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

In the variety of their attitudes on this rocky height the animals were disposed perhaps more like alpine Chamois than like the generally conceived masses of Caribou on the low Barrens.

From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis

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

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.

Again I sailed and crossed the stormy sound, That lies beneath Binn-Aite's rocky height, And there upon the shore, the saint I found Waiting my coming through the tardy night.

From The South Isles of Aran by Burke, Oliver J.