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ridgy

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ridg·y  (rj)
adj. ridg·i·er, ridg·i·est
Having or forming ridges.
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ridgy
adj mountain passage etcgrat- or kammartig; (= furrowed)zerfurcht


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Ere long the sand had accumulated in compact masses; and there, where so recently stretched a level plain as far as the eye could see, rose now a ridgy line of hillocks, still moving from beneath--the vast tomb of an entire caravan!
(I may here remark that I suppose myself to be better acquainted than any living authority, with the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, passing unsympathetically over the human countenance.
All at once, when one is jogging along stupidly in the sun, and thinking about something ever so far away, here they come, at a stormy gallop, spurring and whooping at those ridgy old sore-backed plugs till their heels fly higher than their heads, and as they whiz by, out comes a little potato- gum of a revolver, there is a startling little pop, and a small pellet goes singing through the air.
 
 
 
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