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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If they had climbed down the side of the escarpment he had no doubt that she would not have made it.
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In southern Britain there are many such sudden changes mainly between clay lowlands and escarpments of chalk or oolitic limestone.
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It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.
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Starch, unable to stop, slid 20 feet to the edge of an escarpment .
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The cars turned toward the Alabama Hills, a small range of barren rises at the foot of the Sierra escarpment .
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The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
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Three cavalry companies gave pursuit, but were scattered when the warriors turned to defend a lava escarpment .