ridgy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ridgy
Example Sentences
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The enemy was somewhere in position in a ridgy, wooded country, abounding in strong defensive positions, his main bodies concealed, protected by rifle-pits and epaulements, acting strictly on the defensive.
From The Battle of Gettysburg by Frank Aretas Haskell
To this Deucalion with his consort driven O'er ridgy billows in his bark clung close; For all was sea beside.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
The district consists of two lines of irregular ridgy hills, rising three hundred to four hundred feet above the neighboring country.
From England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook
But heedless of all this they urged their steps until they had reached the ridgy horizon, which, ever since morning, had loomed greyishly blue before them.
From My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
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
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