clifflike

There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the fum reach of a man, ex tending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog.

Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

This path angled down below the clifflike western face of the peak the castle stood on, wending its way curvaceously through pastures and forest and slope.

Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

We stood for a long time, all of us, on he summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above Thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

In two days, however, it would be lit with lanterns, thrust out on jutting poles from the bordering, clifflike house and strung with garlands and flags.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

In John Updike's "The Beauty of the Lilies," fictional Presbyterian minister Clarence Wilmot's faith founders on the "clifflike riddle of predestination."

Highway To Heaven Marc Arkin 2009

Wearing a pink tie and a well-cut suit, the 63-year-old executive piloted his Mercedes-Benz sedan past the clifflike hull of a Royal Navy warship toward a training grounds one day recently.

Ahoy, Billionaires: 2008

Nanagada's coasts were too rocky and clifflike to land on.

Crystal Rain 2006

They nest in NYC, too - they like clifflike places to live.

Mostly birds of prey Jessica 2006

Three wooden guard towers ringed the apron, and a stockade fence joined the towers and ran from the innermost towers to clifflike sections of the mountain.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005