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  • Sevanna studied the building, with its sharp-peaked red roof and blue walls, then turned to the field in front of it.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

  • Around them stretched hundreds of sharp-peaked tents, gray and dusty white, tents and picket lines of already saddled horses.

    A Crown of Swords Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1996

  • That when the tide of the dark hosts of Acheron drew back from civilized lands, some of its leavings remained here among the sharp-peaked mountains and the forests as dark as a death-spell?

    Conan the Relentless Green, Roland 1992

  • Separating around obstructions, such as the soaring tops of mountains, and rejoining on the other side-often taking a large part of the rock with it and leaving behind sharp-peaked islands-a glacier followed the contours of the land, grinding and reshaping it as it went.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • He decided, for the first time since they had reached the great delta, to leave the security of the Great Mother River and ride north beside a tributary, into the foothills of the high, sharp-peaked mountains that were now much closer to the river.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • Ten inches below the hip joint there was a pointed, purple swelling like a sharp-peaked little tent and as he touched it with his fingers he could feel the snapped-off thigh bone tight against the skin.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • Ten inches below the hip joint there was a pointed, purple swelling like a sharp-peaked little tent and as he touched it with his fingers he could feel the snapped-off thigh bone tight against the skin.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • In the outskirts the houses are of wood, with sharp-peaked roofs, and little hovels of mud and rubbish loll in the dense-black cool shadows of the productive groves and of the immense trees that are a feature of the place.

    Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

  • The only trees which she saw were the stunted mimosas of the desert; the only sea the great stretches of yellow sand; the only cliffs the sharp-peaked pyramidal black rocks rising abruptly from its surface.

    The Four Feathers 1906

  • Barney walked around the yucca, stood behind the extended arm, squinted at the sharp-peaked butte with the black capping, toward which the gaunt tree seemed to point.

    The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905

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