"long" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The messenger pointed to the head of the long defile.
- As the attack had to be made through a long defile, the enemy had time to retire.
- Though the inside was dull and gloomy, he could see they were in a long trenchlike defile, one side of which was a fairly straight wall while the other side was a high curving slope, the reverse side of the arched wooden ceiling.
- This was Cirith Gorgor, the Haunted Pass, the entrance to the land of the Enemy', both draft and manuscript have 'between these arms there was a long defile.
- Beyond the bend the long, deep defile ran empty to the next kink.
- Along its left slope glacial boulders balanced precariously over a steepness that dropped to a long defile.
- Marching from there and proceeding in a direction in which there was no road Babur halted one night and on the day after he reached a very precipitous declivity he was obliged to dismount and descended by a long and steep defile.
- Down the ancient road they came that led through the long defile of Sirion, past the isle where Minas Tirith of Finrod had stood, and so through the land between Malduin and Sirion, and on through the eaves of Brethil to the Crossings of Teiglin.
- With its location at Veles, Bylazora commanded the entrance to a long defile and, no less important, a route southwestwards into Pelagonia via the Babuna Valley, or Raec Valley into Styberra and interior of the Macedonian Kingdom.
- A long, narrow defile ran north-west away from the two encampments, the only route out of the valley.
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