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Other young men would remember the moment: “Nature was so peaceful, a dead flat calm, an oily sea, a silent, beautiful rock-crowned island … no sound or movement in the water or air, no sign of the prodigious eruption of metal which was to greet the dawn.”

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

A small but determined force could have completely halted the cars in a number of different places where the road wound through narrow rock-crowned gorges, or along ledges cut in the hillside and hemmed in by the river.

War in the Garden of Eden Kermit Roosevelt 1916

On the top of this sunlit, rock-crowned islet he gained

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907

The rock-crowned mound was encircled by a wall of living men.

The Sign of the Spider Bertram Mitford 1884

The roads were hard and clean, and the twenty-five-mile run over them, winding through the valleys and climbing the ridges with the heather-clad, rock-crowned hills on all sides, now sliding down a slope or shooting along a level, or taking a rise in what seemed a flying leap, was by far the most wonderful experience that

The World Peril of 1910 George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

On the 2nd we passed two rocky hills, named respectively Pondoothy and Poothraba, Pondoothy was an indented rock-crowned hill in the scrubs.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

a fitter type in the human race have been found than he to tame the rock-crowned hills, to brave the rigors of such winters as Old England never knew, and the lurking dangers at the hands of a powerful and jealous race.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

I could write pages concerning its rocky gorges and its smiling valleys, its pine-clad slopes, its rock-crowned summits, its foaming rivulets (where the tidy

Three Men on the Bummel 1893