She unfastened this card and returned to the path, where the light was better, and sat herself down upon a slab of
rock to read the printing.
Ozma of Oz
She was to be left on the rock to perish, an end to one of her race more terrible than death by fire or torture, for is it not written in the book of the tribe that there is no path through water to the happy hunting-ground?
Hook rose to the rock to breathe, and at the same moment Peter scaled it on the opposite side.
The Adventures of Peter Pan
As auxiliary to this scarcity of fuel, one of the large springs which abound in that country gushed out of the side of the ascent above, and, after creeping sluggishly along the level land, saturating the mossy covering of the rock with moisture, it swept around the base of the little cone that formed the pinnacle of the mountain, and, entering the canopy of smoke near one of the terminations of the terrace, found its way to the lake, not by dashing from
rock to rock, but by the secret channels of the earth.
Pioneers
Yet it were madness to spring for that narrow slit with nought but the wet, smooth
rock to cling to.
The White Company
No one had the slightest suspicion; and when next day, taking a fowling-piece, powder, and shot, Dantes declared his intention to go and kill some of the wild goats that were seen springing from rock to rock, his wish was construed into a love of sport, or a desire for solitude.
Just at the moment when they were taking the dainty animal from the spit, they saw Edmond springing with the boldness of a chamois from rock to rock, and they fired the signal agreed upon.
Count of Monte Cristo
As soon, however, as the sun came out, I lay down on the top of that rock to dry myself.
I could not believe such wickedness, and ran along the shore from rock to rock, crying on them piteously.
I could no longer hold myself back, but ran to the seaside and out, from one rock to another, as far as I could go.
Kidnapped
Nicholas, when the string broke, and he tumbled down the bank, bumping from
rock to rock and bush to bush, and leaving the red cloak fluttering like a bloody banner in the air.
Adventure of the Black Fisherman
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