Rock Creek Butte

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a mountain in NE Oregon: highest peak in the Blue Mountains. 9,106 feet (2,777 meters).

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My ball bounced back and the rock rolled just a little bit forward.
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Yes, it was a fairly disappointing year in music—one devoid of Goth teen prodigies, Yeezy, and galvanizing rock anthems.
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The offspring of the ungodly shall not bring forth many branches, and make a noise as unclean roots upon the top of a rock.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
There lay Bob Rock, covered with blood, and apparently insensible.
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In a minute Bruce was back with his hat full of water from the creek that whimpered just beyond the willow patch.
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When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.
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About three o'clock, as nearly as I could tell, we dipped into a wooded creek bottom some two hundred yards in width.
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