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And so saying she followed the path that wound half-way around the Punch Bowl and then along the side of a little mountain torrent called the Spout, which, rising in an opposite mountain, leaped from rock to rock, with many a sinuous turn, as it wound through the thicket that immediately surrounded the Hidden House until it finally jetted through a subterranean channel into the Devil's Punch Bowl.
The Hidden Hand 1888
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The Barvick, which runs for three or four miles along the western boundary of the parish, descends rapidly with leaps and bounds into a deep and rocky dell, until it terminates in the fall known as Spout Barvick.
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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Punch Bowl and then along the side of a little mountain torrent called the Spout, which, rising in an opposite mountain, leaped from rock to rock, with many a sinuous turn, as it wound through the thicket that immediately surrounded the Hidden House until it finally jetted through
Capitola's Peril A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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Well, master, it was so dark I couldn't see a yard past Molly's ears, and the path was so narrow and the bushes so thick we could hardly get along; and just as we came to the little creek, as they calls the Spout, 'cause the water jumps and jets along it till it empties into the Punch Bowl, and just as Molly was cautiously putting her fore foot into the water, out starts two men from the bushes and seized poor
The Hidden Hand 1888
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And egged on by "Spout" (with a Fog-Horn); he's "going for" him of the
Punch Among the Planets Various
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"Spout" is a small, abstract shooting game from Japanese developer kuni.
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The first chat was with Kevin Kelly, one of the wags over at the illustrious movie news site, Spout. com, and the other was with the Didactic Duo, Chris Mosier and Fanboy Will, proprietors of the ever-popular FanFilmPodcast. com.
Fan Film Podcast, Spout.Com Turn Tables on Clive | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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Spout some offensive waffle about women writers at a high-profile do, await media storm, pose for photographs looking bemused "Good gracious – what a fuss!"
Powerless to protect our kids? Oh, do grow up | Barbara Ellen 2011
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Crag faces like Pillar Rock, Esk Buttress, Cam Spout Crag and Napes Needle could well pass within metres of the rock polishers' wingtips as they soar by a world where only climbers and their ropes normally venture.
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A Virginia state trooper found the vehicle abandoned on Route 66 near Spout Run.
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