lava-field

Before us lay a great dark lava-field, and short of it a range of red and black banded sandstone cliffs with conical tops.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

We passed Ghowashia, a ragged grove of palms, and marched over a lava-field easily, its roughnesses being drowned in sand just deep enough to smooth them, but not deep enough to be too soft.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Rolls drew his tender past the Roman fish-pond; we skirted the western lava-field, along the now hard, grass-grown swamp, to the blue walls of the silent fort, with its silken-sounding palms, behind whose stillness lay perhaps more fear than peace.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

(I remarked on the way to Ohod signs of a lava-field.)

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Our track lay across more lava-field, but to our morning strength the stones seemed rarer, and waves or hard surfaces of laid sand often drowned them smoothly with a covering as good to march on as a tennis court.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

We feasted on the first day once, on the second twice, on the third twice; at Isawiya: and then, on May the thirtieth, we saddled and rode easily for three hours, past an old sanded lava-field to a valley in which seven-foot wells of the usual brackish water lay all about us.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Beyond it was another lava-field, older perhaps than the valleys, for its stones were smoothed, and between them were straths of flat earth, rank with weeds.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

English friend at Tisapán, at the edge of the great Pedrigal, or lava-field, which lies south of the capital.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

Between us and the great mountain-chain that forms the rim of the valley, lies a group of extinct volcanos, from one of which descends the great lava-field.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

To say nothing of the two great mountains we have just left behind, there is a hill of red volcanic tufa just beyond us; and still further on, though this is anticipating, our road passes over the lava-field at the foot of the little volcano of Santa Barbara.

Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor