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  • Cobbled streets ran between rock-walled buildings, and a crumbling palace stood on a prominence on the far side.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Cobbled streets ran between rock-walled buildings, and a crumbling palace stood on a prominence on the far side.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Dawn was breaking by the time we alighted for a mile-long walk up a wash of gravel, rock and boulders which winds up to Ganjgal, some 60 rock-walled compounds perched high up the terraced slopes at the eastern end of the valley, six miles from the Pakistani border.

    KIA KIA/BNR 2009

  • Cobbled streets ran between rock-walled buildings, and a crumbling palace stood on a prominence on the far side.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • Cobbled streets ran between rock-walled buildings, and a crumbling palace stood on a prominence on the far side.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • This time Jamie turned to the north, and over a jumble of stone and through a crevice, into the head of a tiny glen, rock-walled and leafy, filled with the gurgling of water from the burn that spilled from a dozen wee falls among the rocks and plunged roistering down the length of the canyon into a series of rills and pools below.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • He had been raised up there in the huge rock-walled hooghan of his formidable mother, who was called, appropriately enough, Woman With the Stone House.

    Yellow Dirt Judy Pasternak 2010

  • The sun was still above the horizon, but it was evening already in the rock-walled glens.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Behind the poles was the gaping opening of a rock-walled root cellar that had been shored up with wood posts and crossbeams that either had collapsed or that insects had reduced to the weightless density of cork.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • Behind the poles was the gaping opening of a rock-walled root cellar that had been shored up with wood posts and crossbeams that either had collapsed or that insects had reduced to the weightless density of cork.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

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