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Pekin and the Nankow pass, a rocky defile twelve or fifteen miles long.
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A thick wood, however, was before them and another rocky defile.
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In the semi-darkness of the rocky defile he could see the lion but indistinctly.
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Then the steed took to his heels and went clattering along the rocky defile.
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Leaving the village out of sight behind us, we rode together up a rocky defile.
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They walk out of the forest and find themselves in a rocky defile of the mountain.
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The trail dropped sharply into a rocky defile.
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From a rocky defile gayly pranced forth a masked cavalier, Roderigo di Lima, a famous bandit chief.
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The pass itself is a narrow rocky defile where a score of men might hold an army at bay.
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After a while I could mount again, and we moved on, descending the rocky defile on its western side.
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The river sweeps out through a narrow and rocky defile, at whose narrowest part the banks rise in precipitous walls.
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Indulging in these and kindred gloomy reflections, he advanced towards a rocky defile where the path diverged to the right.
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The only outlet was a steep rocky defile, a runoff for spring floods, that led back up to the steppes.
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In the midafternoon of that day Grandmont spotted carrion birds circling over a rocky defile of the mountains about a mile ahead.
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At one o'clock they moved leisurely forward, passed through the rocky defile which led into the valley of Abu Klea and bivouacked.
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On the 27th of November the river led them into the mountains through a rocky defile where there was scarcely room to pass.
