Then a gap opened in a cliff face, and they were passing through a deep defile into a valley be- yond.

The area has been described as a land of high and difficult hills with deep and rugged defiles.

(3) So also at the beginning of the passage, where TT has 'between these arms there was a deep defile.

It was easy to see, however, why there had been so long a delay in their leaving one wood and reaching the other, because between the two ran the deep defile of the Lasnes, which had to be crossed.

Beyond the bend the long, deep defile ran empty to the next kink.

From this vantage-point they overlooked a deep defile.

After a while they reached a pass and followed it through a split in the rocks into a deep defile.

Major Ridge ordered the guns to be unlimbered and the mules harnessed, ready to move at a moment's warning and deployed the 2nd/5th along an elevated ridge, with its right protected by a deep defile.

He led her into the deep defile in the mountains and up the steep gorge.

Beyond that, black stone and a bridge across a deep, shadowed defile.