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
In the variety of their attitudes on this rocky height the animals were disposed perhaps more like alpine Chamois than like the generally conceived masses of Caribou on the low Barrens.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper
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
My steeds, o'er-tasked, their progress stayed, When midway up that rocky height.
From The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches by Epiphanius Wilson
Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
