Examples from literature

• At dawn on the second day, he decided to try and use his climbing gear to lift the boulder off his arm. 
• He had seen a rocky ledge above him, and he thought he might be able to throw his rope over the ledge and pull the boulder up. 
• He used his feet to push himself up over the boulder. 
• The boulder didn’t even move an inch. 
• One huge boulder was wet, as if water had been splashed over it. 
• The nearer hills are much sharper and steeper, and their sides are studded by great boulders. 
• The novelist came down the path, on a run, to seat himself upon the gray boulder. 
• The summit was rough and rugged, though devoid of big boulders such as are usually to be found in similar locations. 
• Twenty-five miles of bad water lay before us—all rapids, shoals, bars, and boulders.