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  • Her hands at her sides, she careened off the ledge like a wooden doll, falling end over end toward the rockstrewn waters below.

    ...And Nail 2010

  • For long years, even until yesterday, the only roads were the beds of tortuous and rockstrewn watercourses that were dry when you started at sunup and were suddenly transformed by a downpour to swollen, turbulent streams, perilous even to ford.

    Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

  • Bahama Islands -- that the water is so clear and limpid that the bottom can be seen at a great depth; and that navigation is thus possible and even safe among the rockstrewn coasts of the islands, when thus performed by sight and with the sun behind the ship.

    Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete Filson Young 1907

  • Bahama Islands -- that the water is so clear and limpid that the bottom can be seen at a great depth; and that navigation is thus possible and even safe among the rockstrewn coasts of the islands, when thus performed by sight and with the sun behind the ship.

    Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 3 Filson Young 1907

  • The Avenging Angels All night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rockstrewn paths.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • The Avenging Angels All night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rockstrewn paths.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • It dominated two watersheds, was accessible only on one side, and then by a ridgeway; from it the valley roads and rockstrewn hillsides could be seen for many leagues.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • All night their course lay through intricate defiles and over irregular and rockstrewn paths.

    A Study in Scarlet 1887

  • Wide stretches of rockstrewn flatlands through which trickled a few inches of water.

    Irish Blogs 2008

  • He downshifted, swung a hard right turn, hit the shoulder and fishtailed across rockstrewn dirt, wracking the Chevy’s undercarriage.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

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