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It was not built on the shore, though there were a few huts and buildings there, but right out on the surface of the lake, protected from the swirl of the entering river by a promontory of rock which formed a calm bay. (source)promontory = a high point that overlooks land at lower elevation
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Redd stood before them on the jagged promontory of Mount Isolation. (source)promontory = a high point of rock that overlooks land at lower elevation
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For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.† (source)
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It was like a promontory above the surf.† (source)
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Later I carried Alpha's body to the promontory where I had buried Tuk so many weeks earlier.† (source)
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On the edge of a small cape that marked the side of the bay away from the promontory was a loose scatter of rocks.† (source)
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Nina looked off in the distance, as if she could see that largest and most impregnable of all the numbers situated on its rocky promontory where for thousands of years it had withstood the onslaughts of fire-breathing dragons and barbarian hordes.† (source)
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The flint hills rose higher and wilder with each passing mile, until by the fifth day they had turned into mountains, cold blue-grey giants with jagged promontories and snow on their shoulders.† (source)
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About 4:45 P.M. when I reached the Balcony —the promontory at 27,600 feet on the Southeast Ridge where I'd sat watching the sunrise with Ang Dorje-I was shocked to encounter Beck Weathers, standing alone in the snow, shivering violently.† (source)
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They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of "the solitary rocks and promontories" by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape "Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides."† (source)
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The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copet.† (source)
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Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth.† (source)
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In the past, the promontory had been a thriving Indian encampment.† (source)
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Americans watching from a dozen hillsides and promontories around the town could see, as Washington wrote, streets full of "great movements and confusion among the troops night and day ...in hurrying down their cannon, artillery, and other stores to the wharves with utmost precipitation."† (source)
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The car was parked on a promontory where Perry and Dick had stopped to picnic.† (source)
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But now let me ask myself the final question, as I sit over this grey fire, with its naked promontories of black coal, which of these people am I?† (source)
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