Word: crag
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Escorted by guards we had left our village at dusk and gone to the foot of a goat path. After an exchange of passwords, a new guard was assigned to lead us straight up the rocks beside a waterfall deep into a fissure in the towering limestone crag. Midway up we entered a vast grotto with an underground mountain lake and turned back, panting, to look down upon the majestic moonlit landscape...
...Germans have known for some time that this was Tito's headquarters. A few weeks ago 15 German Stukas dive-bombed the lofty crag in full daylight with no more effect than fleabites on a bull's skin...
...first week the speed march is only seven miles, but it takes tired men through mud, up crag and down hill. After the second week it is lengthened out to 15 miles, and it is made without stop in two and a half hours, or the insistently casual British instructors are displeased...
...thousand-foot cliffs of the Final Mountains rising out of barren foothills of Superior, Ariz, looked good to crag-browed Mannheim Kalaf in 1916. They reminded him of his native Syria. He settled down there and went to work in the copper mine. He liked his new home and work. But something was missing. No hajjel. Arizona, fine state though it is, had no hajjeL
...First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio to retire to a home on the headwaters of the Guadalupe River at Hunt. . . . Just a few months ago he came down to Floresville to bury his lifelong friend and comrade-in-arms, Captain Will Wright of the Texas Rangers. . . . The great crag of a man, in his closing prayer, with a level voice directed the thoughts of his listeners to "Cap" Wright's son-on foreign service along with many another Texas boy. You might never have known, except perhaps for the light in his old blue eyes when he looked...