Bowlders

Such rounded cores, known as bowlders of weathering, are often left to strew the surface. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

a rocky section, with a rough cavern on their right -- that is, the bowlders and rocks were jumbled together in such a fashion that there was some resemblance to a cave. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

Winterborne had abstractedly taken the poker, and with a wrinkled forehead was ploughing abroad the wood-embers on the broad hearth, till it was like a vast scorching Sahara, with red-hot bowlders lying about everywhere. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was then passing over Mabunguru, a stony country, strewn with blocks of syenite of a fine polish, and knobbed with huge bowlders and angular ridges of rock; conic masses, like the rocks of Karnak, studded the soil like so many ❋ Unknown (2003)

These elevated summits consist of rounded cones, between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The travelers had camped in a broad, sandy basin, strewn with bowlders, cut across with deep irregular gullies, now concealed by a coarse rank growth of weeds and grass, -- the dry bed of a mountain torrent. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Should one take the winding path, by which alone it can be scaled, and clamber to the summit, he would be terrified by the loneliness of the place, with its sun-bleached bowlders and its moaning pines. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Four hours of turning and twisting, endlessly down and down, over bowlders and banks and every conceivable roughness of earth and rock, finished the pack mustang; and Slone mercifully left him in a long reach of cañon where grass and water never failed. ❋ Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews (N/A)

The merry jingles rang on in challenge and answer, repeating from both sides of the pond, until they reached at last the wooded slopes and mighty bowlders of Old Squaw Mountain, a peak whose "star-crowned head" could be imagined rather than discerned against the horizon, near the distant shore from which the hunters had started. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

In the rocky canyon, which they finally reached, the placid little stream narrowed into a roaring torrent, which rushed between the steep banks and the huge, water-worn bowlders, with fury uncontrolled. ❋ Wilder Anthony (N/A)

Heroically they forebore to growl when their legs were scraped by jagged bowlders or prickly shrubs, giving thanks inwardly to the manufacturers of their stout tweeds that their clothes held together, instead of hanging on them like streamers on a rag-bush. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

In the kingdom of the Princess Myrtle were many forests cut through with roaring streams which dashed and danced their way over immense shining black bowlders that looked like ebony bears lying in the current. ❋ Anna McClure Sholl (N/A)

Now they saw its forests, and the rugged slides where avalanches of bowlders and earth from the top had ploughed heavily downward, sweeping away all growth. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

Lurching from side to side, making sharp turns to avoid bowlders and holes, ❋ Willard F. Baker (N/A)

Even a man's rifle is apt to get in his way when he has to scramble over windfalls, or slump between big bowlders of rock, which a'most tear the clothes off his back. ❋ Isabel Hornibrook (N/A)

They struck out, to find the bottom of the gulch filled with bowlders, bushes and snow. ❋ Ralph Bonehill (N/A)

Bowlders of 100 to 200 lb. in weight are dislodged and shot forward by the impetuous stream, accompanied by masses of the harder cement which meet in the fall, and by the concussion from the great bowlders the crushing and pulverizing agency required is found to disintegrate it. ❋ Various (N/A)

Arrived here, she sought with assured footsteps a certain zig-zag way -- it could hardly be called a path -- which wound in and out among the bowlders, skipping some, leaping others, trenching on the edges of little pools left in some rocky hollow by the high tide, and finally led her, after a last steep scramble, into a niche of the sea's own hollowing, which she had always claimed as her own. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)

They had a little difficulty in finding a break in the cliffs that walled the water front, but finally they discovered a cleft in the solid rock and they were able to make a steep descent over broken bowlders. ❋ Wyn Roosevelt (N/A)

Between the foot of the mountains and the track was rugged ground, with large bowlders scattered here and there. ❋ Wyn Roosevelt (N/A)