Jumping-off point?

Usage examples of ledge.

Any honest afrit would by now have grown wings and shot down to find me, but without a nearby ledge or roof to hop to, the skeleton was stymied.

Alem Mikail Dem Alem got up from the window ledge and came over to kneel between the two women.

Meanwhile, the Baas had better take off his boots, since the feet of those Bushmen whose spooks I feel all about me have made the ledge very slippery.

Ground slanted downward, begrown with bushes and dwarf trees well apart, otherwise ruddy-bare to a narrow ledge.

The commander and the biologist sat at her feet on the round ledge formed by the base of the turret.

Averitt placed the stub of his chalk down on the little ledge under the blackboard and tried unsuccessfully to rub the white dust of his hands.

Safh or high bouldery ledge of the left bank, where it receives the broad Kusayb watercourse.

Twice something bumped at the shingled ledge outside, or at the window itself, and went still.

Sanner peeled off one of his caving gloves and waved his bare hand through the air as they continued along the ledge.

Then as Pam screamed his name he slipped again and fell feet first, bypassing the ledge, into the storm-driven cloacal rage below.

Clambering up the pile of broken stone, he squeezed out through the holecomand found himself standing alone on a granite ledge surrounded by thick fog that shrouded the view on all sides.

But gathered at the foot of the ledge they were descending, spears poised, were perhaps ten males, some hardly past cubhood, others showing the snowy shine of fur which was the badge of age.

They filled every cuneus and maenianum of the amphitheater, from the best seats up to the hard ledges of the highest tier.

She put the cutwork lid on the brazier with a sigh and settled herself on the window ledge.

He stopped at the ledge, Cyd moving up next to him, not the least bit concerned by the height, nor apparently by the fact that he was readying a belaying line.