taluses

Such darkly shadowed taluses under an open, light-filled firmament just waiting to ravenously warm every windblown, cascading, double-trunked forest shrub and errant piece of fossilized driftwood on the esker.

Sunday Salon: The Cover of J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands 2009

"Terrains of rubble," for those of us who go bouldering there, are called taluses.

Ansel Adams at 100 2002

"Terrains of rubble," for those of us who go bouldering there, are called taluses.

Ansel Adams at 100 2002

Silk said, "Some taluses wear helmets, I've noticed, while others don't."

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

A soldier who got that close would be very close indeed; and the taluses I want you to build will have troopers protecting their backs.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

In your Guard, we use our taluses to free mired guns and even wagons, and a talus is stronger than thirty mules.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

All four taluses would have to be paid for as well before Swallow would deliver even one; it was in the contract he had signed less than an hour ago.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

How many taluses could you build at the same time if you called back all of the employees you've sent home?

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

"I've dealt with taluses once or twice, and I'm sure you're right."

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

Chapter 7 -- The Brown Mechanics Silk looked around curiously, finding it hard to believe that this enclosure, this collection of sheds surrounded by a fence, produced taluses.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996