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Peering ahead at the great outsweeping rocky slope of Craig yr Aderyn, Will glimpsed for the first time the corner of a grey stone building jutting out beyond its far side.
The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001
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Peering ahead at the great outsweeping rocky slope of Craig yr Aderyn, Will glimpsed for the first time the corner of a grey stone building jutting out beyond its far side.
The Grey King Susan Cooper 2001
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Mrs. Scudder's heart smote her when she thought of her own early love, -- that great love that asked no questions, -- that had no doubts, no fears, no hesitations, -- nothing but one great, outsweeping impulse, which swallowed her life in that of another.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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The needles are about three inches long in fascicles of five, and arranged in rather close tassels at the ends of slender branchlets that clothe the long outsweeping limbs.
The Yosemite John Muir 1876
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