Use cliff in a sentence
Sentences ending with cliff
- The grey granite walls of the valley exhaled fiercer and fiercer heat and drops of perspiration had long been pouring from the burning brows of the three men on the cliff. [10]
- For his camp Venters chose a shady, grassy plot between the silver spruces and the cliff. [13]
- He sprang towards the cliff. [11]
- It was like the bowling of a huge boulder along the crags and ramparts, and seemed to roll on and fall into the valley to bound and bang and boom from cliff to cliff. [13]
- And then two strong hands caught his throat, a body pressed hard against him, and he was borne backward--backward--to the cliff! [11]
- For Phips, impatient, spent his day in a terrible cannonading, which did no great damage to the town--or the cliff. [11]
- Looking forward, she saw more valley to the right, and to the left a towering cliff. [13]
- But at this point Wolfe had discovered a narrow path up a steep cliff. [11]
- Though it was only late summer, it was cold in the shade of the cliff. [11]
- He grasped his mother, and struggled bravely against the wind and current until he laid her on the beach at the foot of the cliff. [10]
Sentences containing cliff two or more times
- There was a great difference between the cliff and the bay: the cliff was only as it appeared, but the bay was a shameless hypocrite. [11]
- From cliff to cliff the echo went in crashing retort and banged in lessening power, and boomed in thinner volume, and clapped weaker and weaker till a final clap could not reach across the waiting cliff. [13]
More example sentences with the word cliff in them
- Beginning at the western break of the valley, it rushed along each gigantic cliff, whistling into the caves and cracks, to mount in power, to bellow a blast through the great stone bridge. [13]
- From what cliff was it broken? [6]
- One overhanging cliff was a favorite haunt of his. [6]
- The cry of war rang along the cliff tops; and war would take Philip from her. [11]
- Shlapin' I was wan night in a troop-ship in the Bay uv Biscay; an' I dramed I saw Mary walkin' along the cliff by--well, 'tis no matter, fer ye've niver been there, an 'tis no place to go to unheedin'. [11]
- So I sat upon a favourite seat on the cliff, set against a solitary tree, fixed in the rocks. [11]
- These little settlements under the cliff, called marinas, are worlds in themselves, picturesque at a distance, but squalid seen close at hand. [4]
- In silence the two rounded the cliff, and saw him no more. [11]
- A smaller stream trickled over the cliff and built up an isolated pyramid about thirty feet high, which has the semblance of a mass of large gnarled and knotted vines and roots and stems intricately twisted and woven together. [5]
- No Castle Schorlin towering high above the lake on the cliff at the verge of the forest. [10]
- The road belonged to the horsemen; on the right lay a wide, snow-covered plain, on the left rose a cliff, kept from falling on the side towards the highway by a rude wall. [10]
- Here he intended to rest and, as he gazed around him, he perceived in the shadow of an overhanging cliff a man's tall figure. [10]
- Lord, I'd like to hev seen Wrangle jump the cliff with Jerry. [13]
- Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two. [9]
- He drifted silently through the dim reflections of the crags and trees, with his intent eyes fixed upon the low cliff which he was approaching. [5]
- After it passed, the visitors tried to reach Eagle Cliff, two miles off, whence an extensive western prospect is had, but were driven back by a tempest, and rain practically occupied the day. [4]
- One day when the sun was fighting hard to make a pathway of light in front of Gaspard's hut, Pierre rounded a corner of the cliff and fronted Gaspard as he sat there, his eyes idling gloomily with the sea. [11]
- He himself felt the pull of the young clergyman's personality, and instinctively strove to resist it: and was more than ever struck by Mr. Hodder's resemblance to the cliff sculpture of which he had spoken at the vestry meeting. [9]
- They disappeared by the hunter's cottage, but he stood still, breathing painfully, spell-bound to the cliff by which he stood--a long, long time--and did not stir. [10]
- True, even at the great harbour, news could scarcely be expected, for a chain stretching from the end of the Pharos to a cliff directly opposite in the Alveus Steganus, closed the narrow opening. [10]
- Dion vowed to the goddess a beautiful temple on the cliff and in the city if she would be gracious to his beloved young wife. [10]
- Yellow dust like the gloom of the cave, but not so changeless, drifted away on the wind; the roar clapped in echo from the cliff, returned, went back, and came again to die in the hollowness. [13]
- Twenty-four hours after the falling of the cliff, it seemed as if it had happened ages ago. [6]
- Perfect day for the expedition succeeds perfect day, boatload after boatload sails away from the little marina at the base of the cliff, which we follow with eves of desire, but--to-morrow will do as well. [4]
- Some leaned against the cliff, others against each other; many stood sheer and alone; all were crumbling, cracked, rotten. [13]
- Helena remained on the cliff, and her longing for the old couple had materially diminished. [10]
- Hard by, below the cliff, and close to the sea, was a tavern, at the sign of the Cock. [10]
- The castle on the cliff stood in proud glory gilded by the rays of the declining sun. [14]
- This passage up the cliff side at Sillery I had discovered three years before. [11]
- In wandering along the cliff path in the afternoon, Irene and Mr. King were separated from the others, and unconsciously extended their stroll, looking for a comfortable seat in the rocks. [4]
- When he ascended the cliff he found everything quiet. [10]
- We must ascend the cliff crab-fashion. [10]
- Vines hang down the cliff and wave in the wind, and a clear stream trickles from above and empties into a pond at the base, and in the smooth surface of the pond the lion is mirrored, among the water-lilies. [5]
- The shade of the cliff above obscured the point he wanted to gain, but he could see dimly a few feet before him. [13]
- She noted indifferently that they passed close under shady, bulging shelves of cliff, through patches of grass and sage and thicket and groves of slender trees, and over white, pebbly washes, and around masses of broken rock. [13]
- The red morning-tint that shone in the drops had a strange look,--one would say the cliff was bleeding;--perhaps she did not mean it. [6]
- It seemed a terrible climbing up the sides of a cliff, and, as he struggled fainting on, all sorts of sounds were in his ears, but he realised that the Whisperer was no longer there. [11]
- A broad rippling stream flowed toward him, and at the back of the canyon waterfall burst from a wide rent in the cliff, and, bounding down in two green steps, spread into a long white sheet. [13]
- This day a solitary figure was pacing backwards and forwards upon the cliff edge, stopping now to turn a telescope upon the water and now upon the town. [11]
- She recognised the shore: it was the cliff at Plemont in the north of Jersey, and behind the ship lay the awful Paternosters. [11]
- There was no shade save in the house and at the foot of a towering cliff in the southern part of the island, the fishermen's watch-tower. [10]
- This "cottage," a roomy, gabled structure, stood on a cliff, at the foot of which roared the wintry Atlantic, while we danced and popped corn before the open fires. [9]
- Greenish masses of rock, most peculiar in form, surrounded the narrow, cliff circled mountain valleys, which opened into one another. [10]
- Just at the right is a little beach, with a few old houses, and a mimic stir of life, a little curve in the cliff, the mouth of the gorge, where the waves come in with a lazy swash. [4]
- At last, however, remembering, he leaned over the cliff and saw her standing in the moonlight far below. [11]
- High above the ravine where the spring was lay a level plateau of moderate extent, and behind it rose a fissured cliff of bare, red-brown porphyry. [10]
- King thought himself quite in love with Forbes--there was the warmest affection between the two--but when he hauled the artist up a Catskill cliff there wasn't the least of this sort of a thrill in the grip of hands. [4]
- The valley was perfectly still and deserted; on the highest pinnacles of the cliff, which rose perpendicularly to the right, sat a long row of vultures, as motionless as if the mid-day heat had taken all strength out of their wings. [10]
- While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
- We stopped at one place to see the Gladstone Cliff, a great crag which the ages and the weather have sculptured into a recognizable portrait of the venerable statesman. [5]
- Presently she moved on, going directly towards a gate that opened out on the cliff above the river. [11]
- Gray and Green, on Cliff Street, and remained there through the summer. [5]
- From the edge of this cliff a rope-ladder dropped fifty feet to the river. [11]
- At the base of the cliff I find a hewn passage, as if there had once been here a way of embarkation; and enormous fragments of rocks, with steps cut in them, which have fallen from above. [4]
- The sharp corner of cliff seemed to cut out of the darkness. [13]
- The stream was now swollen, and rushed in a deep and rapid current over the ledges, through the rocky straits, plunging at last in tumult and foam, with loud, continuous roar, into the depths below the cliff from which it tumbled. [6]
- The battalion had not been moved till twenty-four hours after the order was given, or we should never have gained those heights; stones rolled from the cliff would have destroyed an army. [11]
- The man was more like the cliff than the bay: stern, powerful, brooding. [11]
- This settlement, the marina, under the cliff, used to extend along the shore; and a good road ran down there close by the water. [4]
- They had a long walk on the cliff, and he talked to her of his life, of his travels, and his political experience. [4]
- On Sunday afternoon, left temporarily to my own devices, I wandered along the cliff, crossing into the adjoining property. [9]
- This theory has kept me from entering the discussion, whether the substructions in the cliff under the Poggio Syracuse, a royal villa, are temples of the Sirens, or caves of Ulysses. [4]
- In the afternoon, just as I was rounding the corner of a cliff, there was a shot--then another. [11]
- The first look into the ravine had showed him, on the summit of a cliff, a venerable face framed in snowy locks--his father's. [10]
- At the next instant she might disappear over the cliff, for though with her right hand she held on to a point of rock, Paulus could see that the boulder had no connection with the rock on which she stood, and rocked too and fro. [10]
- The Lion lies in his lair in the perpendicular face of a low cliff--for he is carved from the living rock of the cliff. [5]
- From Admiral Saunders I learned that Bigot had recovered from his hurt, which had not been severe, and of the death of Monsieur Cournal, who had ridden his horse over the cliff in the dark. [11]
- The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness. [11]
- He may find himself climbing through cedar thickets an almost inaccessible cliff, or immersed in the intricacies of a marsh. [4]
- Pierre, from the height of the cliff, looking down, saw the vessel dip at the bow, and then the waters divided and swallowed it up. [11]
- Following its course, he soon entered the oak forest again, and passed through to find himself before massed and jumbled ruins of cliff wall. [13]
- During his convalescence he remembered them and they conjured up the doubt whether Barine could endure the solitude of this desolate cliff, whether she would not lose the bright serenity of soul whose charm constantly increased. [10]
- He admitted that he knew no safer hiding-place than the cliff surrounded by fluttering sea-gulls, where Pyrrhus lived with his family and earned abundant support by fishing and serving as pilot. [10]
- At his ease he hid himself in the long grass at the edge of the cliff, and picked off two more men. [11]
- By this time he had quite recovered himself, and he went towards the cliff in order to find a cavern that he knew of, and that was empty--for its gray-headed inhabitant had died some weeks since. [10]
- In New York he found employment at his trade, and during the hot months of 1853 worked in a printing-office in Cliff Street. [5]
- It appears to have a height of something like a hundred and fifty feet, and the water falls obliquely across the face of the cliff from left to right in short steps, which in the moonlight might seem like a veritable ladder for fairies. [4]
- He let the gun fall; it rolled and fell over the cliff. [11]
- The waves come grinding, booming in along the gridiron rocks"--he smiled a grim smile--"break through the teeth of the reefs, and split with a roar of hell upon the cliff. [11]
- The heads of great dogs, like the dogs of Ossian, sprang out in profile from the repulsing mainland; stupendous gargoyles grinned at them from dark points of excoriated cliff. [11]
- Passing through the gateway, she must fall over the cliff. [11]
- As he turned from the heights, made his way along the cliff and down Mountain Street, his thoughts were still upon the same subject. [11]
- The younger man followed him breathlessly, and only joined him when he had already begun to dig out the earth with his hands at the foot of a cliff. [10]
- The Pegnitz would flow up the castle cliff first. [10]
- He had climbed far up that wonderful smooth slope, and had almost reached the base of yellow cliff that rose skyward, a huge scarred and cracked bulk. [13]
- The pupil's worst failure is in the chin; more practised hands might be wrecked on that cliff. [10]
- They mounted the eastern cliff of the hills close by the tomb of Mena's forefathers, which a prophet of Amon, named Neferhotep--Mena's great-grandfather--had constructed. [10]
- He came slowly down until he reached the spot where the road was barricaded from the platform of the cliff. [11]
- It might be disappointment, melancholy, or only the dreamy sadness of a young person who sees the future he is to climb, not as a smooth ascent, but as overhanging him like a cliff, ready to crush him, with all his hopes and prospects. [6]
- Only at seasons did the bay share the gloom of the cliff. [11]
- He followed the declivity to its base, then turning to the left, he crossed a small table land, which was easily accessible from the gorge, but which on the side of the oasis formed a perpendicular cliff many fathoms deep. [10]
- On this bold, crumbling cliff, innumerable visitors have written their names. [4]
- And she, what could she do to win back the man who held every fixed resolve as firmly as the rocks of the cliff hold the pine which grows from them? [10]
- A mass of conglomerate two miles long, a thousand feet broad, and a hundred feet thick, broke away from a cliff three thousand feet high and hurled itself into the valley below, burying four villages and five hundred people, as in a grave. [5]
- Instead, however, of coming straight to the cliff it veered suddenly, and ran round the mountain side, coming down at a steep but fairly safe incline. [11]
- The platform or cliff was fenced off by a low barricade of fallen trees, scarcely noticeable from the valley below. [11]
- On the high cliff of Point Levis lights were showing, and fires burning as far off as the island of Orleans. [11]
- You know our cliff beyond the Alveus Steganus, north of the great harbour--the Isle of Serpents. [10]
- The bull dropped clean over the cliff, and tumbled dead upon the rocks below. [11]
- Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. [5]
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