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Though hot by day, it was a cold and forbidding place at night.
Africa was a dark, forbidding place, though beautiful beyond words.
I would have entered a far more forbidding place than this for food.
Fear of a descent into a very dark, forbidding place.
None but my people can scrape a life from this forbidding place.
It is a bright but forbidding place of metal and glass.
They talked about it being pitch black and the most forbidding place on earth.
It was a forbidding place, a world of Martian dimensions.
We are keenly aware that a University can seem a large and forbidding place to those on the outside.
"The castle was a dark forbidding place on the top of a mountain.
I felt stunned that anyone who had the choice would elect to work in this forbidding place.
It was a forbidding place, even to a lawyer accustomed to the reality of prison life.
He gazed about her sitting room, hard put to imagine a more chill and forbidding place.
It was a forbidding place to wake up to.
It was a forbidding place made mean by poverty.
It was an elegant and yet a forbidding place.
Many Estonians recall it as a forbidding place where no one ever smiled.
But for those who aren't so popular, Washington High is a forbidding place.
She certainly wasn't in this forbidding place by choice.
Now, the Internet is also a scary, dark, forbidding place, with evil men desperate to get into your system.
All these made the hex an eerie, forbidding place of legend.
But southern Lebanon itself was a forbidding place, known only from the hearsay of past wars.
Hong Kong's prices were among the highest in the world, and made the territory a forbidding place to do business.
That they would find their grandson Governor of a state that at the time must have seemed a foreign and perhaps forbidding place.
We finally emerged into the sunshine again to find we were no longer alone in this forbidding place.