What is "bowlders"

Usage examples of "bowlders".

Golden Gate itself, and around the old grime-incrusted fort to the ocean shore, with its reaches of hard, white sand, where the bowlders lay tumbled and the surf grumbled incessantly.

It contained many large bowlders, detached from the slopes of the hills.

A few loose bowlders, which had detached themselves from the sides of the depression to set up an independent existence at the bottom, had dammed up the pathway, here and there, but their stony repose had nothing in it of the stillness of death.

For a part of the distance between Auburn and Newcastle the road - first on one side of a creek and then on the other - occupies the whole bottom of the ravine, being partly cut out of the steep hillside, and partly built up with bowlders removed from the creek-bed by the miners.

On the way to the ridges they passed clean pasture fields, bowlders, gray rocks, aged cedars with flat tops like the stone-pines of Italy.

At one spot on this shore rises a vast mass of detached rock, separated at low tide from the shore by irregular bowlders and a tiny thread of water.

A little girl on the shore shouted to them to follow along a ledge she pointed out, then descend between two bowlders to the ford.

From this platform one looks down the narrow, slippery stairs that are lost in the boiling mist, and wonders at the daring that built these steps down into that hell, and carried the frail walk of planks over the bowlders outside the fall.

But more beautiful than the fall is the stream itself, foaming down through the bowlders, or lying in deep limpid pools which reflect the sky and the forest.

I c1mbered along hastily, and after a few moments was confronted by a row of rocks and bowlders lying directly across my line of progress.

It turned aside for the bowlders, and also for an undersized railway-truck lying there on its back with its wheels in the air.