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  • Much of the city sits atop bluffs - thus the nickname Bluff City - and all of Beale Street's blues clubs and jazz bars are more than 60 feet above the river even at its highest mark of 48 feet when it peaked early Tuesday morning.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • -- Transfer F Terry Tidwell from Arkansas-Pine Bluff is expected to return from a severely injured ankle in time for summer workouts.

    Southland Conference 2010

  • Located on the Oregon Coast, in Bluff Bandon, where Coquille River meets the ocean, this contemporary wooden residence comes from Johnston Architects and is our idea of a stylish retreat.

    Beautiful Residence on Lake Washington by Johnston Architects 2010

  • Everybody – literally everybody – in Poplar Bluff is in real estate.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • Chickasaw Bluff, is composed of nine different works, extending about half a mile.

    Fort Pillow 1862

  • Blind Man’s Bluff is another name for it, but I suppose someone will call that non-PC, too … —

    Where Are All the Indian Poker Players? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • I feel fairly safe because I'm a few blocks in, I'm four floors up, my town has a breakwater and we are behind The Bluff, which is more than 50 feet up from the flat sand and incoming ocean.

    Lisa Guest: Vulnerable Is Not Just An Island In The Pacific Lisa Guest 2011

  • I feel fairly safe because I'm a few blocks in, I'm four floors up, my town has a breakwater and we are behind The Bluff, which is more than 50 feet up from the flat sand and incoming ocean.

    Lisa Guest: Vulnerable Is Not Just An Island In The Pacific Lisa Guest 2011

  • On the night of June 7th 32 Alpha were tasked to travel with the Welsh Guards on board the ill fated troop ship Sir Galahad to a place called Bluff Cove.

    `A Cloudpunchers Tale` Rogue Gunner 2007

  • Mr. Weinstein never greenlighted the project, called Bluff, after Ms. Hirschberg's dog, but armed with Mr. Eisner's permission, he never abandoned the idea of starting his own magazine.

    Tina Goes Cheek to Cheek With Miramax 1998

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