Cratered days, our multivalent hearts, our cragged faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Tavern of Planets] Reference
A childhood illness had left his face cragged and scarred. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]
The damned thing was forcing him toward the cragged mountainside. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
In cragged nakedness sublime, What heart or foot shall dare to climb?. From Wordnik.com. [The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid]
To the right, canyon walls plunged roseate, ocher-banded, and cragged. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Sergio Leone wanted him for a movie and unlike Hollywood adored his cragged face. From Wordnik.com. [Cult Actors #6: Lee Van Cleef | Obsessed With Film] Reference
"Winding like cragged Peneus, through his foliaged vale," while "ocean fragrance" is wafted around. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829] Reference
She abideth among the rocks, and dwelleth among cragged flints, and stony hills, where there is no access. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Then, they began a tortuous trek through cragged mountains and toward the highway between Tbilisi and Gori. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Refugees' Accounts Provide Glimpse Behind Russian Lines] Reference
Looking back, Tangier lay far below, and beyond it in the distance white cragged mountains glinted in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
She formed cragged shores and sat alone and unmoving for years, whispering to men, then wrecking their crafts. From Wordnik.com. [ADRIFT • by Andrew S. Fuller] Reference
The skin was seamed and pale, over his rawboned, cragged face, but his deep-set eyes still had a burning vitality. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Philip's tall black crooked ships massing like sea-going fortresses south-away -- cragged castles set to march into the waves. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
Age-resisting endurance of the metal spoke in the cragged heavy outlines of his face, and the mellow tones of the heavy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
No; for in the cragged passes of the Tyrol it cut in pieces the banner of the Bavarian, and won an immortality for the peasant of Innspruck. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
Now it was a planet, its coat of frozen gas a skin, its cragged granite mountains the bones, its deep pools of cooling magma a heart of sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
"Towards Arabia and Iturea, there are some cragged hills, famous for large and deep caves; one of which was capable of receiving four thousand men in it.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain. From Wordnik.com. [Guanajuato restaurants] Reference
The human habitat where he lived was only a hasty afterthought-a cragged scrap of crater floor, temporarily pressurized, heated, and humidified enough to allow human survival. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Down below are remote beaches and the cragged, rocky shoreline. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Gazing over the cragged summit, he beheld her approaching with a gentleman at her side. From Wordnik.com. [Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems] Reference
To descend a cragged mountain, however, was more difficult and dangerous than to ascend it. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
Ahead of him, perhaps a mile distant, was the cragged spur beyond which -- according to the sketch. From Wordnik.com. [The Hunted Woman] Reference
A short march brought them to the foot of the mountain, but its steep and cragged sides almost discouraged hope. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
Its precipitous and cragged banks necessitating an almost continuous wading down, across and back for many times. From Wordnik.com. [The war,] Reference
Rugged and cragged with volcanic remnants, Pinnacles National Monument is a nesting ground for endangered condors. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
The river was confined between high and cragged rocks, one of which impended above the spot where the canoe rested. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757] Reference
They began to march again towards the coast, a distance of fifteen hundred miles, over cragged rocks, and scorching plains. From Wordnik.com. [Far Off] Reference
The chestnuts shone in the new radiance with their polished, shivering, cragged limbs, a spectacle both to pity and admire. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
When the sensitive yet cragged Blake meets young journalist Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), he resolves to turn his life around. From Wordnik.com. [Boise Weekly] Reference
"Look -- look!" cried Constance, with enthusiasm, as she pointed to the rushing torrent that, through matted trees and cragged precipices, thundered on. From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
They were fortresses, generally built on hills, or cragged rocks, or in inaccessible marshes, or on islands in rivers, -- anywhere where defence was easiest. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
A cragged promontory into the plain, whence the daughter of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
'there retreat was sounded, but the withdrawal was prearranged to creviced ground, to rock slopes and cragged, outjeutting formations. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Of Gor]
His features are cragged and lined. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
From off the cragged hills Taghkonic. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
With toil he climbed the cragged cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems] Reference
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