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Rapine; rapacity.
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Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
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A deep narrow valley or gorge in the earth's surface worn by running water.
Examples of ravines in a Sentence
Intersecting the mountains are numerous ravines and passes.
The terrain was rough, covered with brush choked ravines and sharp granite bluffs.
The face is scored with ravines, a particularly deep cleft, known as The Gorge, affording the shortest means of access to the summit.
At some points the rugged cliffs, furrowed by deep ravines, approach close to the sea; elsewhere the hills leave a considerable maritime plain between their base and the shore line.
The great rivers which flow eastward to the sea have fissured and moulded the surface into deep ravines alternating with high plateaus, ridges and isolated hills.
The city lies partly in several mountain ravines and partly on a plateau.
At Corchiano itself, however, similar walls may be traced, and the site is a strong and characteristic one - a triangle between two deep ravines, with the third (west) side cut off by a ditch.
Ouray (13,956 ft.), in Chaffee county, may be taken as the southern end, and in Eagle county, the splendid Mount of the Holy Cross (1 4, 170) - so named from the figure of its snow-filled ravines - as the northern.
In the north and west there are extensive mountain ranges of calcareous formation, intersected by deep ravines; while farther south the land is more level, and there are many fertile valleys.
The acropolis was at the eastern extremity of the site, where the two ravines converge; it is connected with the rest of the plateau by a narrow neck, and here a large number of ex-votos in terra-cotta, indicating the presence of a temple, and dating at earliest from the 3rd century B.C., have been found.
Its general appearance is that common to the Doab, a level plain intersected by watercourses and ravines.
It is made up of a number of parallel ranges enclosing great elevated plateaus broken by transverse ranges and deep ravines.
It is crowded picturesquely into several narrow confluent ravines.
The northern districts are invaded by offshoots of the Carpathians, which reach altitudes of Soo to i i 50 ft., and are cut up by numerous ravines and river valleys.
They have been worn into deep and narrow ravines, sometimes to a depth of 3000 to 4000 ft.
The glens and ravines on the hillside are often thickly wooded, and offer a delightful contrast to the open downs.
Its castle was built on a tongue of land flanked by two deep ravines, and behind this the town grew up in a semicircle on a stretch of bare and exposed tableland.
Steep and rugged ravines intersect the plains, opening into small bays or coves on the shore, fenced with masses of compact and cellular lava; and all over the island are found products of volcanic action.
The submontane tract is an undulating country with a red soil, much broken up into ravines along the foot of the hills.
A thousand mountain torrents have scooped out for themselves picturesque ravines, clothed with an ever-fresh verdure of prickly thorns, stunted gnarled shrubs, and here and there a noble forest tree.
The mountain in spring is covered with snow, but in autumn there is occasionally none left, even in the ravines.
The site of the town is well protected by ravines except on the east; no ancient remains exist in situ, but inscriptions and other relics have been found.
On the southern it mostly consists of lofty, bleak moorland, affording subsistence for sheep and cattle, and rugged glens and ravines, while on the northern there are many stretches of fertile soil, especially in the valleys and dales, and the landscape is often romantic and beautiful.
The surface of the ground is much cut up by ravines which fill and dry up according to the rise and fall of the river.
The mountain slopes and ravines of the east have a well-marked vegetation.
Excavations were made in 1899 in one of the ravines in a Sicel necropolis of the third period; explorations in the various Greek cemeteries resulted in the discovery of some fine bronzes, notably a fine bronze lebes, now in the Berlin museum.
The steep slopes gave way to ravines where water had carried away the soil, leaving wide trails of flat stones.
Current status Wilson`s pouchwort is a leafy liverwort found in wooded ravines where there is both constant high humidity and reasonable light levels.
At times the horses picked their way cautiously down rocky ravines; at others they cantered over open pastures.
This path leads into the second of our sequence of limestone ravines, Peter Dale.
Heavy rainfall has accentuated the huge river valleys and steep sided ravines that occur in the mainly volcanic rock.
Soaring mountains, cliffs and ravines rise dramatically from this rugged shoreline.
A wide valley collecting streams from several of the ravines on the north side of the island opens into Cumberland Bay, and is partially enclosed and cultivated.
This tract is rugged and scored by ravines, and is very sparsely inhabited.
The region of dense forest, however, does not cover the whole of Liberia; the Makona river and the northern tributaries of the Lofa and St Paul's flow through a mountainous country covered with grass and thinly scattered trees, while the ravines and watercourses are still richly forested.
They not only indicate the height of the land, but also enable us to compute the declivity of the mountain slopes; and if minor features of ground lying between two contours - such as ravines, as also rocky precipices and glaciers - are indicated, as is done on the Siegfried atlas of Switzerland, they fully meet the requirements of the scientific man, the engineer and the mountain-climber.
The site, surrounded by ravines and accessible only on the W., is naturally strong and characteristic of an Etruscan town; on this side there is a considerable fragment of the ancient Etruscan wall, built of rectangular blocks of tufa (whether the rest of the site was protected by walls is uncertain), and a ruined castle, erected by Antonio da Sangallo the elder in 1499, for Pope Alexander VI., and restored by Pope .Paul III.
From the pass it drops over the gradually decreasing grades of a wide sweep of Chol (which here happens to be locally free from the intersecting network of narrow ravines which is generally a distinguishing feature of Turkestan loess formations) for a distance of 35 m.
There is also a picture gallery containing works by local masters, Pietro Alamanni, Cola d'Amatrice, Carlo Crivelli, &c. The bridges across the ravines which defend the town are of considerable importance; the Ponte di Porta Cappucina is a very fine Roman bridge, with a single arch of 71 ft.
In the ravines of Kansas, pools supplied by torrential rains give birth to these and many other phyllopods, and in turn " millions of them perish by the drying up of the pools in July " (Packard).
The weathering of this desert area is probably faimly rapid, and the agents at work are principally the rapid heating and cooling of the rocks by day and night, and the erOsive action of sand-laden wind on the softer lnyers; these, aided by the occasional rain, are ceaselessly at work, and produce the successive plateaus, dotted with small isolated hills and cut up by valleys (wadis) which occasionally become deep ravines, thus foiming the principal type of scenery of these deserts.
In some places, occupying the sides and hollows of ravines, are found the rose bay (Nerium Oleander), called in Persian khar-zarah, or ass-bane, the wild laburnum and various Indigoferae.
The tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica) in the mountain ravines is especially remarkable.
Built on a high mound with steep ravines on three sides, the first sighting of this castle is truly breathtaking.
Heldreichi is one of the prettiest of the Ramondia family, a native of the mountains of Macedonia, growing in ravines.
White Camassia (Camassia Leichtlini) - This often grows on sandy ridge-tops, and is found in dry spots in ravines; its bulbs are generally deep in some stiff soil.
Ravines Wine Cellars - Located in Keuka Village, this vineyard was named for the two deep ravines on the estate.
In Poland the rocks of these periods are met with in the Kielce Mountains, and in Podolia in the deeper ravines.
The sloping country on the bank of the Jumna is full of ravines.
It contains stupendous chains of mountains, elevated plains and table-lands, warm and fertile valleys and ravines.