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The idea replenishing in and of itself, and I find myself dressing in khaki, khaki slacks and an olive green shirt what I hope will pass for camouflage in those walled-off, canyoned parts.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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The idea replenishing in and of itself, and I find myself dressing in khaki, khaki slacks and an olive green shirt what I hope will pass for camouflage in those walled-off, canyoned parts.
Hollywood Savage Kristin McCloy 2010
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It's the quintessential urbanscape, the land of skyscrapers and canyoned streets; but if you drove, as I do, down a tree-lined parkway that takes you into the heart of Manhattan, you'd swear that you could see Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton getting ready to fight a duel across the river, on the Palisades of the Jersey shore.
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Below them lay broken ravines of fantastic rocks, cleft and canyoned by the river, with a tender unearthly light over all, the apparent warmth of a glowing clime, while I on the north side was in the shadow among the pure unsullied snow.
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Up by Fifth, too, some contractor was tearing up the street, jackhammering the hell out of the street, the dust flying, the jackhammer noise reverberating all around the walls of the canyoned neighborhood from far west by Broadway way on over east past Fifth to Madison, down the pipe of 31st Street and god only knows how far and wide.
Former "Freedoms" on the March Marching Again The Daily Growler 2006
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A two or three day beard speckles his canyoned, shiny cheekboned look.
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A two or three day beard speckles his canyoned, shiny cheekboned look.
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It took them to a narrow carpark behind the hotel, canyoned on one side by the building itself and on the other side by a slope at the top of which was Granville Square.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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The light jellied to images, glassy shapes from his past: St. Tim's ash - colored buildings, canyoned Manhattan, the Blue Apple's dirty bricks glowing in the city's crooked daylight.
In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984
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He weaved terrifyingly up through the canyoned walls of the city, and once clear of them, hurtled through the black and red pall of smoke which hung permanently above it.
So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984
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