'Observe,' he says, 'the only hints at form given throughout are in the somewhat vague words "ridgy," "massy," "close," and. From Wordnik.com. [Marmion] Reference
"ridgy" work and endures the horror of seeing the gentle, thin-skinned creatures bleed under his awkward shears. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
Country very ridgy and inclined to be lightly scrubby. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
I saw the muscles round and ridgy upon his clenched hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Was she attracted to the ridgy scars on my cheeks half revealed by my scarf?. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
The hopper nearly ended up on the menu at Maccas, but he racked off ridgy-didge. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2007] Reference
It is a most imposing scene, this great humpy, ridgy, and irregular line of mountains. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
Latter part very ridgy and many precipitous creeks from the slopes, but otherwise well-grassed. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
High, ridgy, free, loamy country is usually the most free from frost, and alluvial flats the most liable to it. From Wordnik.com. [Fruits of Queensland] Reference
At ten and three-quarter miles considerably ridgy, and passed large masses and cliffy hill, apparently of limestone. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
In country such as this it is a singular fact that sheep do better, on the whole, in a wet season than on ridgy country. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Except for the smell, it was like a dream, we moved so quietly; on, gently on and on between the ridgy clay banks and the rows of piles. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
Then up started the hair on his ridgy back, and thrash, thrash, to and fro, like a mad cat's, throbbed his tail! and he snuffed for my track again. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
He gazed at them for a long time, and then he looked across the dotted red valley up to the vast ridgy steppes, toward the black plateau and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
Of palpitant light from crest to crest across the ridgy brine. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
All about him was ridgy roll of wind-smoothed, rain-washed rock. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Purple Sage] Reference
When next I reached a ridgy spot I chose a good pine and shinned it. From Wordnik.com. [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference
It is also a ridgy height that runs for many miles through a country. From Wordnik.com. [The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
Stony and low ridgy ground was first met, but the scrubs were all around. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
He stopped chewing orange-skin, and looked hard at his ridgy finger-nails. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening of Helena Richie] Reference
From the ridgy and striped appearance of these bridges they are aptly enough termed corduroy. From Wordnik.com. [The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America] Reference
The result is that a delicate and ridgy trace is cut in the surface of wax along a spiral line. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Electricity] Reference
He was driving me through some ridgy country where the grass in the gullies was very long and rank. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1869] Reference
The country was very ridgy and hilly; and we found it exceedingly difficult to proceed along the river. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Wide branching like the oak, and its large ridgy fruit, in late fall or early winter, is one of my favorites. From Wordnik.com. [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference
The other side, above the crater, has a ridgy broken look, giving the false impression of a mountainous region beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
In the tank flapped and swam four superb sterlets, their ridgy backs rising out of the water like those of alligators. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home] Reference
Milder, too, has had time to wear off the edge of his love disappointment on the ridgy hog-wallows of this fair south-western land. From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
Blanche came over and uncovered the old crone's back, and she was surprised when she saw it; it was as hard and ridgy as a turtle's. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Folk and Fairies] Reference
Careful observations, taken by Barbican and repeated by his companions, soon satisfied them that the ridgy outline of the mountains on the. From Wordnik.com. [All Around the Moon] Reference
Geraint proceeded along the road that led to the town, and the road brought him to a ground that was hard, and rugged, and high, and ridgy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
Castle on one side, and the Calton Hill with its proud monument at the further end, and the ridgy steep of Salisbury Crag, cut off abruptly by. From Wordnik.com. [Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion] Reference
He gazed at them for a long time, and then he looked across the dotted red valley up the vast ridgy steps, toward the black plateau and beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Blicky gallantly gave his horse to Joan, shortened his stirrups to fit her, and then whistled at the ridgy back of the stage-horse he elected to ride. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Legion] Reference
Marching in this manner they speedily reached an eminence, from which they could view Edinburgh stretching along the ridgy hill which slopes eastward from the Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
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