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Later, Indy and his father escape a collapsing vault and gallop full tilt through the rock-girt defile of the ancient Middle Eastern city of Petra.

An Archaeologist Whips Indy Brian Fagan 2008

Then the pace was slackening as we went up a steep ascent, and now there was a glow ahead, and a challenge to which Goram replied, and I was carried between great boulders into a rock-girt clearing where a great fire burned, and a half-score of Gallas were resting on their weapons.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

About 2 A.M. we began ascending hills in a south-westerly direction, and presently we fell into the bed of a large rock-girt Fiumara, which runs from east to west.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

I just trusted to God that Uncle Arthur wouldn't emulate the part of an eighteenth-century French sloop's skipper vis-a-vis the smugglers 'lamp on a rock-girt Cornish shore and run the damned boat aground under the impression that he was heading for a beacon of hope.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

A small rock-girt bay, if bay it could be called, about the size of a couple of tennis courts, almost completely enclosed from the sea, the entrance couldn't have been more than ten yards wide.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

The cavern now became more lofty and wider, the sides more rugged, and at last it terminated on the brink of a stream which boiled and lashed its rock-girt sides with its troubled waters.

The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West

Many, since the days of the wreckers, have been the ships cast away along that rugged coast-line which starts southward from the grim promontory of St. Abb's Head, and runs, cruelly rock-girt or stretched in open bay of yellow sand, away past Berwick and down by Holy Island.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

A light breeze stirred the leaves and gently wafted to us the smell of the pines and the woods, mingled with the sweet odours of the scented geranium, verbena, and nicotine in the rock-girt garden.

On the Fringe of the Great Fight 1921

Emerging from the woods, we come rather suddenly upon a reclaimed rock-girt swamp, the most of which is marked off in long green lines of celery.

Our Friend John Burroughs Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 1914

He set out on foot next morning, and after climbing a steep pass followed a winding track across a waste of empty moor until he struck a smooth white road, which led past a rock-girt lake and into a deep valley.

Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905