45 Verbs to Use for the Word crater

It seemed fairly certain that the Germans were occupying the crater, were either making it the starting-point of a mine tunnel, or were fortifying it as a defensive point.

I never saw a crater before.

When this was done, he and Betts left the crater, driving the hogs out before them.

As he approached the crater, on that occasion, he looked at those promising fruits of his early and provident care for the future with great satisfaction, for seldom was the labour of man better rewarded.

On landing, Mark took a part of the tools and the bucket of guano, while Bob shouldered the remainder, and they went up to the hole, and entered the crater together, having landed as near to the gate-way as they could get, with that object.

" The sunshine, or probably the night's rest, had a wonderful effect upon the nerves of the younger girl, and she viewed the crater with much more composure than on the previous afternoon.

The experience which Goethe had in visiting the crater of Vesuvius in 1787 is just about such as an American from Kansas City, or Cripple Creek, would have in 1914.

But the British soldier is a difficult person to impress or depress, even by immense shells filled with a high explosive, which detonate with terrific violence and form craters large enough to act as graves for five horses.

We at length reached the old crater and sat ourselves down to repose till day-break.

But Mark felt, now, as if he could eat the crater, though as yet he had not been able to clamber to the Summit.

It had been worn to such smoothness as it possessed since the battle, and it evaded the worst craters by going around them.

A considerable portion of the slope of the mountain was covered with a hollow incrustation of sulphur and lime, or silica, from which issued in many places hot steam, and we found many small craters from six to twelve inches in diameter, from which issued the sound of the boiling sulphur or mud, and in many instances we could see the mud or sulphur water.

In the middle of the clearing, twenty yards farther on, gaped an enormous shell-crater, a present from the Kaiser.

Has ony o' ye got a wee bit biscuit an' bully beef an' a mouthful o' water t' gie the puir shiverin' crater!"

That 'circumstances might alter cases' he was willing enough to allow, nor did he intend to govern the crater by precisely the same laws as he would govern Pennsylvania, or Japan; but he well understood, nevertheless, that certain great moral truths existed as the law of the human family, and that they were not to be set aside by visionaries; and least of all, with impunity.

I found all these hillocks small craters, but none of them, burning; and for miles our road lay through ashes and lava.

No wonder: if St. John's harbour beas from its shape on the map it probably issimply an extinct crater, or group of craters, like English Harbour.

my good friend," said he, "I thought you kept a cow?" "Ay, plase yer honour's honour, and two it was that I once kept, the craters!"

Away south, along the low spit at the south end of the island, where are salt-pans which, I suspect, lie in now extinguished craters; and past little Nevis, the conical ruin, as it were, of a volcanic island.

On the present occasion, the boat ran across the passage in very good time, making the crater in about five hours, and the ship's masts in six.

A good deal emboldened by his freedom from discovery and by the misty rain, Ainsley slid backwards, moved round the crater, crept back to the barbed wire and under it, ran across the opening on the other side and dropped into the hole where he had left his men.

The great German guns opened enormous craters and literally tore the towns to pieces.

Our goal was a covered shed overlooking a crater, not in a very active state, but puffing sulphurous smoke from numerous chinks and chasms.

At the Butte de Marlincourt, one of the most bitterly contested bits of the battlefield, we passed a huge mine crater, and I made an inspection of it.

A succession of small hillocks, about fifty feet high, bordered each side of the road; and towards the north I could perceive the huge crater of the Iriga, which, in the distance, appeared like a truncated cone.

45 Verbs to Use for the Word  crater