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  • The flattopped reef itself, now skeletal, like dead pitted rock, was coated with the mouse fur of accumulated algae.

    Beard 2010

  • "BE NICE TO KIM DAY," it says in rainbow font, footnoted at the bottom by "TMC** is misbehaving and she had no water at home today" and accompanied by clip art images of a heart, a gerber daisy, a shower, the face of a crying, flattopped black man, and a pony. the heartfelt sentiment (also, the unexpected garlic bread i received with my spaghetti at lunch) really has done wonders to cheer me up.

    paperbridges Diary Entry paperbridges 2006

  • His knees were drawn up, his flattopped head was in his hands, and he looked, for once, very small.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • On one piece of rising ground, I found a mass of rocks, a few feet higher than the rest, and from it I perceived a continuation of the slightly elevated flattopped range, to the southward and westward.

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • Cork swung his gun arm over the lip and swept the far flattopped palisade.

    BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003

  • Cork swung his gun arm over the lip and swept the far flattopped palisade.

    BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003

  • Cork swung his gun arm over the lip and swept the far flattopped palisade.

    BOUNDARY WATERS WILLIAM KENT KRUEGER 2003

  • Left, the ridge ran two or three klicks and then splayed out into a flattopped peak.

    Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997

  • Formed by the confluence of the Ajaju and the Macaya, rivers themselves born not on the slopes of the Andes but farther to the east in the midst of the trackless savannahs of Caquetá and Meta, the Apaporis flows through a series of flattopped sandstone mountains, remnants of the ancient landmass that once rose above the forests of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Some are immense flattopped ridges with one side sloping gently toward the forest floor, and the other a thousand-foot wall of yellow stone surmounted by jutting strata draped in vegetation.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

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