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He sat on one of the terrace-like shelves in an alcove area that was not visible from the barricade.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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He sat on one of the terrace-like shelves in an alcove area that was not visible from the barricade.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Built on the basis of two ingenious elements which have been painstakingly constructed with eminent craftsmanship into striking terrace-like forms, the DS-1025 provides a unique seating experience.
Create an Unique Bathing Experience : Omvivo Le Cob Bath 2007
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As the rocky mountains on each hand were concealed by clouds, the terrace-like plains gave to the valley an appearance like that of Santa Cruz in Patagonia.
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As the rocky mountains on each hand were concealed by clouds, the terrace-like plains gave to the valley an appearance like that of Santa Cruz in Patagonia.
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The outlines are far from being so sharp, so angular, so irregular, so fantastical; a certain softness, a peculiar repose, reigns in those broader, terrace-like rising masses.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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The drive was a very pretty one, skirting for some distance the beautiful little lake that supplies the great thirsty city of New York; and the spot chosen for the picnic -- shady, terrace-like heights, with a gradual slope to meet the water, and a rough bench here and there -- was declared the most suitable place in the world to lay the cloth.
The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua Cecilia Pauline Cleveland
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In the foreground are the terrace-like hot-houses and gardens of the peasants, who earn their livelihood by supplying the inhabitants of Berne with vegetables from their little farms.
Shepp's Photographs of the World Daniel B. Shepp
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A short distance east of this point there is a large rounded knoll, with a peculiar terrace-like bench at about half its height.
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In the course of an hour and a half we arrived off a white terrace-like landing place with a flight of steps leading down to the lake.
A Queen's Error Henry Curties
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