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Meanings of rockface in English

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Usage of rockface in English
1
They came out of a cave high up on the rockface.
Spellwright
2
In celebration of this truce, his people were decorating the rockface.
Spellwright
3
She clutched the edge of the rockface with her gloved fingers.
Map of bones
4
Back in 1868, he had particularly admired the rockface that was now our destination.
The Guardian
5
Chuck sat down wearily on the dark rockface, pulled a cigarette from his jacket.
Shutter Island
6
It was near the rockface, there was a stone lying there that had broken loose.
The Trial
7
They set out again, skirting the rockface till they came to a gap between cliffs.
Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
8
I spread-eagle across the rockface, begin sliding down.
The Hyperion Cantos
9
He moved out from the overhang to a narrow vertical slit, a long scar in the rockface.
Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
10
Slipping between trees, ahead of her she saw a crevice in a high rockface, and sprinted into it.
Labyrinth
11
Her eye ran up the rockface wall patterned with mosses and lichens, and saw no holds for climbing.
Labyrinth
12
He reached above and behind her on the rockface to the place where he had set the pelt to dry.
The Mantooth
13
Seichan led the way now on foot, no lights, climbing up a slope of loose scree toward a sheer rockface.
Map of bones
14
Pyrgus examined the rockface.
Faerie Wars
15
The Paris abused by cliched tourist and travel-guide descriptions gains no purchase on Luc Sante's magnificent and filthy urban rockface.
The Irish Times
16
Chris instructed them to put their weight against a rockface and explained that these formations were here before the Ice Age.
The new yorker
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