At times we swam a foot or two above the cragged shelves of submerged rock, as if soaring over canyons.
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CHIN, Myanmar — At the cragged peak overlooking Parte village in Myanmar's mountainous Chin state, mounds of human bones spill from the mouth of a small cave.
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She calls Lucy by her childhood pet name, Wizzle; Linney distinguishes her with a cragged, smoky voice, whose flattened "a"s and sanded "r"s supposedly signal northern Illinois.
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The sequel struggles to find anything for Rocky to do that's as compelling as what he experienced in Creed, but it can still coast on the power of Stallone's cragged face, tumbling off his skull like rocks from a mountain.
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And whether it's passing over a barren, ice-cragged coast of Antarctica, a remote African desert, or a lonely patch of ocean, you can be sure there will be an umbraphile — a shadow-loving eclipse chaser — there to see it.
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Image 25 of 13 KOZANKOY, Cyprus – Perched halfway up a cragged mountain range, limestone outcrops frame the small village of mostly single-story homes where Nicholas Skourides was born, and where he says he simply wants to live out the rest of his days.
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For instance, he claimed in one of his last books, "Around the Cragged Hill," that America today has no vehicle for long-term planning, such as the policy planning commission he created in 2628 at the request of then-Secretary of State George C. Marshall.
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It was first proposed by George Kennan, the father of the "containment" strategy and probably the most important American ambassador since Benjamin Franklin, in his autobiography, "Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy," published in 1993: I have often diverted myself, and puzzled my friends, by wondering how it would be if our country, while retaining certain of the rudiments of a federal government, were to be decentralized into something like a dozen constituent republics, absorbing not only the powers of the existing states but a considerable part of those of the present federal establishment.
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Freedom is one of several sites for Nature's Classroom. It is also home to one of the permanent campsites of the Luethi-Peterson Camps and to Cragged Mountain Farm, a co-ed summer camp on Cragged Mountain started by Dr. Henry Utter in 1927, and still owned by the Utter family.
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In November 2006, former rector from 1990 - 2000, and now current chaplain, John Boyd- Boland released his book On A Cragged Hill - A Fifty Year Story reliving the events and history of Padua College since its beginnings in 1956. Boyd-Boland is also the old name of one houses at Padua college.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water, comprising 5.06% of the town. Conway Lake is on the northern boundary, and Crystal Lake is in the center. Eaton lies fully within the Saco River watershed. The highest point in town is above sea level on its southern boundary, just north of the summit of Cragged Mountain.
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Schoolhouse in 1911 Freedom is situated between the Lakes Region and the White Mountains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water, comprising 8.23% of the town. The highest point in the town is the summit of Cragged Mountain, at above sea level. Freedom is drained by the Ossipee River and lies fully within the Saco River watershed.
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" 25 July 1177 he reached the summit and wrote: > "Behind all these mountains are the Snow Mountains of the Western Regions. > Their jagged and cragged peaks, which seem carved and pared, number upwards > to a hundred. With the first light of day their snowy hue is piercing and > bright, like glistening silver amid the dazzling and resplendent light of > dawn. Since ancient times these snows have never melted.
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The area includes a cragged portion of the plateau. Most of it consists of the dell of Rüti, which is drained by a creek into the Emme. The dell is surrounded by several mountains Räbberg and Binzberg in the north, Büelhölzli in the west, and Schneiteberg in the south. The highest point in Rüti bei Lyssach is located on the northern slope of Schneiteberg with above sea level.
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Southeast of Jinshanling is the Mutianyu Great Wall which winds along lofty, cragged mountains from the southeast to the northwest for . It is connected with Juyongguan Pass to the west and Gubeikou to the east. This section was one of the first to be renovated following the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. At the edge of the Bohai Gulf is Shanhai Pass, considered the traditional end of the Great Wall and the "First Pass Under Heaven".
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Vífilsfell is part of a 10 km long mountain massif, the Bláfjöll, which are directed northeast to southwest. This corresponds well with the other mountain ranges and fissure systems of the region, the Reykjanes peninsula in Southwest Iceland. The subglacial mound even builds an escarpment reaching out the north, where mostly older lava fields are to be found, whereas to the south, younger Aa lavas form a landscape characterized by cragged ridges and fissures, with only some smoother Pahoehoe in between.
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Whitshed is a low, wooded peninsula, presenting a cragged appearance to the sea, and reaching within about five miles of Point Bentinck. This intermediate five miles has been described by Johnstone as "a low, uninterrupted, barren sand as far as the eye could reach." It is an extensive flat of bluish yellow mud, covered with water during stormy days at flood tide; but at low tide no water is present. From Point Whitshed to the southward and eastward, there is a long line of piled ice, with dwarf trees marking the channel of Eyak River, extending out into the flats.
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