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  • As a leaping mountain torrent through decades can smooth the rock,

    City and Village 2010

  • It was both hard and a pleasure to read. you rock,

    Visualize Whirled Peas | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • And even as he watched a spot that had been previously dry, he saw first a single drop of water well to the surface of the hairline crack, then a second and a third, then the drops became a trickle, then the trickle a thin stream down the face of the rock,

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • Sam gets on top of wing, L.H. Quashee goes up the rock,

    Obi Pantomime Act II, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles 2002

  • Foremost he 62 fared, a few at his side of the wiser men, the ways to scan, till he found in a flash the forested hill hanging over the hoary rock,

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Foremost he 62 fared, a few at his side of the wiser men, the ways to scan, till he found in a flash the forested hill hanging over the hoary rock,

    Beowulf 2003

  • Hath broke the naturall band it had within the roughftey rock,

    The Iliad of Homer 2003

  • Foremost he 62 fared, a few at his side of the wiser men, the ways to scan, till he found in a flash the forested hill hanging over the hoary rock,

    Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere 2003

  • Now there's men what somehow grip your mind & hold it like a rock,

    The Shooting of Dan's Guru 2000

  • Then, just ahead, from the hard shadow of a sharp-edged spire of rock,

    Conan the Indomitable Perry, Steve 1989

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