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Updated: May 3, 2025
The barricade was built in zigzags, along a concave curve, so that attackers would be cut down by shots from two sides as well as from in front. By reason of the zig-zags it could not be raked from either end.
WE WERE FREE! In lightning leaps, in curving spurts, in crazy zig-zags whooping, shrieking with delight, we sped for home and the open sea! "That is all of my story and I will now, as I promised last night, try to answer any questions you may ask about the sea, on condition that I am set at liberty as soon as you have done."
In the Summer mornings at daylight they would gather on the wall next my bed and wait patiently until I placed a little chewed bread on the back of my hand, when instantly there was a rush, and the first one who got possession, if a male, tried to prevent the rest from alighting, and would dart at the nearest, chasing it in zig-zags far away.
Aliguyen, however, had some kin in Kiangan, and this kin, together with their friends, went to the funeral. Their shields, as well as the shields of all who attended, were painted with white markings, taking some the form of men, some of lizards, some were zig-zags. All men who attended had a head-dress made of the leaf petiole of the betel tree and the red leaves of the dongola plant.
"Ce fut donc cette espèce de montagne qui me persuada la première que toutes les montagnes n'avoient pas une même origine. Le lieu où j'abjurai mon erreur, étoit un de ces grands chantiers pétrifiés, qui, par la variété du tortillement, et des zig-zags des fibres du moëllon qui le composoit, attira singulièrement mon attention. C'étoit un sort grand talus qui venoit d'une face escarpée; j'y montai pour m'approcher du rocher, et je remarquai, avec étonnement, des multitudes de paquets enchevêtrés les uns dans les autres, sans ordre ni direction fixe; les uns presqu'en rouleaux; les autres en zig-zag; et même ce qui, séparé de la montagne, eût peu être pris pour des couches, le trouvoit incliné de toute manière dans cette même face de rocher. Non, me dis-je alors
Such remains as those of the Merovingian crypt at Jouarre, and the various monuments of Provins, well repay the traveller who visits these places on purpose, whilst, as he zig-zags here and there, he will find many a village church of quaint exterior and rich Gothic decoration within.
The railway to Verdun was so repeatedly cut by German shells that the French built a narrow-gauge line, which zig-zags over the hills. Beside the road, at frequent intervals, I noted cisterns and watering-troughs, and huge overhead water-tanks; for an army men, horses, and motor-cars is incredibly thirsty.
Only a few stumps of inferior thickness give evidence, that some little labour has been performed by the axe. Even thus the clearing is a mere patch scarcely two acres in extent and the rude rail-fence, that zig-zags around it, attests that the owner is satisfied with the dimensions of his agricultural domain.
The path began in easy zig-zags, which, however, got gradually steeper, and the last thirty feet of the descent consisted of a sheer face of rock, in which were fixed two or three iron stanchions with a rope running from one to the other to serve as a handrail; and the climber must depend for other assistance on the natural irregularities of the rock, which provided here and there an insecure foothold.
As we advanced to meet the great barrier of cliffs, a feature becomes opposed to us of a very pronounced character, which seems qualified to interrupt our progress. A road leading straight across the branch of hills is carried up the steepest part of the mountain, ascending by a succession of zig-zags, which the French laid by scale straight up the hill.
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