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  • Between this cove, which I called Graveyard bay, and another spot of smooth water above, on the right, called Luders bay, sheltered by a jutting point of huge rocky masses at the foot of the cascades, the shore along the intervening rapids is lined with precipices of distinct strata of red and variously-colored lavas, in inclined positions.

    The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851

  • Autograph Island is not an island more of a peninsula, if anything, the non-ticket holders' entrance does not mean you can get in without paying and, though the old Court Two, now overlaid by Court Three, was known as the Graveyard of Champions, no one is buried there.

    Wimbledon 2011: Your survival guide to SW19 2011

  • I decided to call it Graveyard Shift at the Orchid Station, because I like the idea of some Dharma guy knitting away the hours.

    I'm On Break yuki_onna 2010

  • Autograph Island is not an island more of a peninsula, if anything, the non-ticket holders' entrance does not mean you can get in without paying and, though the old Court Two, now overlaid by Court Three, was known as the Graveyard of Champions, no one is buried there.

    Wimbledon 2011: Your survival guide to SW19 2011

  • My poem "Fairy Tale Graveyard" is now available for your listening pleasure (sic) at Starship Sofa, along with stories by much more accomplished folks than my own bad self ...

    Hear The Crispy Goodness! mtrimm1 2008

  • The Mitchieville Graveyard is a popular spot, for the living and for the dead.

    Whistling By The Mitchieville Graveyard--Part 1 2008

  • On Halloween, we can buy fragrances called Graveyard ( "an earthy, dusky scent reminding us of fog juice lingering in the air"), Crypt ( "dark and mossy, reminiscent of New Orleans mausoleums"), and Mayhem ( "smokey, woodsy scent mixed with spice for a dark night in the woods") at www. gothrosary.com.

    Maggie Van Ostrand: Common Scents: Why Brides Carry Bouquets 2009

  • Olympic is nicknamed the Graveyard of Champions because the same thing had happened to Ben Hogan in 1955, Arnold Palmer in 1966 and Tom Watson in

    Failure changed Stewart 1999

  • North Carolina, it seemed, had more than five hundred wrecks charted off the coast and was called the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

    Message in a Bottle Sparks, Nicholas 1998

  • There is a place—north of here, I would figure— called the Graveyard of Lost Ships.

    Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

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