Bluffs
[blʌfs]
Examples
- The river was very high, the banks being overflowed except where the bluffs come to the water's edge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At a little distance up the river rose mighty perpendicular bluffs, from the very base of which the great river seemed to rise. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The gunboats ran up close under the bluffs, delivering their fire in return at short distances, probably without much effect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It runs in a direction almost perpendicular to the line of bluffs on the opposite side, or east bank, of the river. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At places it runs to the very foot of the bluffs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Having accomplished this they recrossed the Alleghanies to Meadow Bluffs and there awaited further orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typed by Brooke