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Just before the dawn of civilisation, Los Angeles was a near-desolate place inhabited entirely by cliff-dwellers.
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Silence, save for the cheeps and chirps of the cliff-dwellers.
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The Hawikuh were cliff-dwellers and these cliffs and other weird natural formations with their many colors when tipped by the sunlight really looked like some wonderful city.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The Hawikuh were cliff-dwellers and these cliffs and other weird natural formations with their many colors when tipped by the sunlight really looked like some wonderful city.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The Hawikuh were cliff-dwellers and these cliffs and other weird natural formations with their many colors when tipped by the sunlight really looked like some wonderful city.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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To a child, the curiously mingled intimacy and exclusiveness of life among the cliff-dwellers of that long road facing the Park, where you drop your toys out of your front garden (which house-agents call a balcony) and see them impounded as legitimate gifts that have dropped from Heaven by
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 Various
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Worsel to the Rescue As the quasi-reptilian organism descended the cliff-dwellers went mad.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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The mysterious mound-builders fade into comparative insignificance before the grander and more ancient cliff-dwellers, whose castles lift their towers amid the sands of
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I was struck with the weight and shape of this, for it exactly resembled those made by the old cliff-dwellers, unknown centuries ago.
Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray
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Amongst the pueblo structures of to-day, and among the ruins of the cliff-dwellers, we have seen how compact every thing was.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen
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