| 单词 | ridge |
| 例句 | The jaws of the widest C are 3,950 feet apart, an expanse so big that scientists did not recognize the ridges as constructions until they took aerial photographs of the site in the 1950s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly hundreds of soldiers were charging over the top of the ridge. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z At dawn, Mount Elgon appeared as a slumped pile of gray ridges receding into haze, culminating in a summit with two peaks, which are opposed lips of the eroded cone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky remained gray, threatening, the valley dark, their ridge and part of the meadow around the ninth Little Baldy Bear Lake a sheer, dully gleaming white. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra’s first glimpse of her father’s prison came when Iorek Byrnison stopped at the foot of a ridge for the children to move and stretch themselves, because they had been getting dangerously cold and stiff. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They were scaling a low ridge between two snow-capped peaks when a shadowcat came snarling from its lair, not ten yards away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But if he comes to the top of the ridge, he is sure to come down here, because he will see the green leaves. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Arion stood proudly at the top of a ridge of ice that loomed over the void. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a flat ridged disk perhaps two inches irf diameter, and it was thick, like the bottom of a drinking glass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t know how many of us were on the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridges of cloud covered the whole sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Her back was crisscrossed by ridges of scar tissue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He watched them appear briefly, crossing a ridge about a half mile ahead; they had already slowed from a dead run to a trot. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z From the top of the ridge he could see Gabilan standing miserably in the corral. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But now he had seen the Narnians sweeping down from the ridge. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Haunches made from burnt arms and offal, a serpentine tail ridged with human vertebrae. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Two determined explorers posed on a ridge and gazed at the mountains of the west, the mysterious country with its perils and discoveries before them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The same blinding greenness throughout, the same ridge, the same incline from ridge to water, the same break in the monotony: a scraggly tree here and there. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was feeling excited because this was the last hill; when they reached the ridge at the top they would be looking down on Tashbaan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The great sentinel was right there at the top of the ridge, where Will, had known it would be, its lowest branches a bare foot off the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We stood on a rock ridge that circled the cavern. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They rode down to the right, along the spine of the ridge, in under the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The guard had reined up well behind them, at the bottom of the ridge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Best go the rest of the way on foot, m'lord. It's just over that ridge." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We reach the top of the ridge and look down on the campsite, to see that the campfire, without anyone to watch it, has gotten out of control. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z She ran her thumb over the shell's ridges and then gave it back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And then we reached the crest of the ridge, and there, across a wide river, was a huge island jammed tip to tip with skyscrapers, their glass glowing like fire in the setting sun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the only tree downhill from the ridge, which seemed a very long way off. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z On summit day that year, Hall’s team had reached the South Summit late, around 1:30 p.m., to find deep, unstable snow blanketing the final stretch of the summit ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As soon as twilight fell and Thlayli and his rabbits had gone underground, they would come along the ridge and attack the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped by a mighty anthill, with ridges running across the red mud as if they were deliberate designs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Beneath his thumb he could feel the ridge of the gouged J the place where Jonas had carved his name. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When Papa-Nnukwu rose and stretched, his entire body, like the bark of the gnarled gmelina tree in our yard, captured the gold shadows from the lamp flame in its many furrows and ridges. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They were not so close, but she followed her husband as he climbed over the rock, holding Safiya with one hand, over the jagged ridge and down again to the next stretch of beach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Annabeth and I sat on the ridge in despair and watched the distant baby-blue shape of the Cyclops as he moved among his flocks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They had smelled the horse and rider and were looking up at the ridge; his motion sent them running, with grass still hanging from wet lips. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z "We have to follow this road along the ridge, cross these hills, go through the woods on the far hills, and come down to the Irati valley," I pointed out to Bill. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The skin melds together, swirls of fingerprint ridges finding one another again, closing solidly once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The moths perched on their brows, or on the ridges of their cheekbones. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Bleak and dry and sandy with rock ridges. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The line from my rib cage to my knees fell straight without even a ridge to disturb its direction. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t want to go along the stream with the ridge on our flank. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Over bare rock they rode, through gloomy pine forests and drifts of old snow, over icy ridges and across shallow rivers that had no names. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Those cannons were shot from this side of the ridge.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Walking to the ridge’s edge, I stare down into deep darkness. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We scampered about the hilltop chasing each other or sat on a sloped ridge where there was a good view of the airport in the distance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They turned off the road and walked along the ridge. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z They headed for the brush line halfway up the ridge. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They rode to Lee’s headquarters, then beyond, up the ridge to where the Generals were meeting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat on the roof ridge, chin in hands. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I mounted Jumper bareback and rode him along Birdsong Creek and across a rocky hog-back ridge. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z After an hour of steady uphill walking, Jody turned into a narrow road that led up a steeper hill to the ridge ranch. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The sleeping cabins sat on the curved sandy path that ran along the ridge above the dunes that fringed the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But before that he decided to check out the far side of the ridge and that was where he got lucky. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Ten minutes in the swells and sailors were bending over and regurgitating the beef stew and instant mashed potatoes of that evening’s dinner onto the ridged metal floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Although he could see the camp directly above him, he chose his old route—up the gorge and across the ridge—because the guards on the wall were facing the river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He was standing motionless on the top of a small ridge, and he seemed from a distance to be a scarecrow left over from the growing season. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they rode back toward the ridge where Pickett’s men waited. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed on, finding the going easy on the rock road, and when they reached the top of the ridge, they stopped and looked back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She ran from boulder to boulder, ridge to ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Their first line of defense was a long rocky ridge, heavily fortified, but so camouflaged that we didn’t know it was there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She was high on the ridge, and the trees hid most of what was going on beneath her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The ridge sloped down sharply for about a hundred yards. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Her avocado skin had a ridged texture like corduroy, her graying hair was shaggy and matted, and her build bordered on obese. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The sun is high over the east ridge now and the valley is beautiful in the morning light. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It uncurled upon a nickel, moist and dirty, moist dirt ridged into her flesh. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I said I thought a ridge that flattened out on top and had a little depth would be easier and more practical to hold than a succession of small mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Using the sun and the fact that it rose in the east and set in the west, he decided that the far side was the northern side of the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Bands camped on ridges overlooking ponds—the men wanted to spot herds when they came to drink. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was a pronounced ridge in her top lip from too much filler. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They walk napalm up and down the ridges. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As I moved down from the ridge, none shied away or showed the least tension at my presence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Behind the drumming pain inside his head, he had one thought: to keep them occupied with him, to keep them away from the next ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, they left the creek, following a vein of iron over a ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They were flying, the logs of the raft rearing out of the water on pressure ridges, slamming back down so hard it rattled his teeth. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z On her scalp, carefully hidden by her scanty hair, Mammachi had raised, crescent-shaped ridges. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed back along the ridge beyond the cemetery. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I removed my now useless mask, planted my ice ax into the mountain’s frozen hide, and hunkered on the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As nearly as I can guess, about halfway between the ridge and Burden Hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He began to follow it among the tangled paths of his own thoughts, over the cold, dew-wet ridge and down into the dawn mist of the fields below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One could see nothing but a grassy slope running up to a level ridge and beyond that the sky with perhaps a few birds in it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He sat upon the ridge, kicking his legs and feeling quite angry with himself. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z All night the three companions scrambled in this bony land, climbing to the crest of the first and tallest ridge, and down again into the darkness of a deep winding valley on the other side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly, while Jody watched, the black dog stiffened, and backed out of the hole and looked up the hill toward the cleft in the ridge where the road came through. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z So he had to look for berry bushes, but keep the lake or the rock ridge in sight at all times. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They were left alone at the ridge, which must have meant Aphros really did trust them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Pasang Kami, a Sherpa on the Japanese team, freed Smanla from the rope, then continued down the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Taking into account loose slates, buffeting wind and the occasional slide backwards, Matthias reckoned he had done pretty well as he gained the roof ridge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out of the very stone of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From the ridge, the light seemed to cover all the slope below, drowsy and still. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It's not even bloodstained, A dull ache flares out from behind my ear, and I reach up to feel the ridge of a scar there. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Giving me a wide berth, he made for the ridge and disappeared into the interior of the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The city proper, built on a low ridge, had once housed as many as fifty thousand people and sprawled across an area as big as twenty-five square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As we were about to crest the ridge, Bronwyn’s feet went out from under her, too, and she slid down twenty feet before she could stop herself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Many of the soldiers were running, crowding together on the narrowest part of the ridge, and warriors on both slopes were firing arrows at them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Dreams were the key to the picture, permitting a boy to enter it, to stand at the crest of the windswept ridge, to climb toward the summit, now no longer far above. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He smelled pinon and sage in the wind that blew across the stony backbone of the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Cedar is up on a ridge. And I don’t think any of the eruptions have reached this far. It’s a safe place.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The ridge disappeared in darkness behind them as the terrain flattened out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z From a distance, you could see the impression of a woman’s body on the mountain face: her legs formed of huge ravines, her hair a spray of pines fanning over the northern ridge. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Matt camped at the top of the ridge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They hadn’t looked back once since coming over the top of the ridge, but he still kept low, moving down the stream at a crouch, holding the rifle in one hand, balancing with the other. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Advancing up the ridge out of pistol range the little man would eventually get a line on the back of Kyril Montana’s rock. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He dove inside and grabbed the wood and ran around the edge of the ridge, scrambled up like a cat and blew and nearly had the flame feeding, growing, when the sound moved away. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Beyond it was a high hill that rose above a series of ridges running off to the east. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Gingerly the sparrow slid her claws along the smooth wooden ridge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He watched the shadows carefully, checking up and down the wood-hauling road that came down the broken shale ridge and intersected the Acoma road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Worse news, the patrol had seen the Confederates watching them from the ridge overlooking the ferry. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind, and to her left, was the ridge of jagged hills leading up to the fortress. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Pax bolted through the trees to the ridge above the encampment. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A thin bank of clouds below the ridge mirrored the heavier layer overhead, but forests, grasslands, and the shimmering arcs of rivers were visible through the misty veil. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Hood’s smoke stayed where it was, then slowly, very slowly, like a huge ghost, the white cloud came drifting gracefully up the ridge, clinging to the trees, drifting and tearing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Carefully she moved her hands over the narrow ridge of her grandmother’s body until she came to her shoulders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Union Army was supposed to be up on the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the soldiers were past the narrow ridge now, hurrying after the fleeing warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The rover, while descending down a seemingly ordinary slope, drove off an invisible ridge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She leapt over a ridge of black teeth as tall as swords, dashed through hungry jaws, and threw herself against the door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Four miles away, along the southern skyline, rose the seven-hundred-and-fifty-foot ridge of the downs. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He put the hat up again, the sword point on a new place, started screaming, follow me, follow me, and began the long last walk toward the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pax retraced his steps back along the ridge, back across the river, back downstream. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The road climbed steeply going up and back and forth through chestnut woods to level finally along a ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z As I said, you can see the green from the ridge, but not too well—it is a long way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Night was cold up on the high ridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Their anger had their bristles standing in high fierce ridges along their backbones. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The seed of blood climbs through the mirror's ridges. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Near the top of the ridge, I paused and angled into the trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The ink-black wedge of the summit pyramid stood out in stark relief, towering over the surrounding ridges. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He traveled on to the top of a ridge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I have picked mushrooms and blackberries on the ridge; for anything else, I have had to sneak into the valley at night. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The plateau narrowed gradually to a valley and the valley to a pass between long ridges. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We headed through the woods along the North Shore until a low ridge of hills appeared on our left. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They ran across the ridges of her cheeks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Hawk Mountain is a picturesque mountaintop in southeastern Pennsylvania, where the easternmost ridges of the Appalachians form a last barrier to the westerly winds before dropping away toward the coastal plain. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Aragorn was searching, bent towards the ground, among the folds and gullies leading up into the western ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There was something ridged and hard like a notebook in his back pocket. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The sun would not come over the ridge until about eight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The Division lay in the open fields beyond the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If he went a few yards over the top of the ridge, he would be in the scrub oaks, out of the storm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “And you, dear Fyrian, are one of the best I know. Come. To the top of the ridge! Let us hurry!” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Far off there's a strange ridge, even and uniform, and I can't make out what it is even as I squint against the sun. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z One, the smaller man, was heading up the ridge on his horse, but way off to the side safely beyond pistol range. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a piece of armour proofed in Europe but what Unde Dap had a theory about it He was furious with the new Gothic style, with its ridges and scallop-patterns and fluting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed one deep valley, then another, before Gurgi halted on a ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Robert kicked his horse back into motion and started down the ridge toward the barrows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Dawn broke as they crested a low ridge, and finally the king pulled up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Yes, we want to land. Very well, put us down below the ridge.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z That was the reason the company—meaning my dad—allowed him to make a living from his still on the ridge behind his house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Only the topmost ridges were in the sun now. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They stopped at the top of a ridge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He reaches out a hand and touches the ridge of Henry’s shoulder blade, the skin where the sheet has slid off him, where his lungs stubbornly refuse to stop pulling air. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They had topped a low ridge now, and below them the whole scene suddenly opened out; a little, many-towered castle with its gate towards them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The ridges felt funny on his mouth, made him feel like he was drinking out of a mayonnaise container. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They could not tell how far away the ridge might be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They marched out of the forest, crossed the Great Meadow, and climbed uphill until they were at the top of the island’s western ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The shell was wide and pink, covered in ridges. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It took a moment to locate the ridge of scales that hid the gate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The explosion whacked him in the face like a fist, but up on the ridge nothing happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled him up the slope, scrambling until they reached the top of the ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I stumbled a little on an unseen ridge and nearly fell because my battered body was slow to respond. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind it there was an outcrop of lava that made a knob on top of the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Washington picked up Rob’s basketball and held it in his hands, staring at its roundness, feeling the ridges and lumps on it, softly repeating Rob’s name. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds came racing over the ridge from the south as they had on the May evening when Hazel first climbed the down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll see you in a little bit,” he said, and galloped off along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When the light of day was come into the sky but the sun was not yet risen above the high ridges in the East, Aragorn made ready to depart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We ran down the side of the ridge until we got to the stream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They have ridges on the side like quarters do. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The ridges seemed to play queer tricks with sound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “You can take a nap, and I will walk us up to the ridge to see if we can see my grandmother on her journey. We can see terribly far from up there.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “It lighted every peak, crevasse, and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If they went on, down the further side of the ridge, they would have the Mountains on their left. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He rose and walked out along the ridge. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He started to struggle up the ridge towards the tower: but suddenly a light came in the sky, and there was a noise of thunder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They had left the truck parked in plain view, at the edge of a pine ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z "I told him to stay on the ridge, as you commanded." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Staying up on the hillside, near the top of the ridge, I worked my way to the far end of the valley, almost to the gap and the steep cliff on the far side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Long tree-clad slopes rose from the lip of the dingle, and away beyond them, above the fir-trees of the furthest ridge there rose, sharp and white, the peak of a high mountain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I followed Dylan and Worm along a path that wound through pastures of grazing sheep before a lung-busting ascent up a ridge. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His eyes fell upon the stone ridge to his left and he thought at first he should build his shelter against the stone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Belly to the ground, he made his way across the ridge to a spot above the old mill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Several times I have hidden behind the brush farther down the ridge and watched. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z From the crooked stone ridge, they could see for miles. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The ruins of an old castle clung to the ridge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Those legs of light suddenly lengthened and seemed to feel their way down the ridge, their lower ends lost in the whirl of sleet and rain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The wave sucked us up to its ridge and then rolled away, right underneath us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The light was still grey as they rode, for the sun had not yet climbed over the black ridges of the Haunted Mountain before them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He sighed as he looked at the gloomy ridges across the valley. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I walked along the ridge and through the woods. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z She remembered the young man’s shoes with their ridged soles. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “He rode up to the ridge after dinner. He’ll be back pretty soon.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z When it came from an angle, it gave us a stiff shove towards the edge of the ridge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z What I can think about is the water that I know is just up the ridge and down by an old rusty camper. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z On the other side of the ridge, even on the other side of Burden Hill, there are no leaves; everything is dead. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a ridge several miles from the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z At four o’clock he knocked on the door of the only house back of the ridge with a brick front. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the village, sweet meadows climbed toward a ridge of hills that looked, from a distance, to be covered in dark fur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He worked his way down the side of the ridge, winding back and forth across the slope, the way horses did to keep their footing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On the north the view was bounded by the long chalk ridge of the Hog’s Back, from behind whose eastern extremity rose the towers of the seven skyscrapers which constituted Guildford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He threw out his arms mechanically, left, right, left, right, but there were no shocks in his shoulders, just a dull ache along the ridge muscles of his back. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They struck the trail on a ridge and then dropped down into a deep canyon, up the other side, and broke out into some flats. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The map said “Village,” which should have been visible just over the next ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We were getting so near to the ridge, and in six or seven minutes, drifting like this, we should be out of deep water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes there would be a gust of wind and the clouds around me would lift and for a moment I could see out, to snow ridges and cloud banks farther away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z More likely, it was a ridge of dirt or rocks. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “I wonder why she’s so sad,” Will said as he and Lyra climbed the road up to the ridge. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Billy led us up the mountain, weaving through the trees and bursting through a line of thick rhododendron into a green glade beneath a ridge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “No,” Luna said firmly, and continued her ascent to the top of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z If he came over the ridge, as he had to do, he must have seen the valley and the green trees, because the ridge is higher than Burden Hill. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He could see a long way down across open fields to a road, a farmhouse, a long sweep of wheat rising up to green woods on the far ridge, at least a mile off. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Or it might be that a food is fun to eat—like ridged potato chips or cereal bars. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Look at those bare ridges,” he said, pointing. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I walked partway across the water on a series of flat stones, then jumped across a narrow pool onto a smooth, shallow ridge of rock that connected with the opposite bank. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Farther north along the ridge, some Long Knives dismounted again. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They had climbed up a narrow shelving ravine, but they still had a long way to go before they could even come in sight of the last craggy ridge. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a saddle, a low section in the ridge a hundred meters downstream that was about as scary as anything I had seen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So far today, she’d seen different types of mountains: dark ones with snowy ridges, green-covered ones, and one unreal mountain with a blue-gray disk-shaped cloud right above it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He looked north, but he could see nothing beyond the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Beside a long building, now little more than a ridge of blackened rubble, David pulled the board to a halt. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We left him and got to the top of the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gray eyes and his irises were very wide, the muscles ridged out on his jaws. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The land was long ridges, with streams down in the dark hollows. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They made an undulating ridge, often rising almost to a thousand feet, and here and there falling again to low clefts or passes leading into the eastern land beyond. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He watched them disappear over a ridge, and in a few minutes he saw the lead cow reappear on the far slope, still following the fence line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I drew two triangles against the ridged surface for the eyes, which Mr. Pirzada dutifully carved, and crescents for eyebrows, and another triangle for the nose. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There was a ridge off to our left about three hundred meters. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The orange color matched, and these had the same shallow ridges running up the stalk. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The ridged shell of some immense turtle hung above its door, painted in garish colors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He also dragged in more wood— endless wood—and then relaxed and watched die sun set over the trees in bade of the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The walking was uncommonly easy—the ridge was almost perfectly flat—and the absence of vegetation provided uninterrupted views. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I turned and ran through the woods toward the west ridge. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I follow the music, crest the ridge, and see the two men in their encampment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z What had from afar seemed to be one sheer mountainwall was split into several long steep ridges, separate isles perhaps, between which the sea ran in narrow sounds or channels. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Another army appeared on the ridge —hundreds of warriors in black-and-gray camouflage, armed with spears and shields. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He fought back a bitter stomach taste; the sweat was running down from under his arms, following the hollow ridges of his ribs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Campion and Thistle had joined him, Woundwort took them up to the ridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Three times each day, people trudged up to the palm-studded ridge of the hill to bring them food and water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were miles wide, apparently not breakers or the banked ridges of shallow water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to, but if I had waited until he came over the ridge, and then over Burden Hill where I could see him—where my valley begins—it would have been too late. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The curved ridges of the culvert pressed against his spine, and he could feel tiny pebbles and fine sand that had been washed inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was near the fence that ran along the top of the ridge. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane stood on the ridge and watched the caravan make its way to the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then in 1960 core samples showed that the ocean floor was quite young at the mid-Atlantic ridge but grew progressively older as you moved away from it to the east or west. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Chi-Boy looped back and guided us to a swatch of even ground under a ridge of thick pine where we’d spend the night. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They may have been no more than sharp ridges in the walls of the passage, but to the slave, alone and frightened in the dark, they seemed alive and snapping. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, you have to understand that we’d been here for a day and a half and in all that time Doug Swieteck hadn’t followed the gentlemen sign and used what was over the two ridges. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z High above, the drones near the ridge of the mountain, where the icy water from the east pours over its ledge. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After a few more miles, the empousai disappeared over a ridge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He heard someone come up from the west side of the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As if she weighed nothing at all, he turned and loped away in a long swinging run up toward the ridge and into the low trees. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z On a warm afternoon I had grown bored and decided, against my better judgment, to go to the east ridge of the valley to gather berries. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Within a year there were fires on the ridges and deranged chanting. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But at the end of the day, when he and Rocky had started walking back, they expected to see the old green truck parked on every ridge that came into sight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Their camp was well sited atop a low stony ridge that ran from north to south. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They had descended into a long fold of the land that fell away southward; now they began to climb up, and up, on to the high western ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her eyes followed everything greedily, watching him pull the eggs up into soft ridges in the center as they cooked and tilt the pan to let raw egg flow into the space. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The beech hanger lay some little way off to the southeast, on the far side of a grassy track that ran along the ridge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the warriors could see the soldiers on the ridge above them, they started shooting. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The ck’o’yo Kaup’a’ta somewhere is stacking his gambling sticks and waiting for a visitor; Rocky and I are walking across the ridge in the moonlight; Josiah and Robert are waiting for us. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Much of the wood from his original wall was still nearby and up in back of the ridge he actually found a major section of the weave still intact. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z No one can say what causes the oceans’ chemistry to change so dramatically from time to time, but the opening and shutting of ocean ridges would be an obvious possible culprit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Just as the sun dropped below the western ridges, O’Dell dropped off our tin at the Cape beside the lumber and the nails. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He thought often of the miles of ridge after ridge until at last there was the sea. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But the pantiled ridges were hard to walk on, and the first ones scrambled up on hands and knees, their wild eyes never leaving Will’s face. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the ridge south of Engine Rock, he stopped to look down at the Acoma valley and the road. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Arliss was screaming his head off, and here came the big dog with his wet fur rising along the ridge of his backbone, baying me like I was a panther. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They were dark green and ridged and longer than her pinky. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The storm had tom the forest to pieces—up in back of the ridge it looked like a giant had become angry and used some kind of a massive meatgrinder on the trees. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The road beyond ran along the crest of a ridge where the barren woodland fell away on every side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There was a tiny drone but as before it didn’t register, then suddenly, roaring over his head low and in back of the ridge a bush- plane with floats fairly exploded into his life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The path led Hazel up an incline, and now she was moving along a ridge above the ravine. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Waves of nerves cruised over her body, raising the little hairs and making ridges of icy burn as they went. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “We better get going,” she said, leading them on foot slowly up the slope toward the ridge, away from the direction Kyril Montana had taken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he turned away from the sun to mount the mare, he saw the spotted cattle, grazing in a dry lake flat below the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The ridge of his brow to hers, his cheekbone, rough, against hers, smooth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A 20-knot breeze raked the ridge, blowing a plume of spindrift far over the Kangshung Face, but overhead the sky was an achingly brilliant blue. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The sun gleamed on his white hair, the dark ridge along the brow line where the hat had pressed the hair down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridges of white cloud now covered all the sky above my head, and the sun was hidden. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The seed of blood climbs through the mirror's ridges. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We hit the first ridges of granite, the first lakes; there’s snow in the shadows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The man tried to speak but only a coyote sound was heard, and the tail moved back and forth sweeping ridges in the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I struggled on, my breath rasping in my throat, and then I reached the trees at the top of the ridge and flung myself flat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore only a pair of denim shorts, and the muscles on his back rippled, smooth and long like the ridges he weeded. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z And that’s when I saw it, the dark lines curving from his middle knuckle, rounding the ridges of vein, settling just under the cuff of his plaid sleeve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At around ten they spotted it twinkling on a nearby ridge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z There, on the high ridge of the Ajo Mountains, Matt gave himself over to grief. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A slight wind picked up and made the trees that grew in sullen clusters along the ridge sway menacingly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The only way up is to straddle their legs across two adjoining boxcars, using the horizontal ridges on the ends of the cars to inch higher. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I do not think I could have watched them cut, but 1 watched the wound closed into a high welted ridge with quick skilful-looking stitches like a cobbler's, and was glad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Up to thirty feet in length, the Hebridean Black is rough-scaled, with brilliant purple eyes and a line of shallow but razor-sharp ridges along its back. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On the verge of blending with the universe I hear the whispers around the ridges of consciousness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Without touching him I be feeling those ridges on the tips of my fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The agent climbed three-quarters of the way up the ridge and stopped again. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early evening they were disturbed by a horseman cantering along the ridge track that passed the north end of the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran down the ridge to the flat walkway near the buttress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The young sparrow launched herself off the ridge. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We raced to the top of the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the top of the ridge. There’s talk of the railroad expanding.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He lifted a hand and was surprised to find caked blood and a raised ridge in a line across the middle. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Another burning tree barrels down the ridge, bouncing off the hillside, before landing. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z There were many Austrian guns in the woods on that ridge but only a few fired. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Two warrior scouts, one on each side of the ridge, saw Crazy Horse and his warriors. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z In the morning, as usual, he went over the ridge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The side was riddled with crevices and caves, spiked with jagged ridges like ax blades. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Later, halfway up the ridge, he paused once more to take in the scene below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With a great effort and many helping paws from Tock, they reached the top of the ridge at last, but only two steps ahead of the furious Trivium. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z In that direction the land rose in wooded ridges, green, yellow, russet under the sun, beyond which lay hidden the valley of the Brandywine. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He pointed to the hills and ridges south of the tracks where the white people had built their houses. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Over the ridge,” he said, looking up through the sparse trees. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They had come to the end of a long cutting, deep, and sheer-sided in the middle, by which the road clove its way through a stony ridge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The feathers were concave, which separated them from one another, making a texture of ridges which he considered graceful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismounted, along a ridge, with all night to dig in, the boys could hold for a while. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over the ridge and straight into a rain shower. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Her board started to lighten, and soon she and Shay had hopped on again, coasting over a ridge and down into a dark valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Finally I came to the line of trees that ran along the ridge at the top of the encampment. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z An explosion just over the ridge shook the ground and flung stones and clods of earth high into the air. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They kept on walking along the ridge of the mountains. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its ridges had flattened out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nobody wanted to go up on the ridge, either. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind could be heard whishing in the brush on the ridge crests, but no breath of it penetrated down into the ranch-cup. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Away to their left, southward, against a sky that was turning grey, the peaks and high ridges of the great range began to appear dark and black, visible shapes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We began to drift sideways, closer to the ridge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Piper crept around the left side of the ridge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I could see the same thin lines etched around his neck and he’d developed a nervous habit of running his fingers along the ridges over and over again. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an overhang on the side of the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the ground here on the ridge is soft enough to dig a grave....” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A patch of glowing white hair appeared over the ridge, then a familiar grinning face with pure silver eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Or he could break for the top of the ridge about fifty yards above. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly the downs drew near; It was still an hour before noon when they reached them: green slopes rising to bare ridges that ran in a line straight towards the North. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The pure gold surface has been designed to resemble the woven horn that we fill at harvest, so there are little ridges and seams to get a decent hold on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We parked on a ridge overlooking the Atlantic. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He looked down on the little hills and ridges below and then out at the huge green Salinas Valley. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The dale ran like a stony trough between the ridged hills, and a trickling stream flowed among the boulders at the bottom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They set off in a new direction, along the ridge above the coast to the north. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Okay then, moving on,” she said, looking up at the three small buildings on the next ridge, just uphill from the sleeping cabins. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Some five hundred warriors hid on either side of the high, narrow ridge—about half of them in the gullies on the east side and the others on the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Jinny ran, through the prairie and down the path, over the ridge, and home. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Longstreet looked down at the map and then up at the hazy blue ridge in the east, trying to orient himself. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I made it to the ridge and back twice yesterday—I was on these things almost six hours. I would have done eight except you took them away, remember? I’m ready to go.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He drove his Bronco in pitch darkness across the Potomac and through Antietam National Battlefield, a broad ridge of cornfields and farmland scattered with stone monuments to the dead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As the sun disappeared over the west ridge, the last of the orange light moved up the hill on the east, with the darker shadow climbing up after it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Upon reaching the top of the rock steps at 28,400 feet, he was confronted with a series of short but troublesome rappels that angled along the ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a house to the right, smoke pouring from the roof, a great clog of men jammed behind the house, but men were moving across the road and up toward the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To force the throat could be a bloody business, since the ridge exposed the attackers to the spears, stones, and arrows of defenders in the two round towers that flanked the castle’s main gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z While the hot dogs cooked, I followed the path from the gentlemen sign down a sharp ridge, over a dry streambed, up another ridge, and behind a boulder the size of Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A feeling spread through her, a warmth that pushed away the cold wind cutting across the ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I concentrated on how nice it felt to hold her hand again, and began counting the ridges on each of her knuckles. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She had visited the College three times before; she knew that the ridges and gables and chimneys of the roof concealed plenty of hiding places, even for something as large as the intention craft. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I got off the ground as soon as I saw that they hadn’t reached the top of the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We see master and slave alike, confounded at the celerity and ineluctability of our approach, calling warnings— messengers sent on horseback, riding no faster than our progress, posting along ridges, bent close upon their steeds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Its only approach was defended by a gatehouse, behind which lay the long bare ridge the Con- ningtons called the griffin’s throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Manchee’s huffing and puffing, his back fur all ridged, hopping around like the ground is hot, looking as charged up and confused as I am, tho completely hopeless about keeping in any way cool. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I moved closer to the shark to get a better look at the ridges on the serrated teeth, leaning the sketch pad on my left forearm, to make a quick sketch of the steak-knife points. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But as I made my way closer to the clearing, I noticed two people by the edge of the ridge that loomed over the path below. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Abandoning the well-worn path, he angled back and forth up the side of a wooded ridge. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I say ridge; the word perhaps gives an incorrect impression of how steep the rise from the shore was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I saw a ridge of solid black cut through the forest like a vein. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He pointed at a ridge of hills to the east. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Little ridges of white cloud formed in the western sky and the sun became pallid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “A ruin, a ridge, and a few hovels? Come, my lord. You must suffer for your treason. He will want one of the mills, at least.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Finally, when he judged he had close to four pounds in the jacket he stopped and went back to his camp by the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I was fascinated by the ordered ridges of stone that had once been the soft body of a sea animal. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z His fingers have a thorn at each knuckle, and thorns ridge his arm, running up under the cuffs of his shirt, visible when he and Dain urge Madoc over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The view was of hills and ridges toward the east, and prairies all around. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z On the left side she leaves it long, and she cuts a ridge of short hair down the middle of my head so that my hair looks very much like the other men and boys. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Like a shadow, he slipped across the ridge, down the hill, and into the grub tent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Tally and David were in the darkness, climbing the ridge back toward the Smoke, the sky full of stars now that the moon had set. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They had been going uphill and now were at the top of the ridge—that ridge which had always been the boundary of Shasta's known world. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the white guys in my company yelled over to me from where he was pinned down by enemy fire on the north slope of Motoyama, a ridge in clear view of Suribachi. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The low ridge of snow that had collected against the bottom of the door collapsed onto the dirty linoleum inside. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s white and ridged on one side, shiny and pearly pink on the other. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And so they spent the afternoon practicing up on the ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Jimmy looked around from the narrow ridge on which they stood. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “We’ll go over a ridge, then back down into a valley,” I tell him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When it was just a dot against the blue sky, it stopped and came hurtling down, disappearing behind the highest ridge on Rocket Mountain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were uneasy and watchful, the hairs still stood upright in a ridge on his back, and from time to time he whined in perplexity. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He was so used to the specific ridges of Dawit’s shop that this was like wearing someone else’s clothes or putting your shoes on the wrong feet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “General, I understood General Lee to say that the enemy would be up on the ridge back there and we would attack across the road and up the ridge.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bombardment started to the south below the long wooded ridge where the Austrian guns were concentrated. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Alexandra stood up and smoothed the various whalebone ridges running up and down her person. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Short, chunky, muscular, the heir to Bear Island had big thighs, big breasts, and big hands ridged with callus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As we rise over the last ridge, I can see Grandpa’s grave clearly because the grass covering it is shorter than the rest. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The man crept toward one of the last boulders near the edge of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He looked up at the hills, and imagined Gaea’s face smiling in the shadows and ridges. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They followed the ridge to the mountain and climbed all the way up to the craggy peak just in time to see the sunrise. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Brightbill was a flying fanatic, and his favorite place to fly was up on the grassy ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The sky in the east turned orange, and then the sun appeared above the ridge. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A metal ridge cut into Mark’s back as the pilot pressed on him from above, leaning forward with his forearm dug into Mark’s neck, cutting off the air to his windpipe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z This stream flows into the valley out of a sort of cleft in the rock ridge to the left of Burden Hill—the water comes from outside, and it was poisoned. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t sleep, so I took my board up the mountain to watch the sunrise. They went right over me, twenty hovercars at once coming across the ridge. But what’s happening now?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Somewhere over the ridge, a crowd roared in approval, like spectators in a coliseum. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We were on the other side of the ridge and their line was coming up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I forgot myself and climbed the slope, then walked along the ridge, letting the wind take me as I stared out at the expanse of crooked streets and stone courtyards. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Far into the south there were smoky blue ridges of the mountain haze at Zuni. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Luna kicked it away, and it tumbled over the edge of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z At the top of the ridge, a group of Long Knives stopped and dismounted. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We stand on a hill seeing a huge ridge that extends miles south of us, rising in the mist. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They were now on a ridge that led to Last Stand Hill, which was about a mile to the north. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We had to fight from one ridge to the next. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His hackles stood up in a ragged ridge along the back of his neck and shoulders. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z From a ridge on our right a red fox started barking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He held them out to her, and she saw how the veins and arteries in his arms flowed in ridges just beneath his skin and how strong his wrists and fingers were. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z What’s left of any snow has melted into brown slush and runs in dirty ridges alongside the street gutters. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z From over on Castroville Street came the sweet sound of jingling horse bells from an eight-horse grain team down from the ridge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Luna reached the top of the ridge before noon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The rocky ridge was rounded and seemed to be of some kind of sandstone with bits of darker stone layered and stuck into it. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Cotter—who by now had walked over from his own camp beneath Pumori to the Everest Base Camp—scolded over the radio, “Rob, get moving down the ridge.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She wheeled her horse about and galloped down the ridge alone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We drove through slowly, of necessity, since the campus drives have cement ridges every forty or fifty feet that would cause your car to bump badly if any speed were attempted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the braid in my hair, an uncomfortable ridge along the back of my skull. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The helicopters might swoop us up from the ridge and save us a trip back to the hooch. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart pattered beneath her cheek, and she remembered the warmth of his skin, the raised ridges of his scars touching her chin and the corner of her mouth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a bare knoll on the top of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Soon they were even with the long, low ridge to the right. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It was early, and the morning sun had not yet made it over the lip of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Beyond this new river a delightful country rose gently in low hills, ridge beyond ridge, to the Northern Mountains themselves. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Perched on the ridge, the house caught every wintry blast that blew down from the Arctic and into the city. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One side of the spring overlooks a mountain range, where the ridges are just now catching the last rays of the sun. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was off below us a ways but climbing fast, its muscular tongues punching into the mud and propelling it up the ridge like a spider. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Gray fingers of moonlight parted the clouds, touching on blue ridges and black trees dusted with snow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It looked like a painting, the ridges of brown earth, the tepees of dark green tomato plants with their bright red fruits, the bent figures of the pickers and the blue sky overhead. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was perhaps two miles to Hang Wood, which ran up along the ridge. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He has stopped there and is deciding whether to follow Number 9 or come over the ridge. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I parked, found the AT, and walked along it on a high exposed ridge through the most amazingly devastated terrain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The sun was hanging low in the branches of the pines at the top of the ridge; the thicket and clearing were in deep shadow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At dawn he stopped on a grassy ridge to watch the sun rise; he let the mare graze, part of the cycle of restoration. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind makes her eyes water and buries their shoes in sand, hurls knots of dead grass from the curved ridges of one dune to another. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Pax climbed upstream and crossed the river at the narrows, then hurried along the treed ridge to observe the site from above. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I navigated badly and ended up at the ridge of Marth Crater. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridge seemed to run on forever, and there was no guessing in the milky void how long it would be till the form of Lafayette would rise to meet us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When I got to one of the high ridges I looked down into the valley. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Ninety minutes above the river, I crested a broad ridge, passed a matrix of rock-walled yak corrals, and abrupdy found myself in downtown Namche Bazaar, the social and commercial hub of Sherpa society. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z In the east, a few miles down the ridge, a trail of smoke drifted out of the canopy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z From the top of the second ridge Shasta looked back again. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Soon they reached the wooden ridge at the bottom of the roof curvature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rolling hills scattered with lava rock and the pine ridges between clearings were almost indistinguishable from one another. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the morning Jess Taylor from the ridge ranch rode down. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z All at once he felt afraid of their thick, ridged horns and their strange eyes and their strange silence. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Balthamos said over his shoulder, “A little farther, just to the top of the ridge, and we shall talk, I promise.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The last of the foot soldiers came off the ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for Butler, due to millennia spent butting each other, trolls have developed a thick ridge of bone covering their brows. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Something large was moving in the trees, just beyond the ridge. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And with each gulp, the scene on the ridge became clearer. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There was a man at the top of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z When they arrived at the truck, Jimmy looked back toward the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We wove through the dancing crowd, then out past the rock and into the darkness of the woods along the ridge of the bluff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And there it was: a bird, hovering on an updraft, as birds liked to do on this side of the ridge, hanging in place like tethered kites. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From the top of the high ridge at last we looked down, and the valley lay before us. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z We moved down the long side of the ridge, trying to keep our balance, hoping we wouldn’t step on a mine or pull a trip wire. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The pilot buzzed my tent three times in quick succession, dropping two boxes on each pass; then the airplane disappeared over a ridge, and I was alone. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were not enough men to carry ammunition and other supplies to the ridge. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I have ridged, reddish-gray bark; leathery leaves with pointed lobes; stubborn, searching roots; and, if I do say so myself, the best fall color on the street. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The Cleft, Cirith Ungol, was before him, a dim notch in the black ridge, and the horns of rock darkling in the sky on either side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z All of the ridges on his arms stood out. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Off to one side of the ridge he could see a small, meandering creek and two small ponds that fed it. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z The road led out along the side of a ridge, and after a mile or so I saw the house that must be Leper’s, riding the top of the slope. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll be up over the ridge and take them in the rear. When you are heavily engaged, Ewell will take them in front.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the low ridge, among outcrops of black rock, and were soon out of sight of the party behind them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z There lay a rocky ridge that stuck out overlooking the lake, about twenty feet high. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m thinking how, ’bout a year ago, I was fooling around up on the ridge and come across a dead dog. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw through a break in the trees, blue hills very far away, hazy ridges miles to the west, not ridges, mountains; he was on high ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Negotiating the serrated ridge presents no great technical hurdles, but the route is dreadfully exposed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The ridge took a sharper bend northward and was gashed by a deeper ravine. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He has no chance, Jon thought when he watched Stonesnake vanish over a snow-covered ridge, a tiny black bug crawling across a rippling expanse of white. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Tayo stopped the mare by a pine tree on a ridge near a scrub- oak thicket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The two of them were with other warriors on the west slope of a ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z David took the board over the ridge so fast that Tally thought she would tumble off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The bull-dozed earth is heaped in ridges and slopes beyond the trench. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain looked, saw a dark slope before him, rock behind him, ridges of rock to both sides. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Guitar was out there someplace, and since he seemed to know everything Milkman was doing or getting ready to do, he’d also know he was going out to some ridge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifteen burns, lined up like ridges on his right arm. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The road curved around to the ridge’s south face, and soon the whole procession had passed out of view. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If we tried now, we couldn’t climb up or hike down the ridge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Would he be sitting watching television and suddenly think about die sunset up in back of the ridge and wonder how die color looked in the lake? Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Above, the prow soared with authority toward the summit ridge, a vertical half mile above. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the clouds I see vague ridges of mountains and dark forests. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I zeroed in on the tiny, steak-knife ridges on the sides. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He could see all the way across the town and the ridges to the blue mountains beyond, a darkening sky. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z True, we don’t need to drop down to another ridge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The ridges above them now looked less like steps and more like rows of massive teeth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were off to the side, up on a ridge of snow a little higher than me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Fighting exhaustion, the two climbers continued up the undulating ridge above. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z My old friend is up on the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘He’ll be watching from the ship. Go to the ridge -’ ‘And flash him!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z For reasons unknown, Indians heaved up a ring of eleven irregularly sized mounds, most of them connected by a ridge, on a hill overlooking the course of the Ouachita River. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The ridges in the pottery for his fur were so fine that each hair was defined. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Across rain-sodden fields and stony ridges, she could see the great castle of Storm's End rearing up against the sky, its back to the unseen sea. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z A little way on, Gwydion stopped, raised his shaggy head, and narrowed his eyes toward a distant ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Helpless, I watch as she steps off the ridge, then twists. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Tally gripped the board with both hands and jumped from the river to the ridge line. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sud-denly, he gestured at me to look to the left: Across a ridge, bathed in yellow light, was a tiger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She only waved and headed straight up the sandy path, climbing the ridge to her own cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When he appeared over the ridge, Hazel couldn’t quite believe her eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The ridge above us is heavy, dense with trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Frequently, one of the dog teams had to be unharnessed from its sled and then hitched to a lifeboat to help the men drag it up and over a hummock or ridge. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “And look!” he said, pointing at the next ridge over. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The largest of these holes were rimmed with ridges of broken rock, and broad fissures ran out from them in all directions. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We can see where the river, foaming, falls, disappearing over a ridge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She allowed her vision to go wide, to hook over hills and ravines and ridges, to creep over the curve of the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “The ranch is north. The fire is sweeping up the whole ridge. We’ll be trapped.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I can feel the ridges of her spine against my chest. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I reach out and touch the green rail, running my thumb across a ridged section where the paint is chipped and flaking. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She sat down on the ground and stared at the ridge, thinking nothing at all. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Bob helped them over the top of another ridge. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There had been a grass fire not long before, so all the vegetation of the more open ridges and peaks had burned away. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z That night they wound their way through the woods up to the ridge by a wood-cutter's track. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And so they fled: away from the gym, away from the paths, away from the Institute—into the tangled rock-jungle of sand dunes, ridges, and crags that made up the island’s interior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the tavern was a rise—Herr Ridge, Johnston said, a continuation of the ridge leading out from town, facing Seminary Ridge about a mile away, not two miles from the Rocky Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go kneel on that ridge there and raise your arms. Stay in that position until I come back from lunch.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse and Little Hawk stayed to the west side of the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Only the change in the level of the ground at his feet told him when he at last came to the top of a ridge or hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It sloped more than the ridge did and we got to the top fairly quickly. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridge runs perpendicular to the direction I was going. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He kicked the cane out of Old Qian’s hand and savagely pushed him down on his knees onto the sharp ridges of the washboard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The robot and the goose hiked and flew up to their favorite spot on the grassy ridge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Along the ridge at the top of the meadow came a gang of strange boys and another herd of catde. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Here was a hush in the night, moonlight and shadows, a thick carpet of dead leaves underfoot, densely, wooded ridges sloping gently down to the streambed, the underbrush thinning as the ground fell away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They scrambled to a ridge and looked down the other side at a white Colonial house—May Castellan’s place. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Moving both downward and ahead on the ridge’s layered ledges. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The Ents were drawing near the crest of the ridge now, and all song had ceased. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “They some water comin down below the ridge on the other side. Real deep; wide too.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z ALL down the ridge they were digging in, all around the crest of the hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There she could sit and watch the foam disappear, the scoops of ice cream lose their ridges and turn to soft, glistening halls like soap bars left in a dishpan full of water. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been running along the ridge of the fence and she’d been mesmerized by the undulating arc its body and tail had traced as it ran. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then somebody would bring up about Granny’s ancestors leading a wagon train from North Carolina, how they camped here on the ridge under some big sassafras trees while they were building their houses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Dried ridges of black blood were on the blade! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a boy on his knees on the road edge, staring upward toward the ridge, unmoving. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The arrows from the east slope arced and flew down the west ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Rob Hall was there, too, waiting impatiently for Doug Hansen to appear as a rising tide of cloud lapped ominously at the summit ridge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Now he could see; the land lay before him wreathed in smoky ridges. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was thick and gray, smelling of heat and rain; long mists drifted down between the ridges, lay in pools in the woods, rose toward the sun like white steam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pull back farther, and you got a sense of where Clarkston sat in America—tucked in a green corner of the country beneath the gray ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z When he found the courage to look again, a long time had passed, and the ridge below was empty. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There suddenly upon a ridge appeared a rider, clad in white, shining in the rising sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We went out a quarter of a mile more, until we could just about see Route 586, when Monaco halted us and pointed toward the ridge line. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With a final wave to the yunka man, I rounded the last of the trail and gazed from the ridge down to Sacred Sun City. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z A great ridge of clouds stretched above the setting sun, and the air was cold and clean. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The moon hung low over a ridge lined with pines and oak trees. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Cora ran her hand along the wall of the tunnel, the ridges and pockets. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I cut around the back of another hump and saw that the ridge ahead dropped away and we could see far into Tibet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And just over the lip of the ridge, and nearly upon him, was the other glow—the blue glow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And now, as Luna ran up the ridge, she was changing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z On Catoctin Mountain, a ridge of the Appalachians that runs north to south through the western part of the state, the trees were brightening into soft yellows and golds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s torturous getting to the top of the ridge, even though it’s not all that steep and it’s just a few dozen yards ahead of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The hard ridge of his glasses pressed into my temple. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He had seen something, but it wasn’t necessarily on the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, eager to catch Fischer, who was by now more than thirty minutes ahead of him, the Sherpa continued down the ridge, leaving Hansen and Hall at the top of the Hillary Step. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She drew a dagger out of her belt and began to run her finger up and down the ridge along the center. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I felt, again, the gratitude I’d felt in that other forest, the ridge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It had taken two hours for Dallas and Sairy to hike beyond the limits of the holler, and now they stood on top of a ridge, looking back the way they’d come. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z When he was done or found berries, he thought, he would just turn around so the water was on his left and walk back until he came to the ridge and his shelter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He even caught a glimpse of the sentry along the narrow ridge just where he had so lately escaped by the door in the wall. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Now, with his head pointing upward, he found himself gazing at the ridge, as over the skyline came the silent, moving, red-tinged cumuli. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, gray-green hills marched toward a mountain ridge, which made Jason a little nervous. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When I came up on deck I saw we were within twenty yards of the ridge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Well, all right, then. Tomorrow morning you take Nellie up to the ridge ranch and get her bred. You’ll have to take care of her, too, till she throws the colt.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step, a pronounced notch in the ridge that demands some technical maneuvering. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Walking past the trees on the northern ridge of the hill gave a gorgeous view of the surrounding countryside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Near the top of the ridge, I knelt, searching for tracks in the dirt. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z ‘We came down over the last ridge into Nan Curunír, after night had fallen,’ Merry continued. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I take a long swig of my filtered water—Farmer and Ti Jean haven’t drunk anything yet—as we stride across a ridge through yellow grass. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His hands flashed through a series of signs: the collar he’d made on the ridge; his sign for hunting; three fingers for the family. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And if so, it also meant that it had taken them more than ten hours to move down a stretch of ridge that was typically covered by descending climbers in less than half an hour. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Every few miles they stop and set up a transceiver on some hump or ridge. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Exercising extreme caution, I continued descending the tightrope of the ridge, but fifty feet above the oxygen cache the rope ended, and I balked at going farther without gas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head again, and the earlocks danced and brushed against the ridge of his jaw and the hollow of his cheeks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Then Jody’s eyes followed the wagon road down from the ridge where he stood, and lost it behind a hill, and picked it up again on the other side. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Mormont had outdistanced the rest of their party, and now the others were climbing the ridge below them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the ridge, the boards started to stutter, and they stepped off. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They climbed the ridge from which Tally had first looked down on the settlement, and David led her along it to a cool, fiat outcrop of stone where a view opened up between the trees. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We bump over ridges and uneven slabs in the road. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The ridge upon which the companions stood went down steeply before their feet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As Timothy said, it was shaped like a melon, or a turtle, sloped up from the sea to our ridge where the palms flapped all day and night in the light trade wind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I had to turn tail a second time, and again she chased me clear to the top of that ridge. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The subtlety and precision of the modeling, the fine gradation of planes and ridges, the feeling for the relationship of flesh and bone would be remarkable enough in themselves, quite apart from the early date. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Had my legs been weaker, they would have given way beneath me when I saw what I saw beyond the ridge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Jinny turned to follow the other girl’s gaze, and saw that Ess was tumbling down the path along the ridge from the cabins, arms outstretched, kicking up dust. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When his voice had started deepening and his shoulders grew broader, his throat ridged, Jam had been fascinated—it was what would have happened to her in another time, another life. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He looked searchingly at the towering mountains—ridge after ridge after ridge until at last there was the ocean. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine hundred and ninety-nine small dragon ornaments perch on the ridges of those tiled roofs. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Here and there upon heights and ridges they caught glimpses of ancient walls of stone, and the ruins of towers: they had an ominous look. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This magnificent animal bursting over the ridge at full gallop couldn’t possibly be the same lisdess, bedraggled tiger who was my companion in misfortune? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As the day wore on, Melyngar led them swiftly through rocky defiles to high ridges. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z ‘No, it’s more than that. Look at the ridges and grooves carved around the rim.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He moved to the top of the rock ridge that comprised the bluff over his shelter and was pleased to find a large, flat stone area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Manchee and me get past the school building and up on the little ridge and look north and there it is, the town itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Out under the trees, some rangers had found enough duff and dry wood to start a fire beneath a slanting ridge of slate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He slammed the box, picked up his lunch pail and trotted over the ridge and down into the cup of the ranch. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z But the plume of snow now blowing from the summit ridge was a bad sign: the Montenegrins were struggling upward through ferocious wind. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The road ahead was long and straight, rising toward a ridge of trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We rowed until the skin wore away from the ridges of our palms and we were certain we absolutely couldn’t row another stroke, but then did, and then another, and another. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They were cut off from the wind by the ridge behind, and the air was still and stuffy. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cow paths had been transformed into paved thoroughfares, railroad tracks crisscrossed the valley floor, and electric lines snaked over the ridges and connected up to a vast switchyard hulking with transformers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He pointed down the eastern slope of the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They led to ridges so narrow and so steep on both sides that straddling was the easiest solution. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Meade had put troops along the ridge so that his position was shaped like the fishhook, but there were no troops yet on the rocky hills. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he felt the intense cold as the wind blew across the ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I could feel the frame of the glasses cutting into the ridge of my nose as I tilted my hat and squeezed up to the bar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair had fallen to the wrong side and I could see the long scar at his hairline, all dented and puckered, with ridges of white flesh cutting across it to the browbone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He rode slowly along the ridge, looking for headquarters. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun came out once before it went down and shone on the bare woods beyond the ridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Just on the other side of the ridge, the east-west highway, the Dean Town Road, crosses our road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Armistead turned and ran back through the trees across the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I hurried across the ridge and through more trees, and hid behind a stone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Henry laughs indulgently, and Alex closes the space between them, takes Henry’s baseball cap off and stands on his toes to kiss the ridge of his brow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “They went behind a ridge or something,” said Will. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As I crested the ridge, a prickly feeling crept over me, and I looked around to see a man watching me from a distant outcropping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The solemn birds soon disappeared over the ridge. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo half expected to see the small distant figure of a horseman on the ridge dark against the sky; but there was no sign of one. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But that day wore on, and when afternoon faded towards evening they were still scrambling along the ridge and had found no way of escape. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Once we were in Tarrenpeth there were fewer ravines or steep ridges. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Dots of perspiration were running into the little ridges along his nose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The center of the Union line, the center of the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the familiar ridge line far behind, and the mountain rose steeply to one side. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She examined in turn the powder in her compact, the ridges on her nail file, the way her comb was inflexible and the threads of her handkerchief. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The water was choppier in close, and twice he struck a stone ridge just beneath the surface, the second time so hard he was afraid it might bash in the boards. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z "The camp is two miles farther on, over that ridge, hard beside a stream," Will said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Kainene launched a Plant Our Own Food movement, and when she joined the men and women and children in making ridges, Olanna wondered where she had learned to hold a hoe. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His face was puffy and the ridged pattern from the sofa cushions was printed deeply on his cheek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She ran me clear to the top of the next high ridge before she turned back. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z On a ridge not far away, a sycamore log lay on its side supported by two of its broken branches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was at the top tier of the very tall shelves, along the northern wall beyond which the shark-fin ridge fell away in a sheer cliff all the way to the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Wisely he had edged sufficiently along the ridge to avoid both. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He sighed so big his shoulders slumped where they curved out of his faded undershirt, so thin I could follow the angles and ridges of his scars like tattoos under fabric. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I spent the rest of the afternoon hunting alone, walking the ridge, searching the shadows for signs of pig, looking and listening as hard as I could to will another animal out of the woods. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z More Specters were arriving there every minute, streaming over the ridge from the right. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun was coming over the ridge now, glaring on the whitewash of the houses and barns, making the wet grass blaze softly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope no heavy snow fells until we have got over the evil ground between this place and the glacier-arm we saw some miles to the west from the ridge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Just the walk around the back of die ridge and the slight climb over the top had left his legs rubbery. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z His anxiety passed, and noticeably surer-footed than the previous day, he disappeared another time over the ridge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One bull came from off a high rocky ridge to the south of the cabin. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The dwarf could see them basking in the sun, brown and black hummocks with jagged ridges down the center of their shells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Cumberland Plateau is a wild and mountainous region of flat-topped ridges, mountain walls five hundred to a thousand feet high, and narrow valleys, some wide enough only for a one-lane road and a creek. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The deep ridge of his forehead was finished with two branched dragon horns, one on each side of his head, and the broad nostrils of his nose flared. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Another lifted his boot with a millipede curled into the ridges of its sole. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the middle of the mid-Atlantic ridge was a canyon–a rift–up to a dozen miles wide for its entire 12,000-mile length. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But they bit ridges into my skin that itched and hurt at the same time. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The western side of each ridge was steep and difficult, but the eastward slopes were gentler, furrowed with many gullies and narrow ravines. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Against the sullen redness of the eastern sky a cleft was outlined in the topmost ridge, narrow, deep-cloven between two black shoulders; and on either shoulder was a horn of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Looking up he saw before him a tall white tower, standing alone on a high ridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Each time they climbed a ridge the breeze seemed to have grown less. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His face was deathly pale and he was so beside himself that tears rolled down the ridges of his nose. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “A Byrd. Belonged to the Byrd family over by the ridge. Near Solomon’s Leap.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At Hawk Mountain the ridges converge and so do the aerial highways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The touch of those small fingers on his face—tracing the furrows and ridges of the scars—made Antairis heart constrict, just a little. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There were wild strawberries growing on the sunny side of the ridge in a little clearing in the trees. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z To this day, I can smell the smell of the bark—a sweet, woody smell—and feel the ridges in the bark, and taste that distinctive taste on my lips. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z For a moment he thought he could see a black speck crawling up the farthest ridge. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He had heard the low rhythm of the bells on the buoys that balanced on the ridges of the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Will threaded their way through a thicket, then started up the Slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Garrett is exactly where I left him—on the ridge above the burning campsite, leaning against a tree. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z When my foot accidentally rubbed the brake, the sole of my sneaker squeaked against the ridges of the pedal. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When the snow stopped, I saw that we had sheltered beneath the great pine at the top of our ridge. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z They descended the ridge on the far side, down a steep, narrow path. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She ran even faster, though the ridge was steep and the way was long. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We come over another ridge and start down a slope. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Because the mountains interfered with reception, in 1954 he erected an antenna on a high ridge and provided one of the first cable television systems in the United States as a free service. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the ridge, the grasses rose around her, tall and supple. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They continued another mile, and again the beach was interrupted by a ridge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The dirt came off, although the ridges were stained with vegetable matter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And between the ridge and Burden Hill he is still in it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The wildlings came boiling over a ridge not half a mile away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They traversed the slope of the ridge till it dipped into the head of the valley, and there, sure enough, among ferns and reeds, a spring bubbled out of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He came to a small mound of brick, where the upjutting ridge of the building’s flat top joined that of the other. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And just before it, the white clapboard building becomes visible halfway up a small ridge. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She could feel the three ridges—and some smaller ones, but nothing, nothing— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Hazel walked over to the edge of the ridge, thinking she might catch a glance of her reflection in the stream below. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It was like a piece of soft, grayish-white leather, all ridged and rough on one side. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, staring down at it with the rest of them, he noticed clotted ridges that might once have been fur, and frost-fastened along one edge, a naked tail. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He said the Austrians had a great amount of artillery in the woods along Ternova ridge beyond and above us, and shelled the roads badly at night. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z So once again she turned her back upon the distant hill and closed her ears to the song of flight and freedom that the wind sang as it played amongst the hill’s stony ridges. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In fact, that afternoon she was waiting for me outside the gates of Camillo Junior High, standing beside a ridge of crusted snow that she had stamped down flat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z You could smell the whiskey on his breath, and when he talked, you could see the pink ridges of his toothless gums. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And when I was nine, smoke from a fire two ridges over had kept most visitors away. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The cabin was two miles from Hatchet’s camp at the lake, but three from the ridge. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m here because last night I remembered a blue willow grove near the northwest ridge,” Connor said as I emerged from the coop. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It was also close to the cliff and a ridge of rocks which would shelter my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He started dragging sticks up from the lake and pulling long dead branches down from the hill, never getting out of sight of the water and the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I hoped to God that they didn’t know how many of us were on the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pressure ridges reared up like wrinkles in a huge white blanket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Dust motes danced in the beam as he swung it back and forth, revealing scarred metal and rows of bolts and protruding edges and ridges. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He told Gamble to dismount and dig in along the crest of the ridge just past the seminary, facing the Rebs who would come down that road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After every wet crossing, I would shake like a dog and wring out my clothes as best I could so they dried in ridges white with salt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I got her out there, beyond the beacon, and I tried to go about, to clear the ridge of rocks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She saw the ridges of muscle on Velutha’s stomach grow taut and rise under his skin like the divisions on a slab of chocolate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He leads me up and down, across small gaps and Over angular ridges. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was dark on the ridge, and I did not look back. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z While Groom was waiting for Adams to climb back up to the ridge, he sent Namba down ahead and busied himself trying to find a camera case he’d left on the way up. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Six of them took their boards up and out the other side of the valley, down a stream churning with white water, and along a razor- sharp ridge filled with iron ore. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z By 9:00 a.m. they were at the South Summit, gazing across the dizzyingly narrow ridge that led to the summit proper. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, out of nowhere, the parrot swoops down, his wings wide, and he grabs me, his talons digging into the ridges and convolutions of my gray matter. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He whipped the mare into a dead run, crouching low over her neck, trying to guide her over the rocky, uneven terrain, down the steep slope of a ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Essentially, it went where access could be gained, mostly high up on the hills, over lonely ridges and forgotten hollows that no one had ever used or coveted, or sometimes even named. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Wofford’s Brigade had pushed up the ridge almost to the top the day before. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The nose of the raft made it, carried over by the pressure ridge, hung for a second, then dropped, plummeted down. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He sat crosslegged in the leaves at the crest of a ridge and glassed the valley below them with the binoculars. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I could not bury Faro; I had no shovel, I carried his body to the east ridge, laid it on the ground, and covered it with stones. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The sun had just come over the ridge on the east, which meant it was about 8:30. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z As they were swept aside the travellers could see, now very close, the pale foam of the River lashing against sharp rocks that were thrust out far into the stream like a ridge of teeth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The birds themselves swooped and cried, weaving in and out of immense, curved ridges that could only be spines, segmented and spurred, and, unmistakably: giant hands, giant feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was dusk when I got my first glimpse of it off in the distance, beyond a ridge. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The interior of Svalbard was mountainous, with jumbled peaks and sharp ridges deeply cut by ravines and steep-sided valleys, and the cold was intense. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see the ridge they’d been on, or the valley between. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I imagined Mother standing by the back door, her eyes sweeping the dark ridge, when my father came home to tell her they hadn’t found me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Fire across the ridge, down the mountainside, spreading inland, tree by tree, burning like massive candles, pop-pop-popping and falling, striking more trees, burning ground cover, eating the landscape alive. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Located fifty-five miles from the Ouachita site, Poverty Point had as a focus a structure resembling an amphitheater: six concentric, C-shaped ridges, each five feet tall, on a bluff facing the river. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And so we walked, hour upon hour, over rollercoaster hills, along knife-edge ridges and over grassy balds, through depthless ranks of oak, ash, chinkapin, and pine. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Watch the ridge line! Watch the ridge line!” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The top ridge began to fall over and disintegrate into churning confusion. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The afternoon passed slowly on the ridge above the Greasy Grass River. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He had been ready to give up and turn back when he finally came over the ridge and saw, in the late evening, the haze of blue green. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z A patchwork of sheep-speckled fields spread across hills that rose away to meet a high ridge, where a wall of clouds stood like a cotton parapet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They’d disappeared behind one of the ridges, but that didn’t matter. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Driving home, she spots the snowy ridge of the Cascade Mountains in the distance. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Then I came to the last tree, just over the edge of the ridge. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A heat haze shimmered over the desert, and he saw a series of ridges that might be buildings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yayoi people averaged an inch or two taller, had close-set eyes, high and narrow faces, and flat brow ridges and noses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at the ridge, but he could see only a few black cannon, a single flag. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He darted forward, through the shadows, onto the bare knoll at the top of the ridge, where large boulders stood like sentinels, guarding the mountains. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Susan do. Right behind the ridge. Only house back in there with a brick front. She by herself now. All the others moved out so they could pass.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My eye still roved over the sullen swell and along the moor-edge, vanishing amidst the wildest scenery, when at one dim point, far in among the marshes and the ridges, a light sprang up. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He observed exactly what I saw four decades later: isolated hillocks of forest; long raised berms; canals; raised agricultural fields; circular, moat-like ditches; and odd, zigzagging ridges. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pebbles rained down around them as Lharys came springing and sliding down the ridge. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I could see them walking down the ridge. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I drew over the ridges of the wings, and the neck, and the long beak. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes when she walked near home on the first little ridge, she’d get a strange feeling about the world. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain gathered strength, limping along the ridge, tucking himself in under his soft black hat, out of the sun. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had settled into the gray funk deeper and still deeper until finally, in the dark, he had gone up on the ridge and taken the hatchet and tried to end it by cutting himself. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Once we took a lesser-traveled path off the Pacific Coast Trail and followed it to the top of a ridge, where we discovered a golden plateau of desert sunflowers. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Soon it would look over the dark ridges of the Ephel Dúath, and he would faint and cower in the light and heat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I stepped up onto the ridge so he could flatten himself against the buttress. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My radio went dead and I thought it was broken, but it was only that the high ridges cut off the radio waves. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The eastern faces of the Ephel Dúath were sheer, falling in cliff and precipice to the black trough that lay between them and the inner ridge. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Only instead of heading back for the long walk around the beach, the two girls took a shortcut, up the sandy path behind the dunes that led over the ridge. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Almost by accident he glanced up the ridge, in time to see a third man not one hundred yards away, on foot and also carrying a rifle, rise into view. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked flat from a distance, but up close it was made of folds and ridges that got harder to navigate the farther they walked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were posting cannon along the ridge by moonlight: pleasant looming shapes, rolling caissons. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet when she looked across the valley to the far ridge, she saw the Greatjon's riders emerge from the darkness beneath the trees. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A day later, as the trail crested a ridge, he got his first glimpse of Mt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a perfect view of St. Helens rising up over the ridge. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Evenings were peaceful, smoke settling in the quiet air to soften the dusk, lights twinkling on the ridge we would camp on tomorrow, clouds dimming the outline of our pass for the day after. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “I doubt that they will,” Taran said, watching the horsemen slowly disappear over the ridge. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z On very hot days, the algae’s weave became tight and dense, and the island increased in height; the climb to the ridge became steeper and the ridge higher. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z On the ridge all the soldiers had turned back south. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To lead them to the ridge—and to the ambush. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z One had already been plowed and the polished edges of the furrows caught the light with a dull glint, conspicuous from the ridge above. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way, the sun appeared over the ridge, but some clouds followed it almost immediately, and the chill stayed in the air. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Shin's mother knelt on the ridge in the sun for an hour and a half, arms reaching for the sky. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was burst after burst in the dirty air, yellow lightning shattering the ground, splintering rock, ripping limbs off the great trees and sending them twisting swirling dancing along the ground, along the ridge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, there,” he said, pointing to the western ridge. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She brushed her thumb gently over the bumps and ridges. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There was a horse coming down the ridge: great black horse with blood all over the chest, blood streaming through bubbly holes, blood on the saddle, dying eyes, smoke-gray at the muzzle: Garnett’s horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had disappeared over the crown of the ridge Jody walked up the hill in back of the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z They raced recklessly over the uneven ground and outran the Long Knives’ horses on the ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “On this ridge. But we have to imagine the land covered with snow, though not completely. And remember, it was very, very cold.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Xan couldn’t stay that way—she just didn’t have enough magic—but she and the child could stay airborne over at least the next two ridges. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z At such times the ridge came down, and the continental shelf, so to speak, stretched out, and the algae along the shore became so slack that I tended to catch my feet in it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When the road reached the top of a ridge, they paused once more. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Above us, on the ridges, trees are exploding uncontrollably. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Lord Faa! If Iorek Byrnison takes me over the ridge to the village, we can find out whatever it is, and then catch the sledges up further on. He knows the route,” she urged. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Hoping to avoid dangerous gridlock on the summit ridge, Hall held a big powwow with leaders of the other expeditions in Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z When she came to the first trunk, she rested her hands on the deeply ridged red-gold bark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His preparation was to dig a trench, heaping the earth in a long ridge beside it to hold the blades half-bedded. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead the road came out of the forest and went along the shoulder of the ridge of hills. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Shells were falling on the ridge nearby and bullets were slicing leaves, but Reynolds sat astride the horse in a motionless calm, looking out toward the fight, picture of a soldier, painted against the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamber- lain strode back and forth, watching the Regiment form along the ridge in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed frame was nearly twice her body weight and the ridges were tearing cruel welts in her palms. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z At 4:30 p.m., and again at 4:41, Hall got on the radio to say that he and Hansen were in trouble high on the summit ridge and urgently needed oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He sat up, the better to look at the great mountains where they went piling back, growing darker and more savage until they finished with one jagged ridge, high up against the west. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes all the ridges and bumps look so smooth, like they were never even there. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On the opposite, northern side of the river are a series of sandstone ridges that reach down from the Guiana Shield in the north, halting close to the water’s edge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I stopped to examine one of the trees closely and saw ants crawling along the intricate ridges in its bark. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z |
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