How To Use Slanting In A Sentence
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White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
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Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
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SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run.
The Short-story
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I can remember the sun slanting down onto the honey-coloured wood of the lab bench.
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Everywhere people are promenading, basking in the miraculous light: warm, long, slanting, at once brilliant and diffuse.
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Swiss chalets have steeply slanting roofs, so that snow does not settle on them.
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Nevertheless, in the ninth century, Danila, the scribe of the three-columned bible of La Cava, mastered capitalis, uncial, half-uncial, a slanting half-uncial with uncial admixture, and minuscule, all with equal elegance." (p. 99)
December Books 11) Latin Palaeography
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Yet, Lord Taylor accuses newspapers of slanting accounts of sentences, of failing to convey salient facts.
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They have large, forward-set, movable eyes and an upward slanting mouth with a long protruding lower jaw that can be thrust out.
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As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
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The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea.
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The clouds were scudding low, the breaks here and there cast in golden light from the slanting sun.
Fire The Sky
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But at the foot of one steep cliff there was a narrow, bowlder-covered slope where it was possible to sling hammocks and cook; and a slanting spot was found for my cot, which had sagged until by this time it looked like a broken-backed centiped.
IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest
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It was the rain, you see, slanting down at just the right angle to make the brolly work for its living.
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A frown ran in a slanting direction between his eyebrows and half way up his forehead.
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According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right.
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It is a handsome building with brick walls, grey slate slanting roof, and tall spire.
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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Blogs aren't supposed to be non-partisan, and there's plenty of ethical questions that arise when someone working for Big Media takes cash in return for slanting their work.
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Many choose boldface letters, or add drop-shadows or slanting or underlines or neon outlines or animation.
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The bright day made the white room cheerier than it had seemed two days ago, and the slanting roof made it snug, though no warmer.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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If you plot the pressure of an enclosed gas on a vertical axis against its temperature on the horizontal scale, you get a straight line slanting upward to the right.
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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The top of the peak has a slightly slanting surface of perhaps twenty square yards, very irregular in outline; -- southwardly the morne pitches sheer into a frightful chasm, between the converging of two of those long corrugated ridges already described as buttressing the volcano on all sides.
Two Years in the French West Indies
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It was too warm. Sunlight was slanting on to the quilt.
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Her black-velvet hat, with its dejected white plume drooping rakishly over one of her slanting eyes, her imitation-ponyskin coat with its imitation-ermine collar, her cheap black-serge skirt with its undulations half revealing the daintiness of her surprisingly excellent boots -- all struck the watcher anew with their pitiable striving after the prevailing mode in the dress of Occidental women.
Undesirables
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And he blasted the media for slanting the coverage against Simpson to prolong the story.
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Many choose boldface letters, or add drop-shadows or slanting or underlines or neon outlines or animation.
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The supply of air for filling these is taken from the propeller draught by a slanting aluminium tube to the underside of the envelope, where it meets a longitudinal fabric hose which connects the two ballonet air inlets.
British Airships, Past, Present, and Future
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Gentle, rolling hills bring the village slanting towards the waters of Morecambe Bay, where visitors enjoying a pint at one of the village's pubs on a summer evening can watch the remarkable tidal bore rush in.
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The mizenmast, heel upward, leaned against the side of the poop in a slanting position, showing that it had fallen forward as well as sideways; and immediately to leeward, in the water that heaved and seethed round us, rose and fell a tangle of wrecked spars, sails, and rigging.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
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A cold slanting, pummelling rain was hitting the beach as I drove in from Redondo.
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For this gallant lieutenant, slanting toward the bows of the flying bilander, which he had no hope of fore-reaching, trained his long swivel-gun upon her, and let go — or rather tried to let go — at her.
Mary Anerley
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The sky ahead of them was wide-streaked with gold, as if for a symbol, interlaid with sooty clouds in silhouette; on either side the mountains rose from penumbral darkness to clear-cut heights still bright from the slanting radiance.
The Silver Horde
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The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
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Chapter Fourteen Afterwards They took back the living and the dead alike into Shrewsbury in the radiant, slanting light of morning, Iestyn, mute now and indifferent to his fate, to a lodging in the castle; Susanna, safe from any penalty in this world, to the depeopled household from which three generations together would shortly be carried to the grave.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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Shortly after noon, the valley's pass began to widen slowly, the mountainous sides slanting somewhat away from vertical.
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The sun was a glowing hemisphere, its faint rays slanting across the sea.
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An enterprising news director covetous of higher ratings might well think about slanting his news to the right.
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According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right.
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Balancing the tree is a slanting cenotaph, stamped W. W.3 GENERAL, with a log cabin embossed on its base.
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Sitting slantingly beside the teacher, he is modest and humble.
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The slanting rays of the sun aureoled the television tower.
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Midbite into an ostrich burger at lunch one day, I watched the vanguard of an elephant herd emerge onto the lagoon shore, about 100 yards away, and each evening I trained my binoculars on the red lechwe gathered in the shallows, their russet coats burnished by the sun's slanting rays.
Dream Hideaways: The World's Top Microboutique Hotels
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I obsessed about the smallest detail—even telling myself that the smoothness of a word mattered; the smooth flow of letters when joined, with letters always slanting slightly to the right.
Fallin’ Up
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At the back of the house rose a mountain spine, blocking out the westering sun, but cut with one deep portal where a pass ran into Westmoreland — the scaur-gate whence the house was named; and through this gate of mountain often, when the day was waning, a bar of slanting sunset entered, like a plume of golden dust, and hovered on a broad black patch of weather-beaten fir-trees.
Mary Anerley
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They will undoubtedly be slanting their results in order to sell their services to you.
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Even as the thunder rolled off the cliff faces in deafening, cannonading peals, a cuttingly cold wind turned the downpour to stinging, slanting, mist-laden torrents, making it difficult to see.
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You see the world all wrong, may be you stand slanting.
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A cool wind blew at us from the trees, slanting the sheets of flame so their tongues lashed out at the camp.
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The last slanting light turned the white fence and gateposts a buttery yellow.
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Over it make another layer of branches, reversing the ends of these tips from those underneath by pushing the _thick ends_ of branches of this top layer slantingly into the under layer _toward_ the _head_ of the bed with tips toward the foot.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
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It is a circular covered arena designed in 1959 by Marcello Piacentini with the great engineer Pier Luigi Nervi, who covered the space with an elegant ribbed dome of reinforced concrete, resting on a dramatic framework of slanting piers.
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THOUSANDS of sheep, soft-footed, black-nosed sheepone by one going up the hill and over the fenceone by one four-footed pattering up and overone by one wiggling their stub tails as they take the short jump and go overone by one silently unless for the multitudinous drumming of their hoofs as they move on and go overthousands and thousands of them in the grey haze of evening just after sundownone by one slanting in a long line to pass over the hill
Sheep
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We barreled along, past wooden shacks slanting in on themselves, ruins of fishing villages that dated from the days of the czars.
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In the underbrush, where the deerberry showed hectic blotches, a squirrel worked busily, completing its winter store, while in the slanting sun rays a tawny butterfly, like a wind-blown, loosened tiger lily, danced its last mad dance with death.
The Voice of the People
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Sometimes, when fishing alongshore with my Indian at the paddle, the canoe would push its nose silently around a point, and I would see the heron's heavy slanting flight already halfway up to the tree-tops, long before our coming had been suspected by the watchful little mother sheldrake, or even by the deer feeding close at hand among the lily pads.
Wood Folk at School
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Under the low slanting ceiling of the bathroom, he seems clumsy and ungainly.
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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen
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The ceiling is slanting
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A kind of broad trough, running in a slanting direction and called a sluice, was on one side, and into this a quantity of wash was put, and a tap at the top turned on, which caused the water to wash the dirt down the sluice.
Madame Midas
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The cloth of the flag should be either of xanthic or of greyish blue colour and on top of the flag post, there should either be a spearhead or a Khanda (a straight dagger with convex side edges leading to slanting top edges ending in a vertex).
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Only a vase of red flowers on a slanting side table and the back of a yellow chair create the sense of what makes the dog think this spot is special.
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It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it.
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Many of its spurs are prettily sunlit, and what they build up to is inspiring, apocalyptic, a burst of slanting sunbeams from a blue cloud-window.
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Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque.
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a boat which I pulled down the stream to Iffley and to the slanting woods of Nuneham -- the sweetest flattest reediest stream - side landscape that could be desired.
A Passionate Pilgrim
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Filigree strips of bright slanting light filtered by the bamboo move slowly with the sun and pick up the sparkle of specially chosen sand in the adobe-like render.
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As the afternoon sun sank lower, the long beams slanting across the coffee shop floor made me want to curl up and sleep like a lazy cat.
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Rational Review
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Long, slanting shadows from the sinking sun were streaking the wall of the whitewashed room with slender, forklike fingers.
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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Its slanting steel rafters and sweeping interior vistas make it look more like a hi-tech business park than a secondary school.
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What did she say?" he asked Clementina, slanting the down-pulled brim of his soft hat purblindly toward her.
Ragged Lady — Complete
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In addition to padding his expense accounts, he is guilty of slanting and exaggerating some of his glibly written articles.
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+scaly patches+ round the +ears, eyes, nose and lips+, a +black or bluish semi-circle+ shows itself under the +eyes+, and there is a hollow mark from the corner of the eye in a slanting direction under the cheekbone to the angle of the mouth, which tells its tale.
Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc.
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Arrowhead types include those with round shoulders and a swollen tang as well as those with angular, slanting shoulders and bilaterally knobbed or spurred tangs.
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Here was that quintessence of Dublin, the epitome of the quidnunc, that quarter-moon, man-in-the-moon face, with the chin jutting to meet the nose and the mouth slanting some neat aperçu to its neighbor, cheekiest face in Europe, and the nosiest.
At Swim, Two Boys
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In the meantime, detachable slanting rotary wedge inserted may satisfy hardest requirements.
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I have seen the archaic patterns of concentric circles and fish spines, (or whatever we call the medial line with slanting side lines,) neatly designed in white on the flag stones in front of cottage doors in Galloway.
The Clyde Mystery a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
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The slanting rays of the sun accentuated the folds and valleys.
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The fender function has a certain stabilizing function between two hulls with straight freeboard, but is not satisfactory when used against slanting freeboards or as a fender against quay posts.
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You see the world all wrong, may be you stand slanting.
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We neared the end of a forty-hour shift, but the electric forklift in the freezer had broken down, so there we waited, snowflakes slanting through worklights on the masts of both ships.
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She saw sunlight slanting through the hospital windows, landing on the foot of her bed.
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In the slanting rays of the sun, the inscriptions stood out as if having been calligraphed in black crayon.
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Trees are frequently staked for support after planting and there is much debate as to whether these should be long stakes, short stakes or even slanting stakes.
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Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.
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We took an afternoon walk through Christ-Church Meadow, and at the river-bank procured a boat, which I pulled up the stream to Iffley and to the slanting woods of Nuneham, — the sweetest, flattest, reediest stream-side landscape that the heart need demand.
A passionate pilgrim
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When the scion and the stock have been both chosen, they are cut slantingly, so that one may fit into the other; and care being taken that the bark and soft wood of the two unite, at least on one side, the two pieces are bound together, and the ligature is covered with what is called grafting clay, that is, a mixture of stiff clay, with a fourth part of fresh horse-dung, and a small quantity of cut hay.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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As her slanting eyebrows rushed down together in a frown Rhett's old smile came back.
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It's a page torn from a school notebook, slanting scrawled handwriting on it.
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And in the big sparse invisible drops that fall early, with no wind, the new rice dances jade and silver, backgrounded by a slanting late summer afternoon rain by Hokusai.
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Sunlight came into the room, slanting across the boards in languid diamonds.
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Shiner surfperch have a strongly compressed, elongate, rather deep body, an upward slanting smallmouth, relatively large eyes, and a single continuous dorsal fin with slightly longer spines than the soft rays.
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A frown ran in a slanting direction between his eyebrows and half way up his forehead.
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Pasterns of moderate length perceptibly finer in bone than the leg, and slightly slanting.
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Ahead, unknown to him, the narrow walkway was about to end, slanting diagonally toward the road, funneling the man's steps toward the pavement, the hurtling cars.
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They sure need them because it's devilish cold in winter on Thassos and the houses are structured accordingly, with small windows, vast fireplaces and slanting roofs to shrug off the snow.
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He moved out into the slanting sunlight on the commons.
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The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
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According to the principles of calligraphy, writing should be upright or slanting to the right.
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However, the girl in question gave a silky smile, slanting her shoulders at a flattering angle, and winked at Spike flirtatiously.
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Follow the narrow path slanting to the left down the hillside to join the walled track of Cam High Road.
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The sun was slanting back into the west once more as they stood on a firm-packed beach, waves washing about the hocks of Brandark's horse and Bahzell's calves, and looked out across a hundred yards of sea at a small island.
