At the base of the wall, where the log-joists rested upon a huge bowlder, his quick eye detected an air-hole.

The intemperate cold of the water of those parts of America was so much more excessive than Dunburne had been used to swim in that when he dragged himself out upon the rocky, bowlder-strewn beach he lay for a considerable time more dead than alive.

Desmond rolled a bowlder over against the rock and mounted, and ran his finger over the crack.

pedrusco, m., (rough) block of stone; stone (or marble) slab (or block); bowlder. pegar, to fasten, close, shut, join.

peña, f., large rock, bowlder, cliff. peñascal, m., rocky hill (or mountain).

peñasco, m., rock, cliff, large rock, bowlder. peñon, m., rock, cliff. peon, m., footman, foot-soldier, laborer, farm-hand.

The bank was some twenty feet high and covered sparsely with grass and weeds; and a few feet below him a granite bowlder stuck its lichened head outward from the cliff, forming an inviting seat from which to view the sunset across the lowland opposite.

In the lee of a huge gray bowlder on the summit of Mount Tom sat Philip Lambert and Carlotta Cressy.

For a moment they stood silent in front of the gray bowlder.

On the sandy shore of that harbor, close to the water's edge, was a little granite bowlder, and on this, according to tradition, the Pilgrims stepped as they came ashore, December 21, 1620.

If a small portion of this compound be exploded on the surface of a granite bowlder, in the open air, the bowlder will be rent into fragments.

If a small portion of this compound be exploded on the surface of a granite bowlder, in the open air, the bowlder will be rent into fragments.

He, and not your own evil nature, should be responsible for your instinctive wish that he had happened to be toying with a bowlder instead of a small stone which could only mutilate.

Come daylight, we'll have him cornered, every man behind a bowlder.

You back up to that mountain mahogany bush, slip under it, and worm down through the rocks till you come to a little scrub-oak tree and a big granite bowlder.

After tracing the Sierra streams from their fountains to the plains, marking where they bloom white in falls, glide in crystal plumes, surge gray and foam-filled in bowlder-choked gorges, and slip through the woods in long, tranquil reachesafter thus learning their language and forms in detail, we may at length hear them chanting all together in one grand anthem, and comprehend them all in clear inner vision, covering the range like lace.

It was a grinding which never ceased; every pebble and every bowlder which lay in the way was pressed into the endless labor; mountains were used up in channelling mountains.

"There is our chance," said Thurstane, pointing to a bowlder as large as a house which stood under the northern wall of the cañon, about a quarter of a mile above the first yeast of the rapid.

They had but one object: it was to get under the lee of the bowlder, and so stop their descent; after that they would see what more could be done.

Sounding the muddy water with their paddles, they slowly glided into the angle between the bowlder and the precipice, and jammed the fragment of the towline in a crevice.

After an anxious search they discovered a bowlder lying in the river beneath the shelf, with a flat surface perfectly suited to their purpose.

While the others held the cord to keep the strain from coming on the bayonet, he gripped it with both hands, edged stern foremost over the precipice, and slipped rapidly to the bowlder, whence he sent up a hoot of exultation.

" The cord holding firm, Thurstane reached the bowlder, and was presently joined by Glover.

" The two men were sitting on a bowlder side by side, their hands on their knees and their muskets leaning against their shoulders.

She did not pass a cactus, or a thicket of mezquit, or a bowlder without anxious examination.