Someplace, the man cut off from his people slept under a rimrock. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
Shadows welled in the coulee and its ravines as the sun sank toward rimrock. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
I started hand loading at the age of nine up in the sagebrush and rimrock cow country. From Wordnik.com. [How Handloading Can Improve Your Love Life] Reference
Flying over broken rimrock country at sunrise, with row after row of red hills and black shadows. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
They had happened to be traveling below a kind of rimrock the day before, and had camped just at sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
One branch turned away from the river into a wooded depression, while the other still hugged the rimrock. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
For three days more they moved eastward, past the line of the rimrock but not beyond the desert or the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man’s Walk] Reference
Fort Defiance before the turn of the century, felled two small pines on the rimrock at the head of Wirito's Rincon. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :] Reference
Or I can walk up the canyon and climb high narrow hills, through the ferny trees, until I stand on rimrock in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
He skirted the patch of mountain mahogany with the polished red branches and made his way along the rimrock, the oily rifle in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Deuces Wild] Reference
Along the escarpments, redberry junipers grow on the rimrock and cliff faces, along with skunkbush sumac, ephedra, mountain mahogany, plum, grape, and clematis. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)] Reference
As he descended into the bowl, the distant prospect of the town far below sank and vanished beneath rimrock and as he passed under the camouflage screen the sensation of suffocation and of being buried alive fleetingly possessed him. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
You had remembered how wonderfully he had always seen in the dark and how you had hung on to his tail with a bear hide packed across the saddle to come down trails when you could not see at all and when the trail led along the rimrock in the dark down through the timber. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
We located another separate burial site tucked up underneath some rimrock and walled off, as if by a stone mason ... a protruding femur confirmed it as a human burial ... these sites and many more artifacts are STILL THERE as I have not divulged the location to anyone. From Wordnik.com. [Some time back Dave Petzel made an excellent post concering the last days of Neanderthal man.] Reference
As he dropped over the rimrock, Donald tried to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wool] Reference
In an isolated stretch of sagebrush and rimrock 91 miles east of. From Wordnik.com. [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference
They dropped things off of the rimrock, they actually had gunfights. From Wordnik.com. [OPB News] Reference
On either side were brownish red jagged peaks and rimrock faces, specked with snow. From Wordnik.com. [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference
We followed along the ledge around the rimrock until we came to a little pass through. From Wordnik.com. [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference
One after another they leaped over the edge of the rimrock until most of the flock was destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wool] Reference
It was something of a disappointment when one morning a week or two later the camp-tender, who had scrambled up over the rimrock, informed. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wool] Reference
Without a cry the leaders had started for the rimrock, and in their wake -- straight for the face of the precipice -- was running the entire flock. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wool] Reference
A careful photographing in mind of the formation of the bold outlines of rimrock assured him he would be able to return to his retreat even in the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Purple Sage] Reference
"Indeed I'll be careful," Donald promised, as he sprang up and ran to the edge of the rimrock to wave a good-bye to Luigi, who was disappearing round a curve of the trail. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Wool] Reference
Tango to walk into the shade of a boulder that radiated heat like a stove but was still preferable to the blistering sunlight, and there she left him while she walked a little nearer the edge of the rimrock that topped the ridge on its southern side. From Wordnik.com. [Skyrider] Reference
She thought of his View-Master reels of the Grand Canyon and the great West, the unreachable spaces he clicked into place on his stereoscope, and she recalled so clearly the image of the Hopi scout posed on the edge of some rimrock, and whatever it was out there in the 3-D distance, the Painted Desert or Zion Park, and how her own smallness, her unnoticeability was precisely the destiny she’d assigned herself. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
Larry rode up on the edge of a little rimrock. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
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