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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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In the past, the promontory had been a thriving Indian encampment.† (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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As the car rushed along, the trees grew thicker and taller and leafier until, just as they'd hidden the sky completely, the forest abruptly ended and the road bent itself around a broad promontory.† (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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The pond is not a large one — a quarter of a mile around its perimeter perhaps — so that by stepping out to any promontory, one can command a view of its entirety.† (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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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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In the car, with Dick driving, they followed the little promontories of the lake, catching the burn of light and water in the windshield, tunnelling through cascades of evergreen.† (source)
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He felt like someone who goes to an ocean promontory on a stormy day and stands with his feet in jeopardy of the sea.† (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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