ravine

• “His casual remark to Dr. Werner, and to the landscape, as Grushnitsky's corpse topples into a ravine is a masterpiece of the laconic: "Finita la commedia!”

  A Doomed Young Man

• “But instead of going to his horse, he followed what she called the ravine—really a trickle of muddy water that flowed past the shack and down toward another gully between the rock formations … in which, Reilly saw after only a little climbing, there sat a lean-to made of sticks, peat, and rock.”

  Simon & Schuster: LADY of SKYE

• “Then he went to what he called the ravine, still avoiding the path, so that as a matter of fact he made his way up on his hands and knees mostly, very carefully and slowly amongst the loose stones, till by holding on to a bush he brought his eyes on a level with the piece of flat ground in front of the farmhouse.”

  The Rover

• “The 'ravine' is within mortar range of the flak bunker at Oakcrest *.”

  West Lynn Avenue

• “Designed at the early stages of the cold war by a team of Nazi engineers, the ravine is really an anti-tank ditch, designed as a place of death for the expected American invaders.”

  West Lynn Avenue

• “After tracking in the frost awhile, I sat downwind and across a ravine from a doe and two fawns.”

  Everyday Enlightenments

• “The chopper crashed into a mountain ravine on Tuesday, apparently after being hit by rebel fire.”

  KIA KIA/BNR

• “This lonely ravine is called Far Easedale, and at the upper end there formerly stood a cottage named Blentarn Ghyll.”

  A Book of Golden Deeds

• “The bed of this immense ravine is at this day called the Charsoo, a”

  Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

• “They call the ravine the "mine," and refer to themselves as "miners.”

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