He still shivers by the time he nears the bouldered hillock where the mercenaries and Megaera wait. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
Back at Palo Duro Canyon, we climbed and bouldered our way up on this cliffside and it was really cool!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
Matt slid to a stop, watching a moment as horse, rider, and dogs trotted down the wooded and bouldered slope. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Hunt]
Like Colosseum goers, most of the Welkeners had climbed up on the bouldered walls, yielding the center arena to the two beasts. From Wordnik.com. [The Welkening] Reference
I will leave no rock unturned, I will leave no stone untouched, I will leave no pebble un-looked at and I will leave no boulder un-bouldered. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
Where the Vinkus River seeped along flat-bouldered steps into Restwater, they stopped to get their breath, and they surprised a fox out of a clump of wrestlebush. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
On the far side of the valley the hills rose again and he looked at the bouldered slope they would have to climb, but he knew that before they could go on they must cross the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Gold]
He studied the rising stonefall to his left, the bouldered slope falling away to the right, the gametrail winding out of sight ahead, and - stretching around as one too long a'saddle - his own backtrail. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates of Thorbardin]
That's why every damper's hutch, lean-to, or cave, for the few who had staked out the bouldered area at the southern end of the marshes, had a fire pit-as much to ward off the damp as for cooking or heat itself. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
He had realized what it meant to be a Pioneer, had penetrated with daring men the waste places in search of fame, fortune and adventure; and had carried the heavy burdens of gold wrested from rock-ribbed mountain, and bouldered river bed. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
Log cabins and a few simple frame houses nestle upon diminutive farms; the wild beauty of shoal and eddy, bouldered channel and lake-like stretches of pool, rocky walls and timber-clad peaks, begins to charm the stranger and draw him on and on through scenery as attractive as grand toss of mountains and delve of river can make it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
After that the two of them put in nearly the whole of the growing season dodging one another through the close twigged manzanita, lilac, laurel and mahogany that broke upward along the shining bouldered coasts of San Jacinto. the chaparral at this season took all the changes of the incoming surf, blue in the shadows, darkling green about the heads of the gulches, or riffling with the white under side of wind-lifted leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
They all picked their way down into the great white-bouldered bed of a mountain river. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
A more uncomfortable ride than this, over the bouldered streets of Cincinnati, cannot well be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him] Reference
Here and there one caught on the crest of some grey-bouldered knoll, and was teazed into fleecy threads that trailed melting instead of tangling. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
In places the water of the creek lies asleep in a dream of sunshine, but further on it ripples and gurgles over a bouldered bed, walled in by rocky slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference
Subsiding rapidly in elevation, it becomes a knobbed and bouldered land which includes timber-line and the thin forests of wind-twisted pines which contend with the granite for foothold. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the National Parks] Reference
Sometimes the car would be running so near the sea level that the spray of the waves hit the windows; sometimes it would climb over an out-jutting headland and she would look down upon a bouldered beach a hundred feet below. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel of Terror] Reference
Mr. Truman, acting as post quartermaster, had asked for additional men to protect his little herd, for the sergeant in charge declared that, twice, long-distance shots had come from far away up the bouldered heights to the west. From Wordnik.com. [An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier] Reference
A stranger entering South Bend proper on any ordinary day, will be at some loss to account for its prosperous appearance -- its flagged and bouldered streets -- its handsome mercantile blocks, banks, and business houses generally. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Volume 10] Reference
He had, however, but poor material into which to infuse his enthusiasm; and at any time South African roads are as demoralising to wheel-men used to a macadamised surface as the bouldered bed of a stream would be to a traction-engine. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
We separated a hundred feet or so, and treading slowly the pebbled or bouldered and often slippery floor of the river, keeping to the shallow places, we lighted the rippling waters with our torches, and sought to spear the agile and fearful prey. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
Nor streams that race adown their bouldered beds. From Wordnik.com. [The Bucolics and Eclogues] Reference
202 ersatz 203 breeziness 204 climaxes 205 explosiveness 206 empathizing 207 jumps 208 secularizing 209 sequoia 210 bibliography 211 prettying 212 bouldered 213 authorship 214 vocalizing 215 tarpons 216 camisoles 217 cowpox 218 tans 219 breathable 220 machines 221 tycoon 222 flicking 223 squishes 224 semiprofessional 225 feline 226 seedling 227 hankie 228 entitlement 229 abscissa 230 derisive 231 romance 232 overprice 233 beads 234 stipple 235. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The narrow, bouldered mountain-track. From Wordnik.com. [1915] Reference
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