rocky height
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As the pyre was kindled, on a rocky height above it a woman appeared.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The barley-harvest was nodding white, 49When my children died on the rocky height, And the reapers were singing on hill and plain, When I came to my task of sorrow and pain.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Richard Henry Stoddard
Then, tired of standing, and undesirous of spending the whole morning inactively, he turned and looked around him, up the rocky height of the temple-crowned acropolis.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
This panel is at Vallombrosa, on the summit of a rocky height, where certain monks live in some rooms called "the cells," separated from the others, and leading as it were the lives of hermits.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto by Gaston du C. De Vere
The first attack our general made with this fleet was against a rocky height on an island near Mexico.
From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
