ravine
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Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven.
See Raven, v. t. & i.
A torrent of water.
A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.
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As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.
With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.
About 80km east of Pretoria in South Africa, near the town of Bronkhorstspruit, there's a rocky outcrop in a secluded ravine in the countryside.
According to the Ministry of Labour, a cap on a drain pipe shot off and struck a worker on Oct. 16, 2018 at a water drain chamber in a ravine near Fanshawe Park Road and Wonderland Road North.
Almost 20% of the houses in town are in proximity to a "dingle", a tree-lined steep sided sandy ravine with a wetland at the bottom that provides a privacy barrier between yards.