Cliff Sentence Examples

The car slid off the cliff before I got back.

They reached the cliff before the first arrows fell.

His gaze lifted to the cliff top.

On one side was a massive rock cliff covered with green moss.

Her gaze lifted to the top of the cliff on her right.

If that means I dive off a cliff to keep the Others from using me against you, I'll do it.

The kingdom perched on a cliff overlooking an ocean of velvet blue.

She swung the boulder up, ducking as it slapped the side of the cliff just short of the ledge and fell back to her.

Did you get her car off the cliff, dear?

It clattered along the top of the cliff and fell.

It was not within the walls, the encampment on the cliff, or within the passionate people themselves.

They ran through the forest toward the cliff, then ducked deeper into the forest before the trees gave way at the cliff.

The crime scene was the top of the cliff, where the rope was slashed.

He heard the shouts before they reached the helipad atop a cliff overlooking a valley.

Her surroundings blurred into light and shadows, and she felt the sickening sense of falling off the cliff again.

He'd spent days fighting to reach the Peak with the first one, and Lana had nearly gone off a cliff for another one.

Rocks had been piled to make a shelter under the cliff across from them.

Its course down the cliff was marked by the cracking of limbs.

You fell off a cliff?

The cliff and surrounding mountains were now behind them.

She trotted away from the cliff, slowing when she felt far enough from the edge.

Jared limped after him and appeared beside him on the cliff edge, taking in the morning view of grey skies and green forest with a look of distaste.

Kris had opened it near the cliff.  On the other side of the world from the Caribbean Sanctuary, the French Alps were dark and cold, and it was sleeting.

She narrowed the distance again, this time rising up on her tiptoes to kiss him lightly on the lips, the final push over the cliff on which he teetered.

I was enjoying myself until I fell over the cliff.

Anyway, I was lucky it was a low cliff and that Yancey found me before a bear did.

I had my suspicions the day she fell from the cliff.

If he brought her more fish tomorrow morning, she'd have rope enough to reach the cliff edge ten feet above.

Hope he chucked it off a cliff.

She sucked in deep breaths, on the verge of hysterics after the freaky trip from cliff to spaceship.

He glanced up at the cliff and his complexion paled slightly.

You guys talk about spending overnights, hanging from a hammock sling, half way up some cliff on the other side of the world!

Yes. But Weller told me in the hospital that in the confusion of getting Shipton out of the gorge, no one examined the bottom of the cliff, where he landed.

Then you wouldn't have run off that cliff.

You could've popped that maniac before he dragged you over the cliff.

By the time she reached the cliff Jule indicated the next day, Yully's soul was humming like an electric wire.

Only two forms and a body draped in black remained on the cliff side.

Poor girl probably dove off a cliff.

She turned away, crossed the road, and skirted the darkened helipad resting at the edge of a cliff overlooking an extensive valley.

She perched on one of the boulders lining the cliff edge and tucked her legs beneath her.

Arnie tripped, the content of his fist flying free over the boulders to the cliff's edge.

The barracks are by the helipad by the cliff.

Smith went crazy and dove off a cliff.

He was still above the timberline, devoid of any trees that would impair visibility so it was clear enough to follow the road with its many switchbacks and curves traversing the mountain below him, a black line clinging to the side of the cliff like a pen­cil drawing.

He posed for their cameras and finally leaped from one ledge to another along the face of the cliff until he disappeared over the lip and into the forest above them.

Beyond that, less than three feet separated the road from the edge of a cliff.

At any time a gust of wind could send the car over the cliff.

It would be dark by the time they got the car off the edge of the cliff.

It poised for a moment and then took a dive off the cliff.

I knew when we started this business it was like I was in the backseat of Thelma and Louise's car hurtling toward a cliff edge.

She held on to his hand, as if keeping him from falling off a cliff.

She was closer to the top than to the waves, but the cliff had too few hand and footholds for her to try to climb.

She needed more rope to reach the top of the cliff, yet being dinner for any creature wasn't the way she'd like to go.

However, the thought of swan diving off a cliff the next time he called her a damn blood monkey was getting more tempting with each day!

Almost immediately she wished he.d let her fall off the cliff.

His hands were hot on her hips and his body blocked the cold wind whipping up the cliff.

They didn't go far, and she was surprised to see the grassy slopes end at an abrupt cliff.

The giant pipe ran through a wooded area, away from the cliff edge.

He dropped the camera and peered over the edge of the cliff but the outcropping blocked his view of anything below.

Some of the private industry's greatest minds are with the VP in the cliff.

Lana shifted, and Arnie bolted towards the cliff.

The principal spring issues from under a cliff on the south-east side of the hill, and the water runs to a.

The latter is a majestic cliff rising vertically from the pass to a height of 1300 ft.

There are a terminal station in the town and a station at West Cliff on the Saltburn branch.

The coast, fully exposed to the open ocean, abounds in fine cliff scenery, including numerous caves and natural arches, but is notoriously dangerous to shipping.

Beyond, again, lies a broad furrow, or ` longitudinal fold,' as geologists call it, parallel to the ridges, and then rises the last elevation, a belt of low calcareous hills, on which, here and there among the waves of beech forest, purple or blue with distance, a white cliff retains its local colour and shines like a patch of fresh snow.

On the edge of the cliff to the east of the port are some rude brick remains of an old building called Tour d'Ordre, said to be the ruins of a tower built by Caligula at the time of his intended invasion of Britain.

The place where the acropolis was entered was believed to have been overlooked by the mythical Meles when he carried the lion round his fortress to make it invulnerable; it was really a path opened by one of the landslips, which have reduced the sandstone cliff of the acropolis to a mere shell, and threaten to carry it altogether into the plain below.

Rock climbing Or, more accurately, sea cliff climbing, is big in these parts.

A head popped up over the edge of the cliff about 6 ' away - it was a rock climber.

England have had their chances to tread upon fingernails desperately clinging to the cliff top.

Here, there is a large cliff supporting an enormous nesting seabird colony.

Columba livia, so called because it lives in caves and cliff sites.

The falcon was particularly confiding tracking us along the cliff path.

Black Guillemots also breed in various coastal cliff crevices.

The fantastically detailed animation and cliff hanging story lines captured the imagination and became essential viewing for a generation.

We suited up, entered the water and began a shallow dive following the reef along the cliff.

To prevent the cliff face collapsing it was necessary to take the power out of the sea and to stabilize the dunes.

This may represent sediment supplied by cliff erosion being entrained by the westward flowing recirculating eddy (Dyer, 1971 ).

Why is a species equipped with a rational consciousness rushing toward the cliff edge like a pack of mad yaks on smack?

A perfect restaurant for a romantic date, the Cliff House has classic décor and many intimate tables.

Expect an action packed plot full of twists and turns and a sensible resolution or even a cliff hanger, so that the hero is free to engage in another adventure at another time.

The water is deep right to the base of the cliff and owing to the winds and the strength of the ocean currents, navigation is dangerous.

The houses cluster beneath and above a cliff (klint) 100 ft.

The sides of the triangle slope down abruptly towards the west, more gradually towards the east; at the base stands the cone of Ayala Hill, the last outpost of the Rudnik Mountains, which extend far away to the south; and, at the apex, a cliff of Tertiary chalk, 200 ft.

This cliff is crowned by the walls and towers of the citadel, once white, but now maroon with age, and, though useful as a prison and barracks, no longer of any military value.

The shore terrace descends by a steep cliff to the sea, forming the "rise" of a submarine "tread" in the form of a reef which surrounds the island.

On the north-west shore is a cliff where bloodstones are quarried.

Near the end of the defile stands the most elaborate of the ruins, el-Hazne or " the Treasury of Pharaoh," not built but hewn out of the cliff; a little farther on, at the foot of the mountain called en-Nejr, comes the theatre, so placed as to bring the greatest number of tombs within view; and at the point where the valley opens out into the plain the site of the city is revealed with striking effect.

Whitby is beautifully situated at the mouth and on both banks of the River Esk; the old town of narrow streets and picturesque houses standing on the steep slopes above the river, while the modern residential quarter is mainly on the summit of West Cliff.

Other features of the town are the pleasant promenades and gardens on West Cliff, the antiquarian and geological museum, and an excellent golf course.

Originally the Pueblo Indians lived in many-storeyed communal houses, built sometimes of stone, sometimes of adobe, and occasionally chiselled into the sides of a stone cliff, as best suited the convenience of the builders.

Zuni (pop. 1525) has a five-storeyed dwelling surrounded by detached huts; Acoma (pop. 492 in 1900; 566 in 1902), standing on a cliff 357 ft.

Of the castle of Newcastle, built on the edge of a cliff above the church of that parish, there remain a courtyard with flanking towers and a fine Norman gateway.

In 1835 the difficult and almost inaccessible cliff was first climbed by Sir Henry Rawlinson, who copied and deciphered the inscriptions (1835-1845), and thus completed the reading of the old cuneiform text and laid the foundation of the science of Assyriology.

Of these the chief are Poole's Hole, a vast stalactite cave, about half a mile distant; Diamond Hill, which owes its name to the quartz crystals which are not uncommon in its rocks; and Chee Tor, a remarkable cliff, on the banks of the Wye, 300 ft.

Krantz (or Kranz) an overhanging wall of rock, hence a steep cliff, a precipice.

Geographical conditions and a hard struggle against nature fixed the character of this " aridian " culture, and determined its migrations; the onslaughts of nomad Indians determined the sedentary civilization of the cliff dwellers.

It occurs almost exclusively at Tray Cliff, near Castleton.

The market buildings, at the south-east corner of the square, and partly excavated from the sides of the cliff, contain large halls for the fruit, wool and feather markets and the museum.

On the right bank they are of pliocene gravel, on the left of tufa; and on the latter, on a cliff above the river (the ancient Puilia saxa) stood Ficana (marked by the farmhouse of Dragoncello), which is said to have owed its origin to Ancus Martius.

It consists of a perpendicular chalk cliff 532 ft.

Sometimes the fowler is let down from the top of the cliff; at other times he climbs the rocks, or, where possible, is pushed upwards by poles made for the purpose.

Well-planted grounds fringe the steep slope down to the North Bay, in which there is a promenade pier; the South Cliff is similarly adorned.

The promenades and drives are extensive, and there is an inclined tramway leading from summit to foot of the South Cliff.

The castle was built during the 12th century by William le Gros, earl of Albemarle, who chose the site on the top of a steep cliff now called the "Scaur."

A stream crosses the northern end of the plateau, falling over the cliff edge in a fine cascade.

This flat surface is broken by two ranges of calcareous hills running north and south through the county, and known as the Lincoln Edge or Heights, or the Cliff, and the Wolds.

The Inferior Oolite, somewhat narrower than the Lias, extends from the boundary with Rutland due north past Lincoln to the vicinity of the Humber; it forms the Cliff of Lincolnshire with a strong escarpment facing westward.

It stands on the edge of the cliff rising from the sea at the gardens of St Martin, and was designed to house the collections made by the prince during twenty-five years of oceanographical research, and others.

The situation is pleasant, and the neighbouring coast exhibits bold cliff scenery.

I think a gust of wind got it started and then the edge of the cliff gave way.

The cliff edge was around ten feet from the cave.

The penstock, three feet in diameter at this point, was a long black snake, carrying its mountain water to the small generating station, while adjacent black piping and frequent taps provided the ice that coated the cliff sides in gigantic clusters below.

She was prattling on about the planet Zzz where some arch villain who closely resembled Jerome Shipton, was to meet his due while climbing an icy cliff, in hot pursuit of a fair maiden whom Dean took to be a greatly slimmed down version of the author.

After the trail bent toward the cliff, Dean could see down the gorge, all the way to the roadway bridge where ghost-like spectators continued to mill about in the whirl of falling snow.

She disguised her beauty as an old man, a ragged peasant, and no one paid heed as she carefully moved up the narrow pathway until she finally reached the edge of the cliff and sighted the spot where Jership the Terrible had secured his line.

He glanced back once more at the void beyond the ledge and then looped the line around his body and stomped the few feet toward the cliff, trying to step without tripping in the cumbersome and unfamiliar foot wear.

Vara stood alone on the cliff's edge at the boundary of Oceanan and Tiyan, clad in a crimson-lined cloak.

Inside the city, Tiyan's men had wiped out all followers of Memon and begun to stack the bodies near the cliff.

Alvaro then sees that it is Leonora and, in absolute despair, throws himself off a nearby cliff.

It's a bit like the old health promotion adage about having a beautifully equipped ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

After Hans ' death is fully avenged the creature jumps from a cliff to her death.

John Ratzenberger - ' Cliff Clavin ' Cliff is Norm's partner in crime and fellow barfly.

The humor may have dated, but where else will you see Cliff smoking a cigarette or Sylvia Syms wearing a basque?

However, even next to fresh cliff falls one rarely finds freshly broken material on the beach suggesting that it is quickly rounded.

For over two thousand years, Indians stampeded buffalo over the mile-long cliff.

The ' fairy chimney ' and exposed cliff faces have been part excavated and tunneled so as to form churches and various chambers.

From the point of view of even classical bourgeois political economy, Cliff's argument was a pure evasion.

His right hand held on to a crumbling stone cliff, his left stuck out in mid-air.

You're on a narrow road with a sheer cliff on your side.

A precipitous green cliff faces the sea; in the background rises Fuji above dark foothills against a glowing sunset sky.

I live on top of the cliff to the left of the picture in a house nearest the cliff edge.

He was about 60 feet down from the top of a sheer sandstone cliff, with 40 feet below.

Take a ride down the cliff in the glass elevator.

Littoral drift rates and volumes should be estimated using details of cliff, and shoreface erosion inputs and beach volume changes.

Research is being carried out into developing methods of slowing the rate of cliff erosion without damaging the SSSI.

Lynton, set on the cliffs above, can be reached by water-operated cliff railroad from the Victorian esplanade.

I arrived at the site late evening, and immediately picked up an adult Gyr flying along the cliff face - what a bird!

This wedge shaped flat topped protuberance is 600 meters up a cliff face overlooking a fjord.

Yellow Finches were busy on the low cliff ledges, unaware that they were hopping along a raised beach full of marine fossils.

This ' hunt ' involves the fishermen plucking about 2,000 baby gannets from the cliff faces using long poles.

The cave itself was located half way up the cliff face of a limestone gorge.

Until 1995, the numbers of breeding guillemots and razorbills on their sea cliff nest sites had been increasing in south west Wales.

The outline of the series is a hard one to work out and each episode is a real cliff hanger.

The series ends on a cliff hanger - what does Donna have to tell Gaz?

Further to the left the cliff becomes more hospitable with the odd barrier of overhangs and smooth wall thrown in to add spice.

Anyone who thinks they may be able to help us is cordially invited to get in touch with Cliff Voisey, Hon Sec.

A cliff on the way to the coast had about 100 jackdaws clinging to it.

Then soars prospecting and swoops on a young jackdaw, flies with it to a grassy diner top of the cliff.

In the top of the cliff there was a small kibbutz where there was a bar and we bought a bottle of water.

These were exposed at Evans Cliff following a recent landslip.

Straight ahead is the high lateral moraine of the South Annapurna glacier and the Modi follows a deep cliff to the right.

They may nest in tree holes, on cliff ledges or on buildings.

It started working on 1st January 1859, taking over from the original lighthouse on the cliff top.

These figures refer to cliff top recession, and they generalize local differences due to contrasts of rock lithology and structure.

Cliff Richard stared at the assembled multitude gathered for his forty-eighth Christmas concert.

Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland.

Two juvenile peregrines flew along a cliff high above us while the local flora included Ramonda, Pyramidal Orchid and Pyrenean Saxifrage.

I regret that I did not measure this, but I was very hot and tired after a somewhat perilous cliff walk.

This explanation was viewed rather skeptically, and we wondered if the cliff had become rather more precipitous due to subsequent quarrying.

Cliff Wright's tender illustrations complement the lyrical prose of Adele Geras.

Across the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord had built a rampart of stone.

It seems that every town in the Dordogne region is built on a cliff.

Joseph Hello, I'm Dave from Kent I have been a cliff Richard fan since as long as I can remember.

A small rivulet arches over a cliff, the movement of sun on water spring leaves in a light breeze.

His pushing Locque off the cliff, while a ruthless act, hardly makes Moore appear ruthless in my book.

Shore diving is mainly sandy and the cliff edges are wonderful.

Suddenly after one hour there was a black cliff approximately 30 meters in front and white scum of breaking sea.

On and up the next cliff to view a magnificent seascape.

In places the lower cliffs, backshore and cliff crevices are influenced by freshwater seepages, flushes and springs.

During the winter of 1993-94 there was severe cliff slippage at Filey, which caused the club to lose its clubhouse and changing rooms.

The process we are describing, nevertheless, suggests a fairly gradual slowdown in economic growth rather than ' falling off a cliff ' .

The south side of this small island offers divers the opportunity to swim along cliff faces, through caves, and swim throughs.

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The ruins of the Abbey high on the cliff top dominate the town and speak of its religious history.

We have ample free forecourt parking, nestling among pine trees, only two minutes from the cliff top.

He's just produced his 23rd album, the latest being troubadour featuring a host of luminaries including Cliff Richard.

In 2000, a bronze age inverted cremation urn was noted about a meter down in the cliff face.

For a wager he rode his horse to the extreme verge of the cliff.

Its position is most extraordinary, for it occupies a cavern in the middle of the face of a perpendicular cliff 1000 ft.

The shore terrace descends by a steep cliff to the sea, forming the "rise" of a submarine "tread" in the form of fringing reef which surrounds the island and is never uncovered, even at low water, except in Flying Fish Cove, where the only landing-place exists.

Of the mountains belonging to the table-land the most continuous are those of the Cantabrian chain, which stretches for the most part from east to west, parallel to the Bay of Biscay, btit Mountains, ultimately bends round towards the south between Leon and Galicia (see CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS) - A peculiar feature of this chain, arid of the neighboring parts of the table-land, is the number of the parameras or isolated plateaus, surrounded by steep rocky mountains, or even by walls of sheer cliff.

Cliffs increase slightly in height eastward and landsliding rather than rockfall becomes increasingly evident as the major cliff recession process.

Cliff 's successful tactics and bait was a small feeder fished at 30m with corn and red worm on the hook.

Cliff retreat rates will be measured for both sides of the Channel.

Joseph Hello, I 'm Dave from Kent I have been a cliff richard fan since as long as I can remember.

Walk on rugged hillsides, through forests, over grouse moors and rolling farmland to the coastal cliff tops.

These are assumed to belong to a rowan tree growing some 50 feet above on top of the cliff.

Sailing downstream, the first gorge is Qutang, a stretch five miles long with vertical cliff faces.

He tried to kill Jesus Christ by having Him shoved off a cliff.

The process we are describing, nevertheless, suggests a fairly gradual slowdown in economic growth rather than ' falling off a cliff '.

There is a cliff railroad, a smallholding with animals, an adventure playground, and a range of organic gardens.

I noticed you and Cliff Jones swopped positions just after the kick-off at Wembley.

The lower Black Ven Marls of the nearer cliff face are covered by the talus slope of slipped material.

We turned and ran transects parallel to the cliff whilst running the swath bathymetry.

He 's just produced his 23rd album, the latest being Troubadour featuring a host of luminaries including Cliff Richard.

In whiteout conditions, Yates lowered Simpson over the edge of an unseen cliff.

Even wilder, was the idea of watching Cliff working in the studio.

We had a rough road for the first hour, having to descend by a zigzag route down a cliff several hundred feet.

I am amazed at the number of trees and bushes that precariously grow on the side of this cliff.

Worse, if you are skiing the cat tracks that wind around in the mountains in areas such as Whistler, Canada, the inability to make a short radius turn might cause you to fall off the side of a cliff.

Cruise ships, botanical gardens, cliff tops, cascading waterfalls, quaint churches, elegant estate manors, and lush jungle groves are all vibrant alternatives that offer Caribbean flair without mandating a beach wedding.

From a maximum height of 180 feet, the coaster reaches 65 miles per hour and hugs the rugged terrain - including a tunnel through a limestone cliff - to deliver outrageous excitement with a rustic, western feel.

Chicken Little disappeared into walls and could actually walk a little past the edge of a cliff or roof without falling.

Go to the cliff overlooking a bottomless water pit next to the first Convenant shuttle drop (Phantom).

On one of the protruding cliff edges below is the skull.

Play the balloon popping game near the cannon man, but run into the cliff immediately, telling the bird you don't want to play again.

Turn to the cliff on the left, use the clawshot, swim to the wall while holding the clawshot and push the wall until you go through it.

Rush him and press the X button to jump over him, being careful that you don't fall off the cliff or are backed up against a wall.

This will push him closer to the edge of the cliff.

The gala dinner on Friday held at the Cliff's hotel is the welcome dinner.

It is very ripe and walks the edge of the cliff but doesn't quite fall over.

The quiet solitude of a snow covered meadow or the amazing sight of the huge wind drifts along the sides of a cliff are often enough to get people coming back for more winter camping every year.

Cliffs and mountainsides - Don't place your home on a cliff or steep mountainside.

A cliff above the ocean is where two yin energies crash together, creating a destructive force.

It may seem like all your friends are having their second or third babies right now, but just because they "jumped off the cliff" does not mean it is the right choice for you.

Located right on the coast, the Cliff House has the most breathtaking ocean view in San Francisco.

After the show, dine nearby at the Cliff House overlooking the incredible park view, or discover one of the quaint restaurants in the adjoining neighborhoods.

If you are visiting California, you should consider eating at the Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco.

As one of the oldest restaurants in the city, the Cliff House is known for its interesting history, incredible food, and amazing view.

The Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco was built in 1858 by Samuel Brannan for a little over a thousand dollars.

However, this first Cliff House was not permanent.

Foster built the second Cliff House years later.

The Cliff House quickly became popular on Sundays when individuals would ride acoss the Point Lobos toll road.

At the time, the Cliff House was in a state of financial downturn.

Shortly after the dynamite disaster a schooner, named Parallel, ran aground, and the north wing of the Cliff House was destroyed.

In 1896, the Cliff House was rebuilt into a new seven-story restaurant and attraction.

Fortunately, the Cliff House survived the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 with very minimal damage.

They bought the restaurant to go with their "Playland at the Beach" attraction, which was located only a few miles from the Cliff House.

In 1977, the Cliff House became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The last renovation to the Cliff House occurred in 2004.

As of 2010, the Hountalas family, under the name of Peanut Wagon, manages the Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco, as well as its events and operations.

This family is under contract by the National Park Service since the Cliff House is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The Cliff House has two dining facilities and you can also arrange for private events at the Cliff House, such as weddings or anniversary parties.

The Cliff House Restaurant in San Francisco has two dining facilities plus a bar and lounge section.

The Cliff House's Brunch Buffet includes a variety of foods, such as smoked salmon, scones, and cakes.

The Cliff House restaurants offer both lunch and dinner menus as well as extensive wine lists.

Troops will follow Aries over a cliff if that's what he believes it'll take to defeat the enemy.

Suddenly the food falls off the cliff into the street below, where a truck runs over it.

She jumps from a cliff and sees Edward underwater, but Jacob saves her from drowning.

General Hospital enthusiasts are always gossiping about the show's latest actors, characters and cliff hangers, and many removed from the daily viewing enjoy this online cammaradarie.

After all, Bergman was very well known for his role as perennial good guy Dr. Cliff Warner on All My Children.

In 2002, Duhamel elected to leave AMC to pursue other opportunities and fan hearts broke alongside Greenlee's as Leo 'died' from a fall off a cliff trying to protect her from his mother.

In the cliffhanging final installment, Manual throws them off a cliff and the couple struggles to survive.

The love story of Nina Cortlandt (Taylor Miller) and Dr. Cliff Warner (Peter Bergman) enchanted viewers.

When she fell in love with Dr. Cliff Warner, Palmer did everything he could to sabotage the relationship.

Dr. Cliff Warner and heiress Nina Cortlandt are a legacy couple on the daytime soap opera.

For example, if you can't wait to find out if your favorite soap opera character lives or dies after seeing his or her car catapult off of a cliff at the end of a particualr episode, soap spoilers are there to help.

Nina's two sons with Cliff are Bobby and Michael Warner.

She later married Cliff Wilson who raised Adam as his own.

When Cliff and Nina left Pine Valley, the couple were given a well deserved happily ever after.

This "road" is not much more than a dirt path on the edge of a cliff, but the views of the ocean and backside of Mt. Haleakala are truly breathtaking, making the sometimes-perilous drive worthwhile.

The sunny locale offers a variety of water sports, jungle tours, catamaran rides, and cliff diving opportunities.

The Poling family's attorney, Cliff Shoemaker has requested via petition to allow the government and the family to discuss the case and to release the case's records.

Base jumping involves ski jumping off a cliff, employing a parachute in order to complete the jump.

The car made one more circle in the road and then lunged at the cliff.

For a few moments the car hung there, the back half solidly on the ground, the front hanging precariously over the cliff.

As the path turned, the broad side of a metal building came into view, nestled at the foot of a cliff.

She perched on a boulder near the entrance, wondering how many nights of Sasha-type treatment she'd take before tossing herself off the cliff.

He sure didn't fall all the way down from where the line was cut and I doubt anyone cut the rope when he was half way down the cliff.

He leaned forward but strain as he might, the overhanging bulge at the top of the cliff prevented him from seeing the source of the activity.

The cliff's sheer drop created a natural defense against any intruders in addition to providing a view that was breathtaking by day or night.

A man stood near the boulders hedging the cliff, crazed as he flung his arms around and screamed.

Two more black-clad protective service members with weapons drawn stood nearby, one a safe distance behind the lunatic and the other near the cliff.

A warm embrace caught her mid-fall over the cliff, and the scent of soap and man penetrated her bewildered senses.

He stalked off into the forest, away from the castle and cliff.  Toby clambered through the brush and trees after him, the angel's footsteps loud where Rhyn's were silent.  Rhyn found a deer path and followed it until he reached a snowy meadow.  Crossing it, he continued to look for a place to stash the angel where the kid wouldn't freeze to death.  After another hour of walking, he found a small pocket in the roots of a massive tree.

She led him along a dim trail that followed the edge of a granite cliff.

Lines of tents were tucked between the outer wall of the city and the edge of the cliff.

Dozens of men sparred in small groups along the cliff.

Large rocks had been stacked, forming an outside wall that made a room under an overhanging cliff.

The graves lay before them near the edge of a cliff.

She slid, bounced and screamed her way to the edge of the cliff, finally stopping her descent by grabbing the base of a bush.

She released the bush and clawed at the ground as she slid over the cliff.

I can't begin to describe to you what was going through my mind after you fell off that cliff.

His stomach cramped at the memory of that cliff.

At one point the road became one lane and curved around the face of a cliff.

In Inishmore there stand, on a cliff 220 ft.

It is approached by a zigzag path at the side of the cliff, from which a flight of stone xxvII.

The Prytaneum, mentioned by Pausanias, and probably the original centre of the ancient city, was situated somewhere east of the northern cliff of the Acropolis.

Roman remains have been discovered on the cliff north of the town; the site was probably important, but nothing is certainly known about it.

As to appeals the mixed council of Cliff at Hoo (747) said they should go to the synod of the province.

The castle and barracks, occupied by an Austrian garrison, stand on a cliff commanding a fine view of the city.

The plateau-like summit, which originally could be reached only from the south by a steep and narrow path, was rendered almost impregnable to Indian attack by a sheer cliff on the river side of the hill, a deep ravine along its eastern base and steep declivities on the other sides.

Its remains, however, are of the 14th century, and include a massive keep rising finely from a cliff above the Nidd.

Opposite the castle is the Dropping Well, the waters of which are impregnated with lime and have petrifying power, this action causing the curious and beautiful incrustations formed where the water falls over a slight cliff.

In the vicinity is a cliff or ridge of rock called Teufelsmauer (Devil's wall), from which fine views are obtained across the plain and into the deep gorges of the Harz Mountains.

The sea-face is generally overhanging cliff, but in a few places are sandy beaches and low sandhills.

The cliff is cut away all round these immense sepulchres so that they stand free.

The Nelson monument, an elongated turfeted structure, stands on the highest cliff of the hill.

The former is most picturesquely situated on the cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

Above the cliff west of the old town is a broad promenade called the Lees, commanding a notable view of the channel and connected by lifts with the shore below.

On this cliff also stands the parish church of St Mary and St Eanswith, a cruciform building of much interest, with central tower.

The collegiate church, standing picturesquely on a cliff above the sea, was founded about 1235, and has a monastic building attached to it.

Strabo describes a river which he terms Catarractes as a large stream falling with a great noise over a lofty cliff.

As fast as the rock of a cliff is weathered its fragments are washed to the ground by the rain, and carried down the slopes by small streams, ultimately finding their way into a river along which they are carried until the force of the water is insufficient to keep them in suspension, when they become deposited in the river bed or along its banks.

Pisco Bay contains San Gallan Island, high, with a bold cliff outline, 22 m.

The adjective "beetle-browed," and similarly "beetling" (of a cliff), are derived from the name of the insect.

On the northern side a lofty semicircular cliff, reaching a height of 3714 ft., half encircles the present active cone, and descends in long slopes towards the plains below.

Between the two mountains the Pleistus flowed from east to west, and opposite the town received the brooklet of the Castalian fountain, which rose in a deep gorge in the centre of the Parnassian cliff.

It chanced that there existed on the polished surface of a cliff at Behistun in western Persia a tri-lingual inscription which, according to Diodorus, had been made by Queen Semiramis of Nineveh, but which, as is now known, was really the work of King Darius.

Lumholtz found survivals of the cliff dwellers.

The cruciform parish church of St Marcelliana stands on a high cliff, west of the castle.

Epd rEty, to tear, English "rive," the sense being a broken cliff or steep bank.

A strong machicolated and turreted wall surrounds the rock, running along its base on the south, ascending halfway up the cliff on the north, on which side it stands close to the abbey wall, and again descending on the west.

He razed the walls and allowed the women, children and priests to retire in safety to Liege, but the male prisoners he either hanged or drowned in the river by causing them to be cast from the projecting cliff of Bouvignes.

Half way up the cliff, but some distance south of the citadel, is the grotto of Montfat, alleged to be the site of Diana's shrine.

After the cessation in 1882 of works in connexion with the Channel tunnel, to connect England and France, coal-boring was attempted in the disused shaft, west of the Shakespeare Cliff railway tunnel near Dover.

At about half a dozen yards from the cliff, widening and becoming lower, it extends outwards into a platform, which has a slight seaward inclination, but is easy to walk upon, and for nearly ioo yds.

The neighbouring Pegwell Bay, famed for its shrimps, is supposed to have been the scene of the landing of Hengist and Horsa, and at Cliff's End (Ebbs Fleet) a monolithic cross marks the landing-place of St Augustine in 596.

Captain Gosnold rounded Gay Head, which he named Dover Cliff, and established on what is now Cuttyhunk Island, which he called Elizabeth Island, the first (though, as it proved, a temporary) English settlement in New England.

Lake Cliff, Cycle and Oak Lawn parks are amusement grounds.

Another consequence of revived erosion is seen in the occurrence of great landslides, where the removal of weak (Permian) clays has sapped the face of the Vermilion Cliffs (Triassic sandstone), so that huge slices of the cliff face have slid down and forward a mile or two, all shattered into a confused tumult of forms for a score or more of miles along the cliff base.

The outer ranges in Alberta have usually the form of tilted blocks with a steep cliff towards the north-east and a gentler slope, corresponding to the dip of the beds, towards the south-west.

Excepting on the west coasts of the larger islands, which present rugged cliff scenery remarkable both for beauty and for colouring, the group lies somewhat low and is of bleak aspect, owing to the absence of trees.

The charm of the Orkneys does not lie in their ordinary physical features, so much as in beautiful atmospheric effects, extraordinary examples of light and shade, and rich coloration of cliff and sea.

The lower town of Unterland, on the spit, and the upper town, or Oberland, situated on the cliff above, are connected by a wooden stair and a lift.

The island is incidentally described with no small variety of detail, picturesque and topographical; the Homeric localities for which counterparts have been sought are Mount Neritos, Mount Neion, the harbour of Phorcys, the town and palace of Odysseus, the fountain of Arethusa, the cave of the Naiads, the stalls of the swineherd Eumaeus, the orchard of Laertes, the Korax or Raven Cliff and the island Asteris, where the suitors lay in ambush for Telemachus.

The former, as one enters from the pathway along the sides of the cliff, have a broad verandah, its roof supported by pillars, and giving towards the interior on to a hall averaging in size about 35 ft.