A massy tower yet overhangs the town, A scattered group of ruined dwellings now.
We will come again," they say, and in a moment have disappeared in the jungle thatoverhangs the trail.
Just below, the cliff overhangs the stream, its base having been worn into by centuries of ceaseless washing.
A lone fisherman sat upon its bulwark rail, which overhangs the rushing waters as they here commingle.
In the center of these curves, in many places, the rock above overhangs the river.
The three men climb a crag that overhangs the river to watch us off.
In some places the stream has not excavated its channel down vertically through the rocks, but has cut obliquely, so that one wall overhangs the other.
The external face is convex, covered by a plexus of veins, and slightly overhangs the pedal bone.
The extreme overhangs are all right in racing craft, but they are a detriment and a danger in cruising craft.
The most serious objection to the modern boat with full and long overhangs is that it will not lay-to in heavy water bow-on.
The long overhangs provide plenty of deck room, but they add nothing to the cabin and but little to the storage space.
In the evening, from the gallery of the Deanery which overhangs the abbey, Mother, Mrs. Hall, and I looked down upon the last service.
Above rises on a splendid height the old Castello; further inland, and higher still, is the wild village of Mola peeping over the edge of a precipice that overhangs the valley.
Norham Castle is situated on a steep bank, which overhangs the river.
The circuit is of large extent, fenced upon three sides by the precipice whichoverhangs the sea, and on the fourth by a double ditch and very strong outworks.
Here the precipice of fawn-coloured limestone overhangs like a wave, curling and about to break.
No trace of a stair remains; in fact no stair could have been cut in the face of a rock that overhangs as does this.
The habitations are either partly or wholly caves, they do not reach half-way up the rock which overhangs to the west.
The Philosophic Letters paint the struggles of an ardent, enthusiastic, inquisitive spirit to deliver itself from the harassing uncertainties, to penetrate the dread obscurity, which overhangs the lot of man.
The like mystery overhangs the love-notes which Tasso warbled in these palace-bowers.
Though the village of Tintagel is half a mile or more inland, the ruins of the ancient stronghold stand partly on the brink of a cliff that overhangs the sea, but mainly on a bold headland almost surrounded by the waves.
And there is one most picturesque ruin, for, ten miles out from Portrush, all that is left of Dunluce castle overhangs the sea from the summit of a precipitous rock, separated from the mainland by a deep chasm.
Blocks of granite weighing many tons, honey-combed by the action of the water, are loosely piled where the cliffoverhangs the waves; and you may descend by regular steps to the verge of the abyss.
Cliefden runs along the summit of a lofty ridge which overhangs the river.
A few islands deck this part of the river, and occasionally little tongues of land run out into it, or a tree overhangs it, helping to give vigour to the foreground of the rich landscape.
An elm overhangs it, and on the lower branches, which are dead, the swallows perch and sing just over the muddy water.
Two years had gone by since I saw one here before, perched then on the trunk of a willow which overhangs one of the ponds.
The three men climb a crag, that overhangs the river, to watch us off.
We pass the Mormon fortifications at a place where a precipitous rock overhangs the narrowing cañon.
Some are distinguished by a long horn which overhangs the head, as Membracis cultrata, ensata, &c.
They have been hewn, with great labour and ingenuity, in the rocky cliff which overhangs the river Esk.
First, we have a little balcony which overhangs the river, and is about twenty yards long by one and a half broad.
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