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  • In the middle of the Hill, squeezed between the Main Drive and the mesa's southern rim, the Tech Area held twenty-six nondescript buildings.

    Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

  • The line thus thrown was a thin quarter-inch rope; to this a strong hawser was attached, and after infinite labor pulled across the mesa's top.

    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

  • As I turned to make for the mesa's rim the sounds of battle came plainly to my ears -- the hoarse shouts of men mingled with the half-beastly roars and growls of the brute-folk.

    Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Huge and menacing, they swirled out from the mesa's edge, crossed the desert triumphantly, then, at contact with rock or cholla thicket, collapsed and disappeared.

    The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert Honor�� Morrow 1910

  • Calling his band he led it at a sharp pace to a sheltered hollow on the mesa's back slope.

    Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907

  • Here also is the valley end of a wire cable which passes upward twenty-five hundred feet to cross a break in the wall to a forest on the mesa's top.

    The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903

  • John Wesley Pringle, at the mesa's last headland, drew rein to adjust his geography.

    The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

  • A hasty breakfast over, my brother asked for mounts for himself and men; and as we were corralling our remuda, one of the three lads on herd signaled to us from the mesa's summit.

    The Outlet Andy Adams 1897

  • Huon's horn from the pointed top of a large stone on the mesa's side.

    Birds of the Rockies 1896

  • The northern one, built on terraces along the mesa's

    Stars and Stripes 2010

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