The summit is ridge-like, and excessively sharp; the descent on either side almost precipitous. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Joints club-shaped, 4 in. to 6 in. long, very spiny, the cushions elevated on ridge-like tubercles. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
It is continued backwards as two ridge-like branches, which, at the points of the heels, form acute angles with the bars. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
My 12 month old son has a raised ridge-like area running from top to bottom on the front side of his maxillary central incisor. From Wordnik.com. [Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth] Reference
They have the general appearance of ridge-like projections from the sides of the larynx, but at their edges they are sharp and smooth. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
This is distinctly ridge-like from the coronet to the ground, while on either side of it the quarters appear to have sunk to less than their normal dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Should this ridge-like formation and the accompanying symptoms of pain and lameness occur after repair of a sand-crack, then keraphyllocele may, with tolerable certainty, be diagnosed. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
Hudson; and it is between the ridge-like elevations of this range and the older Laurentian Hills that we find the valley of the St. Lawrence, in which lie the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Joints varying in length from 2 in. to 6 in., not flattened, with ridge-like tubercles, bearing on their points small cushions of very fine bristles and tufts of pale yellowish spines about ½ in. long, and all pointing upwards. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
A precipitous lane is climbed by the ridge-like steps of an Italian donkey-path; the old town gardens, massively walled, are built in tiers, so that the apple-trees on the higher levels scatter their blossoms on the gardens beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
We have already pointed out the ridge-like formation of the human nail-bed, and noted that, with the exception that the secondary ridges are not so pronounced, it is an exact prototype of the laminal formation of the corium of the horse's foot. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
By a supreme effort he pulled himself up, managed to get one leg over the ridge-like backbone of the pony and, a moment later, he was sitting upright on the saddle blanket, both hands under the strap, while his heels played a tattoo on the sides of the steed, urging him forward at even faster speed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery] Reference
= Supported against strain in any direction by a conspicuous ridge-like enlargement of the trunk vertically to the roots. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Most isolated hills are conical, dome-shaped, or ridge-like; this one differed from the usual configuration -- hence its singularity. From Wordnik.com. [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference
Looking seaward, I observe the outer bay is nearly closed in at its lower extremity by the long ridge-like hill, called Diamond Head. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
The second mound is about 100 yards from the first, and is circular in outline, having two ridge-like projections from opposite sides. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510] Reference
The horse, unlike the cow, does not rest directly on the under surface of the sternum, or breastbone, on account of its sharp, ridge-like formation. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
On the edge nearest him, stood a huge button-wood tree, from whose base extended a number of flat ridge-like processes, resembling the bastions of a fortification. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora] Reference
The outside dimensions of the ridge-like grassy hump showed that the chamber that had been opened and able to enter was barely a sixth of the length of the barrow. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
To begin with, the ridge-like summits of the islands swept round in a form that was roughly circular, and they would have been continuous but for the breaches or channels which separated the islands from each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
A ridge-like protuberance that projected from the foot of the tree -- marking the direction of one of its great roots -- ran right into this path; and, from the discoloration of the bark above it, it was evident that the squirrels usually climbed up or descended along this ridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness] Reference
All that is known, or rather all that can be here explained, is, that they are composed of the rocks which cleave off from the sides of the precipices and mountains that border the glacier, and that, when they have fallen down, the gradual movement of the ice draws them out into the long, ridge-like lines in which they now appear. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Switzerland] Reference
A day unusually brilliant even for this bright climate was drawing to a close, it being within about two hours of sunset, when I turned out of my way to ascend a hill with a very long, ridge-like summit, falling away at one end, appearing like the last sierra of a range just where it dies down into the level plain; only in this instance the range itself did not exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Land] Reference
Through these alternate stretches of gloom and brief illuminated spaces the pair wound their way, Ned leading and clearing the path where necessary with his axe or his stout, serviceable clasp - knife, until eventually, after more than an hour's toil, they emerged upon a bald, ridge-like eminence which, on looking about them, they found was the highest spot in the entire group. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
(1) Two distal ridge-like thickenings project into the lumen of the tube; these increase in size, and ultimately meet and fuse to form a septum, which takes a spiral course toward the proximal end of the truncus arteriosus. From Wordnik.com. [V. Angiology. 3. Development of the Vascular System] Reference
Here, lofty cliffs; there, some deep bay, with plantations and cottages beyond; or a shady valley, the fit abode of peace and contentment, as Adair, who was just then in a sentimental mood, observed; now in a wilder, more open spot were seen the huts of a whaling establishment; and then, further on, open glades and grassy enclosures; while on the port side towered up to the clear, bright sky the lofty ridge-like mountains of Trinidad itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Lieutenants] Reference
Dale scanned the position anxiously, seeing now for the first time that the rough angles and ridge-like pieces of rock along which the boy had made his way ceased about five feet from where he stood, and that he must have jumped on to a narrow piece of stone not a foot long and somewhere about a third of that width; and though, in the vast chasm in which they both were, the height above him, where Saxe was spread-eagled, as it were, against the perpendicular rock, looked perfectly insignificant, he was close upon a hundred feet up, and a fall would have been very serious, if not fatal. From Wordnik.com. [The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps] Reference
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