903 examples of cañon in sentences

In all the Western desert edges there are essays in miniature at the famed, terrible Grand Cañon, to which, if you keep on long enough in this country, you will come at last.

Since the time of Seyavi the deer have shifted their feeding ground across the valley at the beginning of deep snows, by way of the Black Rock, fording the river at Charley's Butte, and making straight for the mouth of the cañon that is the easiest going to the winter pastures on Waban.

When he came to a watercourse he would pan out the gravel of its bed for "colors," and under the glass determine if they had come from far or near, and so spying he would work up the stream until he found where the drift of the gold-bearing outcrop fanned out into the creek; then up the side of the cañon till he came to the proper vein.

He had been in Grape-vine Cañon the year of storms that changed the whole front of the mountain.

By the south corner, where the campoodie stood, is a single shrub of "hoopee" (Lycium Andersonii), maintaining itself hardly among alien shrubs, and near by, three low rakish trees of hackberry, so far from home that no prying of mine has been able to find another in any cañon east or west.

The mesa trail begins in the campoodie at the corner of Naboth's field, though one may drop into it from the wood road toward the cañon, or from any of the cattle paths that go up along the streamside; a clean, pale, smooth-trodden way between spiny shrubs, comfortably wide for a horse or an Indian.

Here you have the Spanish Californian in Cero Gordo and piñon; Symmes and Shepherd, pioneers both; Tunawai, probably Shoshone; Oak Creek, Kearsarge,easy to fix the date of that christening,Tinpah, Paiute that; Mist Cañon and Paddy Jack's.

Every cañon commends itself for some particular pleasantness; this for pines, another for trout, one for pure bleak beauty of granite buttresses, one for its far-flung irised falls; and as I say, though some are easier going, leads each to the cloud shouldering citadel.

First, near the cañon mouth you get the low-heading full-branched, one-leaf pines.

Where the rifts are narrow, and some of the Sierra cañons are not a stone's throw from wall to wall, the best trail for foot or horse winds considerably above the watercourses; but in a country of cone-bearers there is usually a good strip of swardy sod along the cañon floor.

But down three thousand feet in the cañon, where you stir the fire under the cooking pot, it will not be day for an hour.

Not all the cañon's sifting of snow can fill the intricate spaces of the hill tangles.

An ear laid to the snow catches a muffled hint of their eternal busyness fifteen or twenty feet under the cañon drifts, and long before any appreciable spring thaw, the sagging edges of the snow bridges mark out the place of their running.

As it was, he felt compelled to retire up the cañon until he could recover his gravity.

Trojan bully and wily Greek wrestled in the winds, and the great pines in the cañon seemed to bow to the wrath of the son of Peleus.

"As far as the cañon," he replied.

Just before the maidan the road drops down on to the river bed, and then runs up on to the maidan itself, which gradually slopes up to the centre, where it is divided by a deep nullah that I think they call in America a cañon.

See that deep cañon?

" He took a broken branch as a lever and with Jimsy's assistance toppled the log down into the cañon.

That was why, when a posse came up to capture the band, they carried materials for building a bridge across the cañon.

" They picked up a sack and staggered into the cañon with it, and Thirkle grinned at me, and lit his cigar again.

Let Bucky alone, Red." "Then ye and the writin' chap lay on and move lively," snarled Buckrow, and Thirkle had me take hold of a sack behind him, and, with him leading the way, we carried it into the miniature cañon.

The Tara has cut itself a cañon like those of the Yellowstone, and on a little space of alluvial land at the bottom lies the convent, a building of the Servian Empire, curiously spared by the Turkish invasions.

Cañon of lost waters.

As the train left the cañon it was but a short run to the scene of the depredation.

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