But we learned to 'scree' - which is kind of like skiing down a scree slope. From Wordnik.com. [Backpacking Light Magazine] Reference
The plateau dipped down to a bleak expanse of scree. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
The channel was laid out upon and ancient scree slope. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Potter's Quarter Report 1] Reference
The footing was treacherous here, scree and loose shale. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Roads deep in mud and silted with scree grew firm again. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
The SISTER OF MERCY appears upon the stone-scree to the left. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
To the left, on a stone-scree, stands an old, half-ruined hut. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
This layer is interpreted as a pre-occupation colluvium (scree). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 3] Reference
Wild goat is (Capra aegagrus) is often found in areas of rocky scree. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Anatolian montane steppe] Reference
Cresting the mountain, the hunted trio ran down the scree-covered slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
MAIA comes, flushed and irritated, down over the stone-scree on the left. From Wordnik.com. [When We Dead Awaken] Reference
Half the pit vanished under a scree of stones, earth, and shattered slabs. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
To the northeast, open landscapes of tussock and rugged scree predominate. From Wordnik.com. [Richmond temperate forests] Reference
In slate scree a lone foxglove blooms, and rust too on abandoned machinery. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Layer 1 of the resistivity profiles corresponds with recent scree deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Seismological Studies Report 3] Reference
Just below that bit of heather where he was lying is a whole expanse of scree. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
And then I saw Jamie, sitting on the edge of the heather in front of the scree. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
Our camels plodded through deep sand and scree, staggering on the loose pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
His feet crunch on a scree of fragments before squelching on blood and plastic magma. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
Where the land is free from scree deposits, pine, thorn cushions and grasses cover it. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 17: Suburban] Reference
The first four pebbles struck clean, bouncing off into the weeds and scree of the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
He was perhaps halfway down when his feet set a whole section of loose scree into motion. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Boy and thief picked their way lightly over sharp rock outcrops and across expanses of rock scree. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The cliff path was treacherous and steep, the path scree-covered, shifting beneath his sandaled feet. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
As he made camp in a cave high upon a ridge he heard the sound of walking horses on the scree outside. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Between branches they could see the peaks of the Jemez, some hanging in shadow, some shining with scree. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
On the foggy slopes -- sometimes above wing level -- Nickisch pointed out dall sheep clinging to the scree. From Wordnik.com. [My flight like the one that killed Ted Stevens] Reference
They walked down slowly, him leaning on her arm like an old man, steps faltering in the scree on the slope. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
But to Tura and Bel, standing before their scree-covered lower slopes, they were formidable heights indeed. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
There, lying face up in the heather on the scree with two crows pecking at his dead eyes, lay Jamie Gallagher. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
Edging his mount forward, he rode through the group and back down the scree slope to where the wagon was waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
BLITZER: Mr. Timoney, Commissioner Timoney, another part of the letter said this, and I'll put it up on the scree. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2002] Reference
Kilimanjaro's lower paths are flat dirt, but higher trails turn to a rock and scree blend difficult for prosthetics. From Wordnik.com. [War Amputees Climb Kilimanjaro (PHOTOS)] Reference
Long stretches of treacherous scree gave way suddenly to jagged chasms that sliced across the ground like gaping wounds. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
The spot he'd picked to shoot from lay just below a long talus of lava scree and it would put him well within that distance. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
The place was familiar to Jondalar because he had collected gravel from the loose pile of scree to line paths and fireplaces. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Turning right, he skirted the huge southern promontory till he came a scree hill, rising still higher toward the frozen peaks beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
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