24 Verbs to Use for the Word dunes

Thus I was free, and selecting a moment when universal attention was turned toward the rum barrel, I rolled over a sand dune, got to my hands and knees, and crept away.

MASTER I HAVE Master I have, and I am his man, Gallop a dreary dun; Master I have, and I am his man, And I'll get a wife as fast as I can; With a heighty gaily gamberally, Higgledy piggledy, niggledy, niggledy, Gallop a dreary dun.

To-day I can defy a dun even fromWhat, what's this?

They had the satisfaction of ruining each otherthe full purse was emptied by devouring duns, and the old nobility suffered by its connexion with vulgarity.

He may have felt as a debtor would Who has dodged a dogging dun, Or a bank-cashier in his hour of dread With brokers behind and breakers ahead, Or a blood with his last "upon the red," And each expecting a run.

Near the edge of this plain we began to encounter a few sand dunes with outcrops, very similar to those on the coast line of our own country.

40 Must you not by mean lies evade To-morrow's duns from every trade?

The captain had superintended the arrangement of the bags, and had so shaped the mass that it somewhat resembled in form the dunes of sand which lay behind it.

" With breaking sobs, with panting breath Christopher grasped a bent-held dune, Then with flung staff and as in death

ALLIE MAYO: Dunes meet woods and woods hold dunes from a town that's shore to a harbor.

Far to the south and west he could make out the dim outline of Beaver Island, while over the trail he had come, mile upon mile, lay the glistening dunes.

The next day we passed the naked and high dunes called Grand Sable, and the storm-beaten and impressive horizontal coat of the Pictured Rocks, and encamped at Grand Island, a distance of about 130 miles.

Long winds move in the draughty valleys, blown sand fills and fills about the lower branches, piling pyramidal dunes, from the top of which the mesquite twigs flourish greenly.

"It seems to me it's not the part of a gentleman to play the dun so continually.

You remember Kiplingyou are always quoting that young man" 'The dun he fled like a stag of ten, but the mare like a barren doe.'

When they reached the sand-dunes, they were almost too weak to search for a likely place to dig for water; but making a final effort, they discovered a patch whence, at six feet, they obtained a supply of water.

As the host his song had ended with a last resounding twang, And within the harp's dumb chambers murmurous echoes faintly rang, Up then sprang the guest, and straightway downward rolled his garment dun There stood Harold, the avenger, Burislav's undaunted son.

Ah, 'these dogs bare their teeth to fight more willingly than to eat.' It will come to hot work soon, I think!" Keenly he scanned the dunes, eager for sight of a white tarboosh, or headgear, at which to take a pot-shot.

If we can get her up again, we may just strike the dunes.

"Yet tell me ere the dune we cross How came you to this lonely land?

They are shaped somewhat like huge snail-shells, and around these the children delight to dig in the sand, throwing up miniature dunes around one.

Already we were approaching the sand-dunes, the very spot for an easy descent if we could descend.

The surface is diversified by long sweeps of undulating sand-dunes, elevated plateaux, hill and mountain ranges (8000 ft. highest) furrowed by dried-up water-courses, and dotted with fertile oases which yield date-palms, oranges, lemons, figs, &c.

In the meantime, as Shadwell relates, the rakes "live as much by their wits as ever; and to avoid the clinking dun of a boxkeeper, at the end of one act they sneak to the opposite side 'till the end of another; then call the boxkeeper saucy rascal, ridicule the poet, laugh at the actors, march to the opera, and spunge away the rest of the evening."

24 Verbs to Use for the Word  dunes