"Craggy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... while yet in cradled sleep, She loved and destined thee to be A dweller of the craggy steep, A watcher of the stormy deep, And bade its wild waves nurse and keep Thy heart as ...
— Grace Darling - Heroine of the Farne Islands • Eva Hope
... Clare coast, a narrow valley runs back from the sea into the mountains, opening between two precipices that, ages ago, were rent asunder by the forces of nature. On entering the valley by the road leading from the sea-shore, nothing can be seen but barren cliffs and craggy heights, covered here and there by patches of the moss peculiar to the country. After making some progress, the gorge narrows, the moss becomes denser on the overhanging rocks; trees, growing out of clefts ...
— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.
... by the circling mists we camped, Laid siege; while hail and snow went storming by, Assaulted through the brilliant mists; that wrapped A veil, impenetrable to the eye, Around the wastes of ice, the snowfields bare And craggy peaks that ...
— The Last West and Paolo's Virginia • G. B. Warren
... the prince came to the craggy rock But saw only hissing waves So he rested all day ...
— Japanese Prints • John Gould Fletcher
... Charles V in 1550 and thereafter were soon exterminated. When the Earl of Cumberland touched at the islands on his way to Porto Rico in 1596 he described them as a knot of little islands, uninhabited, sandy, barren and craggy[362]. ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
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