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I traced the geography of his face: from the cliff of his cheekbone to the whirlpool of his ear to the laugh lines ravined beside his mouth.

My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004

The coast of Upper Normandy, on the contrary, was steep, a high cliff, ravined, cleft and towering, forming an immense white rampart all the way to Dunkirk, while in each hollow

Pierre And Jean 2003

The road still led through the hills, a road that wound up from the deep-ravined rivers of the Portuguese border, but there were newer and better roads to the south.

Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

As far as the village of Borodino the high road lay along the north bank, but it then crossed over to the south side, and followed the general direction of a deeply ravined tributary brook.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

As far as the village of Borodino the high road lay along the north bank, but it then crossed over to the south side, and followed the general direction of a deeply ravined tributary brook.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Not the smoothly rounded hills of Natal but bills with rocky crests, deeply gullied and ravined between.

When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964

His political exhortations began and ended like the howl of a blood-hound for murder; or, if a wolf could have written a journal, the gaunt and famished wretch could not have ravined more eagerly for slaughter.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

The Khamar-daban border-ridge (the summit of a mountain of the same name is 5300 ft. above the lake), falling with steep cliffs towards the lake, fringes it on the south; a massive, deeply-ravined highland occupies the space between the Irkut and the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

The hillsides are deeply ravined and the slopes covered with a dense growth of tussock, which renders progress uncertain and laborious.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

They ravined in rings like iniquitous things; they gulped down the Green and the Blue.

Ballads of a Cheechako 1916