20 Words to use with canyons

It was a half dozen miles in length, reaching from the canyon gate at the upper end of the valley where the river turned abruptly northward, to the narrow gorge at the south through which it disappeared.

But one in armor does not fly from passers-by as she had flown while he was climbing up the canyon wall with his pine-tree branch.

Canyon passage.

The country was strange to her, but she knew that they were making their way, far above the canyon rim, on the side of the San Bernardino range, toward the distant Cold Water country that opened into the great desert beyond.

When they reached the point where the road to Morton's ranch leaves the main canyon road, Brian Oakley said, "It's barely possible that she went on up to Carleton's.

Then before I realized it I was at the foot of the slope, in a narrow canyon bed, full of rocks and trees, with the din of roaring water in my ears.

We climbed a wooded bench or low step of the canyon slope, and though Copple and I were side by side I saw two turkeys before he did.

Canyon treasure.

One of the horses, giving up on a steep pitch and frenzied by Ray's cruel, lashing blows, fell off the edge of the trail and shot down like a plummet two hundred feet into the canyon belowand thereupon it became necessary not only to spend the rest of the day in retrieving and repairing the supplies that had fallen with him, but also to heap bigger loads on the backs of the remaining horses.

How familiarly beautiful and lonely this canyon glade!

When we had descended into the canyon rain was falling more heavily.

It came up the canyon in clouds, and it drifted down through the canyon roof in still thicker clouds, and all the world was buried deep.

I felt rather than saw the canyon swallows, sweeping by in darting flight, with soft rustle of wings, and I heard the shrill chirp of some strange cliff inhabitant.

Some little husk of inner consciousness told Churchill that the direction was right, and, still as in a dream, he took the canyon trail.

As I entered the open canyon Romer-boy espied memanifestly he had been watchingand he yelled: "Here comes my Daddy now!...

he joined his robust yell to mine, and for a moment we made the canyon bellow.

On April 20th, 1908, after days on the hot desert, my weary party and pack train reached the summit of Powell's Plateau, the most isolated, inaccessible and remarkable mesa of any size in all the canyon country.

The tremendous purple canyon depths lay beneath him.

He had selected for our camp a protected nook near where the canyon floor bore some patches of sage, the stalks and roots of which would serve for firewood.

He stood erect, seeing wide-eyed the secrecy of the scene and sensuously inhaling the warm, sweet breath of the canyon-garden through nostrils that dilated and quivered with delight.

20 Words to use with  canyons