outcropping

• “The outcropping was the first significant rock feature early explorers came across as they traveled up the Arkansas River in the 1720s.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Exhuming Little Rock's Dignity

• “After a steep climb, I came to a little outcropping with a Japanese elder sitting on the ground.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

• “He leaped onto an outcropping that was surrounded by deep pools of briny water.”

  Simon & Schuster: End of Time

• “He scrambled against the outcropping, his feet slipping, his arms burning with stress as he fumbled to keep himself from falling.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “Reaching a dripping outcropping of rock, he retraced his steps, his decision made.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “We didn't, lowering anchor in about 36 feet of water about 100 feet south of U Thant Island, a rocky outcropping populated by cormorants, opposite the U.N.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hooking Edible Tourists

• “Sitting up, he scooted backward, pulling her with him, until they reached flatter ground and another outcropping of rocks.”

  Simon & Schuster: At Hidden Falls

• “When they were safely on the shadowed side of the ridge, they began mercilessly pelting the animal with thrown stone, forcing it first to retreat to the edge of the outcropping, and then reluctantly to break cover and lumber off into the blinding afternoon sun.”

  365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• ““There was this little warm puddle by this rock outcropping and -””

  365 tomorrows » 2009 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day

• “Anyone who is familiar with Chiapas knows that one of its primary curses is the traditional lack of highway access from the rest of Mexico and the disdain with which that remote region is held by Mexicans who consider the state to be a useless, poverty stricken indigenous outcropping of Guatemala.”

  Plan Puebla-Panama. Yay or Nay?

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