Word: crag
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...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...
...stag on a Pamir crag while goiter'd gazelles stand...
...more than average height, a frame that ambles along carelessly, with toes kicked up in process of walking-movements that range from slowness of contemplation to mercurial quickness of sudden resolution-on broad shoulders, a round head, marked by an oppressively full brow which overarches the face like a crag-eyes, of gooseberry size and color, which roam restlessly or assume a fixed expression as if looking into the secrets of Fate. His complexion is sallow and leatherlike, and his face is shot through with lines, lines which he will never permit a photographer to erase because, as he says...
...himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these impersonal vibrations...