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- noun Plural form of
crag ..
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Examples
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The geometry of the ruins unmistakably contrasted with the mountain crags and highland jungle.
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At the foot of the crags are the remains of the chapel of the garrison.
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There is not a child which plays at his foot, not an insect which basks on his crags, which is not more fearfully and wonderfully made; while as for his grandeur of form, any college youth who scrambles up him, peel him out of his shooting jacket and trousers, is a hundred times more beautiful, and more grand too, by all laws of art.
Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847
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You can hear the kind of crags and nicks, and just wear and tear on his voice, but it loses none of its power, of course.
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You can hear the kind of crags and nicks, and just wear and tear on his voice, but it loses none of its power, of course.
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You can hear the kind of crags and nicks, and just wear and tear on his voice, but it loses none of its power, of course.
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You can hear the kind of crags and nicks, and just wear and tear on his voice, but it loses none of its power, of course.
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Our London clay and Woolwich sands are lower Eocene; there is a good deal of Miocene in Switzerland and Germany, whilst the Pliocene is represented by whole provinces of Italy, parts of central France, and by the White and Red "crags" of Suffolk. [
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The sledge was still visible; nor did I again lose sight of it, except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.
Chapter 24 2010
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According to Kafka, anticipating Nabokov, the origin of literature is when a wolf comes down from the crags, out of the dark, forbidding forest, and into the open, crying, Boy!
The Wolf Who Cried Boy Sam Rasnake 2011
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