What is "clifftop"

Usage examples of "clifftop".

Richard hated clifftops, and high buildings: somewhere not far inside him was the fearthe stark, utter, silently screaming terrorthat if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over and he would find himself walking to the edge of a clifftop and stepping off into space.

They danced in the restoration of a huge clifftop mansion patterned after one that had been destroyed pre-Emperor and three monster earthquakes ago.

The enemy seemed to have gone, and I thought that if I could get to my feet and gain the clifftop, I might yet reach home.

But instead, a squat human figure was outlined on the clifftop, looking down at me, plaits of hair blowing in the wind, a rifle strapped to his back.

Gavril and his druzhina dismounted on the clifftop and stared down at the little port.

The balcony was only just big enough for them to sit outside with their coffee, but there was the view of the sun-silvered Rhone beneath the clifftop edifice and it would have been where Claudine wanted to sit if her mother hadn't led the way, unasked.

Kirk blinked in the sudden flash of brilliant light as the Malibu clifftop transformed into a captain's ready room.

Three more descending switchbacks bring them to a narrow canyon that seems to wind due west, although it is so narrow that the three ride in shadows, ice still filling the crevices on the left side of the road, and the light of the midday sun only apparent on the clifftops when Dorrin looks straight up.

For all its appearance from afar, close examination had revealed the old clifftop defensive structure to be not only useless for any sort of defensive purposes but dangerous to occupy or even to be close around, much less enter.

We turned the wagons to run along the clifftop, and geed up, giving Costard a diagonal pull slantwise up the last bit of slope to the cliff.

He wrenched his mind out of its fever and gazed straight up into the endless blue of the sky, forcing himself to watch the soaring beauty of the herring gulls as they ranged effortlessly among the air currents that fountained up over the high clifftop above them.

The flat clifftop was bright with the cries of stonechats and gulls that rang above the dull pounding of the surf on the rocks below, the air sharp with a salty tang.

Kafari did a careful three-point turn and shut down her engine, jumping down to throw the thermal blanket across the engine block again to prevent a heat plume from rising unchecked above the clifftops.