What is "cliffs"

Usage examples of "cliffs".

I was ashore in the dark womb of those gabbro cliffs and no sign of Iain.

Laerg - forbidding and mysterious, rising out of the Atlantic like the last peaks of a submerged land, its shaggy heights lost in cloud, its massive cliffs resounding to the snowflake swirl of millions of seabirds.

I was remembering Cliffs message: the Faeroes had reported barometric pressure 968, rising, with winds southerly, force 10.

And beyond Sgeir Mhor, running away to our right, the sheer cliffs of Keava were a black wall disappearing into a tearing wrack of cloud, the whole base of this rampart cascading white as wave after wave attacked and then receded to meet the next and smash it to pieces, heaping masses of water hundreds of feet into the air.

And on the other side of the squall a dark wall coming to meet them, towering cliffs of black rock sliding back from the starboard wing, the glimpse of two stacs, their tops hidden in cloud.

The daylight had strengthened by then and ragged gaps in the overcast showed the slopes of Keava bare to its spine and to the cliffs beyond.

Up there in the wind and the driving clouds, with the thunder of the waves breaking at the foot of the cliffs, i he and I, we could both recall the solitary parachute lifting and sailing out into the Atlantic.

They completely ignored the fact that Cliffs warning had come too late, almost three hours after the order to evacuate had been given.

I had the illusion that if only I could penetrate the grey curtain ahead of me, I should see the towering cliffs of Laerg rising out of the sea.

Then, if the fog held, the first indication would not be anything seen, but the pounding of the swell at the base of the cliffs, perhaps a glint of white water.

Four minutes on northwest and then I had to turn west to keep those cliffs in sight.

I hugged the cliffs just clear of the backwash and ten minutes later the movement became more violent.

I glimpsed a staggering sight - two rock cliffs hemming me in and towering up on either side like the walls of a canyon.

I closed in to the cliffs, the engine ticking over just fast enough to give me steerage away.

A gull shied away from me and was whirled screaming up the face of the cliffs like a piece of windblown paper.