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Examples
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It was a day when nothing moved without necessity, save swarms of mosquitoes and, far below the cliffs, the sea, lapping at the rock-face.
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He nodded, eyes intent on the narrow path up the rock-face.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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It appears as if every detail of every landscape, rock-face, reflection, leaf, sand dune, animal and bug has been perfectly captured and painted across your television screen.
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Although there were several doors, if one opened them one only found oneself standing in front of a dark, smooth rock-face, scarcely a handbreadth beyond the threshold and extending vertically upwards and horizontally on both sides, seemingly without any end.
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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The Cirque de Gavarnie is a glacial amphitheatre with a rock-face popular with climbers, and with one of the highest waterfalls (423 m) in the Pyrénées.
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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He wished he was a fossil responding to geological time, creaking, calcifying, hardening, going deeper and deeper into a rock-face or river-bed, metamorphosing over thousands of years from flesh and blood and marrow into stone; better to be a fossil than human, on the cusp of some painful new development almost every day.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008
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At the end of the bridge, a solid rock-face would have greeted the two Misfits, but a big hole appeared to have been punched out from the other side.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL GREGORY SPENCER 2007
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I reached round with my free claw and tightly gripped Anders's belt, swung my foot claws in, and gripped the rock-face with them.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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