Dr. Huxtable

Usage examples of cliff.

Despite a conservative training--or because of it, for humdrum lives breed wistful longings of the unknown--he swore a great oath to scale that avoided northern cliff and visit the abnormally antique gray cottage in the sky.

A forensic team abseils down the cliff and scours the area but finds nothing more than a few small strips of clothing.

He could not see the pilot, but he had a fair idea where the man would be huddled on the floor, and he was just aiming at that part of the floor when the helicopter veered sharply up the cliff.

Gravity warped alarmingly as they started to traverse the cliff, making it seem as if they were vertical during the whole transition.

One of the fat ugly Albacore sharks saw me as I slid down the dark cliff face, and he swerved towards me.

Looking across the water, Alec saw that a huge channel had been cut through the cliffs at the head of the bay.

Coming on deck just after dawn, Alec saw towering grey cliffs off the port bow and a cluster of islands lying close to shore ahead of them.

Unable to free his hand from the reins, Alec was jerked off balance and swung out over the cliff edge.

There, they ate lunch at a seafood shack on Almar Avenue, with outdoor tables, and went for a long walk along West Cliff Drive and out onto the ocean view point before heading back into San Francisco.

Now, this angle by adding to it the twenty-seven degrees which separated Alpha from the antarctic pole, and by reducing to the level of the sea the height of the cliff on which the observation had been made, was found to be fiftythree degrees.

The sun glittered off the silver radiator and off the engine-turned aluminium shield below the high perpendicular glass cliff of the windscreen.

My first experiences in Egypt, pursuing mummies and climbing up and down cliffs, had convinced me that trailing skirts and tight corsets were a confounded nuisance in that ambience For many years my working costume had consisted of pith helmet and shirtwaist, boots, and Turkish trousers, or bloomers.

Framed in it was the amethystine burning of the great ring that girdled the encircling cliffs.

As she entered the familiar channel between Amygdaloid Island and Belle Isle, and saw the ranger station snugged up safe from storms at the foot of the moss-covered cliff, she allowed herself one short dream of cholla cactus and skies without milky veils of moisture, of a sun with fire to it and food hotter even than that.

An overcast sky pressed down to the top of the cliff that backed Amygdaloid Ranger Station.