These afforded good footholds, but the surface curved more and more steeply at the head, and the pits became shallower and less abundant, until I found myself in danger of being shed off like avalanching snow.

Notwithstanding they are mostly small and shallow, owing to their immunity from avalanche detritus and the inwashings of powerful streams, they often endure longer than others many times larger but less favorably situated.

Many groves and thickets would undoubtedly have grown up on lake and avalanche beds, and many a fair flower and shrub would have found food and a dwelling-place in weathered nooks and crevices, but the Sierra as a whole would have been a bare, rocky desert.

To step between Lord Nick and one of his purposes would have been like stepping before an avalanche and commanding it to halt with a raised hand.

Had the German Press been unanimous, it might have stopped the avalanche.

Simultaneously the German Government set in motion an avalanche of racial feeling to play off against the just and moderate measures taken by other powers to checkmate Austrian aggression.

In due time the bloodthirsty Pecksniff who had set the avalanche in motion appeared to express his holy indignation.

"Here," cried a swain, whose venerable head Bloom'd with the snow-drops of Man's narrow bed, 595 Last night, while by his dying fire, as clos'd The day, in luxury my limbs repos'd, "Here Penury oft from misery's mount will guide Ev'n to the summer door his icy tide, And here the avalanche of Death destroy 600 The little cottage of domestic Joy.

He would almost say to himself, "Beware the pine-tree's withered branch, beware the awful avalanche."

Like skilled soldiers they grouped, and bore down on the intruders like an avalanche.

It was like disturbing the one small stone which starts the avalanche, which eventually smashes the far-off forest.

According to one description, they resemble a cataract of snow, with an avalanche of jewels amidst solid portals of lava.

Says the snail to the avalanche: 'Go slow!'

and the avalanche" "Hey! Hi!

There was no pause, but straight, and with the shock of an avalanche, they hurled themselves at the Russians.

It was an avalanche.

A few minutes later a sharp-eyed lad ran into the Monte Rosa hotel to Seiler, saying that he had seen an avalanche fall from the summit of the Matterhorn on to the Matterhorngletscher.

As we ascended a peal to the right announced the descent of an avalanche from the Twins; it came heralded by clouds of ice-dust, which resembled the sphered masses of condensed vapor which issue from a locomotive.

How easy is it to find politicians ever ready to sniff the incense of popularity at the plausible shrine of a descending franchise!how difficult to find those who, while granting what is just and prudent, have the wisdom to plan, and the courage to dare, measures to arrest a mobular avalanche!

At last the Irusian Mountains came in sight, nursing the villages of Pen-Kai and Blut, and the wandering streets of Mlo, where priests propitiate the avalanche with wine and maize.

Trembling, limp and weak, he sank to the divan, overwhelmed, pounded to pieces, it seemed, by that vehement adoration, that caught him up and carried him away like a tumultuous avalanche.

FLACCUS, KIMBALL. Avalanche of April.

R105066, 8Jan53, Cupples and Leon Co. (PWH) Ruth Fielding at Golden Pass; or, The perils of an artificial avalanche.

Nagmarg, Nanga Parbat, A great mountain in the Chilas country, 26,620 feet high (the fourth in point of height in the world), Mommery and two guides were destroyed in 1895, probably by an avalanche, while attempting the ascent.

When I stopped to rest I would shove a stone loose and watch it heave and slide, and leap out and hurtle down, to make the dust fly, and crash into the thickets, and eventually start an avalanche that would roar down into the canyon.