Sentence examples for high rugged from inspiring English sources

Traversing high, rugged terrain, the road rises to more than 9,000 feet.

Thorsteinn packed the two of them into a high rugged trucklike car, and they drove south, along the wild coast.

It was sixty li from the county seat, up past two high, rugged mountains in a valley where it seemed no one would want to live.

Prada has also entered the ring, with a high, rugged round-toe biker boot, above, in suede or an antiqued leather finish ($655 at Saks Fifth Avenue).

The high, rugged Ḥajar Mountains extend southeastward, parallel to the gulf coast, from the Musandam Peninsula to a point near Cape al-Ḥadd at the easternmost tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

But there were consolations: the high, rugged Faroes made the most impressive landfall Dye had ever seen, and the welcome they were given, both by local fishermen and Dye's Faroese friends, revitalised them.

To the west of the canal is the low-lying delta of the Nile River, and to the east is the higher, rugged, and arid Sinai Peninsula.

Except for the coral atolls, the islands of American Samoa were formed within the past seven million years by volcanic activity; their interiors are high and rugged.

The next large tributary, the Porcupine River, joins the Yukon at Fort Yukon, Alaska; the Porcupine drains the northern Yukon territory and the southeastern slope of the high and rugged Brooks Range in Alaska, a land occupied by a small population of Indians.

Mass movements of nearly all types occur in Afghanistan but in the high relief, rugged Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains of northeastern Afghanistan, mass-movement threats to lives and property necessitated study to elucidate problems to development.

Composed of volcanic rocks covered by a thin layer of moraine or peat soil, the islands are high and rugged with perpendicular cliffs the highest at Mount Slaettara (Slaettaratindur; 2,894 feet [882 metres]) on Eystur Island and flat summits separated by narrow ravines.