Cliffs

Examples

• 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.
• It was on a clear morning, in the latter days of December, that I first saw the white cliffs of Britain. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Come, cried Tars Tarkas, we must make for the cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There tumbles in a strong tide, boiling at the base of dizzy cliffs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It may come unheralded, as he is crossing the street, walking on the cliffs, or stepp ing into a carriage. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• As far as the eye could reach gorgeous forest and crimson sward skirted a silent sea, and about all towered the brilliant monster guardian cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• With a cry of encouragement I threw my weight against the secret door, but as well have assayed the down-hurling of the cliffs themselves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Massive gates gave egress upon a small plain, surrounded by the same gorgeous forests that I had seen at the foot of the Golden Cliffs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• As we watched, our eyes wandered to the rolling Iss, which issued from the base of the cliffs beneath us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The cliffs rose perpendicular directly from the almost level sward of the valley. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The pale cliffs of his own England do not look down on the tides of the Channel more calmly than he watched the Pythian inspiration of that night. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The cliffs towered above me a good five thousand feet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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