Sentence examples for ragged mountains from inspiring English sources

The meetings and communication continued while he was ensconced in the ragged mountains of the Sierra Madre.

— He cuts a tiny figure in the vastness of the upland desert, the expanse of scrub and brush and saguaro cactuses and red ragged mountains.

Its whitewashed villages can pass for Greece; its ragged mountains can stand for Scotland; its winelands can make do for France; the Karoo desert can double for Arizona; the coastal cliff roads can be the Italian Riviera.

One man brought five books of ballots, each containing 100 votes, and stuffed them in the boxes after the elections were over". The election official came from the district of Ahmad Aba in Paktiya, an area of dusty hills framed by high, ragged mountains and typical Afghan hamlets with mud-walled compounds, cornfields and orchards.

Here in the stirring, ragged mountains of northern Montenegro, the Yugoslav Army patrols from the Breza barracks on one side of town, while the Montenegrin special police, dressed in army fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, roam from their barracks in a resort hotel, the Bjelasica, that once catered to skiers.

No wonder that for the homesick poet, Dorothea Mackellar, her homeland was "a sunburnt country,/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains".

"Riding up La Hourquette d'Ancizan, seeing the ragged mountain in front of me, a slight smattering of snow near the summit, that was the best moment," he says.

The ragged mountain terrain with its fossilized formations, saturated color, and naked wilderness held inexhaustible fascination for O'Keeffe and was a source of inspiration for most of her artistic career.

Sending troops into ragged, barren mountains where the opposition is at home would only move the disadvantages of Vietnam to a new and harsher setting, Mr. Rubin said.

The sea was the dull blue of a cataract, surrounded by small volcanoes, bubbling mud pots, and ragged, blank mountains used for bombing practice by the Navy and the Marines.

The high point of the region, literally, might be the national park's two-year-old Baumwipfelpfad, or "tree-top walk," a raised wooden pathway that stretches through the forest for a little less than a mile, keeping the crowns of immense fir, pine, birch and beech trees at eye level, and offering wide-angle perspectives of the ragged Czech mountains in the background.