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Meanings of rocky defile in English

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Usage of rocky defile in English
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Pekin and the Nankow pass, a rocky defile twelve or fifteen miles long.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
2
A thick wood, however, was before them and another rocky defile.
Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trad...
3
In the semi-darkness of the rocky defile he could see the lion but indistinctly.
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields; Or, The Search for the Landslide...
4
Then the steed took to his heels and went clattering along the rocky defile.
Dave Porter in the Gold Fields; Or, The Search for the Landslide...
5
Leaving the village out of sight behind us, we rode together up a rocky defile.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
6
They walk out of the forest and find themselves in a rocky defile of the mountain.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
7
The trail dropped sharply into a rocky defile.
Hood
8
From a rocky defile gayly pranced forth a masked cavalier, Roderigo di Lima, a famous bandit chief.
Risen from the Ranks; Or, Harry Walton's Success
9
The pass itself is a narrow rocky defile where a score of men might hold an army at bay.
Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future
10
After a while I could mount again, and we moved on, descending the rocky defile on its western side.
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
11
The river sweeps out through a narrow and rocky defile, at whose narrowest part the banks rise in precipitous walls.
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish
12
Indulging in these and kindred gloomy reflections, he advanced towards a rocky defile where the path diverged to the right.
Erling the Bold
13
The only outlet was a steep rocky defile, a runoff for spring floods, that led back up to the steppes.
The Mammoth Hunters
14
In the midafternoon of that day Grandmont spotted carrion birds circling over a rocky defile of the mountains about a mile ahead.
All souls' rising
15
At one o'clock they moved leisurely forward, passed through the rocky defile which led into the valley of Abu Klea and bivouacked.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
16
On the 27th of November the river led them into the mountains through a rocky defile where there was scarcely room to pass.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
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