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No accident of a disastrous kind occurred, excepting the loss of a horse, which, in passing along the giddy edge of a precipice, called the Cornice, a dangerous pass between Jackson's and Pierre's Hole, fell over the brink, and was dashed to pieces.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 1850
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No accident of a disastrous kind occurred, excepting the loss of a horse, which, in passing along the giddy edge of a precipice, called the Cornice, a dangerous pass between Jackson's and Pierre's Hole, fell over the brink, and was dashed to pieces.
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a horse, which, in passing along the giddy edge of a precipice, called the Cornice, a dangerous pass between Jackson's and Pierre's Hole, fell over the brink, and was dashed to pieces.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West Washington Irving 1821
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We were off Nice, early next morning, and coasted along, within a few miles of the Cornice road (of which more in its place) nearly all day.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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The steamer had come from Genoa in a delicious run of eighteen hours, and we were going to run back again by the Cornice road from Nice: not being satisfied to have seen only the outsides of the beautiful towns that rise in picturesque white clusters from among the olive woods, and rocks, and hills, upon the margin of the Sea.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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Neither the Saone nor the Rhone sped with the swiftness of that peerless building; nor was the Mediterranean deeper than its foundations; nor were the distant landscapes on the Cornice road, nor the hills and bay of Genoa the Superb, more beautiful.
Little Dorrit 2007
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She had come by Simplon, and was returning by the Cornice road to Marseilles.
Honorine 2007
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Pediments are triangular structures above a Cornice.
Negative space. Ann Althouse 2007
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She had come by Simplon, and was returning by the Cornice road to Marseilles.
Honorine 2007
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Macumer did not know Italy at all, and we have begun with that splendid Cornice road, which might be the work of fairy architects.
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