rocky height
Example Sentences
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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
Talking and cutting, they had crossed the meadow and came to a rocky height which rose at one side of it; such as one is never very far from in New England.
From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner
I saw my Fortune midst the sounding sea Sit weeping on a rocky height and steep, Said I to her, "Fortune, how is't with thee?"
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
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
"There, Alboin, on the rocky height above us," said Adalgoth, "his bride and his tomb, self-chosen, have waited for him long."
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
