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He tramped on raw blisters, yet this was even easier than the fearful bruising his feet received on the water-rounded rocks of the Dyea
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A dipper is all head; the curves of its neck and back and its short tail are dark brown, like the water-rounded boulders it stands on.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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A band of trodden untidiness in a sweep of gleaming water-rounded sand showed us the way, and we arrived just as the guns opened fire.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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He seemed to want real privacy as much as she did, for he found a place near the brook that supplied water for the camp, practically on top of a set of fist - and head-sized water-rounded rocks that broke up the flow, where the babbling waters effectively masked low-voiced speech.
Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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Within the limits of the region here treated there are many hundreds of sites of structures and groups of rooms now marked only by lines of water-rounded bowlders.
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He did kick up some pebbles -- water-rounded -- and one of them had flecks of what looked like gold in it.
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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He tramped on raw blisters; yet even this was easier than the fearful bruising his feet received on the water-rounded rocks of the Dyea Flats, across which the trail led for two miles.
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He tramped on raw blisters; yet even this was easier than the fearful bruising his feet received on the water-rounded rocks of the Dyea
Smoke Bellew Jack London 1896
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The first rise of sandy yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and quartz-gravel, thinly spread with water-rounded pebbles.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative Richard Francis Burton 1855
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