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  • And in such manner, running and riding by turns, she swept through the Indian village below the bluff's, made an eight-mile circle up Moosehide Creek and back, crossed the river on the ice, and several hours later came flying up the west bank of the Yukon opposite the town.

    CHAPTER 9 2010

  • Reid does not inspire confidence in me, ever has, but I thought he was saavy. now we need saavy plus straightforward. what is this business about calling bluff's etc?

    Reid And Durbin: No Seating Of Burris Yet -- But We Really Like Him 2009

  • A wire (not electric apparently) of some sort went from the bluff's ledge to the roof of a liquor store below.

    Things That Could Have Killed Me 2009

  • The ordenanqa jeered him and hurled a volley of rocks, but the missiles merely bounced on the bluff's lower slopes and rolled harmlessly toward the road.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The Portuguese, whose muskets were useless in the heavy rain, had been reduced to throwing rocks that bounded down the bluff's eastern face and were nothing but a minor nuisance to the stream of French who crossed the thin lifeline across the Misarella.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Sharpe shrugged off the ordenanqa who wanted to welcome him and threw himself down on the bluff's lip.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • Sharpe went headlong down the bluff's steep escarpment, leaping recklessly between rocks and praying that he would not lose his footing on the soaking grass.

    Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

  • The view was spectacular and the home wasn't half bad either, a rambling split-level log cottage with a two-car garage and a back deck hanging in space at the bluff's edge.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

  • The view was spectacular and the home wasn't half bad either, a rambling split-level log cottage with a two-car garage and a back deck hanging in space at the bluff's edge.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2002

  • There was no need for walls around much of the perimeters of Gawilghur's twin forts, for nature had provided the great cliffs that were higher than any rampart a man could make, but Dodd, as he walked to the bluff's edge, noted places here and there where an agile man could, with the help of a rope, scramble down the rock face.

    Sharpe's Fortress Cornwell, Bernard 1999

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