The rim of the mesa was its highest point, except here and there a few elevations like Black Butte.

Thoughts and smoke seemed circling around Wayne together; and perhaps the blue rim of it all was dreams.

This rim was a huge wall of splintered rock, a colossal cliff, towering so high above the black basin below that ravines and canyons resembled ripples or dimples, darker lines of shade.

The line was that of a semicircle, whose extreme rim on the left was several rods beyond the last of the wolves swarming to the right.

Iron-rimmed for its busy revolution and outward contact is the life and strength of man; but the tempered steel is at the heart and within the soul of the woman, that she may bear the silent pressure of the axle, and quietly and invisibly originate and support the entire onward movement.

A narrow rim of stone, just wide enough to sustain the wheel, would, in all probability, be the next improvement; and only when the gentle operations of the farm were exchanged for war, and the charger had to be hurried to the fight, with all the equipments necessary for an army, great roads were laid open, and covered with hard materials to sustain the wear and tear of men and animals.