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Any wonder the vaccuity of the Obama phenomenon was on full display during the saddle-back which by all accounts has been a resounding success for Mccain (even NYT admits to it) and a dismal failure for Obama.
NYT/CBS Poll: A Dead Heat - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It was also necessary to return by another road, as it was out of the question to pass over the saddle-back.
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Thus, after long hours of what would be reckoned very fair mountaineering in civilized countries, they would pant over a saddle-back, sidle past a few landslips, and drop through forest at an angle of forty-five onto the road again.
Kim 2003
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It was also necessary to return by another road, as it was out of the question to pass over the saddle-back.
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From some unknown cause there was an upheaval of rock upon which the mills are located, throwing the mill walls out of place, cracking a great wall of stone and cement twenty feet thick and making a saddle-back several hundred feet long and six inches high in the bed rock beneath the mill.
The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various
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Another trip worth making is to the lakes in the saddle-back mountain between the Teng'ger and the Seméroe.
Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java Thomas H. Reid
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This "stepped" tower, with its red-tiled, saddle-back roof, forms a striking feature in this weird and lonely landscape.
Denmark M. Pearson Thomson
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The roof is of the saddle-back kind, with gables towards the east and west.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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The great tower which stands almost detached on the south-west side is remarkable for its enormously tall slit windows, for they run nearly from the ground to the saddle-back roof.
Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 Gordon Home 1923
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The great tower which stands almost detached on the south-west side is remarkable for its enormously tall slit windows, for they run nearly from the ground to the saddle-back roof.
Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923
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