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Updated: June 14, 2025
It was just inevitable, like a lot of things known in that rock-ribbed and fatalistic region as immutably decreed by heaven as foreordination and the damnation of unbaptized babes. The Hayneses had just "got it hard." Yet there were times, now he was come to a gangling fourteen, when Luke's philosophy threatened to fail him. It wasn't fair so it wasn't!
"'You-alls hears my remarks, he says at the close, briefly flashin' his six-shooters on the outfit; 'thar ain't no band of bad men in Arizona can tree this town an' me informed. Now go slow, or I'll jest stretch a few of you for luck. It's sech consoomin' toil, a- diggin' of sepulchers in this yere rock-ribbed landscape, or I'd do it anyhow.
Far to the southeast it wound among the bold and rock-ribbed bluffs rising from the forest growth at their base to shorn and rounded summits.
"It is true enough," I said, with a laugh. "We are the only people who tilt at windmills these days we and our cousins, the British, who taught us." I bowed gayly, and added: "With your colors to wear, I shall have the honor of breaking a lance against the biggest windmill in the world." "You mean the Citadel of Science," she said, smiling. "And its rock-ribbed respectability," I replied.
No fields or orchards break the transition from man to nature; step out of the street and you are at once on rock-ribbed kopje or raw veldt. As you stand on one of the bare lines of hill that squeeze it into a narrow valley, Burghersdorp is a chequer-board of white house, green tree, and grey iron roof; beyond its edges everything is the changeless yellow brown of South African landscape.
"'I believe, however, in keeping the best to the last. When I remind you that we have one motor car for every five and seven-eighths persons in the city, then I give a rock-ribbed practical indication of the kind of progress and braininess which is synonymous with the name Zenith! "'But the way of the righteous is not all roses.
Captain Lewis gave him his discharge; and instead of going home he stayed, to be a trapper. This land of high bare plains and snow-tipped, rock-ribbed, pine-clad mountains was very different from the forests of the Ohio region; but he had learned a great deal during his two years' trip. He was no greenhorn.
My friend was right, dear mothers. There is some comfort in the sadness a gleam of sunshine showing through the gloom. 'Ah, how thick they lie! What a deadly hail of Mausers must have come from that rock-ribbed clump on the kopje. Three and twenty officers and men, promiscuously blent; and fully more on that little rise over there, as they showed in sight.
Down the intervening valley plunges the Shenandoah and winds the macadam of the highway, its dust subdued for the time being; while, straight away to the front, mist-wreathed at their base from the sleeping waters of the winding canal, cloud-capped at their lofty summit from the bank of vapor that hovers along the entire range, rock-ribbed, precipitous, magnificent in silent, stubborn strength, the towering heights of Maryland span the scene from east to west, and stand superb, the background to the picture.
Again he climbed into the saddle and turned off to the left, entering a cañon. For better than half a mile he proceeded down this way, then he rode eastward again, winding in and out in a network of cañons until he came to the rock-ribbed crest of a ridge which overlooked an oasis in the desert hills.
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