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Example sentences for "great rock"

  • In the inland part of their territory they cultivated large olive groves, the produce of which was trodden out in great rock-hewn cisterns.

  • But I got along perfectly well, never thinking of being afraid, until I reached a spot you know well enough, Curdie, where the path has to make a sharp turn out of the way of a great rock on the left-hand side.

  • Close beside the door by which the princess left the garden for the mountain stood a great rock, and by climbing it Curdie got over the wall.

  • When halfway up they halted, and wanted us to camp under the shelter of a great rock.

  • Weary, we sat down and ate sugar-cane under the shade of a great rock.

  • Beginning at a great rock, lying on the west side of a creek, called by the Indians Caniadutta.

  • The vessel had struck on a great rock, the billows were sweeping over her, and she might go to pieces any minute.

  • A man, says Isaiah, shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land; and the Rock of ages was a Man.

  • A man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

  • Then I noticed that the tip of the other log, which lay balanced across a great rock, was under the tip of my log and was being pried up by something on the other end.

  • Then, one night as we lay alongside a great rock in deep shadow, watching the puzzled young bull as he ranged along the shore in the moonlight, Simmo grunted softly to call him nearer.

  • When the line straightened I raised the rod's tip and set my fly dancing and skittering across the surface to an eddy behind a great rock.

  • Well, he sank and sank, and at last he came to the bottom, and there he saw a great rock rising up with a door in it, so he opened the door and went in.

  • The Troll did not dare to do otherwise than the lad bade him, and the end of it was that the lad rolled down a great rock, which fell upon the Troll, and broke one of his thighs.

  • He would just say he wished the old dame would stay and keep house for him a day or two, and then he would take the lad out with him up the hill to quarry corner-stones, and roll down a great rock on him.

  • Close beside the door by which the princess left the garden for the mountain, stood a great rock, and by climbing it Curdie got over the wall.

  • About a mile and a half from the centre of the city, we see a great rock wall, enclosing twenty or more acres of land, rising up like the walls of a penitentiary, twenty-five or thirty feet high.

  • Here on the left is the Loreli, a great rock rising up more than four hundred feet.

  • The Indians believe in a great bird; they call him Wuchowsen the storm causer, gale causer; he is far in the north; he sits upon a great rock at the end of the sky.

  • Next day at noon they see something beginning to crawl on a great rock, out yonder as far as the eye can reach.

  • And I bathed them in a great rock basin of warm water that did be anigh to the place of our eating; and afterward I put the ointment about them very thorough and gentle and for a good while; and so she had some ease and comfort.

  • And I had chosen a place against a great rock, which was so that no creature might come upon me from behind.

  • And immediately, even as I did despair, I had run very swift unto the great rock, and the Maid with me, both very strained and shaken with the horror of the thing that did make upward unto us so sure and intent.

  • So Rapp, searching for them, with intent to carry them off and bring them to me that I might be revenged upon their father, found them one day playing in a great rock tunnel in Gigha.

  • If you must know," said he as he stepped aside to the leeward of a great rock, "I come hither to see the old witch Elspeth Blackfell, to reproach her for her false prophecy.

  • Presently he heard voices from behind a great rock.

  • Moreover, it was by that road that half of Great Rock, his own family included, had made their pioneer trip into what was then the West.

  • His failure turned him to Great Rock, which he had never had the heart to visit since his guardian's death.

  • Leaning against a great rock, the Giant put the cheese upon his knees in such a manner as not to injure the heads and feet of the lovers, and dropped into a very comfortable sleep.

  • He then took, from the corner of the room, his club, which was the trunk of a tall tree, with one end fastened into a great rock, by way of having a knob to it.

  • But with a great effort, she passed him, and, violently throwing up the end of her staff, caused a great rock to rise with such promptness, that the Prince came within an inch of braining himself against it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great abundance; great centre; great commander; great concourse; great consternation; great contrast; great criminal; great excellence; great fight; great grandson; great height; great heights; great master; great meeting; great merchant; great oath; great proportion; great rate; great shame; great shape; great shout; great singer; great surprise; great throb; great wisdom; greatest diameter