The road follows a course meant only for the sea-birds, now buttressed out over the very face of the abyss, guarded only by a low, crumbling wall, now driven through the flank of some great headland which could not be turned.
Immediately opposite lay the bare headland of the Bell, bathed in golden sunlight, and the rocky coast towards Amalfi, purple and brown beneath the paling sky.
Behind it rise the mountain peaks in long succession, flashing here and there with fields of snow, while further off, scarce seen by reason of its distance, the headland of Licosia marks the limit of the bay.
Far as one can see, from the headland which hides Cumae to the farthest point of the Lucanian coast, scarcely one vessel is in sight.
Ere long one sees the beautiful headland of Conca, with its castle on the cliff.
The road climbs upward from the beach, winding round the headland with continually growing beauty.
The southern extremity of the larger island retains the name St. Elias for the splendid headland that plunges boldly and challengingly out into the sea.
A strong current setting in-shore detained us until midnight; we then took advantage of a calm which succeeded, and rowed away for a headland to the eastward, near which we arrived about sunrise, after a most laborious passage.
As we neared Binz the road runs down close to the sea, and through the overhanging branches we could see that we had rounded another headland and were in another bay.
The beach at the foot of the cliffs is quiet and pleasant, and from it you can see the mistyheadland of Arkona with its lighthouse, the northernmost point of the island, far away on the left.
In the distance lies the headland beyond Sassnitz, hazy in the afternoon light.
From the headland beneath us to the rolling prairie at the mouth of the valley, the earth swayed with giant forms.
Suddenly we rounded an abrupt headland and gained full view of the buffalo.
A canoe nose cautiously rounded the headland coming close to our boat.
But Paul condescended only a grunt and whisked suddenly round a headland up a narrow gorge, which seemed to lead to the very heart of the mountains and might have sheltered any number of fugitives.
So many changes have been wrought in half a century that what was green headland and wooded valley in the far '50's may be but a deep cut or a big fill for a new roadway or factory site to-day.
Branching from the low hills that skirt the coast is the headland of Cape Rafael at the end of the Bay, forming a fitting counterpart to Cape Samana on the north.
The easternmost point of the peninsula is the rugged double-terraced headland of Cape Samana, reckoned as the beginning of Samana Bay, though strictly speaking the Bay begins at the majestic cliff known as Balandra Point.
Kane made a long walk, and a hard scramble up a projecting crag of a headland of the bay, and bathed in his welcome rays.
On the sixth of August they passed the frowning headland of Smith's Sound, known as Cape Alexander.
He landed on a headland in Frobisher Bay, and secured an enchanting view of land and sea.
As we glided across the water and rounded the headland and came slowly into view of the hotel again, Mary was reminded of our parting and for a little while she was disposed to make me remain.
We rowed slowly past a great headland and into the bay at the upper end of the water.
From this plain springs the headland known as Capo di Stella.
The undertaking was mine, and with it all its responsibilities, and there was some tricky steering to be done as we sped by headland and bay, ere we breasted the great seas outside and the land fell away behind us.
I could get on board a boat and row up as far as the curly ship, but around the headland I might not go.
Rounding the headland brought us immediately into a new country, the river bank high and firm, a bank of rather vivid yellow clay, with trees thickly covering the rising ground beyond.
Little groups of officers and enlisted men gathered high up on the rocky headland to watch us getting under way, and I lingered beside the rail, waving to them, as the struggling boat swept down, constantly increasing its speed.
To the west is the imposing headland of Cape Vermay.
Wrapping up a little, for it was colder on the northern coast of the island than at Palma, we went out, determined to reach a headland by the sea, on which from above we had caught tantalizing glimpses of a shining white temple.
To the left rose a bold headland crowned by a lighthouse.
They were facing west, and beyond the headland the sun, a gorgeous ball of fire, was casting a blood-red glow on the scarcely rippling sea.
At each horn a rocky headland jutted far out, its base washed high by the waves.
Cathbarr's tower was an old ruin at the end of a long and narrow headland--indeed, at high tide most of the headland would be covered, for it was low and yet beyond shot of the cliffs.
The cottage and hedge thus confronting the porth, with its beach of grey-gold sand, commanded the great headland that flanked it on its north side, and leagues and leagues of shining water stretching away to where the sun went down.
But, certes, Master Hawtayne, for all that my sight is none of the best, it is not the first time that I have seen that headland upon the left.
See how yonder headlandlooms upon us through the mist!
Here we saw the weather screen on Wind Vane Hill, and a moment later turned a small headland and brought the hut in full view.
The Glacier Tongue comes close around a high bluff headland of kenyte; it is much cracked and curiously composed of a broad wedge of white névé over blue ice.
After that, he is tempted to visit the headland of Minerva; he goes there, and satisfies his curiosity.
At length, toward the end of the second day, the Sierra Crown began to come into view, and when we had fairly rounded the projecting headland before mentioned, the whole picture stood revealed in the flush of the alpenglow.
It stepped from cliff to cliff, and sometimes from one headland to another, while the sea foamed and thundered on the shore beneath, and dashed its jets of spray over the giant's feet.
A channel about a mile long stretches out between the headland of the Croizette and the fortress, which has the aspect of an old squat house, devoid of anything imposing or majestic.
The Croisette is a long semi-circular promenade that follows the line of the beach, from the headland in front of Sainte-Marguerite down to the harbour overlooked by the old town.
The final blow was given by railways and electricity to the old line of semaphores stretching between Portsmouth and the Admiralty, and elsewhere, and from headland to headland.
At the road's end, just before them, was a group of gray stone buildings perched on the high headland above the Severn, like a monastery or place of military defense.
The wide gray waters of the Severn were spread to east and west; the headland before them fell off like a cliff.
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