Sentence examples for crossing a ridge from inspiring English sources

Davies described the battle: Many were killed and wounded in the Brigade in crossing a ridge to the position and some owing to their eagerness to look over the hill on the columns struggling through the brush and falling timber and their withered branches toward the work … many of the Regt.

"You cross a ridge and, suddenly, there are these parklike groves of golden trees," said Don Schaechtel, an occupational safety consultant from Seattle.

In the late afternoon we cross a ridge and start to descend towards the village of Colti, where we will spend the night.

The sound of Ramadan fireworks and music carries up to the top of the high ground and then fades as we cross a ridge, replaced by the distant rumble of artillery from Syria.

Then we glanced ahead at the horizon: crossing a narrow ridge was a train of 15 mountain goats and their kids silhouetted against a cloudless sky.

The model could be applied to the transmission line as a whole or some of its portions, e.g. first several towers emanating from the substation or several towers crossing a mountain ridge.

It crosses a mountain ridge between peaks 6,000 feet (1,800 metres) high.

Pine forest gave way to sparse rocky slopes as we crossed a high ridge of hills into northern Extremadura.

Pressing further inland, troops from the 6th Battalion had attempted to reach the ridge, crossing a wide valley (later known as "Legge Valley"), but they were pushed back when an Ottoman regiment, the 27th, had launched a counterattack from the south-east towards Lone Pine at 10 00 a.m., with the objective of retaking the 400 Plateau.

An expert song man … would count how many times he has crossed a river or scaled a ridge – and be able to calculate where, and how far along, the songline he was..

A couple of hours later, the terrain became more challenging as we crossed a series of steep ridges, the tops of which offered sensational views over the calm Adriatic Sea.