| 单词 | rock-ribbed |
| 例句 | They convinced themselves that Adams was the enemy, and then all the evidence fell in place around that rock-ribbed, if highly questionable, conviction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As rock-ribbed a Republican as ever was allowed to take a breath in West Virginia, my father detested the Russian Communists, although, it should be said, not quite as much as certain American politicians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The country around was likewise primitive, but haunting in its picturesqueness, with second-growth timber and rock-ribbed fields. The celebrity war hero of 1919: The search for Sergeant York and his famous WWI diary 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Pearl Jam’s songs, particularly its early ones, often face up to youthful traumas and fears, taking heart from rock-ribbed melodies and surging crescendos. Review: Pearl Jam’s Full-Throttle Marathon at Madison Square Garden 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Early on, soon after “Lawless Times,” Mr. Mellencamp offered a rock-ribbed “Minutes to Memories,” about the wisdom and obligation passed down from one generation to the next. Review: John Mellencamp, Still Defiant, at the Apollo Theater 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z They are rock-ribbed, conservative ranchers who wear cowboy hats and boots. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Just past the ridge where the resort’s boundary gates usually sit, in the shadow of rock-ribbed Cody Peak, we entered another world — above a puffy white cloud layer covering Teton Valley. Explorer: Skiing Igloo-to-Igloo Across the Grand Tetons 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z They make Ms. Williams’s rock-ribbed melodies sound like they’ve always existed, grounded in Southern music without obvious quotes. New Albums From Lucinda Williams and Christopher Owens 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z One question Heller plays with throughout the book is whether all this rock-ribbed, superior-feeling sense of the world is covering up for something — and whether we’re missing something important when we long to be saviors. A novelist's homage to the dumb humans of Yellowstone Park 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z Bacharach and David’s first hit with Warwick can still startle you with its blend of romantic desperation and rock-ribbed defiance. Burt Bacharach: 20 essential songs 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. McCormick, who ran as a rock-ribbed Republican and strong supporter of former President Trump, was outperforming Mr. Oz in the rural areas of the state and Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania’s Senate GOP primary too close to call 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z “She continues to be a rock-ribbed supporter of the America First agenda.” Kellyanne Conway endorses Jane Timken in Ohio Senate race, accepts role as senior adviser 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Not just any river of ice, but a tidewater glacier that descended all the way from tall, snowy mountains down to the sea where it calved blue minarets into a rock-ribbed fjord. ‘The Whole Place Feels Wrong’: Voices Across America on What the Climate Crisis Stole 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Her immediate problem is regaining the trust of the rock-ribbed conservatives who make up her base. Nancy Mace Called Herself a ‘New Voice’ for the G.O.P. Then She Pivoted. 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z He was, to be sure, a rock-ribbed Republican. Opinion | John Warner was the kind of Republican the country needs now 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z That’s how Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. began his rock-ribbed and unusual speech to the Federalist Society on Thursday night. Alito homes in on gay marriage, gun rights, religious liberty in stern speech to conservatives 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Rick Pierce, a south Philadelphia native who moved to the suburbs a few years ago, was a rock-ribbed Republican but says Trump has tried his patience over the past year. Philly shooting brings policing, racism back into campaign 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But again, those charges only resonate with rock-ribbed conservative voters. What Trump's suspension of coronavirus aid talks means for future of relief bill 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Over time, the party has replaced the supposedly squishy justices with rock-ribbed conservatives approved by Federalist Society gatekeepers. Opinion | The party of McConnell, in the age of Trump, stands for nothing 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Rather than a rock-ribbed Republican stronghold, all six of its congressional seats are held by Democrats. Column: John Wayne's heroism was fake. Take his name off Orange County's airport 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z But the relatively sparse crowd suggests that even in a rock-ribbed Republican state like Oklahoma, Americans of all political stripes still are cautious as they emerge from lockdown. Trump rally size raises question about risk in age of virus 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Bolton comes to his newfound position as a Trump critic after a lifelong reputation as a rock-ribbed conservative, Fox News commentator and Republican serving in administrations dating back to the 1980s. Bolton book exposes rare fissures between Trump and Pompeo 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson said he initially warmed to Mr. Trump in 2016 when he tapped Mr. Pence, a rock-ribbed social conservative, as his running mate. Standing ovation to cries for expulsion: About-face on Romney reflects fickle taste in leadership 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z But by Thursday morning, Trump was portraying himself as the victim of the “Greatest Presidential Harassment in history” and blasting Mueller, a rock-ribbed Republican, for an alleged — and imaginary — conflict of interest. Opinion | If Trump doesn’t warrant impeachment, who does? 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Indeed, even in rock-ribbed landlocked Kansas, Kris Kobach, the state’s nativist attorney general, lost his bid for the governorship. The Republican has morphed into Trump. Now it's paid the price | Lloyd Green 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The president lauded Mr. McConnell as a “rock-ribbed Kentucky leader” and “a tough cookie” before a self-indulgent addendum. A Court Victory Heals All Wounds: Trump Calls McConnell ‘the Greatest Leader in History’ 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z But GOP Senate and House majorities require victories in less rock-ribbed Republican turf like Florida, too. Opinion | Republicans’ Turn in the Barrel 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Instead, the fight will be over whether Dillingham, a 66-year-old native of South Carolina and rock-ribbed Republican, is capable of steering the agency through a sea of controversy as it prepares for the 2020 census. Census Bureau nominee becomes lightning rod for debate over 2020 census 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The resulting five-vote majority of rock-ribbed conservatives will surely dominate the court with a philosophical unity unseen in the United States since Warren’s long-ago heyday. Opinion | Conservatives have trained for this moment for decades 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Key to the Democrats’ efforts is suburban Orange County south of Los Angeles, where four congressional districts were once the heart of rock-ribbed California Republicanism. Bumpy road for California Democrats targeting Republican House seats 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I am a rock-ribbed conservative who wants Republicans to keep control of Congress. Opinion | I’m not unhappy Rick Saccone seems to have lost. He insulted my mother. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z But the rock-ribbed secularism is belied by Quebec’s landscape, dotted as it is with very large crucifixes. Opinion | Quebec’s Anti-Muslim Ban on the Veil 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z How to manage the paradox — loyalty to the president leavened by rock-ribbed integrity of judgment? Opinion | Kenneth Starr: Mr. President, please cut it out 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Well, districts that are rock-ribbed Republican and probably pretty rock-ribbed Trump, aren’t those congressman just going to say, ‘Well, that’s a national poll?’ Why You Should Be Skeptical About Polls on Impeaching Trump 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z “Lots of folks here are rock-ribbed conservatives with ties to the military,” Mr. Winterble said in an interview from his studio just before going on air Tuesday. Devin Nunes, Intelligence Committee chairman, firm in partisan fire over Russia probe 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z The notion that a Rockefeller would take such a liberal economic view was major news; the family, rock-ribbed Republican, was known for its fierce opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal’s author. David Rockefeller, Philanthropist and Head of Chase Manhattan, Dies at 101 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Now known for his high-profile attacks against government spending, Mr. Kennedy describes himself as a rock-ribbed conservative, as different from Mr. Campbell “as gumbo and grits.” For Democrats, a Last Faint Hope to Gain a Senate Seat 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z His rock-ribbed conservatism was forged in the deep poverty and isolation of rural Alabama, sharpened during 16 years as a federal prosecutor and state attorney general and polished as a senator. Jeff Sessions, a Lifelong Outsider, Finds the Inside Track 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z In the late 1980s, he was a rock-ribbed Orange County Republican speechwriter for Ronald Reagan who actually fought the Russians alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan. How Trump got his party to love Russia 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z But there is no doubt about his rock-ribbed unionism and increasing antipathy toward Confederates. The man behind the massive logistics of the Union army 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z That is quite different from Margaret Thatcher’s rock-ribbed social and economic conservatism. Editorials from around New England 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Keep in mind Vermont had been a rock-ribbed Republican state since the Civil War, and Democrats were just gaining a statewide foothold. Why Bernie Won't Back Down 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z When it comes to her only son, Olive, the rock-ribbed title character in Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, cannot seem to say the right thing. The Short List: 4 great moms from literature 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The winner of Tuesday’s Republican primary will almost certainly become a new member of Congress after the June 7 special general election: Mr. Boehner’s southwest Ohio district is the very definition of rock-ribbed Republican. Ohio to Choose Among 15 Potential Successors to John Boehner 1460-12-20T05:00:00Z Just how would a rock-ribbed Republican handle the dilemma posed by Trump’s waffling on Planned Parenthood and other issues? Ben Carson: Cuddle or dump? How down-ticket Republicans can handle a Trump nomination 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Patriarch Robinson pioneered the metal button business in the Northeast and had been a rock-ribbed Whig, a forerunner of today’s Republican party, according to a published biography. Attleboro shop has place in history due to political buttons 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z It showed he learned his lesson from four years earlier when he lost New Hampshire to Gerald Ford after positioning himself as a rock-ribbed conservative in contrast to Ford's more moderate image. Small State, Big Impact 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In their constitutional cosmology, a localist version of rock-ribbed originalism, they were the law in Malheur, and the federal agents the usurpers. Ammon Bundy Stands Down 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “He’s a very rock-ribbed conservative and very intelligent young man, very knowledgeable, put it that way,” says Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. Cruz no favorite with fellow Republican senators 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z "He's a very rock-ribbed conservative and very intelligent young man, very knowledgeable, put it that way," says Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. Republican senators are confronting an unsettling possibility: Ted Cruz, their least favorite colleague, stands within reach of becoming the party's presidential nominee and standard-bearer 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Cruz has suggested that, as president, he would appoint to the Supreme Court a more “rock-ribbed” conservative like “my former boss Mike Luttig.” As Supreme Court Clerk, Ted Cruz Made Death Penalty His Cause 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z For one, rock-ribbed libertarians regularly reject the idea of legal mandates that are helpful to women – like equal pay, which supposedly merely rewards people who fail at negotiation and punishes private ownership. Presidential hopeful Gary Johnson is no Libertarian. He's a pro-pot Trump | Jeb Lund 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Curry's mother, Dorothy, died when he was in junior high school, so his grandmother, who he described as a "rock-ribbed Baptist," helped raise him. Episcopal Church's 1st black leader to stress evangelism, social justice as he navigates rifts 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Even Dwayne Johnson, that force of cinematic nature and rock-ribbed charisma, doesn’t have enough charm to dig this mess of a movie out of the rubble of cliche it’s buried in. ‘San Andreas’ review: A disaster flick riddled with fault lines 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z On the flip side, Republicans are still rock-ribbed allies of Israel, with more than 80 percent of them giving Tel Aviv the thumb’s up, compared with about 60 percent of the general public. Three-Minute Briefing: After 6 Years Together, Bibi and Barry's Bad Romance Takes a New Turn 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z But it was Cruz and Walker who appeared to leave the most lasting mark with an audience of rock-ribbed conservatives. Ted Cruz, Scott Walker Excite Activists at Summit in Iowa 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z He noted that many evangelicals began to shift on divorce when the marriages of the sons and daughters of pastors and “rock-ribbed” local church members such as deacons started crumbling. Evangelicals with gay children challenging church 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z After the Civil War, New Orleans was a place that the rest of rock-ribbed America looked upon, in Krist’s words, “with a combination of wonder, suspicion, and often abhorrence.” Book review: ‘Empire of Sin,’ murder, jazz, and New Orleans by Gary Krist In Kansas, Republican Sen. Pat Roberts remains on the defensive, though in a rock-ribbed Republican state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since the New Deal. A consumer’s guide to the final weeks of Campaign 2014 "The problem is that rock-ribbed conservatives tend to do very well in primaries in Iowa, but they do not fare as well in general elections." Iowa Republican caucus to test conservatives in Senate race 2014-01-21T18:11:28Z In the early 1960s, this placed him in the company of such rock-ribbed conservatives as Lyndon Johnson, eventual progenitor of the Great Society. John F. Kennedy: This week in up-is-downism 2013-10-21T16:08:47Z Among its tenets were the repudiation of property, the irrelevance of the traditional family unit and rock-ribbed opposition to monogamy. Otto Muehl, Actionist Artist, Dies at 87 2013-05-30T01:03:27Z There is something about Washington that brings out the pompous complacency in even the most rock-ribbed conservative. Go Ahead, Round Up the RINOs! 2013-03-28T20:15:10Z In part, there is a growing gulf between a rock-ribbed state Republican Party and middle-class suburban Republicans who may be fiscally conservative, but are socially moderate. The swing states: Pennsylvania: Eyes off the prize 2012-10-18T15:26:20Z From end to end its rock-ribbed hills are filled with tombs. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Those favoring Rick Santorum praised his rock-ribbed conservatism and argued the contest isn’t over until it’s over. Wisconsin Votes After Fiercely Fought Battle 2012-04-03T17:36:06Z But Dacres, backed by his well-trained boarders, received them on the points of their pikes, with a coolness and bravery that made them recoil upon each other, like surges from a rock-ribbed coast. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z All that was desired by former rock-ribbed Amroites was to get to Victor. The Conquest The Story of a Negro Pioneer 2012-03-26T02:00:32.910Z “People here, including many rock-ribbed Republicans, get Medicare,” Mr. Fitzgerald said. Medicare Looms Over Congressional Races 2012-01-28T01:13:31Z The strata of society are as immovable as the strata of the rock-ribbed hills. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z Florida Republicans are hardly monolithic, with Cuban-Americans in the South to rock-ribbed social conservatives in the Panhandle, mixed with a large influx of new voters and retirees. Florida Republican Primary Poses New Challenges 2012-01-23T02:22:38Z But the highest jobless rates are, on average, not in the rock-ribbed Republican states but rather in more closely contested areas. Obama’s Job May Depend on Swing-State Hiring: Edward Glaeser 2011-11-08T16:39:27Z He laid his course by the compass and held straight North across the treeless rock-ribbed plain. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z In fact, a range of the Rocky Mountains towered almost above them as they looked up, standing out against the blue afternoon sky like a rock-ribbed barrier. Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z But this time, social conservatives are divided among several candidates who are competing fiercely for their support — each boasting of rock-ribbed opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. Iowa Caucuses May Be Unpredictable for Romney and Perry 2011-10-10T21:51:35Z Belonged to a good family in the States—New Englanders, reputable and cold and narrow, stiff with rectitude as their own rock-ribbed coasts. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Many a rock-ribbed democrat votes for a Republican, if there is something in it. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z In fact, I am rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; and have been worshipped as a genius in far-sparkling planets ere this mundane sphere was first evolved from that flaming orb. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z About its ragged, ice-bound and rock-ribbed shores are many dark caverns, from which the Indians conceived their superstitious fears of this mysterious pile. Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing 2011-07-09T02:00:15.543Z It has such surprising properties that Lord Kelvin was moved to say of it that, "it threatens to overthrow the correlation of forces," which is the rock-ribbed, foundation postulate of science. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z The church represented months of hard toil, interrupted only when Cap Lutts fled up to the rock-ribbed pockets of the mountain or down into some untrodden ravine to escape Burton, the revenuer. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z A huge rock-ribbed canyon, at the bottom of which rolls the Oregon, separates the two. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Nothing rock-ribbed and ancient escaped him in his frequent walks. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z To Anne, as much as to any medi�val saint in any rock-ribbed cell, the longest, happiest earthly life measured nothing against a glorious eternity. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z The recent discovery of radium seems to overturn the rock-ribbed scientific theory of the conservation of energy, and raises many new questions in regard to the nature of light and heat. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z In a Republican-leaning district, part of a rock-ribbed Republican state, that will likely be all that it takes. Races to Watch: A Kansas City Dem Fights for Her Husband's Seat 2010-09-29T08:35:00Z Howard doesn’t begrudge the voters who put more emphasis on offense than on his rock-ribbed defense. Hill: LeBron?s rise from star to ?Chosen One? 2010-04-15T01:48:00Z Because we are going to elect the boldest, strongest, most courageous, rock-ribbed constitutional conservative president this country's ever seen! Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann join forces 2010-04-07T21:08:00Z Sixty miles of mingled swamp, morass, and rock-ribbed hill! The Girl From Tim's Place This produced the rock-ribbed foundations of the earth and solidified it into a vast magnet of marvelous force and power. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z And that afternoon, having nothing to do, and curious to explore this rock-ribbed island that was like to be his home for some months, he started out on a tour of exploration. Rockhaven Dignified, austere exponent of the rock-ribbed truth that he had once been, all his sails were set now and the rudder lashed in place for the sinful course. In And Out But certainty was a long way from rock-ribbed evidence—and that was something he must have to proceed further. Twelve Times Zero The cave was a natural grotto, rock-ribbed, and as firm as the everlasting foundations of the mountains themselves. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners That would be too frail to essay the rock-ribbed ca�ons of the mountain streams. The Story of the Trapper As rock-ribbed and staunchly honest as their New England coasts, and about as imaginative. The Enormous Room Forked tongues of scandal can not penetrate through those rock-ribbed hills yonder, nor dart across that defying sea; and neither wail nor wassail of men or women can disturb me more. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part This land of high bare plains and snow-tipped, rock-ribbed, pine-clad mountains was very different from the forests of the Ohio region; but he had learned a great deal during his two years' trip. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters All the day, until nearly sunset, I struggled over rugged hills, through windfalls, thickets, and matted forests, with the rock-ribbed beacon constantly in view. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 Half a century elapsed; the State of Wisconsin, rock-ribbed Republican, nullified the fugitive slave law and in its pronunciamento of nullification quoted the very words which Jefferson used in 1798. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V The argument that it is unnatural for woman to vote is as old as the rock-ribbed and ancient hills. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV One wonders how history would have been changed had the early Puritans chanced upon such rich soil for their momentous conquering, instead of the rock-ribbed, barren coast of New England. The Web of the Golden Spider The outlines of strange and sublime revolutions are imprinted on her rock-ribbed bosom. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 All along the bleak and rock-ribbed coast the boiling waters lay churned into foam. Great Pirate Stories Here cool and shady ravines leading up to tranquil Edens, the voluptuous bends through an enchantment of bloom and wildwood, losing themselves among the rock-ribbed hills. Shawn of Skarrow Man is a dweller, where, in some past day, Thy rock-ribbed frame majestically rose; The river rushes on its new-made way, And all is life where all was once repose. Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life So the two girls scrambled down from their high point of observation, and started along the rock-ribbed road that led past the Cliffs. Polly and Eleanor She was one of the thirteen children of Charles Stalnaker, who was a “rock-ribbed” Baptist, and an ardent Northern sympathizer. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them These dimpled baby hands God gave to you Through rock-ribbed hills of life Their way to hew. Nestlings A Collection of Poems And now here, quite alone, twenty miles from the railroad, Missouri on all sides of him, close-timbered, rock-ribbed, gulch-broken, mortally lonely, billowing around him, over him, possessing him. Sally of Missouri The rock-ribbed valley became a roar of noise. Prairie Flowers Written by the author in a language not his by birth, this rock-ribbed tragedy of the strong and simple passions of Iceland lends itself peculiarly to international interpretation. Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm Of what use is it to pit such puny and trivial things as facts against rock-ribbed, iron-bound, entrenched AUTHORITY? Subspace Survivors To descend a rock-ribbed hill, overgrown with tangled underbrush and buried in decaying tree-trunks, is hardly easier than to ascend it. The Blue Envelope "Grant me, oh! rock-ribbed matrix, here to know Thy minerall'd sanctuary; To none but me the sesame disclose, Un-oped since chaos fled!" Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development The most northern county of Scotland is Caithness, a wild region of mountain, marsh, and rock-ribbed headlands, in which the storms of the Atlantic have worn every variety of fantastic indentation. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money The shores of these islands, as well as the mainland, are mainly rock-ribbed, with many high cliffs, at the foot of which the ocean surges beat unceasingly. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England With the remainder the terrible journey across the rock-ribbed and forest-covered isthmus was begun. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III In other words, the spine is a bodily structure as old as the rock-ribbed hills. Vitality Supreme A brook in volume the stream flows clear and cool from a low rock-ribbed cave in the base of the mountain. Sergeant York And His People And the Black Hills, rock-ribbed and somber, dwarf pines clutching their lodges, rose in frowning ramparts to the North and West. The Emigrant Trail The Hawke twenty wriggled and writhed, but in the end gave way—all save a rock-ribbed quartette. The President A novel When not more than ten miles from the post, he turned his head, as he topped a rock-ribbed ridge for a casual survey of the broad brule he had just crossed. The Challenge of the North She was of Puritan stock—and the sturdy moral sense of those old fellows, their rock-ribbed principles, and their determination to make other people think as they thought, came out strong in her character. Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories It led him to the base of one of these mountains, to a spring which flowed clear and cool, a brook in size, from a low rock-ribbed cave. Sergeant York And His People The Highlands, where the Hudson for twenty miles plays "hide and seek" with "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun"—Sublimity. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Another half-hour passed away and still the trail led along this strange, rock-ribbed groove in the desert, the dry bed of some long-lost stream. Foes in Ambush Was fortune going to prove unkind to the good old rock-ribbed Green Mountain State? The Tree of Appomattox That if you would treat him as you should, we would be lifted out of this, and could get away from this rock-ribbed island on to some land with soil on? Added Upon A Story He tells of one more bloody fray— Of how with bomb and rifle they Have put their mark for all to see Across rock-ribbed Gallipoli. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse That same will-power, that same stubbornness, touched by the power of Christ becomes the rock-ribbed steadfastness that has enabled men to put through great achievements for God. "Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues Probably a quarter-mile away a dim light as of a swinging lantern could be seen following the winding of the rough and rock-ribbed road. Foes in Ambush The terrible silence, the dread austerity of mountains so rock-ribbed and desolate, oppressed her with a sense of awe. The Furnace of Gold Far to the southeast it wound among the bold and rock-ribbed bluffs rising from the forest growth at their base to shorn and rounded summits. From the Ranks What a deadly hail ofPg 93 Mausers must have come from that rock-ribbed clump on the kopje. From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa No fields or orchards break the transition from man to nature; step out of the street and you are at once on rock-ribbed kopje or raw veldt. From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War The little-used trail, following closely the bank of the stream, climbed low, rock-ribbed ridges, traversed black spruce swamps, and threaded endlessly in and out of the scrub timber. The Gun-Brand It was a strange and novel sight to see a Democratic member of the Legislature from the rock-ribbed Republican county of Lowndes. The Facts of Reconstruction Then they fell back, for the fire from the heights above them fell thick as the spume of the surf on an Australian rock-ribbed coast. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front At four o'clock a violent gale was howling over the reaches of ice and rock-ribbed land. A Man's Woman The lake and prairie plains bred a spirit which contrasted strongly with the smug provincialism of rock-ribbed and sterile New England. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics As we go, ever the mountains of Mount Desert rise and greet us on our going—somber, rock-ribbed and silent, looking unmoved on the moving world, yet conscious of their everlasting strength. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil "She hoped to be the hope of Hope Alas, how soon she flew, To bleak New England's rock-ribbed hills, Ere she her Virgil knew." Kit of Greenacre Farm If Mr. Montgomery had shown promptness he had also evinced uneasiness, since his fear of the law was as rock-ribbed as his respect for it. The Just and the Unjust Various feelings had gradually stiffened an early general approval into a rock-ribbed resolve. Queed She threw out her wide-sleeved arms in exultant pleasure at the magnificence of the vast river, with its forest boundaries, and the rock-ribbed heights of Crow's Nest. Westways They are rock-ribbed for truth and for a good rendering of public opinion. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 In front of the camp was a long stretch of the pond, now thickly covered with snow; in the rear a slope of a mountain, rock-ribbed and covered with cedars and hemlock. The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune The cool mountains had given way to burned-out, umber-coloured hills, rock-ribbed arroyos, and seemingly endless desert; and the sun was growing hotter every minute. Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico Old Ironsides could have been called Stone Mountain as appropriately as its neighbor, for truly it was rock-ribbed. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol There is a wide diversity in social situations, from rock-ribbed stability, to entire communities teetering on the brink or plunging over the brink into the maelstrom of revolution. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History Bare and rock-ribbed, a flayed skeleton of a terrain, it glowed with wondrous yellow, crimson, and topaz hues. The Flying Legion You looked down the precipitous rock-ribbed sides thousands of feet to the narrow, beautiful valleys, made productive by the irrigation from many foaming waterfalls. The Gentleman from Everywhere I stand where Glaciers gleam, beside a precipice rock-ribbed; An eagle that has soared from off some distant cliff, Lawless as I, sweeps through the radiant air! Russian Lyrics The road is a narrow zigzag, making an ascent of 4000 feet in a distance of from ten to twelve miles of switch-backing around the face of a steep rock-ribbed mountain. Out of Doors—California and Oregon The indifference of it all, its rock-ribbed impenetrability to human influence, laid a crushing weight on Simpson's soul, so that he almost sank to his knees in sheer oppression of spirit. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 He was a prospector for gold, a hunter of solitude, a lover of the drear, rock-ribbed infinitude, because he wanted to be alone to remember. Desert Gold Driven by fear and repression he attacked his rock-ribbed country, its thin soil, its savage enemies and his own fellow competitors with fury. The Man in Gray They are the invisible, rock-ribbed resting-place for the dazzling superstructure and the slim and peaked spire. Remarks "But to me it is nothing more than a dreary wilderness, as I say; a barren, rock-ribbed gulch affording an indifferent right of way for two railroads." A Fool for Love Fast by its rock-ribbed walls flows the noble Tweed, and on its battled towers frown the hills of Cheviot. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border In face of bleak Nature—the burning alkali desert, the obdurate soil, the rock-ribbed mountains,—all men were free and equal, in a camaraderie of personal effort. Mark Twain It proved to her that caste overcame all else In the rock-ribbed east. Beverly of Graustark Her unfailing ability to transplant the reader into rock-ribbed, snow-clad New England, with its many fond associations for most Americans, is proof of her power as an artist. History of American Literature That because the rock-ribbed Vermont ancestor's idea of duty can never be ours, we have no duty to acknowledge? Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism They called to one another and listened with mute wonder at the echo among the rock-ribbed hills. The One Woman The weary traveller gazed upon nothing but seemingly interminable prairies and naked elevations, destitute of verdure, or as he entered the rock-ribbed Continental Divide, only rugged mountains relieved the eternal sameness of his surroundings. The Great Salt Lake Trail The door of the sanctuary is rock-ribbed and heavy, and he who has not the key may beat and call in vain, while within, unheeding, the woman guards her light. Old Rose and Silver The Republicans had nominated Mr. Taft by means of delegates from rock-ribbed Democratic States like Alabama, Florida and Georgia, let them now see if they could elect him by such means! Theodore Roosevelt Armies of slaves toiled ant-wise at his feet, World-circling traffic roared through mart and street, His priests were gods, his spice-balmed kings enshrined, Set death at naught in rock-ribbed charnels deep. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations His path through life is about three feet wide and bordered with rock-ribbed conventionality. Cap'n Warren's Wards She sat at the window one day, staring greedily out at the lumpy rock-ribbed road; silent, perforce, and tapping the arms of her chair with nervous intensity. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) Ever sparkling, bright, and single, Will this rock-ribbed stream appear, When posterity shall mingle Like the gathered waters here. Poems Of course Jake is a rock-ribbed old die-hard, and he probably advised the Traction fellows to get some other broker. Babbitt |
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