1.   And as he rides across the desert landscape, ringed by craggy mountains, theme music of big-band jazz blares on the soundtrack.

2.   After several hours, the path opens into a great opalescent bowl encompassed by the craggy mountains of the Flathead Range.

3.   Craggy mountains trap the region, an enclave about twice the size of Manhattan, between rock and sea, creating an islandlike solitude.

4.   Crisscrossed by craggy mountains, they have few wells or cattle tanks and, in most areas, even less shade.

5.   In the end, knowing he had the players right where he wanted them, Stern finally moved off the craggy mountain he had climbed atop last month.

6.   Life was already a struggle in this desolate countryside, punctuated only by craggy mountains and broad plains.

7.   Mighty and majestic, the river of ice snakes down to Prince William Sound between classically craggy mountains wreathed in clouds.

8.   Nestled in a valley and surrounded by craggy mountains that keep the outside world from intruding, Gisela is reminiscent of an earlier, gentler time.

9.   Paradise Valley is an exclusive enclave, a mecca of millionaires surrounded by craggy brown mountains that abruptly jut out of the flat desert terrain.

10.   Terrorized, naked and clinging to the craggy mountain top where they are stranded, five beleaguered souls face a merciless rain of catalogs from a darkened sky.