In any event, the outcrop is hidden, and it seems remarkable how much it is hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Cobalt Mineral Conditions] Reference
Right under the outcrop was a fl at, sheltered bit where someone could have stood. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
When the outcrop is the pure red sandstone, we can hope for little else but the desert spinifex. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
He was on a thickly wooded terrace with a blank wall of "outcrop" on one side nearly as high as the pines which pressed close against it. From Wordnik.com. [Openings in the Old Trail] Reference
The outcrop was the size of a large house. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
"outcrop," that is, the ore literally cropped out at the surface. From Wordnik.com. [An African Adventure] Reference
Vye crawled weakly from the area of a rock outcrop. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
The outcrop runs by Tingwick, Buckingham, Berehampton and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
A form uncoiled itself from a jagged outcrop behind the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
On the last night we pitched camp in the lee of a volcanic outcrop. From Wordnik.com. [Tea in the Sahara: a road trip through the Libyan desert] Reference
Now, you see the surface and this is what you love to see, this outcrop. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2008] Reference
The outcrop wears an uniform aspect, and occurs to the north of the ravine. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
We here see clearly, besides mere irreverence, an outcrop of pagan practices. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
I mean, there is no outcrop (ph) on whatever he has tried from Iraq to the economy. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2006] Reference
In the center of the grove, in a massive granite outcrop, was the dim mouth of a cave. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Spying about, he saw an outcrop of rock some two hundred yards further along the fell side. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
A few hundred yards on there was an outcrop of rock with alder and scrub oak intermingling. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
They may be looked for in the loose earth over the outcrop, or along the wall of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
Finally, we reach a rocky outcrop used as a lookout by the Cherokee during their war with the British. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Tears: The Cherokees' Proud Past] Reference
Eventually it would be necessary to deal with this odd outcrop of misplaced Gauls, but not first of all. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
But Thorvald did not suggest that they try it, heading on toward the next large outcrop of land and rock. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
They followed the trail through the open woods toward a high jutting outcrop that blocked their view ahead. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
He saw what appeared to be an outcrop of rock among many others move, then rise on sturdy legs to meet them. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
He had traced down the outcrop of the lode, which on the surface looked poor enough, to a point near the river. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
That of the second in the Googes, Aurora and her son Champney, the owners of Googe's Gore and its granite outcrop. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
The island itself was curiously symmetrical, a perfect oval, too perfect to be a natural outcrop of sand and rock. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
With a cry of pain and desperation, she heaved herself up and out of the hole, then rolled away from the stone outcrop. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
On my right the stonechats bounce and bob on the breeze from outcrop to lancet outcrop of slate, chittering as they fly. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
The name, Mount Terror, had suggested something fearsome to him — not this gentle hill with a rocky outcrop at the top. From Wordnik.com. [State of fear]
Hurin had the first watch, from a stone outcrop a little way up the mountain; he would be coming to wake Rand for his turn, soon. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunt]
He walked over to a rocky outcrop and tugged loose a yellowish tuft of plant, neither moss nor fungi but sharing attributes of both. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
For the second time Travis displayed the power of the weapon he carried, this time cutting into shifting rubble an outcrop of cliff wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
Manhattan Island is a low outcrop of gneiss and mica-schist, sloping from an irregular, but practically continuous crest, to the Hudson and. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
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