Keeping carefully out of sight, I followed the crest along for a couple of miles to a natural amphitheatre in the hills, where the little river raced down out of a gorge and stopped for breath in a large and placid
rock-bound pool.
They form, as it were, a great bed of mountains, about eighty miles in length, and from twenty to thirty in breadth; with rugged peaks, covered with eternal snows, and deep, narrow valleys full of springs, and brooks, and
rock-bound lakes.
The reality is very different; bold
rock-bound coasts, with the surf beating high against the lofty cliffs, and broken here and there into deep inlets, which open to the view thickly-wooded valleys, separated by the spurs of mountains clothed with tufted grass, and sweeping down towards the sea from an elevated and furrowed interior, form the principal features of these islands.
But soon she came swiftly back to the
rock-bound lanes of Manhattan, and the typewriter began to rattle and jump like a strike-breaker's motor car.
Instantly I sprang toward it to wrench it open again, for something in the uncanny movement of the thing and the tense and almost palpable silence of the chamber seemed to portend a lurking evil lying hidden in this
rock-bound chamber within the bowels of the Golden Cliffs.
His counsel seemed wise; and as there was apparently no other way to insure a successful entry to Kadabra, the capital city of Okar, we set out with Talu, Prince of Marentina, for his little,
rock-bound country.
(2000): Sand circulation at the mouth of a
rock-bound tide-dominated estuary.
The property is sited on 4.4 acres along the
rock-bound coastline of Rhode Island's Block Island Sound in the Bass Rock Farm Estates, a private community.
Her poem, The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, which includes the lines "The breaking waves dashed high, On a stern and
rock-bound coast", was widely used as a Thanksgiving Day prayer and was still taught at US schools until the middle of the 20th century.