The last crag before the summit was the most difficult to climb. From LearnThat.org.
This wall appearance made the settlers call the crag the "Palisades.". From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year] Reference
The first to reach the crag was a brawny brave whose eagle feather was stained scarlet as a token of chieftainship. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquering Sword of Conan]
There on a crag was a huge nest, and in it lay what at first I took to be a mon - strous bird, for that I saw the feathers on it. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
I have preferred the reading of Landino, scheggion, "crag," conceiving it to be more poetical than secchion, "bucket," which is the common reading. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
"crag", and the "torrent", by trusting to the guidance of the light. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
We had now reached the summit of the loftiest crag. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
What is likened to an eagle that is "alit" on a crag?. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
He reaches the topmost crag and casts himself into the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
A cloud approaches, and deposits Faust on the topmost crag. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
Her own abode, built by her father, hung upon that rocky crag called. From Wordnik.com. [From a Terrace in Prague] Reference
Peak, the highest crag in the Tatoosh (Elevation, about 7,000 feet). From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
Rise, hill and glen! rise, crag and wood! rise up on either hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario High School Reader] Reference
Listen to the way he recites "He clasps the crag with crooked hands.". From Wordnik.com. [John Lundberg: A Toddler Recites Great Poems From Memory] Reference
Pallastown had been like froth on a stone, a castle on a floating, golden crag. From Wordnik.com. [The Planet Strappers] Reference
The Big Horn, proudly perched on yonder crag, bids defiance to all living creatures. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheep Eaters] Reference
Ohto advanced slowly through the trees and emerged into the open space about the crag. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
Take the Unification Observatory, a museum-cum-lookout post atop a crag overlooking the DMZ. From Wordnik.com. [No Pain, No Gain?] Reference
The crowd then saw the white youth stiffen with swift decision, saw him whirl to face the crag. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The sun, glowing pink against the crag, cast its huge shadow over the now tiny huts beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The tin sailed down, struck a tall crag, bounded off, and fell upon a comparatively level plateau. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
Nowhere all around was a sight of any living thing, except a few sheep perched far up on a steep crag. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown)] Reference
And it was in this train of thought that I cast my eyes upward to the overhanging crag of Castelluzzo. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
Presently he turned sharply about, came down from the crag, pushed his way through the trees, and stood in. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
A little goatherd, leading his bleating flock, plays on a reed flute to summon a straggler from a distant crag. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Serena nearly broke her neck, climbing an almost inaccessible crag, and Gatty tore her frock every five minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
Drachenfels; and the beautiful lines of Byron you will recollect, where he speaks of "the castled crag of Drachenfels.". From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Once having realized that it was a man, Chaffer lost no time, but made his way at once up the steepest crag he could find. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
A steady wind, cool and fragrant with the odorous pines, streamed against them, forced their bodies hard against the crag. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
A warrior, one of the sub-chiefs from a neighboring village, raised a braceleted arm in astounded gesture toward the crag. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
A scramble follows, up and over High Street, that imperial Roman road, before the little band descend to crag-girt Blea Water. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Lake District] Reference
By and by we landed on a rock -- or rather two rocks -- Knut on a flat bit of crag and I on the round head of a small boulder. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Gibraltar and its Neighbors, showing a mile of the deeply crevassed ice-field inside the angle of which the great crag is the apex. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
After what seemed to be hours to him, the eagles began to descend, and in a few minutes they alighted on the top of a very high crag. From Wordnik.com. [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference
There could be no mistaking the man, slow-moving when he dismounted, tall and sinewy, watchful as a battered old eagle upon its crag. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The wild thyme and its fellows grow not upon this breezy crag, ever washed by the salt sea foam; but, stay, Endora -- I know thy name. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
It took them but a few minutes to work their way down, but the crag reared black against ten thousand stars when they reached the base. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
The traveller feels a buoyant sensation, which tempts him to run and jump, and leap from crag to crag, and bound over the stones in his path. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
From many a steep crag looked out on the blue ocean the temple of the Star Queen, the Heaven and Sea-born sister of the Rose: and she was there. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
As he neared the village his course took him about the base of the crag, and as he rounded the western side he heard the murmur of subdued voices. From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
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