Twenty-eight leagues below the river of the Yasous, is a great cliff of a reddish free-stone: over-against this cliff are the great and little whirlpools.
From the middle of this cliff juts out a mass of red stone with white spots, like porphyry, with this difference, that what we are speaking of is almost soft and tender, like sand-stone.
These stones I received with pleasure, because I had not yet seen any in all this country, only a hard red free-stone in a cliffon the Missisippi.
They sought a headland, Shaded with ledge ofcliff From the wind-blast.
The fugitives hurried without exchanging further words, keeping close to the cliff so as to escape the attention of the German officers whom they had seen smoking cigars and leisurely surveying the scenery.
Two hundred feet or more above, the Turkish soldiers on the summit of the cliff were still blazing away in the supposed direction of the boats, which had now rowed well clear of the bullet-flecked patch of angry water.
It swept the cliff path clear of brushwood and brought the barbed wire into a position that it no longer formed an obstruction.
The cliff was composed of a series of terraces, the ledges being thickly covered with bushes and coarse grass.
It was equally impossible to ascend to the next terrace, for the whole of the last quarter of a mile the cliff assumed an almost perpendicular aspect and was absolutely unclimbable.
When there was no tracking ground, and the oars had to be called into requisition, the former used to sing his boat songs, the whole crew joining loudly in the choruses, the echoes reverberating from cliff to cliff in the gorges.
The voice seemed as if descending amongst the trailing ivy and brushwood which clothes this picturesque cliff nearly from top to bottom, yet it was impossible that any human being could have found footing.
The work was a dangerous and difficult one, for the cliff was very steep and gravelly, and the Hau-Haus crowded to the end of the trench and fired down, wounding five of the stormers.
He told off fifty picked men, and sent them round with instructions to scale the cliff at the point where the parapet ended.
After marching for some distance they reached a bend in the river, where a narrow track ran through a break in the cliff and up the spur of a hill.
The friendly natives, who were well behind, were ordered to scale the cliff then, and hold the enemy in check.
One of its favourite haunts is, or used to be, Shakspere's cliff at Dover, and our great poet describing that grand and sublime scene, alludes to the bird.
But, on taking a cross-road, they struck against a band of maddened creatures who told them that the cliffhad fallen, carrying numerous victims with it.
Where yon cliff projects its length of shade O'er fields of death, a wounded chief is laid!
Another place of note is the cliff or precipice, about two miles south-east of the town; but geographers think that a cliff of fifty feet high near the Maronite Church is the locality where the mob wished to precipitate Christ.
Hurriedly she led them around the cliff to the great entrance, beyond which they had never stepped.
Like ghosts they ran from the tunnel, glanced around once as they reached the cliff path, then leaped down the declivity.
And while they worked, Dolores emerged from the tunnel, flashed one long glance of derision at the moving schooner, and sped down the cliff to stop her flight.
It must be yet another craft, and, without a word, he bounded back up the cliff and scanned the waters closer inshore.
The sea was dotted with swimming men, the beach was full of running men, terrified men made the cliff resound with their cries.
The golden disk was turning to red and across its darkened face the cliff and Point stood out in sharp silhouette, which grew larger as the great glowing sun was distorted and enlarged by the refraction near the horizon.
Beside the cliff were huddled Hanglip and Stumpy, Caliban, and Spotted Dog, drenched with the teeming rain, restless with impatience, peering ever to seaward in the lightning flashes that continually illumined the scene.
But the eyes of Venner and Pearse were fixed in astonishment upon the tall cliff they had left; their eyes stared amazedly, and they stood like statues, hearing none of her seductive words.
Section of thecliff on the east side of South Sea Landing, Flamborough Head.
We perceived a cliff having a uniform elevation of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet, forming a long line extending off to the west.
Section at right angles to the cliff through the westerly chalk bluff at Trimingham, Norfolk, showing the manner in which chalk masses are incorporated into the till (Clement Reid).
This ice-cliff or barrier was followed by Captain Ross as far as 198° west longitude, and found to preserve very much the same character during the whole of that distance.
They paused for breath in an embrasure in the wall, where a section of a half-tower supported the wall, itself running down on to the cliff side.
Above the grotto the precipitous face of the cliff showed black and sombre, except where the zigzag paths shone out in liquid wandering lines, where the folks stood packed together, unseeing, yet content to be present.
The farmer occupied the bow, and Jack and Cliff each sat on a thwart.
They moved very slowly, and it was a long time before they came close enough to the cliff to see what their chances of a landing might be.
To their left, as they gazed out across the landscape, the ground rose from the valley by easy stages to a great height, no doubt forming the landward side of the black cliff which bordered the ocean.
Not more than a quarter of a mile away rose a tall black cliff straight up out of the water.
This portion is well cemented and forms the conspicuous cliff seen throughout the area.
The Lak member crops out above the cliff of Hulett sandstone that almost encircles the Tower, and it underlies a broad rolling area in the northwestern part of the Monument.
The Hulett sandstone member is resistant to weathering and forms a conspicuous, almost vertical, cliff that nearly encircles the Tower.
The talus material from the Tower has at several places overlapped the cliff of Hulett sandstone and become mixed with the material from the cliff.
The cliff of Hulett sandstone that surrounds the Tower breaks off into rectangular blocks that form talus slopes at the base of the cliffs and locally large landslides down the hill below the cliffs.
The formation is 15 feet thick along thecliff directly south of Devils Tower.
The quadroon girl who fainted on the cliff Was Ruth; now, blooming into womanhood, She looked on Karagwe, and seeing there Something above the level of the slave, Watched him with interest in all his ways.
Up a stark cliffwe went, then crossed the web Just as the red moon bloomed upon the hills And silvered all the Panticapean vale.
Uncle Jim and Charley promptly annexed the slight overhang of the cliff whence the deer had jumped.
Down the miniature cliff the man slid, confidently, without hesitation, sure of himself.
After a moment we tore off long bundles of the nigger-head blades, lit the resinous ends at our fire, and with these torches started to make our way along the base of the cliff to the other cave.
Went over thecliff Went kerplunk in the deep snow, er there'd have been nuthin' left uv us.
He ran down the cliff to his boat, pushed out, and headed toward the rock, but a fisherman shouted that a gale was rising and the tide was coming in; indeed, the horizon was whitening and the rote was growing plain.
On the top of the cliff stood a high round tower--the keep of a small feudal stronghold.
The view from the top of the cliffmade me fully realize the wildness, the sterility, the desolation of nature in this region.
Looking up, the rim of the cliff came perceptibly nearer, and she conceived the wild idea of reaching the top.
He made his way up the face of the cliff surely and steadily.
The face of the cliffwas almost perpendicular, the footholds were few and treacherous.
A few were crouched on the edge of the cliff and were peering over, to the imminent risk of life and limb.
He had drawn himself as far up the shelving cliff as possible, though every movement was torture, and with steady eyes he watched the tide rising higher and higher.
The next moment all the people on the cliff began to run in the direction of Penwith Cove.
He swept eagerly the face of the cliff as he ran, and feared that he was too late.
Surely that was a cry for help," he said, and he looked over the edge of the cliff and swept with his eyes the narrow stretch of sand, but there was no one in sight in any direction.
The road lay along the edge of the cliff and I saw the Major turn and wave his rifle at us, evidently with the desire of assuring us that he was safe.
At the end of the cornfield before him was the clump of laurel which he had marked from the cliff as his objective point.
By noon of the following day he came in sight of the cliff from which Jonathan Zane had watched the sufferings of Col.
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The wolves and other beasts of prey might be heard at long intervals, as their wild and savage howls broke upon the ear, reverberating from cliff to cliff as they fell upon and were borne across the water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cliff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bluff; crag; escarpment; face; height; palisade; precipice; scar; scarp; steep; wall
