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The floor was a slope of benches and tables with bars like the one she was seated at on each of a dozen levels
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At times we’d ride the bikes down the slope of Wavering Down there, seeing who would hit a rabbit hole first
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There's three tape-reseller khumes coming off the southeast slope of Rankor Hill toward the Karthuum Valley that are bigger than this
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By the time she was walking up the cobbled slope, having negotiated successfully the vagaries of the Bristol bus service, she was feeling quite pleased with herself
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she visualised it … a slope down to a culvert tiled on both sides, then roofed over
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Alone, with the busy slope of backpacks,
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Agile and talkative she led me through winding streets and alleyways, turning left - then up some steps, then right - and down some more, then a little slope until at last she pointed to a restaurant nestling in the corner of a shaded square and proudly announced, “Restaurant Virrgenia
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Before he realized it, she had jumped him and they went tumbling down the slope before them
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The track leads gently down the slope of the hill; the woods preventing us from seeing any great distance, but as we round a bend in the way, I spot a building a couple of miles away
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‘How about giving me a go?’ Chas said, appearing at the top of the slope ahead of Chrissie
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The slope of this beach was steep and the rocks were quite large
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top,’ he pointed up the slope, ‘we’ll see if your
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The Triodines crested the slope and rushed
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Without missing a step, the horse started up the slope, leaping through the flames
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Once off the bridge, the third Hyondahi was less than a mile away up a relatively steep slope
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Julia loved the feel of the wind in her hair as she biked down a slope and she and Jack returned back to the Kingston Mansion
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The forest was dark and damp, the sun was behind the mountain as he climbed down it’s steep eastern slope
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“The house will be set up the slope far enough and so secluded from the more publicly accessible school that I am sure the Village Council and the School Committee will approve the location
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We sent him around on the east side where we sense a gentler slope
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The end of the path on the four house side was taken up with an ancient vine-covered stone building built onto a slope overlooking the center of the village
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"Then I can see what people say about the parks on the eastern slope," Desa said
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She got a good view of the rugged mountain slope below this castle with plains in the distance
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He fell the last thirty feet down the near ninety degree slope
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The views of the canyons of the upper south slope were fine, the bridges sometimes dizzying
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They rode that to the southern end of the Eastern Slope, then walked down Gense Spiral and reached a streetcar that ran out of the mountain thru the Eastern Breech and out onto a route where streetcar, cargo and foot traffic converged into a great avenue that leapt out of the mountain on a fanciful crystal bridge thirty five stories above the inner branch of the Imoneea river
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Her nibs were dark for her coloration and they lingered there for awhile, she asked him the names of some of the megastructures and chimneys on the Eastern Slope but he wasn't very interested in that
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The Petrol's were a few hundred yards up the road and Stephen Cleary clapped his hands in glee for Richard his elder brother told him that fire races up a slope whereas on a downward slope it takes its time unless blasted by the wind
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In the days of the island this had been the outskirts of the city of Hyadrain that encircled the bay of the same name, and this factory had been deep in a back canyon that lead back into the slope of the then uninhabited Rankor Hill
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Clothier gently eased their horses forward back down the slope
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Fizzicist did as he was told and followed the wide cobblestoned path down the eastern slope until eventually they reached the rolling hills of Top Farm
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"Who'd have thought they'd beat the slope of the southern route, why its bad enough walking up it," said Mr
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Suddenly, he heard something slide down the slope of the
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negotiated the slippery slope of the riverbank down to the
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because the slope is les steep
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Meanwhile, sheep were loose among a grove of lemon trees on the steep slope behind
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Fortunately, a different vineyard spread along the slope uphill from the crumbling
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The terrain appeared much more hospitable, with a thick forest and a clear stream running down the central mountain’s slope
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“Not far north of Jeremos's farm, there’s a small cave on the slope of Neriton
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Nerissa found the cave just as the worst of the storm began to lash the slope with sheets
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They heard the crackle of a broken stick, and then the skitter of a rock tumbling down the slope
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She left the flock grazing behind her as she climbed to the forest on the upper slope
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It struck a lone sapling on the slope
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Late into the afternoon, Nerissa stopped to rest at a brook that bubbled down the slope
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Odd, because with snow covering the slope outside, you’d
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It sprang away, then bounded up a rock-strewn slope
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She couldn’t stop her legs as they crashed down the broken slope and through the forest
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Danny did a nifty turn to face the struggling Carol as she pushed Ben up the slope in his small manual wheelchair
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He clambered up the slope and crawled into an oval shaped opening
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paths that jut out, curve back, and then reconnect with the main slope further down the hill
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Scott could just discern a man in a T-shirt and shorts scrambling up the slope towards the waterfall
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The slope was scattered with loose rocks, some of which were debris from the crash, and was angled at almost forty-five degrees, although it got even steeper higher up
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A couple of minutes later everyone was tied at two metre intervals along the two joined lengths of rope and Chris started to pick his way up the slope, being careful to avoid loose stones where he could
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Even so, on several occasions he could not avoid sending small rocks bouncing hazardously down the slope, narrowly avoiding those climbers behind him
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He slid down the rutted slope, bike dragging along, entangled in his legs
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“What do you want us to do? Fly over it?” asked Melissa, as they started to move down the slope
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Before the others had a chance to stop him, he sprinted down the last few feet of the slope, across the flat ledge and launched himself into the air, over the edge
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Chris moved part way up the gravel slope, sprinted as fast as he could towards the crevasse and leapt as hard as his leg muscles would allow
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Chris was relieved to find that the valley did indeed head the way they were going, for a good distance anyway, and actually seemed to slope gradually downward
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“We couldn’t stay up on the slope all this way anyhow
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” he replied, rubbing his hands together and scrutinising the rocky slope ahead of him
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Having just destroyed a trench to our left we carried on upward Charlie was in front of us he stopped and looked back at us down the slope
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He had to scrape away at dust on the gentle slope, which gave the impression it had lain there undisturbed for millennia
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desperate feeling of setting off on the black slope and seeing after a hundred yards why the ski
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Jacob came jogging up the slope to the cave mouth with an
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The woman in front of him had the same heart shaped face, the same long black hair, the same pale blue eyes with their cat-like upward slope at the edges
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Solid slabs of limestone, ten feet thick at the base rising at a slope out of the ground and then straightening and shooting straight up to sixty feet above their heads
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To say that two people are having sex when we mean they are coupling, having coitus, intercourse, or whatever, is to continue down the slippery slope of euphemisms
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He could just make out a steep slope, maybe twenty metres high, with only a loose shale path leading to the top
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That this gangster in street clothes (carrying a Bible conspicuously every now and again Sunday, shortly after having been given spiritual counseling by Jesse (adulterer) Jackson, should even begin to ascend the slope of integrity is a cosmic joke
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He was sliding down a slope, not even trying to scramble back up
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The one place to be avoided was the College Hospital, not so much for the service from the doctors and nurses, which was adequate, but the fact was that it was built upon a slope at the top corner of the College
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Getting there was a nightmare, because that slope was like a ski slope, used as punishment for any cadet who had angered our sergeant
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There was this small clay slope going down to the outhouses
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Just beyond the last ford the woods ended abruptly and a gentle grassy slope led to the foot of the San Juan ridge, which is like a huge rampart thrown up to defend Santiago
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At this time an advance was also made against San Juan, the enemy having the advantage of a gentle slope and excellent cover
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Nine succeeding rows of trenches must first have been captured on the slope leading from San Juan, the terrible barricade of barbed wire, protected by the forts and blockhouses, surmounted, before the stormers could reach the city and its immediate defences
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It snows there in winter and has the longest ski slope in the Southern Hemisphere
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Gritting his teeth, he began struggling up the steep slope
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He tried one more big step, one more drop down the slope, and that’s when it happened
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Too quick to comprehend, he hit the bottom of a steep slope, still clutching the light
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Then he led off, back up the slope and into the woods, proceeding very slowly
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The slope on which the car had finally rolled to a halt meant that I could see for nearly a quarter mile back where I had come, so the bouncing headlights of the vehicles were visible for half a minute before they stopped a dozen yards behind my car
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accessible drains and slope away from where the milk room is located to
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Vernon stalked down the slope and disappeared
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I stood up and looked down the wooded slope, out across
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He roared down a great mighty slope that was covered in row after row of bush and yellow and white shrubs
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I scrambled down the ravine’s steep slope to the vines that
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The slope shoulders, cowboy hat, boots and East Texas accent were unmistakable
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He pushed harder, the slope turning into an almost sheer wall of rock
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It was painted in psychedelic colours reminiscent of rich people on a ski slope
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Without even looking back, Brendan turned to his left and scrambled up a slope into the woods
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Brendan buggered off, back up the reverse slope, over the hill, around and into the streambed again
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” He walked quickly into the forest where there was no trail, descended a hill slippery with leaves, then turned onto a wide murky path that descended in a gentle slope as both mud and jungle thickened
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The Pilgrim saw it too and sprung up like a coiled snake, his hand making a large slashing motion at the metal slab delivering a glancing blow and then rolling back down the slope of the mount, tumbling and coming to rest at what seemed like a safer distance from the metal slab
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Colling pushed the motorcycle down the reverse slope of the ridge for a short distance before starting the engine and racing off towards the road
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A bridge across a small stream and a narrow stairway leading down a slope
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The slope on the other side of the bluff wasn’t as big and going downhill was a lot easier
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The “toxicity slope” for inorganic arsenic
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We chose a lovely spot high on a wooded slope bordering on a nature reserve
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“I found him standing at the base of that slope, over there
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The cockpit had a post-bulge over two feet wide, shiny, and sloped
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I ran into the water; shouting, laughing, carefree, splashing forward till the bank sloped away and felled me like a tree into deeper water, happy with the shock of it all
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We sloped through the pass, from time to time tantalized by a vision of the cerulean pure wet sea, deep and gleaming in the distance
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This alley sloped steeply down and turned, so that soon they were in a basement stables
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Several openings in the walls directly below them sloped down into small chambers that could be closed off with bronze grills
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decent-sized back yard that sloped down toward the lake
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He got up onto the low side of the rock and walked up the sloped top so he could see over the line of brush and the fields beyond
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The forest behind Buttworst’s home sloped downhill to a small ravine with
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The half-closed eye, bowed nose and row of jagged, sloped teeth were the only indication it was otherwise
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The path, rocky and verdant on either side, sloped upward and grew ever more promising while horse and rider continued their trek
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The corridor sloped upward and eventually the end of the line became evident
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Then he looked down the field that sloped gently to the river
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The cliff sloped around fifteen degrees away from the vertical which was going to be an advantage when it came to climbing it
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After a couple of minutes you arrived in the cave, sliding out-of-control down the sloped tunnel and landing on the ground
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Near the top, its walls narrowed and sloped in
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sloped up to an irrigation canal
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Outside our window, the view was just what you would expect from a Swiss restaurant, with meadows stretching away into the distance, dotted with traditional wooden chalets with their steeply sloped roofs, to prevent the snow from accumulating
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To the right, the vineyards sloped away steeply downhill towards a distant farm
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It sloped upward, which would keep the rare rain from flooding it
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It gradually sloped upward to a sort of plateau where I found the promised grassland on the second day
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The ground sloped down
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The ground sloped fiercely down on the other side, covered with trees
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At last they reached a place where the ground sloped up
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Sadly, he had forgotten to put his seatbelt back on after dropping Aubree off at Christie’s in East Lyme, and the shoulder was loose gravel and sloped towards the guard rail
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” The deck sloped toward the scuppers and was interrupted by cylindrical shafts three feet high and about four feet in diameter spaced regularly over the storage tanks below
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I guess it was something to do with the fact that the room was on the top floor, in the attic, because the ceiling sloped down to the shelf
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my head against a two-by-four in the sloped ceiling of the
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The gravel beneath sloped gradually toward the center
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The gravel beneath sloped
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become unnerving; while the rest of the room sloped in all other
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There was a point where the cliff sloped
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the land that gently sloped away until it met with a few hills at
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Since the bin sloped away from the ladder
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consolidation itself is bordered by a support line and a resistance line, which are parallel to each other or very mildly converging, making it look like a flag (parallelogram) and tends to be sloped in the opposite direction from the slope of the original trend, or is simply flat
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The converging top line, defined by points B, D, F, and H, is sloped downward
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The wedge is markedly sloped, and the breakout occurs in the direction opposite to its slope (See Figures 4
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The roof sloped down from over six meters from the front door to the two meter high window that looked out onto the lake
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The landscape sloped lower on the far side
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The plateau, whose sides fell away toward the wooded shores on the east, west and south, sloped upward toward the north to abut on a tangle of rocky cliffs, the highest point of the island
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The land sloped upwards and she followed a ravine that cut deep but it was devoid of moisture
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Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs
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immediately it sloped upwards but kept the same size
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The plateau had one side which sloped gently enough for the MMARV’s to operate while the other three sides were unassailable steep sandy cliffs
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The tunnels sloped downward
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The land sloped down from front to back and all the upper floor had been removed, leaving a sort of ramp for the trucks to drive up
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A wooden slipway sloped into the water and in the old days they used to winch small boats up the slipway into the boathouse
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Slowly he walked up the sloped road toward Jose, who immediately reclined his seat completely downward
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On and on we ran, right at the water's edge where the sand was compacted and sloped slightly
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� Its armor is to be well sloped, with possible use of new, special armor that I will describe in a few moments
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Half way through the night, I was not so sure my bundle was worth the trouble, my shoulder where the strap had rubbed was beginning to bleed and I breathed a sigh of relief when the hairy one stopped to drink and eat the food he had taken from the two warriors, he had food, I had trophies, I had a lot to learn from this strange ally, after sharing the food, my moon skinned friend picked up my bundle and effortlessly threw it on to his shoulder, we marched on through the rest of the night and as the false dawn shed its light, we began to scout around for, hopefully, our last hideaway in enemy country, the day passed without incident and when evening came we again set off to the east and in the false dawn as I scanned the horizon looking for a glimpse of the Hill of Setvic my hairy companion began to scout around for a place to stay, the land had sloped for the last two nights and we followed the incline and eventually reached the plateau, two nights later before we lay down to rest I thought the lie of the ground had a familiar look to it, the next evening before the sun went down I looked around and my heart leapt, the Hill of Setvic was there in the distance, tomorrow we would be on Toltec land, but we were not safe yet we had to survive the night, oh, what a cruel fate if we were to fail with the prize in sight, that night I was followed by demons, jumping in alarm at every noise, every animal call, when the morning star appeared I dropped to the ground, totally overcome by the sight of the outline of the Hill of Setvic in the near distance, a sight I never thought I would see again, my friend, misunderstanding, rushed up and stood astride me, his shiny sticks in his hands, I started to laugh and laugh, uncontrollably; he bent and shook me, I leapt up and hugged him whirling around and around, he put his hand over my mouth, the terror and permanent vigilance of the last few weeks seemed to roll from my back like a worn tattered cloak, I stopped my antics and tried with signs to make him understand that we were safe, not knowing if he understood or not, I walked towards home and he followed
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Given that the path now sloped down, that was understandable
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Taken by surprise by the appearance of the M20 armored cars, the first T-34 tank, which was climbing at slow speed the sloped road towards the town, fired its first gun shell more than twenty seconds after the start of the encounter
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She quickly chose a small, shallow cave in the sloped, rocky ground as the best spot for her tent
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The lawn was gently sloped toward the boardwalk and boat landing along the riverbank
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Apart from the aircraft hangars and of the technical depots and workshops, the majority of the buildings were single-storey prefabricated wooden structures with sloped roofs
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The dust was choking and it was pitch dark, and to top that off, I felt myself sliding head first down a steeply sloped slide
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The walls sloped in abruptly forming an arch above that ended in a jagged crack only inches wide
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It must have been at least another two hours before the floor suddenly sloped down before us
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The shoulder sloped down through thick forests and ended at a vast plain of tall grassland
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In looking at the putt putt green, in front of him were two tunnels, three sloped curves, a bridge crossing a small stream, and a huge, orange, mechanical monster who stomped his foot every three seconds – thus effectively blocking the path to the hole should one’s timing be slightly off
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In reality, my truck should have hit that median, and jumped it or even begun a roll from the sloped medians we have on that road, and into the other lane of traffic
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Components and distribution lines should be sloped and fitted with drain points so that the
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The ceiling sloped down so much that he would have banged his
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Things were changing and we sloped along getting high and all that and the
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After awhile, we sloped off to another crib which was all about 40s, the juice
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On either side, the gravel ground sloped up
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The corridor sloped gently away from him, descending into further darkness, Byron peered uselessly down its length, abruptly he noticed a light to the side of the corridor coming from one of the antechambers, causing him to switch his torch off quickly
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Smiling, our officer took the criminal by the arm and led him down one of the alleys which sloped away from the festive crowd and towards the village
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The path leading to it sloped upwards
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At first he had found the horse to be really wonderful! He was so full of excitement that as soon as he had completed the purchase, he mounted the horse and gave it free rein until he reached the quarter known as White Bridge, where there was a street that sloped up to the grassy slopes of Qassyoun mountain
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William sighed, sloped his back and slowly walked up stairs and into his room closing the door slowly
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Like a pinball bouncing off the flippers in a heavily sloped machine, his
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The road sloped upwards to a large, flat circular plateau
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be sloped to the angle of repose
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Realizing she might make herself more visible to those following her, she stopped gallivanting about and jogged across the headland, passing an old wooden sign that read “Bowen Point,” and scaled down the side of the bluff to where the rocky terrain sloped inland through a thin copse of scraggily trees
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But the ceiling was the great sky, with, two eagles ever so far up curving in its depths, and when they sloped their wings the sun caught them and they flashed
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Seeing this he jumped back up, straightened his shirt, thrust his fists into his pockets and sloped to the bar, his mouth buttoned to control any dignity left in his open, emptied heart
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The forest sloped downward, growing more dense as they moved deeper and deeper in the forest
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Only Zonda was interested and as she amused him we sloped off
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Two small, black eyes were lodged under a smooth, sloped forehead
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So we retreated through the crack, and found ourselves in a tunnel that sloped dangerously down into the depths of the world
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Walking toward us on the sloped
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Fortunately, the tunnel sloped slightly down towards the door
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The edges of the grassy bowl sloped upward at a steep angle
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sloped shafts, a few inches wide, that run all the way up
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Tim contracted with the private sector to have his sloped floor cavern sealed and pressurized
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part of the tunnel sloped downward at an angle, so that it
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“It seems that Henderson is attracted to older women and it has been suggested that rather than being abducted for profit, he has merely sloped of on a romantic assignation with one
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Her eyes drifted appreciably out across the muscular sloped plains of his chest and the desire she had for this man only heightened in intensity
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with a ceiling that sloped at a sharp angle, a room Elowen had
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For it was there, ahead of him on the path, among the trees at the top of the gentle hill that sloped up from where he was standing
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and with a sloped grin and then she set about telling me how she used to entertain her
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No one was in sight, the smooth road sloped invitingly before her, and finding the temptation irresistible, Jo darted away, soon leaving hat and comb behind her and scattering hairpins as she ran
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The trees sloped their great green shoulders proudly; and inside the warehouse all the morning, the boy had a vision of spring outside
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As they were crossing a large meadow that sloped away from the sun, along a path embedded with innumerable tiny glittering points, Paul, walking alongside, laced his fingers in the strings of the bag Miriam was carrying, and instantly she felt Annie behind, watchful and jealous
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The cliff of red earth sloped swiftly down, through trees and bushes, to the river that glimmered and was dark between the foliage
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The mountains sloped sheer down to the sea, and there was no road across
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The land sloped gradually up towards the rim, so that the highest point in Krull in fact slightly overhung the Edge
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TO THE SOUTH of the priory, the ground sloped steeply down to the river
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It was one of those weird, triangular rooms at the top of the house that is shaped by the way the roof slopes down
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and slip boot slopes of their battered home
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the coldness of the mountain slopes, opening heavy crystal lids,
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He slopes off to his room
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The slopes were covered with trellises and roofs
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The grounds were roughly walled with loose stone and the lawn was nothing but some mossy slopes leading up to the doors between the trunks
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onto the slopes of the mountain
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slopes of Anwaite Hill
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In here now they seemed to float only fifty miles or so above where Alan was supposed to be by now, a desolate patch of high ground on the upper slopes of a mountain
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the town, and on all sides were the forested slopes of the
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Beyond the grassy slopes surrounding the wall the tree line began, hundreds of yards distant, a vast forest thick with evergreens and oaks
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more sheltered forests of the lower slopes
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green plains to the north and forested slopes to the south,
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flower grew only on the slopes of Mount Olympus
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Besides, the slopes are incredible, there
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Fallingwater was like something out of a story book as it lay snuggled against the snow covered slopes
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The valley had been gradually swinging around to head almost due east and this sudden incline travelled east-to-west across it, continuing part way up the rocky slopes on either side
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shape, the curves and edges, the slopes
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The grass was getting a little denser and small withered shrubs started to appear as they strode toward the slopes of the mountains before them
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Peaceful tree-covered lanes gave way to narrow paths cut into the side of steep slopes that would suddenly open to glorious views of the gorge
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“That’s why we’re following the lower slopes now,” said Stan
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As we ascended the slopes of the Cascade Range, the change
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Across the moors ran several flocks of red deer roaming the moors and mountain slopes of the glens
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One or two pine marten swept across the cliffs and steep slopes
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He looked at the thin, green line of light and then looked at the faint mountain path that made a zig-zag through the ever rockier slopes
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And then rolling hills of auburn slowly lifting off the ground as if the very hand of God had touched and pinched the lands, his hand print faintly echoed in the timid, graceful slopes
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Winding their way past ski slopes that were closed for summer, they drove for nearly three hours before being stopped by road works
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hand at the most difficult of slopes
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There’s nature reserve all around us, on the mountain slopes and down into the nearby vlei
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Beyond, on the slopes of the Glen, were blossoming orchards, sweet and mystic and wonderful, veiled in dusk
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” The highest point surrounding it was on the slopes of the mountains to the south, but it proved to be too far away for the shot to reach the walls of the fort
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We were filing into and around the deserted capital of the latter when word finally came that the Inka were in position a little to our south on the gentle slopes of a snowcapped mountain
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At times we could see bears along the shore, we could almost always see the white-headed eagle, and once in a while we could just make out one of the mountain goats way up on the rocky slopes of the mountains
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Finally we came to a more level area on the northern slopes of the mountain and again had to camp under the stars or rather the trees along the path
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“Yes, I’ve been taking him up to the ski slopes on the weekends and teaching
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We rode north along the eastern slopes of a range of hills and then into another small range that blocked our path
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Some four days later we crossed over a pass to the western side of the mountain range and gained the road that skirted the coastal desert by hugging the slopes of the mountains
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We camped on its wooded slopes while I proceeded to the somewhat cleared summit
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Before he could reach us, however, the middle force charged out of the wooded slopes to our south and stopping at arrow range let loose a volley and retreated just as our cannon fired into them
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We found the camp situated on the cleared slopes of a hill about fifteen li north of the Bio Bio
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She made her way cautiously through the streets of the plateau, where Pravik Castle stood watch over the slopes
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The lower part of Mount Wellington slopes is covered with thirty-two varieties of eucalyptus trees and exhibits dense and sappy vegetation
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At about ninety miles before reaching Juneau, the effect of the sun rising on the slopes of the mountains reminded Roger, in their beauty, of the awe- inspiring setting of Villafranca del Bierzo in Spain, approaching that fine city from Cacabelos
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Seeing the Bald Eagle and many other wild animals on the slopes of the mountain with binoculars, which in Alaska are
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They had the opportunity to relax and admire the beauty of the surrounding top-snowed mountains, source of many cooling waterfalls with green slopes where mountain goats and elks could be observed grazing
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Seated at the outer edge of the Pacific Ocean and comfortably nestled in the slopes of Mountains Coast topped with snow, Vancouver shines as one of the most vibrant and cosmopolitan cities in North America
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You own the peak and it’s slopes down to the bottom of the valleys to the north and southeast, and to the edge of the river that runs in the valley to the southwest, which may be polluted by eruptions upstream
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We’ll build a resort on the outer slopes of the volcano, above the treeline only, again by excavating into the stone
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He lifted the entire mass of debris from a length of the valley floor, exposing the bare rock where the two slopes met, then added more and more, clearing the bedrock for hundreds of meters
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It was indeed an extinct volcano capped with a steel dome, situated beside a vast metropolis whose suburbs covered the lower half of it’s slopes on that side
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It is only when they have been walking and scrabbling up the increasingly steep slopes for another story’s length, that the scribe realises his thirst hasn’t been quenched
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From the shadowed slopes to the left comes a wild howling, the echo of it rolling through the chilly air
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Halfdan looked at the grey and brown masses, with snow shining white on high slopes, and felt an urge to tell the steersman to turn the ship around; that it was wrong to leave home for this adventure
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He lifted the entire mass of debris from a length of the valley floor, exposing the bare rock where the two slopes met, then added more and more, clearing the bedrock for hundreds of feet
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to side, running loose in the slopes of the waves
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slopes into the ocean
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The most important temple on Bali, is located high on the slopes of Gunung Agung
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The bulk of the Tanarian army was camped along the crest and slopes of a single track that wound its way down from the plateau
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The slopes of the valley were hewn with roughly-cut tree stumps, the timber from which was now employed deep within the mine shafts that lay beyond
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They have massed an incredible army at the northern slopes of the mountain and they are prepared to ascend the slope
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The days were full of clean, crisp, sun-filled air on the slopes, the nights dancing in the nightclub with Maureen, a fun lesbian Australian who, a few months later, wisely refused my offer of marriage
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You look down over your chest, there was a slight cave in the middle, your breasts sit pert, soft slopes falling off the sides of your body, you blow the water droplets from your crests and watch them slide down the surface and join their kin in the sea around you
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A few trips up the main slope convinced Ted that I was ready for the harder slopes
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I smiled back at him, and followed him and Andy to the harder slopes line
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The harder slopes had bench chairs
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The land varied from sloping rough grassland dotted with ancient eucalypts, to low hills and increasingly dense rainforest that became steep forested slopes down which tumbled several streams and waterfalls creating excellent pools
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narrow ravine, the slopes of which are covered with pine trees
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The ground slopes slightly downwards
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northern Himalayan slopes, and all was being prepared for the most dramatic
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And Jesus lived alone with God for six weeks on the slopes of Mount Hermon
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25, he established his headquarters, and leaving his supplies in the custody of Tiglath, he ascended the lonely slopes of the mountain
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On the way home he spent a day and a night alone on the slopes of Gilboa, near where King Saul had taken his life; and when he arrived at Capernaum, he seemed more cheerful than when he had left John in Jerusalem
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1 SEPTEMBER and October were spent in retirement at a secluded camp upon the slopes of Mount Gilboa
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They camped that night on the northern slopes of those hills, and hook-nosed, fiery-eyed men of the hill tribes came in scores to squat about the fires and repeat news that had come up out of the mysterious desert
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The fingers were represented by a broad ridge on either hand, the outer sides sheer, the inner, steep slopes
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The vale pitched upward as it narrowed, to come out on a plateau, flanked by gully-torn slopes
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It was all over so quickly that the watchers on the slopes stood dazed; and again the horde moved forward, splitting to avoid the charred waste of corpses
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Up on the ridges the desert fighters wavered, and the hillmen fell on them with renewed fury, driving them down the slopes
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Nomads and mailed spearmen broke away, fleeing to their camp where their horses were, and the hillmen swarmed down the slopes, stabbing the fugitives in the back, cutting the throats of the wounded
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They choked the neck of the Pass, they littered the slopes
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Below us an ethereal glow lit the slopes and out of the thicket appeared the creature that cultures had dreamed of as a symbol of purity and goodness
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She did not follow the open road, but cut straight through fields and over slopes, avoiding fences and leaping irrigation ditches as surely as if it were broad daylight, and as easily as if she were a trained masculine runner
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Then there was a sensation of flying, and the racing hoofs were striking sparks of fire from the flinty road as the stallion swept up the slopes
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Behind them, beyond the slopes they had traversed, torches were tossing on the walls of the fortress, and he glimpsed a flare of light that meant the great gate had been opened
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On either hand sheer slopes pitched up for thousands of feet, and the mouth of the Pass was dark as hate
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The sun was high, beating down with fierce heat, yet the wind that blew in fitful gusts seemed to sweep off slopes of ice
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Dazedly he saw a crimson conoid cloud spinning up and over the mountain slopes
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He glared up the slopes, hesitated, and then turned down the trail in the direction he had been going when halted by Khemsa's trickery
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The soft creak of leather, the clink of steel marked their passing, then again the dark mountain slopes lay naked and silent in the starlight
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There was a touch of unreality about the whole—purple slopes pitching up to that fantastic castle, toy-like with distance, and above it the white glistening peak shouldering the cold blue
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There was still the gorge to cross, but at least he could see the white peaks glistening in the sun, and the long slopes falling away into the distant blue hazes
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As they scattered in flight, the conquerors scattered in pursuit, and all across the valley floor, and up on the slopes near the mouth and over the crests streamed the fugitives and the pursuers
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Near nightfall Jesus sent Philip and Matthew over to a village on the eastern slopes of Mount Gilboa to secure lodging for the company
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So, after many weary weeks, they raised land to westward, and at dawn dropped anchor in a shallow bay, and saw a beach which was like a white band bordering an expanse of gently grassy slopes, masked by green trees
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His scouts having found nothing indicating men or beasts in the neighborhood, he stood staring inland, at the long reaches of grassy slopes melting into one another
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The giant followed his fellows, and presently Conan saw them emerge from the archway by which he had gained access to that castle of horror, and file away across the green slopes, in the direction from which he had come
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A glance over his straining shoulder showed a broad green ribbon rising and falling as it swept over the slopes
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Slowly, as if a soft, breezeless tide were creeping up a gently sloping sandy shore line, I became aware of waves in the distance, and slowly I tuned into the echo of my exhalations
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As long as she was in the main thoroughfare it would be difficult if not downright foolhardy for anyone to attack her … but there was a stretch just the other side of the river where the pedestrian path separated from the road, sloping down into a sort of culvert … a subway … if I were going to ambush someone, that’s where I’d choose
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sloping into wire caught tufts of white and black,
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Sefir takes it in her stride, appearing to enjoy the exercise presented by the sloping trackway
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steeply sloping in some places
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approached by a long sloping section of the causeway which allowed
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considered, as he walked up the sloping roadway to the main gate
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You couldn’t see down into the canyon itself, but you could see the plot-covered hills on the far side miles away and see that the land was sloping down
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It ran a dozen stories above ground at first, gradually sloping down to five
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It was still guarded by a sloping hillside
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It was paying off as he began to pick up his pace on the up sloping roadway
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Looking down to the trail where it was exposed in some spots, he could see lots of debris, mostly tree limbs mixed with sloping piles of leaves
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The overhang itself was barely half a metre deep, sloping outward at approximately forty-five degrees, but was well beyond his somewhat limited climbing experience
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We walked up that sloping valley of death with bullets whizzing and ricocheting all over the place and it was just as we got closer to the top that we lost Charlie Slater
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The only entrance seemed to be a steeply sloping tunnel
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He had to lean towards Angela to keep his shoulders out of contact with the sloping walls
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The only windows in the sloping walls
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They both had long, blue-black hair, and their faces had the same oval contours, with soft, pale blue eyes, gently sloping upwards at the edges
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small island of stone joined to the path bordering the room by small, thin pathways sloping
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out front was safer than the sloping VW hood
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From this point there was a pleasant meadow field sloping
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The stack exploded in a shower of bricks, and masonry cascaded down the steeply sloping roof
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The creek, crystal clear, unlike the river a few hundred metres away, came out of a little hole in the bushes, across a sloping rock of which no more than a metre could be seen
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Finally he slammed over the bump of the sidewalk and down into the sloping tarmac parking area out in front of the stationhouse
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Open to the black sky overhead, it was a long row of obelisks, with the weird alien runic-hieroglyphic inscriptions running up and down, yet sloping backwards
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On a man, the receding chin, sloping forehead, and buck teeth are bad enough
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“What’s this over here?” He pointed at a blank volume of space with yellow and black sloping bars all over the place
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Both had receding hairlines, sloping foreheads and somewhat bumpy complexions
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The poor guy, with those big round ears, and the receding hairline over the sloping brow, he probably thought he was God’s gift to all the female Lacertabians in the world
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It was a small building in boring white brick, riddled with smoked gray windows, three stories high, with a sloping, brown mansard roof complete with little rows of gabled dormers along it
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Up until now, the sloping ground and our momentum had kept us going, despite the blown tire
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brow, casting repeated glances back towards the sloping rooftops
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sloping edges that merge with normal skin
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With a distinctive sloping roof, the house, sits on a higher level, allowing the best views of the ocean
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and for the poppy fields that filled the nearby sloping hills,
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swerved to the left to avoid the maze, and hit the sloping
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The road was sloping down, it was sloping downhill
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Approaching the sloping bank of the river with Marah slightly in the lead, Moshe noted two
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the uniformity of the walls and only one that appeared on the sloping roof
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Around the mountain, narrow and dark, sloping upward with the curve of the rock
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young children who far on their faces at the sloping shoreline and
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for climbing that it could only access the fruit from a sloping
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as there were already new fruits forming on the sloping trees
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The sloping underwater part of the beach—the submerged area that slows down and diminishes the effects of waves and currents—was dredged and used for fill elsewhere
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Jane and Kaite live in a sprawling Snow White style cottage blown up to monster proportions with oversized wooden mushroom tops crashing into each other, sloping down into the earth, and wrap back around the property line
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The land varied from sloping rough grassland dotted with ancient eucalypts, to low hills and increasingly dense rainforest that became steep forested slopes down which tumbled several streams and waterfalls creating excellent pools
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them, faces aimed upwards at the sloping metal ceiling
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Though he stood on the precipice of the platform, next to the sloping front window, his
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side, and it occurred to her that the floor was sloping downward as
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The sloping roof he made out of sheets of corrugated metal
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It was high of stern, with a tall curving prow; broad in the waist, sloping beautifully to stem and stern
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Joseph could not believe his eyes as he stared at this wonderful machine with wide, sloping wings and a pointed nose section
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Ahead of him, presently, he saw the dim outline of a stair sloping sharply upward, and knew it must be the stair he sought
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He had thoroughly searched this cavern with the sloping tunnel
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As the loose hand slid down the sloping forehead it grasped a hard object protruding from Big‘un‘s head—his brain guessed ‗knife handle
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With sloping masts and dipping prow,
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There were armed figures on the platform awaiting his arrival, and the leading edge of the platform had a row of rails sloping ahead, ploughing into the water
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Bob had built a long, gently sloping ramp beside the porch so that Ed could maneuver his wheel chair into the house
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Henry stumbled backwards and then started to run toward the sloping hills near his house, never looking back, though his father’s screams almost pushed him in the back as he lurched and fell in the barren fields
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my position and sloping below me
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sloping to meet the upward sloping floor
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covering about thirty feet of the sloping ceiling above the
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From the above daily chart, we can see that the USD/JPY is trying to test the resistance level created by the downward sloping trend line
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At the end of the jetty he built a wooden, sloping slipway, designed to fit his Hobie Cat
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At the beginning, when he first acquired the cat, he sailed up to the jetty, got off and dragged the boat up the sloping ramp
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Meanwhile, Mitchell cautiously drove to a sloping hillside overlooking Waimea Bay Beach
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She sat lower, on a wide sloping rock
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����������� The meeting really took off from that moment and went on for hours, with the bulk of it used by Laplante to explain new concepts such as multilayered and ceramic armours, discarding sabot projectiles and sloping of armor
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building, since the house sat on a somewhat sloping hill and and
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The inner part of the tunnel must have collapsed recently, like in the caverns, and left this thin shell in the face of a steeply sloping seabed
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The T34 was at this stage immune to anti-tank shells that simply bounced off its thick sloping armour
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downward sloping curve was encountered that described less return with more risk
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Although he was already pretty much convinced, Jean hurried anyway to the skylight opening on the eastern side of the sloping roof of his house and opened wide the wooden panel covering it, putting in place a wooden stick to hold it open
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This gave him a sloping appearance and a loping run, which looked awkward, but indeed the Toral was very swift
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As he stepped out of the crack he saw the man lying on the rocks - head sloping down and face up
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His chubby little hands were attached to his fat little arms, and sloping down behind his waist protruded his fat butt
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As she watched the trees and sloping hills pass by, her thoughts turned to her kingdom
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After a few minutes, Rave turned off into the woods, following an almost invisible trail up a sloping hillside and down the other side
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The gentle sloping hills were covered in snow, but she was surprised to see splotches of bare earth between the white
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walkways through dense forests and sloping fields
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The large lot, separated from a sloping
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Nightfall quickly opened a lead and Edgar scurried to keep up, but he lost his hastened grip on the sloping scrabble and slid down several yards, raking at the rock with fingers sorely lacking claws
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Position the patient in sitting with their hips well forward and upper-back resting against the backrest of a chair with a sloping back
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Use a chair with a steeper sloping back
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• Using a footrest if required, thighs should be parallel to the floor, or sloping
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Andalusians are compact and impressive, having a convex head profile, a short and powerful neck, a short back, a sloping croup and a high degree of flexibility in the hind leg joints
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The water cascaded, then disappeared down the sloping hillside through trees and mossy rills, a watery choir of changing volumes, sounds, and moods that brought joy and peace to my heart
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Sometimes the path was narrow, and the trees shut out the sky; sometimes it led me into the hot sunshine of an open, forest-fringed space; once it took me along the side of a meadow sloping up on its distant side to more forest, with only a single row of great beeches between me and the heat and light dancing over the grass; and all the way I had squirrels for company, chattering and enjoying themselves as sensible squirrels living only in the present do; and larks over my head singing in careless ecstasy just because they had no idea they were probably bad larks with pasts; and lizards, down at my feet, motionless in the hot sun, quite unaware of how wicked it becomes to lie in the sun doing nothing directly you wear clothes and have consciences
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“Keep moving and I'll twitch,” wavered the shark, holding his now Mary-facing pistol at the downwards sloping brim of her hat
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It was a simple place, after the manner of attics, with a window in its sloping ceiling through which stars might be studied with great comfort as one lay in bed
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The crevice was narrow for about fifteen meters and was on a sloping angle, so it was difficult to edge their way through it
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Nothing could be seen in front of them - just the tunnel peacefully sloping away in a sweeping bend
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Distantly, I could hear voices, but what held my attention was what I saw — not a tunnel, but an expanse of black, craggy ground, sloping gently upwards toward a low hump that convulsively spewed white-hot fire
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I only remember waking up back in that passageway, the long sloping one, with Andreas and Tholstan dragging me along behind them
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Large multi-colored cloth tarps and tents were stretched out on poles all over the sloping, grassy field, with dozens upon dozens of men, women and children hawking food, clothing, specialized weapons and arrows, mementos, armor-adornments, charms, and whatever else they thought they could trade or sell
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Massive walls extended from the outer fortifications to the east and west, sloping down the hill and then veering south to eventually form a semi-circle
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Outside, a sloping trail led down the hill, away from the massive walls, and Aiden stopped, staring at the vast, rolling landscape before him
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There could not have been a greater surprise the very moment that D’ata hurtled from the rooftop, striking the gently sloping hillside, than the shock that confronted him as he stepped onto the beach just now
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I can't even stretch out my legs, I'm always bumping into some sloping cupboard