10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRAGGIEST»
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Florence And Tuscany: A Literary Guide for Travellers
Dante's 'craggiest way' is now the treacherously steep and winding D37 – the
road on which Princess Grace had her fatal car accident. At the road's 500-metre
peak, lines from Canto III of Dante's Inferno are engraved in stone: Meanwhile, ...
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Kilkenny; the ancient city of Ossory, the seat of its kings, ...
In witness that this is our last resolution and pleasure, we have hereunto
subscribed our names this 18th day of March, 1689." The precise situation of this,
" the meanest and craggiest spot about this city," has not been identified. The
allusion to ...
Sure, I love hiking in cool northern forests and southwestern deserts and just
about everything in between. But tell me I could only go on one last backpacking
trip and I'd head uphill, to the highest, craggiest, rockiest, windiest place I could
find.
... round, smooth mass is better than the roughest, craggiest, shaggiest, most
sharply splintered mountain of them all. And then what a view it commands ! —
Lancaster with its gray old castle on one hand ; York with its reverend minster on
the ...
William Harrison Ainsworth, 1849
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Pleasant pages (by S.P. Newcombe). [With suppl., entitled] ...
The cows feed in the lower pastures and marshy land, the sheep in the drier and
higher lands, and the goats and chamois gratify their capering propensities on
the highest and craggiest parts. With such a stock of cattle, the grass and winter ...
Samuel Prout Newcombe, 1850
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Incidents of travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy land
chasm, 01 upon the craggiest top ; and, strange as the feeling may seem, my very
soul cleaved to the scene around me. 1 too felt myself lifted*above the world, and
its petty cares and troubles, and almost hurried into the wild enthusiasm which ...
John Lloyd Stephens, 1853
To our left, patches of glatial blue ice decorated a broad wall of snow; beyond
that, the highest, craggiest peaks in the range rose up and cast their shadows
across Steepness. And Steepness, as it turned out, was just a beginning. For
below ...
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Our Home Magazine and Mothers' Journal
INHABITANTS OF THE MOUNTAINS. California, belongs, I fancy, to' the court
dresses. in little groups amid the wildest, His horns are craggiest places in the
Rocky Mounvery like the African, and he is about tains. the same size; but is not ...
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American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School
And as Bierstadt portrays it, the Grizzly Giant lives up to its name as easily the
most massive, most strikingly colored, and craggiest specimen of the group. Four
horses and five men, including a bearded, bareheaded figure said to represent ...
John K. Howat, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1987
... be found in the Big-hobn, or Rocky Mountain Sheep, of California This animal
is not at all uncommon in its native land, where it may be found in little troops of
twenty or thirty in number, inhabiting the craggiest and most inaccessible rocks.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRAGGIEST»
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craggiest is used in the context of the following news items.
Rock Opera: 'More people have stood on the moon than these …
Home to some of the craggiest nooks and crannies on the Wild Atlantic Way, the county boasts over 100 sea stacks, some of which have been ... «Irish Independent, May 15»
David Foster Wallace's David Letterman Tribute
The bud of culture flourishing even in the craggiest soil, was the come-on. Letterman cleared his throat and claimed that PBS had finally ... «Vulture, May 15»
Discover a new side of Malaysia: Sabah
... Peninsula is the state of Sabah, home to the most pristine and luscious green forests, clear blue waters and some of the craggiest mountains. «Arab News, May 15»
If Every 'Game Of Thrones' Character Got Together For A Dinner …
“Walder, you are the craggiest of drunks.” Cersei waited for her joke to make its way down the table. Many guests laughed. At one point, she ... «Bustle, Apr 15»
Turkey's path to the past
... valleys, tiny wild cyclamen that pop through leaf litter, and plucky crocus flowers bare delicate beauty from cracks in the craggiest rocks. «Stuff.co.nz, Feb 15»
Justin Chang's Top 10 Films of 2014
This wise and wrenching study of human frailty may be indebted to Chekhov, but its ability to find beauty in the craggiest landscapes — and the ... «Variety, Dec 14»
Happy 140th, Point Fermin Lighthouse
Lighthouses have long been tied to New England's craggiest coasts in popular culture, but, of course, the Golden State boasts a few ... «NBC Southern California, Dec 14»
Why Liverpool's 2013/14 campaign is beginning to look like an illusion
He negotiated that craggiest of rocks: a star player pining for the greener grass of another club. Luis Suarez, in the summer of 2013, did not ... «Squawka Football News, Nov 14»
Of Fjords, Pilgrimages and Holy Frying Pans: Canadian Odyssey on …
At the fjord's craggiest, the walls rise precipitously up to 1,500 feet. It's overcast as we begin the tour, giving the mighty crags an enchanted ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
New Hampshire Clam Chowder: What's Simmering in a Crockpot in …
... 1788, New Hampshire is the northernmost of the original thirteen colonies and also the craggiest, with the nickname “The Granite State” and ... «Willamette Week, Jul 14»