rocky height

Example Sentences

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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

Then the blue, heaving sea opened before them, as it had looked from the rocky height on that memorable day--a mist-veiled, sun-illumined waste of waters.

From Danira by Werner, E.

When even the forest seemed to suffocate, and when he had found relief only upon the bald bare top of that rocky height which crowned the island.

From A Daughter of the Forest by Raymond, Evelyn

I saw my Fortune midst the sounding sea Sit weeping on a rocky height and steep, Said I to her, "Fortune, how is't with thee?"

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

"There, Alboin, on the rocky height above us," said Adalgoth, "his bride and his tomb, self-chosen, have waited for him long."

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix