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Sentences starting with rock

Rock which yields ten or twelve dollars a ton is considered plenty rich enough. [5]
Rock taken from ten feet below the surface on the other part of the discovery, has yielded $150.00 to the ton in the mill and we are at work 300 feet from their shaft. [5]
Rock chambers, fast closed with iron doors, as though they enclosed inestimable treasures or inscrutable secrets, lay on either hand, and her dress swept against numerous images and vessels closely shrouded in hangings. [10]
Rock him! [6]

Sentences ending with rock

A monument like your Pulpit Rock? [4]
Once removed, he would be building on rock. [9]
Late one night when the sweethearts had been having a flawless visit together, Sally's interior devil began to work his specialty, and soon the conversation was drifting toward the customary rock. [5]
From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. [5]
All about him was ridgy roll of wind-smoothed, rain-washed rock. [13]
The spray feathered up to her sails, the sun caught her on deck and beam; she was running dead for the needle of rock. [11]
You can't slip up on um en grab um; en how's a body gwyne to hit um wid a rock? [5]
These were down under the castle's foundations, and mainly were small cells hollowed out of the living rock. [5]
The population numbers two hundred and fifty, and more than half the citizens live in caves in the rock. [5]
The lasso he took back with him to the corner and looped the noose over the spur of rock. [13]

Short sentences using rock

And was he the rock? [9]
We'll see the rock. [9]
We'll fetch a rock. [5]
Breaking Rock is rich. [11]
This rock is a Gibraltar. [5]

Sentences containing rock two or more times

Presently, as the Victoire came nearer to the coast, he could see a bay and a great rock in the distance, and, as they bore in now, the rock seemed to stretch out like a vast wall into the gulf. [11]
When we came to the base of the rock, we found a way cut, a narrow path, most of the distance hewn out of the rock, winding upward along the face of the precipice. [4]
When we came to Table Rock on the British side, our driver took us down on the outer part of the rock in the carriage. [6]
It is said to rest on another rock, of which it formed a part before its unfortunate journey, and that lower rock as everybody knows, rests upon the immutable principle of self-government. [4]
Who was it that could venture in this pitch-dark night to climb from rock to rock? [10]
On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. [5]
Up-shootings of igneous rock through fractures in water formations were common; but here was the first instance where water-formed rock had been so projected. [5]
Mr. Ballou broke off some fragments with a hammer, and examined them long and attentively with a small eye-glass; threw them away and broke off more; said this rock was quartz, and quartz was the sort of rock that contained silver. [5]
Meanwhile the sun mounted higher and higher: she wandered from rock to rock in search of a shady spot and a spring of water, but none was to be found, and she was tormented with violent thirst and aching hunger. [10]
He heard the loud echo of his feet upon that hollow plateau of rock, with convex skin of stone laid upon convex skin, and then suddenly the solid rock which gave no echo under his tread, where Rhodes lies buried. [11]

More example sentences with the word rock in them

How much rock would have to be cut away, how much patient chipping before the edifice of which he had been dreaming could be reared! [9]
I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. [5]
There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
When we were within a few rods of them, it appeared to rise from the water, was hurled on a rock, and overturned. [11]
Higbie knew the Wide West rock perfectly well, and the more he had examined the new developments the more he was satisfied that the ore could not have come from the Wide West vein. [5]
So he, on whose faithful devotion she had built as on a rock, was no less self-seeking and fickle than other men. [10]
It is the White Rock, where King Ovi died. [11]
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
The rock on which she stood gave her feet sufficient support, as it had done many times before. [10]
The rock on which he sat securely awhile ago is completely under water. [6]
At Beit Jin, where nobody had interfered with him, he crept out of his tent at dead of night and shot at what he took to be an Arab lying on a rock, some distance away, planning evil. [5]
Well, one day when the shaft was down about eight foot, the rock got so hard that we had to put in a blast--the first blast'n' we'd ever done since Tom Quartz was born. [5]
If New England were not mostly rock, these winds would carry it off; but they would bring it all back again, as happens with the sandy portions. [4]
Yes, out we went through the harbour of Kingston, beyond the splendid defences of Port Royal and the men-of-war there, past the Palisadoes and Rock Fort, and away to the place of treasure-trove. [11]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
Toward nightfall, when we were about tired out, we came up against a rock as big as a cottage. [5]
During the afternoon we passed Sweetwater Creek, Independence Rock, Devil's Gate and the Devil's Gap. [5]
At the top we found the stream flowing over a broad bed of rock, like a street in the wilderness, slanting up still towards the sky, and bordered by low firs and balsams, and bowlders completely covered with moss. [4]
Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
As he stood watching and leaning on ma couzaine, a sailor near him said that the bay and the rock were called Perce. [11]
Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
Beaver Dam Rock was out in the middle of the river now, and throwing a prodigious 'break;' it used to be close to the shore, and boats went down outside of it. [5]
If the rock was moderately promising, we followed the custom of the country, used strong adjectives and frothed at the mouth as if a very marvel in silver discoveries had transpired. [5]
One of these was leaned against the rock, and the men went up it tied together in couples. [5]
A wooden trough was disclosed hanging under a ledge of rock, and water dripped into it softly, slowly. [11]
The white tent was carried away, but the cannon-balls flew over or merely battered the solid rock, the shells were thrown beyond, and no harm was done. [11]
Presently, however, I was aroused by voices at the foot of the rock, and peering over the edge I discovered a kind of sewing-circle gathered there. [9]
Then the widow waded out to a bare rock in the river, and everybody went away but her sons and other relations. [5]
For hours the Victoire bombarded the lonely rock from the north. [11]
It was all very well at first, until streams of water began to crawl along the face of the rock, and trickle down the back of my neck. [4]
Here was a vast balloon structure, founded on a rock, but built in the air, and anchored with cables, with towers and a high pillared veranda, capable, with its annex, of lodging fifteen hundred people. [4]
A woman stood upon a point of the great rock, a red robe hanging on her, her hair free over her shoulders, her finger pointing at the Intendant. [11]
Lawless came out upon a ledge of rock opposite the camp, a gulch lying between. [11]
A hundred feet up there was a great round hole in the solid rock, and from this hole there came a feeble cloud of smoke! [11]
The dogs drew up the grim cargo to a plateau near the Rock of Red Pigeons, and, gathering sticks, Parpon lit a sweet-smelling fire of cedar. [11]
It can't be under the rock itself, because that sets solid on the ground. [5]
Should she nestle under the great ledge, or sit on a projecting rock with her figure against the sky? [4]
Now if one turns and looks up the gorge once more, he will see the Schloss Hotel on the right perched on a precipice overlooking the Neckar--a precipice which is so sumptuously cushioned and draped with foliage that no glimpse of the rock appears. [5]
Above it we turned aside for the view from Elizabeth rock, named from the daughter of the proprietor of the hotel, who often sat here, said Big Tom, before she went out of this world. [4]
He, it is true--Moses I mean--only struck water from the rock for the use of the body, while to our philosophers and poets we owe inexhaustible springs to refresh the mind and soul. [10]
One flashing thought tore in hot temptation through his mind--why not climb up into the gorge, roll Balancing Rock down the trail, and close forever the outlet to Deception Pass? [13]
Besides, if he took refuge on the rock, there could be no grudge against Perce village or the Mattingleys, and Richambeau would not injure them. [11]
This long rain, too, was just the kind of cause which was likely to loosen the strata of rock piled up in the ledges; if the dreaded event should ever come to pass, it would be at such a time. [6]
We saw ancient tombs and temples of fanciful architecture carved out of the solid rock high up in the face of precipices above our heads, but we had neither time nor strength to climb up there and examine them. [5]
You know I told you the cliff-dwellers cut the rock, and why. [13]
We were standing together on a ledge of rock. [11]
He was prepared to wipe out the fishing-post if Mattingley did not produce Ranulph--well, "here was Ranulph duly produced and insultingly setting up a tent on this sheer rock, with some snippet of the devil," said Richambeau, and defying a great French war-ship. [11]
No, I'm going to the top of the rock. [11]
I went back to the rock and took another chance at it. [5]
It frightened him to see how the huge masses of rock and old forest-growths hung over the home below. [6]
It was impossible to get much information about our route into Tennessee, except that we should go by Paint Rock, and cross Paint Mountain. [4]
I was glad to get back my bald head again, and my pipe, and my old drowsy reflections in the shade of a rock or a tree. [5]
His strength seemed to fail, but he grasped the rock. [11]
Strange lights were to be seen about this rock, and though wise men guessed them mortal glimmerings, easily explained, they sufficed to give the headland immunity from invasion. [11]
The rock seems to be a clay formation, rotten and colored. [4]
I finally came to a marsh, a thicket of alders, and around this the mountain closed in an amphitheatre of naked perpendicular rock a thousand feet high. [4]
And presently, near to a lake, there was a great gateway, and perched upon a rock near it a chateau of divine proportions, on which was written above the perfect doorway: "The Keeper of the House awaits thee. [11]
There he was thrown against a rock. [11]
The cannon-balls tore through its slight buildings, wrecking them as if they had been built of cards; and every moment or two one would see a huge rock come curving through the upper air above the smoke-clouds and go plunging down through the roofs. [5]
At first he thought it was thunder, then the slipping of a weathered slope of rock. [13]
G. P. "Dost thou spread the sail, throw the spear, swing the axe, lay thy hand upon the plough, attend the furnace door, shepherd the sheep upon the hills, gather corn from the field, or smite the rock in the quarry? [11]
Unless he made this, he must run south and skirt the Ecriviere Rock and bank, where the streams setting over the sandy ridges make a confusing perilous sea to mariners in bad weather. [11]
It was upon this rock that Abraham came so near offering up his son Isaac--this, at least, is authentic--it is very much more to be relied on than most of the traditions, at any rate. [5]
They must feel this power, which is as sublime as yonder mountain, as immovable as its solid rock. [10]
The rock of this locality is a curious study. [4]
For living on this island is not unlike being on shipboard at sea, except that this rock does not heave about in a nauseous way. [4]
In Charley's day this gate had been often used, for it gave upon four steep wooden steps leading to a narrow shelf of rock below. [11]
Tom got into this and held his candle as far under the rock as he could, but said he could not see to the end of the rift. [5]
You come to think, after a time, that the island is not natural rock, but a mass of masonry. [4]
I do not think that the ravine would be famous in a country where exposed ledges and buttressing walls of rock are common. [4]
Not any other thing in the world could have stirred me as the sight of that great rock did. [5]
For a while they stood in silence under the spell of the scene's enchantment, and then Victoria seated herself on the rock, and he dropped to a place at her side. [9]
But he knew they had been cut there by hand, and, though age-worn, he recognized them as steps cut in the rock by the cliff-dwellers. [13]
Little by little they drew to the edge of the rock, from which there was a sheer drop of two hundred feet. [11]
On one of these occasions, "suddenly there hovered around the top of the rock a brightness of unequaled clearness and color, which, in increasingly smaller circles thickened, was the enchanting figure of the beautiful Lore. [5]
How much truth there was in it all I will not pretend to say, but I seem to remember stamping over every rock that sounded hollow, to question if it were not the roof of what was once Basil's Cave. [6]
The Afton came there on the 5th and lay at Rock Island until next morning. [7]
I stayed down there an hour, and surprised the workmen when they hauled up and found a man on the rope instead of a bucket of rock. [5]
I staid down there an hour, and surprised the workmen when they hauled up and found a man on the rope instead of a bucket of rock. [5]
I little knew, then, that the custom was to hunt out the richest piece of rock and get it assayed! [5]
As we approached the top, Big Tom pointed out the direction, a half mile away, of a small pond, a little mountain tarn, overlooked by a ledge of rock, where Professor Mitchell lost his life. [4]
On account of the tindery condition of the woods we made our fire on the natural pavement, and selected a smooth place for our bed near by on the flat rock, with a pool of limpid water at the foot. [4]
During the day the sun beat fiercely down upon the yellow chalky rock. [10]
It was in the solid rock, some ten feet high and irregular in shape, and perfectly dry. [9]
Twice he felt the rope suddenly jerk when she lost her footing, but it came in evenly still, and he used a nose of rock as a sort of winch. [11]
It is like the rock on which the hill rests. [11]
But I know the rock from which it is best seen, and could fancy Margaret sitting there, with her face turned towards it and her hands folded in her lap, and Henderson sitting, half turned away from it, looking in her face. [4]
Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [7]
I went to the place with the owners, and found a shaft six or eight feet deep, in the bottom of which was a badly shattered vein of dull, yellowish, unpromising rock. [5]
The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us. [5]
After a while the path led us along a railed precipice, and we looked over--far beneath us was the snug parlor again, the little Gasternthal, with its water jets spouting from the face of its rock walls. [5]
Slowly split from the parent rock by the weathering process, and carved and sculptured by ages of wind and rain, they waited their moment. [13]
The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. [5]
With a moan the old man ran to the ledge of rock. [11]
Finally he found the Northwest Passage, as I regarded it--he found the long lost record of that beef contract--he found the rock upon which so many of my ancestors had split before they ever got to it. [5]
Not Gaspard, but the needle rock replied. [11]
The hours passed, the miles slipped behind, and the wall of rock loomed in the fore. [13]
It had called the man back to earth--he was no longer a great animal, and the rock a monster with skin and scales of stone. [11]
And then, as the light began to grow, we were in the midst of the tumbling waters, the steersmen straining now right, now left, to keep the prows in the smooth reaches between rock and bar. [9]

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