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  • Frequently it has been worn to the smooth, rounded hummocks known as roches moutonnees, and even rocky hills have been thus smoothed to flowing outlines like roches moutonnees on a gigantic scale.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

  • In this way the bed rock often comes to have a billowy surface known as roches moutonnees (sheep rocks).

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

  • Sans aucun doute, il y a plus de personnes avec amour à leurs coeurs que ceux qui portent des roches à leurs coeurs. hey, i just made that up.

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • The soup's made out of tiny poissons de roches caught around the rocky coastlines, cooked with fennel, onion, garlic and white wine.

    Bayou Boy John Besh 2011

  • I'm sure he's already checked the big restrunt kitchen upstairs for rats, roches (hard to spell things the way he said it!), and sliiiiiiime in the ice machine.

    Well hello, dolly bars! | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • Sans aucun doute, il y a plus de personnes avec amour à leurs coeurs que ceux qui portent des roches à leurs coeurs.

    creve - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Deep grooves have been worn along vast whalebacks of bare bedrock and striated roches moutonées.

    Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

  • The surroundings are low heavily glaciated PreCambrian gneiss and amphibolite rocks extending some 50 km inland to the ice cap with flanking lateral moraines and ice-dammed lakes; also lakelets, glacial striations, roches moutonées, and perched erratics typical of glaciated landscapes.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • January 28, 2008 at 8:29 am adn sew dew trolls… just like teh cok roches after a nukular blast…

    Tom Cat – Unmasked - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Changements dans la vegetation de la Nouvelle-Caledonie au cours du Tertiaire: La vegetation et la flore des roches ultrabasiques.

    Biological diversity in New Caledonia 2008

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