It was ringed by high ramparts of broken granite, and bare of any cover.

Starlight illuminated the heather and broken granite under their feet.

The fresh edge of the broken granite looked out roughly at him.

So near the surface, however, they discovered that an enormous cave-in had placed several tons of broken granite between them and the sunlight.

Even the gray upthrusts of broken granite, called tors, added a certain stark appeal to the scene.

It's a throat- and thigh-burning climb, a rise of 1,600 feet in two horizontal miles, over broken granite.

The houses built against the inner surface of the wall are no more than piles of broken granite.

At first glance, it appeared to be the same as all the other innocuous little pieces of broken granite and sedimentary rock.

Often he scrambled over piles of broken granite or spilled earth.

Shards of broken granite bounced off his back and shoulders, bruising him to the bone.