Cliff

Examples

• Would the cliff resist this new battery? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I think we had better all go, said Justinian, turning away from the cliff. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I will do it, Kyrion, said Alexandros, who liked this scheme immensely; and then I can escape down the cliff. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The open head of the robe was protected by the rock wall of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• As we advanced we found a well-proportioned tunnel cut from the solid cliff. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And the man who hit him first was kneeling by the edge of the cliff looking over after him and saying, 'The Cabron! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• You shall go to Cliff Bridge; and there are two guineas to buy a new frock. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• By those coils of rope up there you can escape down the face of the cliff? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There was a golden surface on the brown cliffs but now, and behold they are only damp earth. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There were towering cliffs on our left, and the pretty Lago di Lecco on our right, and every now and then it rained on us. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Straight to the top of the cliffs, Prince, she replied, and then through the gardens to the inner courts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She felt she was alone, quite alone, and the far-off shining cliffs of England were impassable to her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They drew and painted on the cliffs and cave walls that they had wrested from the Neanderthal men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The cables pass over the tops of lofty stone towers arising from these cliffs, and each cable consists of no less than 4,000 distinct wires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There was no accumulation of fallen debris, forming a more or less rough ascent to them, as is the case with nearly all other cliffs I have ever seen. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The cliffs, the beach, and the walks inland were all in the solitary condition which was most welcome to us. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• With your mighty sword arm you may yet win to the Golden Cliffs and the templed gardens of the Holy Therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They encountered him again and again on the sands, the cliffs, in the various walks, sometimes at the public balls of the place. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yes; I get it from the cliffs of the island. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Cliffs o' Albion, and t' other hemisphere! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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