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While the national-preservation status of the majority of the gorge is a concession to local hunters, the group is slated to lose roughly 4,000 acres of hunting grounds in the Lower Gorge with the new designation.

The cliffs of the gorge are a thousand feet high in parts, with walls of Nuttall sandstone that provide climbers with more than 1,500 routes.

The gorge is home to hundreds of rare species, including the highest concentration of rare plants in Maryland, according to the National Park Service.

Canyoners are constantly concerned about flash floods, but hikers exploring riverside trails and narrow gorges should also be aware of flood potential, because they can happen with little to no warning.

There’s fire on both sides of the Feather River, and the Feather River is just a very steep gorge in many places.

The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

PANKISI GORGE, Georgia—The mother of martyrs, a woman in her fifties, is delicately beautiful and visibly in pain.

BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.

The Pankisi Gorge is a beautiful place, but it does not offer big opportunities to the local boys.

And he is said to be luring more young Muslims from his home region in the Pankisi Gorge to join his insurgency forces.

Poor wretches—they were afraid to refuse, yet their gorge rose at the deed, and they fired at the ceiling!

Far up the gorge dense clouds of black smoke swooped down from the benchland.

Darkness fell, but still the fight continued, and at last Dupont's guns were heard at the other side of the gorge.

Therefore its channel is usually not a hundredth part as wide as the gorge or valley in which it lies.

On his right an open glade revealed to him the dark gorge through which the Cluden thundered.

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On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to gorge, such as: canyon, chasm, crevasse, ravine, abyss, and arroyo.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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