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Major Miller, following hard on the heels of those first desperate men, would then lead his Marines in their attack up the rock-built stairs that led initially to the big thirty-six-pounders on their wide bastion, and afterward into the very heart of the citadel.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

Major Miller, following hard on the heels of those first desperate men, would then lead his marines in their attack up the rock-built stairs that led initially to the big thirty-six pounders on their wide bastion, and afterward into the very heart of the citadel.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

We ourselves have done the same; and yet there it lay, like the rock-built city of

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Ichthyosauri, -- when the "firm and rock-built earth" was tilted into mountain ranges, wrinkled by earthquakes, and ploughed by mighty hills of moving ice?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

He visited the Kabyles in their rock-built villages, casting aside his military pomp and coming among them as a simple pilgrim.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Within were rock-built houses, a community dining hall and a well.

Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock

The funeral literature, of which we have found a very great number of documents, had acquired a development equaled by no other, and the architecture of no other nation can exhibit tombs comparable with the pyramids or the rock-built sepulchers of Thebes.

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

As heavier billows cling together and roll in rapid succession and in thundering force on the rock-built barriers of nature, so the waves of trial and misfortune break on frail humanity in crushing proximity.

Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius

And of all parts of this Evangel the rock-built anchorage of the seventeenth chapter may surely best claim to be that commemorated in Knox's stately and deliberate words.

John Knox A. Taylor Innes

Hell-ward with Sigurd, from the funeral pile where she and Sigurd had been laid by the Giuking lords, is encountered by a giantess who forbids her to pass through her "rock-built courts," and cries shame upon her for her guilt.

Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature W. P. Ker