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  • For was not I equally a part of God's plan, along with this heap of rocks upjutting in the solitude of ocean?

    Chapter 19 2010

  • For was not I equally a part of God's plan, along with this heap of rocks upjutting in the solitude of ocean?

    Chapter 19 2010

  • I often looked at women's sexual organs, their rosy, lower lips and upjutting clits.

    Losing Married Women 2009

  • I often looked at women's sexual organs, their rosy, lower lips and upjutting clits.

    Losing Married Women 2009

  • I did kick against an upjutting rock here, and fall upon a great and unseen boulder there, and so was shaken very quickly to a sound knowledge that I trode the hard and actual earth; and had no true dealings with unreal matters.

    The Night Land 2007

  • He strode to the bow and looped the painter in the bow around one of the upjutting ribs of the houseboat's hull.

    Lord of the Isles 1997

  • A gradient so steep that it was as dangerous as a straight down drop: and in its black invisible depths there would be the usual big slabs with upjutting edges.

    Blood Sports Francis, Dick 1967

  • I did kick against an upjutting rock here, and fall upon a great and unseen boulder there, and so was shaken very quickly to a sound knowledge that I trode the hard and actual earth; and had no true dealings with unreal matters.

    The Night Land: Chapter 8 1912

  • For was not I equally a part of God's plan, along with this heap of rocks upjutting in the solitude of ocean?

    The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896

  • Spying a steep upjutting hill of fractured rock nearby, the base of which consisted of jaggedly strewn loose shale and myriads of angular rock fragments, she worked her horse like a draft beast and drew the burden the remaining distance directly to it's base, until it came to rest within the split of a rock, the split being just wide enough to admit the shroud, so that it was closely sheltered on both sides by the rock.

    Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Jon Cheney

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