Rock City
Example Sentences
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The indie acts Wolf Parade, Lord Huron, and Cherry Glazerr promise that the great rock city of Seattle gets its share of guitar riffage.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2017
“No, sir,” came loudly from both boats, and the next minute they glided round the promontory they had passed in coming up, and the rock city disappeared.
From Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig by Wood, Stanley L.
Another strange rock city was discovered, evidently inhabited at a later date, for here the old dwellers’ domestic implements were plentiful in the cell-like homes cut in the terraces of cliff or cañon.
From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold
Anyhow, here it is, regular rock city such as we’ve read about; and the old folks made it by cutting away.
From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold
Its stones were permeated with the military and religious history of the "old rock city," for, in the fifteen years of its occupancy by Champlain, it was as much a mission as a fort.
From Famous Firesides of French Canada by Alloway, Mary Wilson
