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  • Hush, children! and bid our servants fold the flocks in the rock-roofed cavern.

    The Cyclops 2008

  • Hush, children! and bid our servants fold the flocks in the rock-roofed cavern.

    The Cyclops 2008

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    WHAT? fantasyecho 2006

  • During the whole afternoon rain steadily fell upon the top of this rock-roofed world till the river rose several inches while its colour turned to a dull yellow, then to a red, showing how heavy the rainfall had been in the back country.

    A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

  • He and his brother were in a low, rock-roofed passage.

    Frank and Andy Afloat The Cave on the Island Vance Barnum

  • The cave by daylight was as the lightning had shown it, a big chamber, rock-walled, rock-floored, rock-roofed, in the side of the bluff, but little below the level of the ground and easy of entrance.

    A Master's Degree 1913

  • The cave by daylight was as the lightning had shown it, a big chamber, rock-walled, rock-floored, rock-roofed, in the side of the bluff, but little below the level of the ground and easy of entrance.

    A Master's Degree Margaret Hill McCarter 1899

  • How hast thou ventured, after quitting both the stream that bears thy name, and the rock-roofed self-wrought [23] grots, to come into the iron teeming land?

    Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

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