Great rocks and trees, carried down by the appalling force of the
landslide were slipping over the trail, obliterating it as though it had never existed.
The house occupied by the family was on the slope of a mountain, and after a long drought there was a terrible tempest which not only raised the river to a great height but loosened the surface of the mountain so that a great
landslide took place.
The publication of "The Shame of the Sun" had started a controversy and precipitated the
landslide in his favor.
Of course Ernest was elected to Congress in the great socialist
landslide that took place in the fall of 1912.
He had caved in and gone down like a
landslide when I pronounced that fearful name, and had never come to since.
But do you see that white place up yonder where there's been a
landslide? Well, that's one of my marks.
After this
landslide to the policy of consolidation, there still remained a fairly large assortment of independent companies; but they had lost their dreams and their illusions.
What Little Toomai liked was to scramble up bridle paths that only an elephant could take; the dip into the valley below; the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away; the rush of the frightened pig and peacock under Kala Nag's feet; the blinding warm rains, when all the hills and valleys smoked; the beautiful misty mornings when nobody knew where they would camp that night; the steady, cautious drive of the wild elephants, and the mad rush and blaze and hullabaloo of the last night's drive, when the elephants poured into the stockade like boulders in a
landslide, found that they could not get out, and flung themselves at the heavy posts only to be driven back by yells and flaring torches and volleys of blank cartridge.
They had been made so in a single night, by his mother, who had compressed about them a powdered mineral which was dug from the
landslide back of Port Adams.
Another lot of coolies on the ladder, struggling suicidally to break through the battened hatch to a swamped deck, fell off as before, and he disappeared under them like a man overtaken by a
landslide.
"You've made a
landslide with your confounded acres and a cow, and Verner can hardly get a vote anywhere.
On the Exchange there were hurricanes and
landslides and snowstorms and glaciers and volcanoes, and those elemental disturbances were reproduced in miniature in the broker's offices.