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Definition of Canyons
1. canyon [n] - See also: canyon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canyons
Literary usage of Canyons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs by Carl Ortwin Sauer, Gilbert Haven Cady, Henry Chandler Cowles (1918)
"THE canyons Doubtless the average visitor to Starved Rock is most attracted to
the canyons, which are places of great interest and beauty. ..."
2. In & Around the Grand Canyon: the Grand canyon of the Colorado river in Arizona by George Wharton James (1900)
"... UP AND DOWN GLEN AND MARBLE canyons WHERE the Paria River flows in from the
north to join the Colorado River, the precipitous rocky walls of the canyons ..."
3. Camps in the Rockies: Being a Narrative of Life on the Frontier, and Sport by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1882)
"CAMPS IN THE canyons 0V THE COLORADO RIVER. History of the Colorado and its
exploration—First ... I mean the famous canyons formed by the Colorado River. ..."
4. Adventure Guide to Texas by Kimberly Young (1999)
"The Caprock canyons The Caprock canyons are even less known than the Palo Duro,
yet they lie just a few miles south and east, just west of Quitaque ..."
5. The Desert: Further Studies in Natural Appearances by John Charles Van Dyke (1907)
"It would seem as though the canyons were packed thick with yellow or red haze.
And so in reality they are. There is one marked departure from the uniform ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Irrigation and Water Rights: And the Arid Region by Clesson Selwyne Kinney (1912)
"Water from canyons, gorges, and ravines.—A valid appropriation of water may be
made from a canyon, gorge, or ravine, notwithstanding it is not a running ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"It shows the Yose- mite Valley together with a host of other glaciated canyons
and valleys ; but besides giving us an inkling of its unusual nature, ..."
8. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"The water 1 In comparing sections of the deep Sierra canyons drawn to scale from the
... While the deep river canyons exhibit in cross-section a rather flat ..."
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