Farther inland, every sandstone and limestone escarpment is the color of bone. From Wordnik.com. [Pakistan’s Fatal Shore] Reference
The escarpment was a jumbled blanket of gray stone outcrops and grass dried almost white by the heat of Furnace Sky. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
The escarpment is a 650-mile rock formation that arcs from Niagara Falls in New York to the Horicon Marsh in Wisconsin. From Wordnik.com. [The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines] Reference
The escarpment is depicted with a spiked line. From Wordnik.com. [The Niagara Front] Reference
It straddles the escarpment which is the major watershed between Namaqualand in the west, and Bushmanland in the east. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Our "escarpment" live oaks are small, more drought tolerant, and thrive in the alkaline soil of central Texas. From Wordnik.com. [From First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Antonio] Reference
Suddenly on the top of the escarpment, German soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
But now they've started at the beginning of the escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2000] Reference
Hesitating no longer, she commenced to ascend the awesome escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
Bahrain mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Terrain: mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Bahrain: mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
They left the two stallions grazing at the base of the rocky escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [A World Called Crimson] Reference
Silently he went on climbing the escarpment, digging into the rough rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
I will depart, and await you one week hence at the escarpment by the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
She ran to the very brink of the escarpment, frantically waving her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
Nandi, who occupied the southern part of the plateau west of the Mau escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Then he put his boots against the wall and began to move up the steep escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [The Judas Valley] Reference
And then this steep escarpment that leaps up over 2,000 feet immediately above it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2006] Reference
Then the dragon appeared in the distant sky, winging his way toward the escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
We wondered how high the escarpment was, and if we could take our boats over its top. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Daua tributary of the Juba is a mountain range with a steep escarpment towards the south. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The moon was just rising over the escarpment, sending fingers of silvery light into the room. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
More noticeable is the "V" in spruce firs planted on the escarpment to commemorate the Jubilee of. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
This left the fight upon the younger Tenney, who managed to climb a twelve-foot rocky escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
Kimber was right, already there was a stretch of sand showing at the base of that rock escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
Pushing his way through the drifting foliage, Dalgard swam ahead to the foot of the rocky escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Star Born] Reference
Even when it dropped suddenly down the steep escarpment to the great plateau the current still flowed. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
They grow at the bottom of a huge hill or escarpment 200 feet high at the top of which is his planting of 20. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947] Reference
Our reserves and our day positions were behind the escarpment, where was excellent cover from hostile shelling. From Wordnik.com. [With the British Army in The Holy Land] Reference
N. of the lake rise the Karosi hills; to the E. the land rises in terraces to the edge of the Laikipia escarpment. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
There was something off to the side, behind the escarpment-something that had made a glint in the morning sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
In devastated Mau Summit, at the top of the Rift Valley escarpment, stood Ester Njenga, a 44-year-old mother of five. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Valley of Death] Reference
You see this is an escarpment, or cliff, over sixty miles long, and varying from about 600 feet to 900 feet in height. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
"And a separate scene," Chex said as the dreamlet ended, "an escarpment or barren rocky place where a dragon might live.". From Wordnik.com. [Isle of View]
Wilberforce, lived within call at Woollavington, under the shaggy escarpment of the Downs some ten miles to the north-east. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
After crossing the river, they followed the low escarpment, descending to the fields only when in sight of Wallingham Hall. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
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