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  • The next was better and crashed on the near parapet, carving a great hole in the rocky kranz.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • A little hill split the valley, and on its top was a kranz of rocks.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • I am not a superstitious man, but the way that little kranz clung to my mind made me think it was a warning sent by Providence.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • She climbed up the kranz and stepped over the edge as lightly as a deer.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • In this way we covered three-fourths of the distance, and had only the bare dozen yards where the gradient eased off up to the edge of the kranz.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • The kranz at the top did not rise sheer, but sloped at an angle of forty-five, and on the very summit there seemed a hollow, as if the earth within the rock-rim had been beaten by weather into

    Greenmantle 2005

  • It was hottish work, and the bullets were pretty thick about us, but we all got safely to the kranz, and a short scramble took us over the edge.

    Greenmantle 2005

  • The _kranz_ at the top did not rise sheer, but sloped at an angle of forty-five, and on the very summit there seemed a hollow, as if the earth within the rock-rim had been beaten by weather into a cup.

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

  • She climbed up the _kranz_ and stepped over the edge as lightly as a deer.

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

  • It was hottish work, and the bullets were pretty thick about us, but we all got safely to the _kranz_, and a short scramble took us over the edge.

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

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