea, leaving a gap of open water about thirty-five feet in width, out of which rose the black perpendicular wall of the coast. Tent Life in Siberia On the 15th we were still following the right bank, and, anon, past giant clay escarpments along it, everywhere streaked with oozing tar, and smelling like an old ship. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 We are now at the foot of Charlton Forest covering the slopes of the Downs which stretch eastwards to Duncton Beacon; and along the edge of this escarpment it is proposed to travel. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End The hill on which the town is built rises abruptly from the valley in a steep escarpment, so that the upper end of High Street is 700 feet above the sea. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter This town lies in the bottom of a basin; some of the high hills, especially those on the east, showing savage escarpments with towering masses of yellow or reddish rock at the summits. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Toward the north the escarpments were lowered by a depression which would probably have given access to the interior of the crater. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon The tall man pointed over the brink of the escarpment toward the valley floor. The Tarn of Eternity After a time we came to some low hills helmeted with the outcrop of a rock escarpment. Arizona Nights A path climbs gradually by an old wind-torn wood up the landward side of Bindon Hill, with gorgeous rearward views across the fields of Monastery Farm to the northern escarpment of the Purbeck Hills. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter I dressed in a noble bedroom, with an outlook over the garden-vale and the escarpment to the far line of the plains, now blue and saffron in the sunset. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies The circumference of Copernicus formed almost a perfect circle, and its steep escarpments were clearly defined. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Inland the land rose slowly, then reached a escarpment, a huge vertical stone wall. The Tarn of Eternity Immediately after leaving the grove of trees, the road commenced to climb the first rises of the Mau escarpment. Stories from Everybody's Magazine The situation of this house, backed by the smooth Down, is exquisite, and the building reminds one of many fine old houses that stand just below the escarpment of the Sussex Downs. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Only sparse cactus and weathered ledges dotted the great low roll of a rising escarpment. Desert Gold Grace descended the green escarpment by a zigzag path into the drive, which swept round beneath the slope. The Woodlanders The escarpment extended outward from the mountain, formed a lookout overlooking the dark waters. The Tarn of Eternity The country through which we passed continued to be the same as that of the Mau escarpment—a succession of low hills and shallow valleys covered with the small, twisted trees. Stories from Everybody's Magazine The stony escarpment upon which they stood had the contour of a man's face, and it was covered with furze as with a beard. A Pair of Blue Eyes The rangers traveled swiftly over the remaining miles of level desert leading to the ascent of the escarpment. Desert Gold Adrar occupies the most elevated part of a plateau which ends westwards in a steep escarpment and falls to the east in a succession of steps. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The escarpment, of solid rock, attracted those despondent, invited them to end their woes with a plunge into the waiting waters. The Tarn of Eternity There the basalt cliffs of the outside were reproduced upon the inside, forming an escarpment about two hundred feet high, with a woody slope beneath it. The Lost World From the window of his room he could see, first, two bold escarpments sloping down together like the letter V. Towards the bottom, like liquid in a funnel, appeared the sea, gray and small. A Pair of Blue Eyes He halted upon the edge of a low escarpment. Desert Gold Through these gorges dash magnificent cascades, others leaping the escarpments of the plateaus in waterfalls of great volume and depth. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 A stone turns and he falls, slipping over the edge of the escarpment. The Tarn of Eternity Tess went up the remainder of its length without stopping, and on reaching the edge of the escarpment gazed over the familiar green world beyond, now half-veiled in mist. Tess of the d'Urbervilles The strong ascending air carried the rain-drops with it in its race up the escarpment, coming to him with such velocity that they stuck into his flesh like cold needles. A Pair of Blue Eyes But the cowboy took a bee-line course for the white escarpment pointed out by the Yaqui; and nothing save deep washes and impassable patches of cactus or rocks made him swerve from it. Desert Gold This block of country lies just west of the line of the great East African trough, the northern continuation of which passes along its eastern escarpment as it runs up to join the Red Sea. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Beyond this hill there was another eminence sloping gradually to the north, till it dropped into the valley of Jehoshaphat with an escarpment of two hundred feet. Josephus In time she reached the edge of the vast escarpment below which stretched the loamy Vale of Blackmoor, now lying misty and still in the dawn. Tess of the d'Urbervilles For an hour and a half they climbed, then topped the rim of the escarpment and emerged from the forest at the same time. The Leopard Woman The rangers rode on and the escarpment began to loom. Desert Gold The eastern escarpment is the best defined of these outer ranges. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The plain terminates, where we ascended, in an escarpment of vesicular trap-rock, which supplies the fragments of the creek below. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources But for the mists we should have a lovely view a little further on, where the hills run nearer together, the wooded escarpments running steep down to the water's edge. The Roof of France Making our way back to the highway, we pass through beautiful scenery, and once more reach the banks of the Seine at the town of Duclair which stands below the escarpment of chalk hills. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 When Gale got an unobstructed view of the slope of the escarpment he located the raiders and horses. Desert Gold Its head-waters rise on the landward side of the eastern escarpment within 50 miles of Annesley Bay on the Red Sea. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 In the escarpments which border the creeks, it is seen alternating with a light-colored granite, at an inclination of 45°; the beds varying in thickness from two or three feet to six or eight hundred. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Close to these works a magnificent cascade is seen, a sheet of glistening white spray pouring down the dark, precipitous escarpment. The Roof of France The hunt struck upon him now and again, when the hounds in full cry streamed down his steep escarpments and threatened panic to his browsing goats. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Some impelling desire, not all the lure of gold, took them to the top of mesas and escarpments; and here, when they had dug and picked, they rested and gazed out at the wide prospect. Desert Gold The valley between these hills and the eastern escarpment is one of the longest and most profound chasms in Abyssinia. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 This presented an escarpment on the river of about nine hundred yards in length, and is familiarly known as Scott's bluffs. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources The river, narrowed to a thread, winds in and out, forcing laborious way between the lofty escarpments, here all but meeting, yet one might almost fancy only yesterday rent asunder. The Roof of France They thus present a series of terraces, the steps of which are well-defined escarpments of rock. Canyons of the Colorado His dark hand stretched, he sighted over his stretched finger at a low white escarpment in the distance. Desert Gold Even when it dropped suddenly down the steep escarpment to the great plateau the current still flowed. Steam, Steel and Electricity On Sandy creek the formation was of parti- colored sand, exhibited in escarpments fifty to eighty feet high. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources It so happens that England is traversed by remarkable and sudden ranges; hills with a sharp escarpment overlooking great undulating plains. First and Last On the south it ends in a great escarpment which descends into Castle Valley. Canyons of the Colorado The escarpment began to rise, to change color, to show breaks upon its rocky face. Desert Gold "It is formed by excoriating the turf over the steep slope of the northern escarpment of Salisbury Plain." Our Hundred Days in Europe The river here cuts its way through a ridge; on the eastern side of it are the lofty escarpments of red argillaceous sandstone, which are called the Red Buttes. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources And by such a landscape is a man gladdened when upon the escarpments of the Tuolumne he turns back and looks westward over the plain towards the vast range. First and Last There are in a general way four great lines of cliffs extending from east to west across the district and presenting their faces, or escarpments, southward. Canyons of the Colorado In England, a long stripe, extending from Yorkshire to Kent, presents the cretaceous beds upon the surface, generally lying conformably upon the oolite, and in many instances rising into bold escarpments towards the west. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Rounding the escarpment at his elbow he saw, on a shelf of decaying granite, two waiting ponies. Over the Pass |
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