Sentences with phrase «long narrow ridge»

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In those moments I am willing even to indulge his somewhat romanticized view of himself: a figure in the twilight, at the end of a long journey through a large valley and into wooded hills, perhaps pausing on a low ridge that affords him a last narrow glimpse of the paths he has followed, watching the evening descending over the mountains and down toward darkening lakes and fields, trying to fix in memory the shape of a world soon to be lost in night.

It weighed as much as 6 metric tons, was up to 11 meters long, and sported a long, narrow skull and bony spines poking up from its vertebrae that probably supported a ridge made of tough muscle.

And, in fact, this 100 - mile - long, narrow wrinkle of 65 - million - year - old ridges and buttes only became a national park in 1971.

«Hell's Crest» was a narrow, 160 - foot - long, knife - edge ridge straddling the deep, black chasm between the Morinsheiði plateau and the next set of mountains.