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No gypsy prank had thrust those tiny hoops of gold through the ears; no prairie winds had beaten that skin into wrinkled leather; nor had the snow-drift and mountain-slope put in his walk that reminiscent roll.
Confession 2010
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I came to the cliffs and was somewhat disquieted to note that the illusive moonlight lent them a subtle appearance I had not noticed before -- in the weird light they appeared less like natural cliffs and more like the ruins of cyclopean and Titan-reared battlements jutting from the mountain-slope.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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The crimson shape left the mountain-slope and came down in a long arching swoop.
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The crimson shape left the mountain-slope and came down in a long arching swoop.
The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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On this green mountain-slope and pastoral plain, 660
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The southern side retains the character of a steep mountain-slope covered with grass and stunted bushes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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A road now passes through this valley, and, where it crosses the mouth of either of the five valleys rising towards the mountain-slope, it cuts alternately through the two horns of a crescent-shaped wall which bars the lower end of every one of them.
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A glacier, advancing beyond its usual limits and rising against the opposite mountain-slope, dammed up the waters of the torrent and caused a lake to be formed.
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Swift and a broken rock clatters across the steep shelf of the mountain-slope, sudden and swift, and breaks as it clatters down into the hollow breach of the dried water-course; far and away
Three Poems Hilda Doolittle 1920
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Time pushed past, divided into even days, along a smooth road that led down the mountain-slope of summer.
The Path of Life Stijn [pseud.] Streuvels 1920
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