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    promontory


    1. promontory that he had noticed on his very first journey from Holme


    2. promontory that the castle sat upon


    3. Tom completed the loop around the end of the castle promontory,


    4. Located on a promontory, of ers


    5. ” Darshi mused as she, Mi'ah, Ru, Misha and Elena strolled with the Elf up the last stretch onto the promontory overlooking the chasm


    6. A shepherd sat on a promontory, a crook stuck in the ground


    7. 5 For father Eleazar projecting his disposition broke the raging waves of the passions as with a jutting promontory


    8. Moshe viewed the motley procession below him from a low promontory that protruded sharply


    9. promontory – the side that I could not see, but soon would, as I


    10. It should be on a promontory overlooking the sea

    11. The track was the first exit off the main road the other side of the promontory that overlooked the town


    12. Most of the road that hugged the side of the estuary was visible from the top of the promontory


    13. The top of the promontory was criss-crossed with dozens of narrow paths no better than animal trails that lead into the hills behind and back down to the estuary


    14. ‘I’ll do my best, Tom,’ said Sir James, ‘In the meantime nail those buggers on the promontory


    15. Demery gave the word and the five 4 x 4 vehicles containing the armed policemen switched on their sirens and lights and tore out of the car park then out of town towards the promontory track where Jane had last seen the Land Rover


    16. Jane Tetlow, Demery, Potter and the bodyguard sat quietly in the car for just under ten minutes before the SWAT team on the promontory gave them the all clear


    17. As soon as he had received it he cranked up the engines and took the machine to the top of the promontory and set it down gently on the grass


    18. It took Jane two minutes to get from the top of the promontory track to the station car park


    19. Demery had made this area as secure as he possibly could but it was overlooked by the buildings in the town and, worst of all, by the promontory


    20. As we neared the Pillars of Hercules the look-out, who rode in a basket three quarters of the way up the mast, shouted down to us that nine small boats were visible, heading out from behind a promontory ahead of us, we had no friends in these waters, so I assumed obviously that they were pirates, ready and willing to relieve us of our cargo and our ship

    21. Jumping a small elevation, the helicopter started rounding the foot of the hill towards the Northeast, allowing its occupants to look at the western and northern slopes of the promontory


    22. Each team of eight Marines then grabbed the handles of their respective boat and carried them at a run to the foot of the rocky promontory that occupied most of the 4


    23. With a corporal holding a flashlight to illuminate a photo map of the main islet of Uotsuri-Shima, he pointed at the long ridgeline running west to east along the top of the promontory occupying most of the four kilometer square island


    24. After over four hours of ferocious combat, a total of only about sixty Chinese soldiers were left, cornered in three widely separated pockets near sea level and the beaches, where they found themselves under constant machine gun fire coming from the promontory above them and also suffered from Japanese mortar fire


    25. Nancy reappeared on top of the Acropolis, the rocky promontory in the center of the city on which were built the most important temples of Athens


    26. Quebec City was the oldest walled city in North America and its stone houses and buildings and stone street pavement made her mind project back a good three centuries, when she had gone by the imposing rock promontory of Cap Diamant[22] that the then French settlers had chosen as a site to build their settlement


    27. Truth Two enables us to move beyond the search for some ultimate promontory from which to observe


    28. As they walked along the promontory, looking out to sea, they chatted for


    29. he was sitting on the promontory, crying, just like always,


    30. There was no sign that a large group had gathered earlier out on the promontory where the old dormitory was located

    31. The latest stage of the development was in progress and they could make out the unfinished row of terrace houses on the far promontory


    32. Road at historic Promontory Point Utah, the linking of


    33. “Hey, look at that!” Elena said as they rounded a turn to a wide, smooth, shallow bay on the right and a rocky promontory on the left


    34. That done, I rode off alone toward a promontory point after having given the order for the others to wait


    35. I stared out over the promontory down to the rocky valley below


    36. The temple was located on a promontory above the town, over which it projected impressively


    37. I’d said three days, but the response had been such that I had stayed two extra days on the promontory point that I had indicated to Falarin


    38. My group of warriors slowly mounted a slight promontory rise in the relatively flat terrain, which had been created by sediment buildup from the two great rivers that used to flow through the pass


    39. He glanced away to a still higher promontory further up the slope from us and then glancing back at me said, “You’re not going to be able to walk barefoot in these rocks, but your foot should heal up well


    40. The next day we buried him on a rocky promontory with a good view out over the ocean

    41. I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours


    42. I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated,


    43. Meanwhile, the wind having changed we were compelled to head for the land, and ply our oars to avoid being driven on shore; but it was our good fortune to reach a creek that lies on one side of a small promontory or cape, called by the Moors that of the "Cava rumia," which in our language means "the wicked Christian woman;" for it is a tradition among them that La Cava, through whom Spain was lost, lies buried at that spot; "cava" in their language meaning "wicked woman," and "rumia" "Christian;" moreover, they count it unlucky to anchor there when necessity compels them, and they never do so otherwise


    44. He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with crossed arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions


    45. Arriving at the topmost ridge of this promontory, I could see vast white plains covered with walruses


    46. Soon we had cleared the Antarctic Circle plus the promontory of Cape Horn


    47. Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the


    48. She moves along the tide line, almost crawling at first, and imagines the beach stretching off in either direction, ringing the promontory, embracing the outer islands, the whole filigreed tracery of the Breton coastline with its wild capes and crumbling batteries and vine-choked ruins


    49. It stood on a rock promontory with steep, smooth sides, and the surrounding trees and elevation shielded it from onlookers


    50. It lay high up on the rock promontory, concealed behind pine trees























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