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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bring on those sheets of jagged shale , for at least they are firm!
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It was a telltale sign that water was seeping through the canyon walls, softening the mica shale and conglomerate abutment.
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It would only have needed one postponement at the school's shale pitch to have wrecked Errol's big opportunity!
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Its sides were neither high nor sheer, just slopes of black shale rising no more than fifty feet.
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Quite simply because men must shale Parenting if women are to lead full lives.
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The buried forests became seams of coal and the strata of mud and sand hardened into shale and sandstone.
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The track ran parallel to the South Coast Expressway, through land that was flat, a wasteground of weeds and shale .
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This indicates the sandstones can be over 30 m thick and are separated by well-defined shale beds.