| 单词 | hogback |
| 例句 | Coming out of the river bottoms, I scatted up a long hogback ridge, and broke out on top in the flats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On the latter, it was the hogback, a section of road about two miles long with sheer drop-offs of more than 1,000 feet on both sides. Classic rock: Exploring the spectacular landscape of south-central Utah 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The hogback is in this stretch, but this time the corners on the road as it descends to the Escalante River and the Calf Creek Recreation Area really enthrall me. Classic rock: Exploring the spectacular landscape of south-central Utah 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The slides are separated by hogbacks that block views up and down the gulch. Tragic 1949 wildfire haunted surviving smokejumpers 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The collection consists of 31 medieval stones carved in the Viking era, including carved crosses and five Viking hogback stones. Scotland's 'hidden gems' revealed in public vote - BBC News 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Even more impressive than the hogbacks is the monolithic sarcophagus which was found buried in the Govan church yard in the 19th century, without a body inside. The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z He loosed the horses from their pickets and started them up the steep trail that led down from the hogback to the camp by the water's edge. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The next day we pitched a rough camp on a hogback between two barren plains, about five miles from our main camp. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z But he made a good par at the 13th, two-putting from the front of the green over the hogback that dissects it to within 3 feet. Placid British Open Turns Blustery for Third Round 2011-07-16T15:08:03Z Number Sixteen lay among the most desolate of desolate hills, just over the ridge of a long hogback. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z A request from the British Museum to feature one of the hogbacks in a flagship exhibition , which begins in March, is an indication of the growing awareness of the importance of the sculptures. The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z Kirkby would certainly see the cloudburst coming and he would take the people with him in the camp up on the hogback near it. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z Seward Mountain, seen from a distance of ten or fifteen miles, looked like a hogback ridge. Lost Pond 2010-12-20T17:12:25.250Z The fight began when Braithwaite located the dam here at Elbow Canyon in the foothill hogback. The King of Arcadia At a word from Coravel Tio, the others moved into the slender shadow cast by the north side of the shack, the side that faced uphill to the hogback. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The Govan Stones are a collection of 31 recumbent grave stones, hogback stones and one remarkable sarcophagus from this period of history when warfare instigated by the Norse transformed the political landscape of Britain. The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z He helped him secure a manual excavating kit to the side of the truck, and then headed for a hogback MacFarland had spotted from the early air photos. The Unprotected Species They scrambled over the hogback and slid down its farther side. The Sensitive Man But the gist of it is this: You know these hogback hills—how they seem to be made up of all the geological odds and ends left over after the mountains were built. The King of Arcadia He had evidently ridden right over the long flank of the hogback, past the mine workings, into the cañon. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The hogbacks are found exclusively in areas of northern Britain settled by Vikings - southern Scotland, Cumbria and Yorkshire - and the Govan examples are by far the largest. The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z He gamboled and capered, he zoomed and zigzagged, he essayed quick, climbing spirals and almost came to grief among the tangled pinnacles on the ridge of the hogback. Master of the Moondog They climbed up on one of the hogback rocks some ten yards from shore. The Sensitive Man We're in the neck of a little hogback draw that goes on down to the big canyon. The King of Arcadia Behind and above rose the long hogback that formed the north wall of the cañon. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z "My feeling is that this is meant to represent a lord's hall or a chieftain's hall. "This type of monument, these hogback monuments, you only find them in Britain. The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z Find me an eskar in Plymouth county, a "hogback ridge" as our forbears were wont to call it, and the chances are fair that along its narrow summit edge I'll show you an Indian trail. Old Plymouth Trails They did not strike out boldly up some hogback or canyon but at every fork and bend they turned this way and that, as if he 139were hopelessly lost. Wunpost Throwing himself flat on the brown hilltop, Ballard trained his glass first on the inner valley reaches of a bridle-path leading over the southern hogback. The King of Arcadia He looked up at the long hogback which closed in those five persons, shutting out all the rest of the world like a vast door of rock. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The most imposing monuments in the Govan collection are the five massive sandstone blocks, commonly known as the "hogbacks". The hidden Viking-Age treasures of Govan 2014-01-27T01:53:51Z After he had passed the cabin, Rathburn checked his pace and proceeded more slowly up the long stretches of road to the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story Devil’s Tooth ridge, which gave the Lorrigan ranch its name, was really a narrow hogback with a huge rock spire at one end. Rim o' the World It was the hour of sunset for the high peaks of the Elk range, and the purple shadows were already gathering among the rounded hills of the hogback. The King of Arcadia She looked up, beyond Abel Dorales, above Abel Dorales, at the line of the hogback that cleaved across the hot blue sky. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The valley lies between a high wall of red sandstone and the “hogback,”—that is what the foothills are called. Letters on an Elk Hunt On the hogback he began to take advantage of the screen of timber on the lower side of the road, and to ride more cautiously. The Coyote A Western Story The first land he encountered was a high hogback of rock which proved to be an island. Kings in Exile This particular spot was a corner of real “bad lands,” and lumpy ridges, hogbacks, and barren buttes arose on all sides like waves in a sea. The Free Range So he climbed the long hogback and settled down to smoke and watch the road that wound down from the cañon toward the lava beds, the road that led into the world. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The trail, which in places was barely a foot wide, ran for miles along a sort of hogback, the ground falling sheer away on either side. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China He lit out through town for the road to the hogback and the pass over the mountains.” The Coyote A Western Story Frequently he lunged into the drifts with one foot, or both; his glazed mukluk soles slid about, causing him to bestride the invisible hogback, or again his legs crossed awkwardly, throwing him off his balance. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Out in the bad lands a troop of horsemen moved slowly forward, detached bodies scouring the innumerable hogbacks for signs of their prey. The Free Range Another man had come down from the hogback, had suddenly appeared from nowhere, and was talking with Coravel Tio; another man, tall and swarthy of face, behind whom followed a saddled pony. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z When they were well up, they followed a long hogback that swung a little to the left, and at length turned for their deliberate plunge down into the steep valley of the stream. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri Now you want me to go chasing up to the hogback to head him off. The Coyote A Western Story The ground here was a series of four or five hogback ridges about a hundred yards apart. World's War Events, Vol. I The prisoners had hardly been placed when, from behind a neighboring hogback, rode a man waving a white handkerchief. The Free Range Now, up on the long hogback, Mrs. Crump directed the work of getting out ore, Lewis and Gilbert working steadily under her orders. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z "The 'summit' is high above timber-line and the trail pursues a hogback ridge for a mile and a half at the summit level." Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska He saw that the automobile from the hogback had reached the village. The Coyote A Western Story Let them ride hogback through the mud if they will. Sonnie-Boy's People At one spot only was it visible, and that was a place where 220 the edges of two hogbacks failed to lap and hide it. The Free Range Gilbert was the last to come in from the mine over the flank of the hogback. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z The "summit" is high above timber-line, and when the trail has reached it it does not descend immediately but pursues a hogback ridge for a mile and a half at about the summit level. Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska To the left, under the towering peaks of the divide, the rounded crest of the hogback was discernible, and a black spot marked the location of Mannix’s automobile. The Coyote A Western Story Now this Bar-O ranch is just over the hogback, south of us. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Now the dark wall of the hogback rose up on Larkin’s left; the last of the flock was behind shelter. The Free Range The second man whipped up a ready revolver and fired hastily; too hastily, for the bullet only whipped Shea’s lean cheek and passed over the hogback. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z As Papoose topped a low hogback that flanked the valley she saw the men riding toward her down the bottoms, driving twenty or more head of cows. The Settling of the Sage At a point almost directly below the ridge where the man and horse stood, it crossed a small hogback and descended a steep slope between lines of jack pines, disappearing in the timber farther down. The Coyote A Western Story I took the general direction all right on leaving Twin Buttes, and kept it until I got among the Lost River hogbacks. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush No longer the friendly loom of the hogback was on his left. The Free Range Farthest to the west were the big hogbacks near Nacori, standing out ominously, like a perpetuated flash of lightning. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan It was a long, narrow ridge, more like a hogback than a true mountain, and it held a silver mine, Flemister's, which was a moderately heavy shipper. The Taming of Red Butte Western The gaze of the man on the ridge was concentrated on the bit of road which showed on the hogback and the slope beyond. The Coyote A Western Story Blount gave the horse a breathing halt on one of the hogbacks and tried to reconstruct the puzzling hills into some featuring that he could remember. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Well, across that hogback, where it turns to the east, there is a string of range hills covered with good feed, and leadin’ north, for twenty miles. The Free Range The way led at first up the narrow spine of a "hogback," but soon widened into one of the ample and spacious parks peculiar to the elevations near the summits of the First Rampart. The Rules of the Game Campote is completely surrounded by mountains, the hogback dropping off into the valley below us. The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon Watch out on the hogback, for I’ll be up there, parked with my lights out.” The Coyote A Western Story Changing the subject, he said, "I wish you could see the valley from that hogback over to the west." A Touch of Sun and Other Stories “Yaas,” he continued presently, after regarding his reflection in the bottom of a tin cup that had been full of coffee the moment before, “an’ it’s over on that hogback.” The Free Range A long spur, with broken ledges of rock, puts down to the river, and along its course, or up the "hogback," as it is called, I make the ascent. Canyons of the Colorado Half way between the cabin and that fringe of forest four hundred yards away was a "hogback" in the snow, running a curving parallel with the plain. The Golden Snare But Sautee’s answer was drowned in the roar of the motor as he sped up the road toward the hogback and the mine. The Coyote A Western Story So it was past noon when he finally reached the hogback where the outstanding event of the morning had taken place. The Coyote A Western Story A “hogback,” be it understood, is a rugged rocky mound, carved by weather erosion. The Free Range In the direction of the hogback he could see nothing. The Coyote A Western Story Then utter silence save for the pounding of his horse’s hoofs in the hard road back down the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story But the watcher evidently was not so 99 much concerned with the approach of the truck as with certain movements which were in progress on the hogback at the head of the grade. The Coyote A Western Story A number of horsemen had taken its place on the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story Then the main body of the herd, with Sims at its head, the dogs flanking and Bud bringing up the rear on horseback, moved silently out toward the unknown hazards of the hogback pass. The Free Range Or you can go up the road till you get to the big hogback––that’s where they held up the truck driver yesterday––and cut straight up the hill from the south end.” The Coyote A Western Story Got me on the far end of the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story There the man in the slicker and his companion joined him, mounted, and the trio rode quickly along the hogback in a southerly direction and disappeared on a blind rail into the forest. The Coyote A Western Story This he followed down toward town, and in half an hour he dismounted in the timber behind a small cabin at the side of the road to the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story “I seen the confab from over on that hogback yonder.” The Free Range While he is drawing all the trouble, we’ll hustle the rest of the flock along behind the hogback, over the pass, and north behind the shelter of the hills.” The Free Range “I allow that perhaps the Bar T punchers will be watchin’ that hogback, although I couldn’t find tracks there, new or old. The Free Range Already the 100 truck was climbing the last steep pitch to the top of the hogback. The Coyote A Western Story Larkin knew that all the sheep had not yet passed the top of the hogback. The Free Range Pedro and his hundred had been ordered to wait fifteen minutes, until the head of the column should have almost reached the shelter of the hogback. The Free Range I was over back of them hogbacks and buttes lookin’ for strays and mavericks when along come them muttons in a cloud of dust that would choke a cow. The Free Range Their day’s “walk” would bring them, Larkin figured, to a point less than a mile distant from the hogback, and an ideal spot from which to start the march. The Free Range The boy mounted and led the other two horses down the hogback in the scanty timber to the head of the grade. The Coyote A Western Story |
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