outcrop
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Mr. Hodge pointed to an outcropping along a towering stone wall.
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In her hands was a sickle moon, and behind her was an outcrop of spindly red trees with branches that looked like crooked fingers.
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On the far edge was an outcropping of rocks, high above a creek, where a man in a top hat tended a fire.
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Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary—as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.
From Los Angeles Times
Her subsequent eviction from the Beguines leads to her accepting the Bishop’s offer of sanctuary — as an anchorite, destined to live out her days in a tiny stone outcropping.
From Los Angeles Times
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