cut-bank

I dived from the hummock where the cut-bank crumbled.

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Then hand him a pretzel and give him a good strong shove down the cut-bank.

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In the meantime, a large boulder has been undermined by erosion and has slid down a cut-bank into my road.

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Someone quick . . . give him hand signals over the cut-bank.

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He started out to show one of the horses to the Commissioner at the Fort, but the brute bucked fiercely towards the cut-bank, sidling and fighting against its rider until at last there seemed to be nothing for it but to go over the bank side-on.

Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

Cottonwood and willow, cut-bank and crooning water, lay green and brown and silver-white before, but no riders, no thing that moved in the shape of men came within the scope of my eyes.

Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

Two saddled horses stood before the door, reins hanging loosely, and upon the edge of a low cut-bank, just below the shallow waters of the ford, two men were struggling, locked in each other's embrace.

The Gold Girl 1921

It was broad daylight when Bill called a halt, and after many unsuccessful attempts succeeded in kindling a sickly blaze in the shelter of a clay-streaked cut-bank.

The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

But her relief was short-lived, for when the forms in the water touched shore it was to brush against the side of the cut-bank with tea feet of perpendicular wall above them.

The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

The men were on the very verge of the cut-bank, now, and it seemed inevitable that both must go crashing into the creek.

The Gold Girl 1921