ridgy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ridgy
Example Sentences
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The island of Jan Mayen, with its ridgy hills and its one mighty mountain, is clad in dazzling robes of virgin snow.
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
Not soon now shalt thou meet the ridgy seas.'
From A Selection from the Poems of William Morris by William Morris
Far forward and to the right, he saw woods and ridgy uplands, and purple-blue beyond the uplands a range of ragged hills.
From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Was she attracted to the ridgy scars on my cheeks half revealed by my scarf?—to me they have a pleasing symmetry.
From The Night of the Long Knives by Virgil Finlay
It was hard work to get some of the thick, ridgy bivalves apart, but when they succeeded they rarely failed to be rewarded munificently.
From Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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