rocky height
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As the pyre was kindled, on a rocky height above it a woman appeared.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The great Citadel of Cairo and the Alabaster Mosque up on a rocky height, six hundred feet above the city.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
On the right, the great bastion of Cape Diamond crowned the rocky height of that name.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Seen from the bridge, the rocky height, broken and craggy, and hung with wood, crowned by Baliol’s Tower, is remarkably picturesque.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
Cima da Conegliano, so called from his birthplace in Friuli—the rocky height of which serves as a background in some of his pictures—settled in Venice74 in 1490, when he was about thirty years old.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
