Rampikes

From the dead branches of those skeleton pines and hemlocks, these _rampikes_, hang masses of white moss, snow-white, amid the dark verdure. ❋ Frederic S. Cozzens (N/A)

Beyond the trees, on the other side of the marsh, is the steep and high eastern bank of the Ancre, on which a battered wood, called Thiepval Wood, stands like an army of black and haggard rampikes. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

A few rampikes of trees standing on one side of this glen give the place its name of Ten ❋ John Masefield (1922)

Rising to a plateau where it wound back and forth through burnt lands it gave an occasional glimpse of steep hillside, of the rocks piled in the channel of the frozen rapid, the higher and precipitous opposing slope above the fall, and at the last resumed a desolate way amid fallen trees and blackened rampikes. ❋ Unknown (1913)

"The vein runs out on the face of a cliff, 'bout forty paces from the first rampike pine; there's three or four rampikes, but the fire hadn't gone far into the bush." ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

The flames had burned off the branches, but left the trunks, and the long rows of rampikes sprang from the new brush, shining a curious silver-gray where they caught the light. ❋ Harold Bindloss (1905)

Flocks of Wild Pigeons had been coming all day across the blue Lake of Cayggeonull, and perching in line on the dead limbs of the great rampikes that stood as monuments of fire, around the little clearing in the forest, they afforded tempting marks; but he followed them for hours in vain. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

Among those bleak rampikes and rocks and dark coverts he might find a range to his liking. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

The rampikes, towering trunks of pine, fire-blasted and time-bleached, lifted lonely spires of silver over the enchanted solitude. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

They were traversing now a high table-land, rather sparsely wooded, and dotted here and there with towering rampikes. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

A white flood, still and wonderful, the moonlight lay on the naked rampikes and dense thickets of Ringwaak Hill. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

For an hour he crouched there, motionless as the eternal granite itself, while the moon climbed and whitened, and the shadows of the rampikes changed, and the breathless enchantment deepened over ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)

At long intervals there would be a faint rustling in some near-by clump of juniper, or a squeak and a brief scuffle in the thickets; or, on wings as soundless as sleep, a great owl would pass by, to drop sharply behind a rock, or sail away like a ghost among the rampikes. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)