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Her destination'the next gate'lay on the other side of a razor-back ridge.
Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993
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They climbed over a razor-back ridge to a level plain and their feet shot from under them.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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They climbed over a razor-back ridge to a level plain and their feet shot from under them.
The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956
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They climbed over a razor-back ridge to a level plain and their feet shot from under them.
Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955
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Louli had turned pea green at the bare thought of anyone running out along the high razor-back of the rock and actually looking down — let alone leaping off into the sea; and he was a little surprised that she should contemplate watching the demonstration.
Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955
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Dyer quite as much resembling a lean, lank, wiry "razor-back" native of his own pine woods.
The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson
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"Well, the poorer they was, the quicker they'd eat him up, I guess, -- ef they could eat such a razor-back."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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In many parts of the South this nut has been the principal food used in the fattening, or possibly the sustaining food, of the native razor-back hog.
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The reason is that you an 'Socorro is incongruous -- like a side-saddle on a razor-back hog.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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The razor-back mountain chain, upon one peak of which Les Baux sits, is known as the Alpilles.
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