And Ms. Glynn's Bodey is formidable, a down-to-earth Depression-era sweetheart whose illusions don't seem harmful at all.
A snake moves by pushing backward against rocks, sticks, or any relatively fixed point such as a lump of earth or a small depression in uneven ground with the rear (ventrolateral) surface of the body's curves.
Even the region's geology conjures up a clash between gods and titans: about four million years ago, a chunk of the Cascades plunged thousands of feet into the earth, forming a large depression that gradually filled with lava flowing from the nearby volcanoes.
(Indicating the rectangle of stones, the depression in the earth).
This arid depression in the earth is also that wilderness where Jesus is supposed to have fasted for forty days.
We came into a slight clearing and an almost imperceptible depression in the earth, which Boyer and Sanderson thought could be a sign of the stream.
If you walk out amid the prairie grass you come across a depression in the earth, maybe six or seven feet wide, stretching east and west.
Mark Mihal, 43, was investigating an unusual depression when the earth gave way on the 14th hole of the fairway in Waterloo, Illinois.
Of the killing fields, she writes: "Depressions in the earth overgrown with grass.
They were watching for cylindrical depressions in the earth: evidence that under the clay fort had once stood timber fence posts, perhaps for so long that the wood had decayed, leaving a shell of earth behind.
After the smaller Chapin No. 5 fire in 1996, archaeologists logged 372 previously unknown check dams, mounds of rock, depressions in the earth where walls once stood, and other small sites.
