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  • In the example shown here, the ravine's swirling winds should keep you away.

    What You Need to Hunt Early-Season Bucks 2008

  • Originally an informal shantytown for Port-au-Prince's poorest, over the years it had hardened into something more solid in the ravine's depths – a home for almost 6,000 people.

    Haiti survivor, Wilson Octaveus: 'This is my wife's head. It has been eaten by dogs' 2010

  • Next to it a stone sentry-house perched on the ravine's edge.

    Crystal Rain 2006

  • MacArthur flattened against the ravine's rock wall.

    Genellan- Planetfall Gier, Scott 2005

  • A quick dash down the transitionway and he'd be home, but the long cables that carried the tram he'd seen earlier to the ravine's bottom were next to a platform a hundred yards farther away.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • "Bloody fool, " Sharpe said to the body, then he looked up into the gathering night and saw a great shadow at the ravine's edge above him.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Sharpe climbed up the ravine's side until he was near Harper and the Sergeant lowered his rifle to haul Sharpe the rest of the way.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Chekov realized it was going to slam the ravine's far wall only an instant before the undercarriage ripped open on the broken stone.

    Firestorm L.A Graf 2000

  • A man might fight his way through those outer walls, but then he will come to a deep ravine and find the real stronghold lies on the ravine's far side.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

  • He was nervous, and made even more nervous by the fact that he was leading a makeshift company in full view of the thousands of redcoats on the ravine's northern slope.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

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