Significados de rock-ribbed en inglés

It proved to her that caste overcame all else In the rock-ribbed east.

Various feelings had gradually stiffened an early general approval into a rock-ribbed resolve.

To the north spanned a soup-bowl valley ringed by rock-ribbed peaks.

With the remainder the terrible journey across the rock-ribbed and forest-covered isthmus was begun.

Was fortune going to prove unkind to the good old rock-ribbed Green Mountain State?

Turkey's rock-ribbed position is almost utterly antithetical to anything the Israelis might want to hear.

In other words, the spine is a bodily structure as old as the rock-ribbed hills.

Bell System employees were famous as rock-ribbed Kiwanis and Rotary members, Little-League enthusiasts, school-board people.

The Hawke twenty wriggled and writhed, but in the end gave way-allsave a rock-ribbed quartette.

At four o'clock a violent gale was howling over the reaches of ice and rock-ribbed land.

The rock-ribbed and heavily wooded island belonged to Lucile's father, a fish canner of Anacortes, Washington.

They called to one another and listened with mute wonder at the echo among the rock-ribbed hills.

From among the rock-ribbed hills of New Hampshire sprang the greatest of American orators and statesmen, Daniel Webster.

Old Ironsides could have been called Stone Mountain as appropriately as its neighbor, for truly it was rock-ribbed.

That because the rock-ribbed Vermont ancestor's idea of duty can never be ours, we have no duty to acknowledge?

To descend a rock-ribbed hill, overgrown with tangled underbrush and buried in decaying tree-trunks, is hardly easier than to ascend it.