| 单词 | cliff |
| 例句 | And they moved, and he fell off the cliff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Sparks light the ground, the rocky cliff like pretty twinkling Christmas lights. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The boats rolled and pitched in the violent, sucking backwash from the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I could hear rocks tumbling from the cliff, falling down into the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands and arms and back screamed with the strain of clinging to the cliff’s edge, but she wasn’t about to give up. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Suddenly it was as though she stepped over the edge of a black cliff. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Then the path went left and south away from the cliff and there were thick woods on both sides of it and they went steeply up and up into the pass. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Will looked along the shore, past the lighthouse, and saw the coast rising in a great series of cliffs that disappeared into the haze of the distance. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the big boulders, feeling his way slowly, remembering ledges and cracks in the cliff wide enough for a person to climb to the top of the mesa. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They kept as close as they could to the western side, and they could see the dim shapes of the low cliffs rising ever higher, shadowy walls with their feet in the hurrying river. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d taken the cliff instead—falling through the sky to this stupid island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche; his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z That cliff and all the property the DiAngelos now own was all part of our stomping grounds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Each bear took a leg in her mouth, and together they slowly lowered Roz headfirst down the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Some sticky stuff was dripping off the cliffs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Staying up on the hillside, near the top of the ridge, I worked my way to the far end of the valley, almost to the gap and the steep cliff on the far side. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He was standing between the two trees gazing at the blank wall of the cliff, as if he would bore a hole into it with his eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z See, I had been staying for about a week in a beach house on a cliff that overlooked one of Laguna Beach’s smaller coves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He could jump off the cliff, but that was suicide. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was nearly eleven o’clock when he drove into Newton, the weatherbeaten old county seat lying on the cliffs above the Embarrass River. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She bleached her flax on a rock atop a cliff in the Wissahickon Valley in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Higher up there was a big outcropping of gray rock, a cliff. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We pound down the cliff top path, kicking up our own dust, Manchee’s ears flattened back, running fast. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I was like Fred shucking off his sweatshirt at the quarry, running to the edge of the cliff. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When we reached the cliffs overlooking it, we found the rest of the children in a thick patch of sawgrass near the edge. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Under the dripping cliffs King Pellinore stood stock still, looking vaguely in front of him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It towered over them as they sailed nearer and nearer to the cliff on which it stood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z At five o’clock the next morning, with the stores loaded onto the boats, the men pushed off into the water again, rowing along the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She reached the cliff”s edge in time to see the turtle lunge and snap Sciron out of the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I followed them toward the cliff, but finally lost them in the darkness. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still raining as they coasted along the steep lane that wound down the cliff side to St. Catherine’s Bay. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A short distance beyond the dune, near the cliff, I saw the pack of wild dogs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She was climbing a cliff on the way home when she heard a loud noise behind her. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Trees with old and twisted roots hung over cliffs, and piled up behind into mounting slopes of pine-wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The river of mud whisked her downhill, slamming her into rocks and dragging her through bushes and sweeping her straight toward a cliff! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She was relieved when the baboons made the long trek back to the sleeping cliff, rather than spending the night in the trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other bodies and more wreckage on the cliff above and among the trees farther down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He ran backwards and forwards along the cliff, his face always to the sea, and his voice rose insanely. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I stepped back . . . and as fast as a cobra, Polyphemus smacked me to the edge of the cliff. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Farther up were the cliffs where Jasón’s Indian lived. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d made it roughly a third of the way down the cliff—still high enough up to die if they fell. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When they came to a stop, Ash saw that the path ended on the edge of a cliff, and before them was a ravine. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d retreated to the edge of the cliff, even though the poison wasn’t after her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They slipped easily into the traffic of travelers and traders where the cliff road met the northern road that led to Upper Djerholm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Just behind those cliffs a volcano rose, vanishing into heavy cloud cover. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It’s the howl of a mother bear as she watches her cub tumble off a cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But to her amazement, they finally made it to the bottom of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I was out on the cliffs and went without my lunch, and I know Mr. Crawley was there earlier on. What will happen to her? Will tugs get her off, do you think?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Voices or the tolling of bells or glaciers cleaving in two or cliffs crumbling to dust. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And the waterfalls might have been curtains of pale silk hung from the cliff tops, too numerous to count. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I cracked open my eyes early this morning when the sunlight crept over the cliff to the east. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The landscape then looked strange, unearthly strange to the Lord Odysseus: paths by hill and shore, glimpses of harbors, cliffs, and summer trees. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was empty, on its side, at the edge of the cliff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was clear from the gathering below that they intended to climb the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can keep your egg!” he said as he trotted toward the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A powdery, colored breeze lifted her hair and blew it like a rippled shawl around his armless shoulder, that ended abruptly, like a cliff. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Would she choose a cliff, a bridge—or, he mused almost longingly, would she pick a beautiful hemlock forest like this? Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The school sprawls atop Serra’s eastern cliffs like a colossal vulture, a jumble of austere buildings enclosed by a black granite wall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Islands rose out of the steel harbor waters with sheer cliff sides, reaching to uneven summits, and crowned with austere, soaring firs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The mud nests were so thick on the face of the cliff that, from a distance, the wall looked like it was covered with honeycomb. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z But close under the cliff there stood, still strong and living, two tall trees, larger than any trees of holly that Frodo had ever seen or imagined. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then came a difficult and unnerving descent down a rocky cliff face on the other side, a short walk through a dark, waterless valley, and delivery to the foot of another wall of rock. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z When I started to tell the story of the cliff, Uncle frowned at me, so I didn’t say anything. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Stanley saw a rut, about a foot wide and six inches deep, running down a cliff. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Regret making me jump off a cliff yet?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps this is because they enclose the unique, the spectacular, the astounding—the greatest waterfall, the deepest canyon, the highest cliff, the most stupendous works of man or nature. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He had found the footpath—and also the side of the cliff. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He felt like he’d been yanked back from a high cliff. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I knelt, so close to the cliff’s edge now that Emma hooked two fingers through the back of my belt to keep me from falling. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z On the northwest side, towards the coast, the cliffs fell sheer to the sea below, their surface unbroken. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z More people came and wandered over the cliffs to look at the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Fred’s favorite episode was the one where Duke, Nala, and Scruffy had to ski off a cliff in Switzerland to chase down the villain, who had stolen a top-secret chocolate formula. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Granting that Armstrong was mad, what was to prevent him having killed off all the others and then committed suicide by throwing himself over the cliff, or perhaps while trying to swim to the mainland? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z On the cliff face of the Grand Coulee, Joe and the men he had worked with had looked out for each other as they dodged rocks falling from above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At one point we went down a small road that ended at a cliff. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The point of the roof where the water leaves the cliff must be a good thirty feet above us and the ledge fifteen feet wide easy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His heel slipped, the edge of the cliff crumbled, and the- great Polyphemus made chicken wing motions that did nothing to help him fly as he tumbled into the chasm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the road was nothing but sand and ocean, on the other it was these steep green cliffs full of baby trees and wild bushes. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The cliffs and the base of the hillside were blindingly white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared at the white cliffs in the distance and thought about why Hecate had sent Gale the polecat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On the way home, carrying the abalone between us, Ramo and I stopped on the cliff The air was clear and we could look far out to sea in the direction the ship had gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The filth and ash that had taken his mum was returning up the cliff face in tendrils of smoke, smoke that he couldn’t help but breathe in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The cliffs were a lot taller than they had appeared from across the valley. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z There was one flat rock there, spread like a table, and the waters sucking down on the four weedy sides made them seem like cliffs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Looking around, he could see a track leading down from the road that twisted up over the cliffs that surrounded them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There, high up on a cliff face, were the sixty-foot-tall faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt, carved right into the rock, staring somberly down on us. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The cries of the baboons echoed in the trees across the grassland, but they didn’t attempt to approach the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The cliff towered into the night, the countless stars were kindled, the wind blew cold, and the doors stood fast. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Claire knelt on the path at the base of the cliff while Einar leaned his walking sticks against the rock wall and adjusted the pack on her back. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood’s Bay and back. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z They climbed the cliffs and lay in the sun. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z To the north, a huge mass of rock rose out of the sea—an island with cliffs at least a hundred feet tall. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Chiseled into a sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “She lives in a cave, up on those cliffs. If we get too close, her snaky heads will come down and start plucking sailors off the ship.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Tonight they did not intend to go far down, but were hastening to find a side-passage that led back to their watch-tower on the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At the top of the cliff I stood for a while gazing at the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They had already bundled their supplies together and pushed them over the cliff, where they slid down the slope until the bundles lodged against an outcropping of ice. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Frank studied the angle of the bolt in the mast and pointed toward the top of the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Something that would make him jump off a cliff at night while drunk because he thought from my texts I might know what it is? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Jinny hefted her bag up over her shoulder, and then she noticed something—that the rushing, roaring wind that usually swirled around the cliffs wasn’t as loud as usual. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z When the cliffs of Yaros appeared off their larboard bows, he found his three lost ships waiting for him, just as Moqorro had promised. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He continued north, looking to the yellows and the orange of the sandrock cliffs ahead, and to the narrow sandrock canyons that cut deep into the mesa, exposing the springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I was flying straight up, the wind whistling in my ears, the side of the cliff only inches from my face. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he climbed up the brush cliff beside the water, clawing and tearing at the ferns and wild grape as he went. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z At the cliff’s top she saw the small campfire and the man in the sleeping bag. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They were moving among many two-legs, and behind these were big cliffs of stone that had caves in them where two-legs were passing in and out, or standing in the higher ones, looking out. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Nothing had ever been so welcome as that glimpse of land, that pale sand beach, the cliffs above. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I sprinted down the stream and made myself a lean-to near some cliffs where I thought the bird had disappeared. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Grumbling and muttering to himself, the dwarf led them to what seemed to be the sheer face of a cliff. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Neither would the poisonous atmosphere, nor the treacherous landscape with its pits, cliffs, and jagged rocks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Indeed, if one were to retrace the Burr-Hamilton route across the Hudson and land just upstream from the modern-day Lincoln Tunnel, one would come face-to-face with a sheer cliff 150 feet high. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Palmer learned that in the wild pigeons used to live in the nooks and crannies of high rocky cliffs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And presently something did change: a cliff or an island lay ahead of them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z On the television set, a sports car crashed into a truck, shot off a cliff, and burst into flames. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The fog had almost gone and when I came to the cove I could see the ship at once, lying about two miles off-shore with her bows pointed towards the cliffs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The rope is thirty feet long, and this close to the base of the watchtower, the cliffs aren't as sheer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Gulls make their nests high on the cliffs, in hollow places on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z What if they got themselves in trouble at the top of this cliff, and Jason decided that saving Hazel wasn’t in the best interest of the quest? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I wave back and then close my eyes to take stock of my situation, because jumping off a cliff seems like a pivotal moment where a little stock-taking should be done. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt saw the red of canyon walls, the heavy green of creosote, and a blue that was the color of the sky trapped between high cliffs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or if he was out by the cliffs, maybe he seen the sheep killer and was chasin’ after,” said another. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He let the moment at the cliff’s edge come to him again, wincing with the hurt of it but watching his father’s face closely. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It had spotted a dassie on the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When I looked into his eyes, I felt dizzy and exhilarated, as though I was balancing at the edge of a cliff, one step away from falling or flying. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t have to be about mountain climbing. Just needs at least one scene where some dudes are fighting and somebody gets thrown off a cliff.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “The wind blows north," Dad had to shout, “from Normandy, over the Channel, smacks into these cliffs and alley-oop, a thermal updraft! Perfect for kites!" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Its thin white light lit up the faces of the rocks and drenched the cold frowning walls of the cliff, turning all the wide looming darkness into a chill pale grey scored with black shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Considering what the future may hold, jumping off this cliff doesn’t seem so scary at all. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was light now and we went quickly over the dunes to the edge of the cliff and stood there while the sun rose. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Haymitch makes a beeline for his cliff and has just reached the edge when she throws the ax. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He sat, watching the sea heaving between his hands, and hearing the wooden clatter of gannets on an island cliff. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On the opposite side of the lake, from a distant cliff face, gush three waterfalls of varying heights. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The cliff rose in front of me and though the rocks were slippery with sea moss I found a hold for a hand and then a foot. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She coaxed it carefully back over the cliffs edge, a huge shiver passing through her body as the board passed over solid ground. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As though her feet might suddenly decide to leap off the cliff without asking her head for advice. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A distracted fleeing creature came clambering awkwardly up over the cliffs and crags to where he lay. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The river narrowed and the banks rose higher, growing into dark limestone cliffs with sides too steep for the jungle to cling to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Well, when I wrote that, I remember thinking that those cliffs they were jumping off, those were the Cliffs of Insanity that everybody tries to climb in The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the great grey cliffs a horse was dying noisily, struggling to rise on a broken leg and screaming when he fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We began going up a steeply climbing path, and we could see—maybe a hundred yards further up—a kind of viewing area right on the cliff edge with benches facing out to sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled, coming dangerously near the edge of the cliff. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z On the other side, in the narrow path between the river and the cliffs, voices snarled, getting louder as they approached from upstream. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The old witch would stumble into the sapling grove and fall over a cliff—Nhamo hoped. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had plenty of food, and he felt enormously good after his battle with the cliff. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It took two more days of travel to reach the cliffs that overlooked Djerholm, but the going was easier as they moved south and toward the coast. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The two boys trudged up out of the river bottom and up the crumbling cliff to the level land. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “There are cliffs. There are plenty of caves and crevices. Plus water. One of the Sogozha’s tributaries comes from up there.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z ‘We had better try a way back southwards along the line of the cliff, I think,’ said Sam. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When Dex and Faris walk away, I rappel to the desert floor, where Helene sits cross-legged in the shade of the cliffs, her feet buried to the ankles in the hot sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Just cliffs and brush and rocks and dryness.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west the yellow sandstone cliffs were beginning to catch the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z During the day there was always a watcher on the cliff and each night as we sat around our fires we wondered if the next sun would bring him home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The hobbits stood now on the brink of a tall cliff, bare and bleak, its feet wrapped in mist; and behind them rose the broken highlands crowned with drifting cloud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On one side was a high cliff wall of dark rock, and on the other was a sheer drop-off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A cloud of dust bloomed around the trio as they thrashed closer to the edge of the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The gulls wheeled overhead, mewing like hungry cats; some of them settled on the ledges of the cliff, while others, bolder, rode the surface of the water beside the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I say, “If it was a fun cliff.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The sea was calm behind the high cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what if I slowly drive off a cliff?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It felt like I’d been teetering over the edge of a cliff and someone had pulled me back. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z On one side, the limestone cliffs were almost completely sheer, dropping into the sea over a thousand feet below, as near as Piper could figure. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A few large chunks of rock, such as the one upon which Harry and Dumbledore were standing, looked as though they had broken away from the cliff face at some point in the past. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sheer rose the dreadful cliffs to unguessed heights on either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On starless nights the great cliff was as black as stone, a darkness towering high above the wide world, but when the moon came out it shimmered pale and icy as a frozen stream. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was galloping through the rocky forest by the sea cliffs when her foot splintered apart. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z No mortal man could scale it, nor so much as land there, not with twenty hands and feet, so sheer the cliffs are—as of polished stone. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We were starving by now and went into a little café perched on the cliff just where one of the footpaths began. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It stood on a snowy cliff overlooking this big frosty forest on one side and the gray churning ocean on the other. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Of the four canoes stored there against the cliff, I chose the smallest, which was still very heavy because it could carry six people. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the birds wandered close to the bottom of the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nanko was standing on the cliff motioning us to hurry, so I refused to let him go back for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The black-glass beach stretched inland about fifty yards, then dropped off the edge of a cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She must have told him of her sleep-walking adventure on the cliff, and that I knew all about it; and now he wants me to tell him what she knows, so that he may understand. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The ledge joined the cliff just below my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful set her wings and glided above the waterfall and cliff to the Schoharie Valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z With a sudden cry of fury, Tree-ear picked up the jiggeh and threw it, container and all, over the edge of the cliff. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her great belly was swollen with new life as she leaped across the yellow sandrock, startled forever across the curve of cliff rock, ears flung back to catch a sound behind her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At dusk I was coming back from the spring with a basket of water on my shoulder, walking along the cliff with Rontu-Aru. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A boy and girl stood still on the path that went down the back side of the cliff. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she squints at something beyond the edge of the cliff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I study the time on Mom’s old watch—she was wearing it when her car sailed off the cliff two years ago, killing her on impact—as it ticks around my wrist. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Here’s what happens when you jump feetfirst and arms flailing off of a thirty-foot cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Bill and Fleur’s cottage stood alone on a cliff overlooking the sea, its walls embedded with shells and whitewashed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In late afternoon, shouts in the forest told Nhamo the baboon troop was on its way to the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mud was pouring off the cliff like a waterfall! The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Silently, he led them around the harbor to an enormous warehouse hewn into the stone cliffs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They began the march from the rocky shore up the cliff side. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When her wings beat, waves of darkness rolled over the cliffs, making Annabeth feel heavy and sleepy, her eyesight dim. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On a late June day when the cliff side was green and yellow with chickweed, Chup caught a passing starling on the wing. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We saw waterfalls, too, streams jumping off cliffs into the valley of the Delaware. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She sat in the shade of the willows that grew beside the pool, below the overhang of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Jason swooped out of the sky, right over her head, and body-slammed the bandit over the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not gone far along the trail before I began to wonder if I should not let him go to the cliff by himself. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I still wanted to jump off the cliff and search for her, but I had a feeling that Artemis was right. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “And, lastly, I must have a hole through this cliff, and here is a needle to dig it.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z This hill was Mwala wa Nyenje, meaning “The Rock of the Edible Flies,” named after the cliffs at its summit and the fat delicious flies that lived in its trees. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z And the fists rushed down together in a violent pounce and grabbed her, pulling her over the edge of the cliff. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Beyond it the shore rose sheer into a grey cliff, and there was no further passage for those on foot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Holding his wings firmly outstretched, he spiraled high above the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, a few people do, I guess. But there’s nothing there to get. And not much water. Just rocks and cliffs and greasewood. Why?” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And beyond the lighthouse, distant cliffs rose dimly, and beyond them, those great wide rolling hills he’d seen from the place he’d first come through. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Drawing his grey hood well over his face, Sam crept stealthily towards the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After trudging across the island in the afternoon heat, they found the cave perched halfway up a beachside cliff. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She paused on the cliff to let the breeze ruffle her dress-cloth. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They hiked up past the cabins, through the wide green meadow to where the low snap trees stood, at the edge of the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z One of the maps Kelton brought shows elevation and the steepness of the terrain, so we know how to get there without falling off a cliff. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Kaede was working in the cliff garden when she received the summons. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The turtle, the dead-end channel, the cliff...Hazel got the feeling this was not the first time the letter writer had ambushed a ship here. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They neared the top of the cliff, both wheezing and gasping for air after trudging the last few hundred feet of the steep path. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z El Jefe’s two-story concrete house sat on top of the mountain above a cluster of little palm huts that seemed to be barely holding on to the cliff. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was also close to the cliff and a ridge of rocks which would shelter my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “The excitement all seems to be over, doesn't it?” she said; “they are saying down on the cliff there the ship will be there for days.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He knew there was a falcon’s nest in the cliffs above the meadow, and he summoned the bird by its name. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The reflection of its colors made the sandstone cliffs bright gold, and then deep red. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Coming to the opening they found that they had made their way down through a cleft in a high steep bank, almost a cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The actual village of Sticklehaven could not be seen, only the hill above it, a jutting out cliff of red rock concealed the actual little bay. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z "Is it safe? Ain't there a cliff? I can hear the sea." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She nodded to me in friendly fashion, and sauntered off to the edge of the cliff, the little boy running at her heels. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Ymir’s bones they piled up into mountains and cliffs. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z There are multiple viewpoints from the top of this sea cliff. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z No way would they have the strength to climb back up that cliff, even if they wanted to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She could not afford the least slip of her hand on the rock face of the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Down one side of the cliff, a highway cut through a ravine. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When the counterfeit Beast was perfected, the knights took it away and hid it in a cave at the foot of the cliffs, above high-water mark. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The tower sits at the edge of the cliffs and overlooks the dunes to the east and the school to the west. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I know you’re paying attention, but look at him—he’s in line to leap off a cliff and I bet you anything he can’t even swim. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Percy scanned the cliffs and boulders, alert for more monsters, but nothing else appeared. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We snuck around to the small cliff that stood between the ocean and the highway where the car was, peeked around at the cop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At first I thought that the pack had driven him there against the cliff and were getting ready to attack him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z At length the forest broke away to reveal sheer faces of jagged cliffs. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I let the wind at my back scoop me up and toss me over the cliff into the sea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z As soon as they got outside, they heard Grandma, standing at the edge of the cliff, hollering their names. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At dawn, as Rontu and I went down the cliff, I would watch the ocean for their sails. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He raised his head slowly and stared at the edge of the cliff. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z A cliff was on their left and a chasm on their right. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He sailed out from between the dark cliffs, and on the sea was broad, bright morning, with a fair wind blowing from the north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They crossed the marshy seam of the valley and climbed the rocky cliffs, shoulder to shoulder this time. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It’s like stepping off a cliff, believing the air will hold you up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Good decision, he told himself as he huffed up and up the track, as it wound around the mountain, as the river got farther and farther below the gray cliffs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Turning his eyes away from the shadow behind and the deep gloom beneath the cliff upon his left, he looked ahead, and he saw two things that increased his dismay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The rain and wind were overtaking her, rubbing away the details of her legs; the sun was bleaching her hooves into faint outlines, merging into the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The white wolf raced through a black wood, beneath a pale cliff as tall as the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She used to shake for hours after the Commandant made her scale the cliffs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As Ulape and I ran along the cliff a whirring sound like a great bird in flight passed above our heads. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed to the tops of cliffs and threw their children off before hurling themselves onto the rocks below. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Once you jump off a cliff, there’s no undoing it, there’s no stopping midair. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Instead of being like a princess’s home, the buildings looked like they belonged on a craggy cliff above a raging sea during a lightning storm. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I would go out onto the cliffs, with their pine trees and gorse bushes, or down to the beach. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z While the rock was not an easy ascent—at some places it was little less than a cliff—I reached the pinnacle. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The knife sliced the water, and grew, and kept rising, until it was a great wall, a jagged cliff, a triangle of what looked like stone above her head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The Summer Tournament is being held on the edge of a cliff on Insweal, the Isle of Woe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Six blond boys all speaking Fjerdan, clustered on a cliff above the shore. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At Helm’s Gate, before the mouth of the Deep, there was a heel of rock thrust outward by the northern cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The rest of the cliff looked impossible to descend—nothing more than a crosshatching of tiny ledges—but they kept climbing down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z When the morning dawned, foggy and squally, they were right up under the island’s towering black cliffs, and a violent squall tore down the side of a mountain, slamming into the boat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Most nights, though, the animals preferred to stay on the cliff, and then she slept easily, soothed by their incessant murmuring. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared straight down, saw that the stone wall of the Maze went toward the ground in a sheer cliff until it disappeared into whatever lay far, far below. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The mouth of the gully was a black notch in the dim cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Back from the Deep the echoes came, blast upon blast, as if on every cliff and hill a mighty herald stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were on the edge of a cliff. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The two trackers scurried about on the little beach, and they saw Kino’s progress up the cliff before they drank. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He cast one glance over his shoulder at the blackness of the cliff’s shadow and realized that he had come too far to return—either by himself or by the help of his antique robot. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They picked their steps away from the skirts of the cliff, among a wilderness of boulders and rough stones, wet and slippery with the heavy rain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Quietly I let myself down over the edge of the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He glanced over the cliff, where the turtle’s massive shell glinted just under the water. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That night a downpour pelted the cliff side. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Fin straightened, carrying a square target toward the stony cliff wall that sheltered the cove. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He soared over the trees, tilted one wing, and found himself headed for the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z High cliffs lowered upon either side, and thrust forward from its mouth were two sheer hills; black-boned and bare. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Grim black cliffs reached up 800 feet into the fog at their backs, and the 2,500-foot peaks behind those were covered with glaciers and snow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They mostly all do now because she can surf harder than any of them, likes to jump off cliffs, and isn’t afraid of anything, not even great white sharks or Dad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It goes from one cliff edge to the other, crossing the river what’s gotta be a hundred feet or more above it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes I watched from the high cliff wall, where I could look out and see all the meadhall lights on the various hills across the countryside, glowing like candles, reflected stars. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A scream and the sound of tumbling rocks told Nhamo someone had fallen over a cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a blinding sheet, mingled with hail, it drove against the cliff, bitter cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At last I came to the place where it opens into a meadow right at the edge of a low sea cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In my mind I could see it because I have seen people running away—the roads clogged to a standstill and the stampede over the cliff of our own designing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He lobs a rock the size of his fist over the cliff and waits. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The slope continued steeply downwards and the rocks on either hand rose to the height of cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Some of them were scrambling down the cliff face to get a closer view of the stranded ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The cliff face isn’t even and the ledge curves round it as it stretches forward. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z We were on a cliff in the woods of Connecticut. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “My dark friend will not give you the luxury of a choice. It’s the cliff or the cave, boy!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Denna pointed to a break in the cliff, a deep crack about two feet across. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She described the torturous climb up the cliff at length, feeling the need to relive it inch by inch as Einar had told her he had, remembering each handhold, each precipice and narrow ledge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Strong, nimble creatures carried Roz up the sea cliffs and across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I had always thought it happened in a sailing race, that other boats were there, the boats from Kerrith and that people were watching, from the cliffs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It had skittered away over the edge of the cliff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The helicopter appeared out of the mist, hovering just beyond the cliffs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Nor did Sam find any nook or hollow to shelter in: only bare stony slopes frowned over by the cliff, which now rose again, higher and more sheer as they went back. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Strangely, it made Piper think of the sea - how the waves boomed along the cliffs of Santa Monica back home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I opened the wooden box that was up against the cliff wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They were getting dangerously close to a cliff at the edge of the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z After splashing across the stream in the shallows, I stood at the bottom of the cliff and wondered how on earth I was going to climb the sheer wall. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A towering cliff stood behind them, a sheer drop, black and faceless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Claire pictured the vertical rock cliff that hung over the village and hid the sun for half the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She listened to the baboon troop returning to their sleeping cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I take off my book bag, take a deep breath, and sit down with my legs dangling over the edge of the cliff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z A great jumble of fallen rock blocked their way partway up, where a section of the cliff face had fallen, but the surefooted little garrons were able to pick their way through. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Harry saw a fissure in the cliff into which dark water was swirling. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Far up and ahead she could see the sunny opening where she would emerge back onto the side of the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As soon as the Aleut ship was sighted we would all go to the cliff and let ourselves down, one at a time. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A mourning dove called from the tall grass along the wash, and below the cliffs the speckled cattle were grazing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Thinking about all of this made Jess feel dizzy, as if she was teetering at the edge of a cliff. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z When we stepped into the Atlas Clearing it was like we’d fell off a cliff right into a whole ’nother world. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A wall, too, the men of old had made from the Hornburg to the southern cliff, barring the entrance to the gorge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The humpback came scurrying to the cliff edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was a high, undercut cliff there and some birds building their nests against the face of it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Rills of water began to run down; soon they grew to a spate that splashed and fumed on the stones, and spouted out over the cliff like the gutters of a vast roof. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You look like Wile E. Coyote after the Roadrunner dropped him off a cliff,” said my sister, Katie. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z The Ice Court loomed over the harbor, perched on the cliff like a sullen gull with feathers ruffled, its white stone walls lit from below, glowing against the night sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We ride over the cliffs and then the sea, watching mermaids leap in the spangled waves and selkies rolling along the surf. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Great rippling rings formed on the surface out beyond where the stone had fallen, and they moved slowly towards the foot of the cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Because with a roar, a cloud of burning darkness lifted two giant fists over the cliff top. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z She imagined small high windows in a cliff face of brick, and thought perhaps she did, the way people imagined the different torments of hell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On sunny days I would wear them with my cormorant dress and the necklace, and walk along the cliff with Rontu. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The barking grew louder as I came closer to the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a low sound from below the cliff. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z One day when she was hardly more than a child she was gathering crocuses on a cliff where there was a deep cave. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the bottom of the valley is level and broad and nearly a mile long; steep cliffs wall it in all around. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Ulape and I stood on the cliff, and watched helplessly, afraid to use the rocks we held lest we injure our own men. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Emerging from the tunneled cleft in the cliff wall, Claire was once again faced with the sheer drop of it, the certain death if she were to fall. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z So Nhamo went up behind him, to cushion his fall if he slipped, and Garikayi half carried him until they arrived at a jumble of rocks and timbers in the side of a cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I decreased the magnification on the map a bit, then pulled back far enough to confirm that the northern edge of the hill ended in a cliff of sand and crumbling gravel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Occasionally he climbed the cliffs and brought her eggs to eat; occasionally he took her in his arms and leaned against a rock. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” I said, and felt my fun evening leap off a cliff as she walked back toward the kitchen door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She finally hauled herself over the top of the cliff and stopped. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Up ahead I could see shadows and then figures as the trees opened and the moon poured into the clearing before the cliff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When they finally do make it through that impossible hedge, using a blowtorch from one of the dead Careers’ packs, they find themselves on flat, dry earth that leads to a cliff. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Haymitch skirts along the edge of the cliff as if trying to figure something out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Stumbling on painful feet, they explored the cliff faces nearby. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Now they were over the ghostly white cliffs of eastern Normandy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She glanced up and saw the rim of the cliff only a few yards above her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He used to go out to the cliffs and rocky ledges where they breed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She waited for Ivan to nod and hide on the path over the cliff, and then she threw the stone at Sigurd. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But the great waves had cost me all the food and weapons which were stored in the cave, as well as the canoe I had been working on and those hidden under the south cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When he reached the end of the valley, he was confronted by a high granite cliff. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At times the road cut into the cliffs made by the mesas that rose from the river valley, then the river was far below. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sea cliff was behind him and they could not reach him from that direction so they were trying to think of some other way. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever steeper and narrower it wound inward from the north under the shadow of the Thrihyrne, till the crowhaunted cliffs rose like mighty towers on either side, shutting out the light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The third man scrabbled away like a crab, slipped into the pool, and then he began to climb frantically, to climb up the cliff where the water penciled down. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day someone went to the cliff to scan the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He stepped to the edge of the cliff—and flung it into the air. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And before anyone could react, the monster, with Annabeth still on his back, leaped over the cliff and tumbled into the darkness. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z On the sixth day, when the storm had ended, I went to the place where the canoes had been hidden, and let myself down over the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The cliff and the river spoke to her of her first home and her parents. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z From the sunny cliffs, in crevices where no one would think any- thing could grow, sprang the little red and yellow fountains of the comul bush. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The bikers peeled off at Red Rock Canyon, a gorgeous bulge of pink cliffs and rusty gulches humping out of the flatlands. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re at Black Rock, so named because of the rocky cliff formed by the lava rocks that run right up to the beach and just high into the sky. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A new army of warriors drove a herd of cows over the cliff at spearpoint. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Before him to the north the cliff fell away sharply to the Kum River, a broad stroke of silver ribboning its way through the hills and plains. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And paying for school hinged on strapping on a harness and lowering himself over the edge of a cliff in the morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Among the rocks near the south cliffs I found a part of one canoe, buried in sand and twisted kelp. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z From the cliff I could see the skin canoes darting here and there over the kelp beds, barely skimming the water, and the long spears flying like arrows. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z To see the place where the world ends, like a giant cliff hanging in the sky? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Roz turned, and with her long strides, she carried her son away from the gravesite and over to the base of the sea cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Drum, fascinated with his acute vision, walked to the edge of the aerie to watch young swallows in their nests in cliff holes across the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Studying the furious, burning cliff, I can’t help thinking it’s alive, trying to outwit us. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Jack slipped into a low gear and we trundled slowly through them, coming out at a short straight stretch that bottomed out into a wide inside curve, a rocky cliff looming over it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He thought about his last climb, two weeks ago, when Hazel and he had faced the bandit Sciron on the cliffs of Croatia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “There’s got to be some granddaddy of a waterfall at the Helderberg Escarpment. A large stream runs right off the edge of that eight-hundred-foot cliff.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’d be little villages with streams going through them, white monuments on hillsides, old churches beside fields; if she was telling us about a coastal place, there’d be beaches crowded with people, cliffs with seagulls. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z From the sound of the waves, Lyra judged them to have reached the top of the cliffs, and she dared not run away in case she fell over the edge. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z This—cliff jumping—had been something Jinny had done most often with Deen, and it felt wrong, to ride the wind without him. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I picked him up and hurried along the cliff, being frightened all the way that he would wake up before I reached the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When she got closer to the cliff, she saw it was pitted with small caves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because,” I answer softly, “she can breed. I saw her flirt with a tercel last spring. She will have young. There will be wild peregrines on the cliffs again.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South, like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the cliffs of Albion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I tug as hard as I can without losing my balance, but the crystal doesn’t come out of the cliff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “He’s really a terrorist making pipe bombs. Go get in his truck and drive away. Drive it off a cliff.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They became expert vermin hunters until Blue Bill found a cliff near the Pepacton Reservoir. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The village nestled at the foot of a forbidding cliff in the curved elbow of an arm of land. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She led Jason as far away as she dared—about fifty feet down the cliff, which she hoped was out of earshot. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Grim it stood above the northern cliffs, grey were the clouds over the seas of winter, endless the lists and ranks and rounds of names that the Namer's eight pupils must learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Where the cliff was being this girl’s mortal enemy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Medwyn passed through a cut in a bare shoulder of the cliff, and the next thing Taran knew, they suddenly emerged into a green, sunlit valley. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Now he shuddered to a halt and turned around just in time to watch the other quad fly off the cliff and into the air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z With that, he was over the side of the cliff, descending as quick as a monkey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But the steep cliff showed no obvious path, not even a handhold. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z High up, almost level with the tops of forest-trees, there was a shelf under a cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Tally’s eye searched desperately for any sign of iron in the cliff. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z We head off along dirt paths etched into the sides of the hills beside the Péligre reservoir, and soon I’m scrambling up the eroded face of a cliff. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z There, running along the cliff, the fishing spear held over his head, was Ramo. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z With his rifle loaded, Cherrie made sure Julio wasn’t on top of the cliff, ready to throw boulders down on them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z On either side of them, along the overhanging niche, the cliff was pocked with myriad caves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Company now gathered together as close to the cliff as they could. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I wonder, for example, if there’s a variation of today where I die going off that cliff. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But no one’s racing down the cliff path, the quickest way to the beach. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There’s a difference between jumping off a cliff and having fun. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Most of the bears had never seen mountains, apart from the cliffs on their own island of Svalbard, and fell silent as they looked up at the giant ramparts, still so far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I ran and, not stepping off a cliff at the edge of my toes and not hitting my forehead against a wall, ran faster. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At times, the helicopter flew so low that it nearly knocked me off the cliff. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z This time I went off toward the west, along the cliff, and then doubled back through the brush, being careful to leave no tracks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I had a sports car like that,” he said, “I wouldn’t let it run off a cliff.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z About half a mile to the east, a long strip of land ran parallel to the coastal cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They raced through icy straits, past blue fjords and cliffs with waterfalls spilling into the sea. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Nameless and naked he walked into the cold springs of the Ar where it rises among rocks under the high cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth stayed focused on the white cliffs, as if waiting for the Mark of Athena to blaze to life. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dumbledore beckoned Harry to the very edge of the rock where a series of jagged niches made footholds leading down to boulders that lay half-submerged in water and closer to the cliff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We set up our tents in a semicircle, backing onto the woods, midway between their fire and the cliff. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Up to the cliff top, right where the road begins. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “This is a robbery. Send two of your party to the top of the cliff with all your valuables. No more than two. Leave the magic horse. No flying. No tricks. Just climb.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the side of the cliff was a cavern, mouth gaping open like a snoring beast. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Huge white stone cliffs rose up before them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “That’s the last place in the world for a peregrine falcon to nest. No cliffs over there.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Through the ruins of the camp, he saw Percy with his back to the edge of the cliff. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z What had his father been thinking when he went over the cliff? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Beyond the ominous water were reared vast cliffs, their stern faces pallid in the fading light: final and impassable. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Below me, Rontu was running along the cliff, barking at the screaming gulls. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hours after Pong leaped from the cliff at Nok's feet, he had clung to the cargo barge as it puttered slowly upriver, making stop after stop at every tiny village dock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z My foot slips on a particularly crumbly bit of stone, and I hug the cliff face until the vertigo sweeps past. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z High up above the tall cliffs were steep slopes upon which trees climbed, mounting one head above another; and above them again were grey faces of inaccessible rock, crowned by a great spire of stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the cliffs themselves, men suspended on ropes crawled and swung from one spot to another like so many black spiders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Partially hidden in a valley on the outskirts of the Golden Crescent, near the intimidating mountain cliffs of what Chestnutt called Isihlangu, it was surrounded by seven spiraling towers made of ivory and gold. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z A tall person, holding her hand so tightly that her finger bones hurt when they climbed the boulders to the cliffs, side by side. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Our warriors were forced backward to the cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They scooted past Shukra and were soon standing at the edge of the cliff. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind him the sky flamed over the mummy-shaped outline of the Libyan cliffs, gateway to the awesome Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Finally, as exhausted almost by the telling as she had been when she reached the top of the cliff that long-ago dawn, she described the terrible trade she had made. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A few feet in front of us was this hole in the side of a medium-sized cliff that ran right up along the sand and rocks. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Feels like what I imagine being hit by a Mack truck and shot off a cliff would feel like. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z One afternoon the troop didn’t return to the sleeping cliff at all. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She pedaled north past the cliff, still smoldering with the charred remains of the Westing house. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “No witches here anymore. We threw them over a cliff.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, two women carrying a single fish, for they were all of about the same size and heavy, we lifted them up the cliff and brought them home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Grytviken was a Norwegian outpost on Stromness Bay, a natural harbor at the base of the island’s rugged alpine cliffs and glaciers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z He thought of Nok, her piercing blackbird eyes and the vengeful way she'd looked at him before he leaped from the cliff into the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Immediately after their cold and comfortless breakfast Strider went off alone, telling the others to remain under the shelter of the cliff, until he came back. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He remembered the look on Nok's face when he leaped from the edge of the cliff. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He willed the poison to recede, creating a small path of retreat along the edge of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It seemed to range from cliff edge and back, then return to the cliff edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The bridge is still burning like you wouldn’t believe, hanging on the opposite cliff like a waterfall on fire, flames having leaped up the entire length of it, angry and greenish yellow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z One of them seems to have drawn on the cliff overhang, protected from the weather, a picture of the new star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They showed camels, steep cliffs, the skinny Jordan River, donkeys, and Bedouins in tents. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But the way the waves crashed against the cliffs and tossed spray into the air was not safe. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I could hear their bellowing as I went up the cliff and for a long time afterwards. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was at the top tier of the very tall shelves, along the northern wall beyond which the shark-fin ridge fell away in a sheer cliff all the way to the city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I just wanted to sit there on the cliff and stare at the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he led the way up steps cut in the cliff. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Silhouetted on the dark horizon, high on the cliff over the lake, stood the many turrets and towers of Hogwarts castle. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z No ravines or cliffs or stuff like that.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z To her right a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “II I ever lose my brains and lock you up somewhere, you bust out and then you—you bite me and kick me and tie me up and throw me over the cliff, y’hear?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He came over the top of the cliff and steered to his oak tree. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The dagger clanged against the cliff, several inches off the target. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The beach was very small, with high cliffs curving round in front, and the sea behind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Fortunately the rock-face at this point leaned well back and the wind had pressed him against the cliff, so that he had not toppled over. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Over the waves they saw cliffs of stone rise like a great fortress. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She had been in the air with space between herself and the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I could cut the sinews and carry the planks up the cliff two at a time on my back and across the dunes to the Coral Cove, which meant many days. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z High above the creek a spring seeps from the cliff face, irrigating a growth of moss and maidenhair fern that hangs from the rock in lush green mats. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But what was even more fascinating than the cliff was the view. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Nearby, another enormous beast explodes out of the ice cliffs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They backed Porphyrion to the edge of the cliffs, the whole of modern Athens spread out below. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I walked to the northern edge of the hilltop and descended the crumbling cliff face I found there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z ‘We must have come down a long way, or else the cliff has sunk. It’s much lower here than it was, and it looks easier too.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was a good place for sea elephants because they could crawl halfway up the cliff if the day was stormy. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Giant mounds of mud and debris had formed below the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I bellowed to the sky, the forest, the cliffs, until I was so weak from loss of blood I could barely wave my arms. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither could I find my way home, so I climbed down from the ledge and crouched at the foot of the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Deen would stand below, on the rock cliff, and Jinny would step very intentionally, out into a gust of wind, holding his hands, to keep her from falling right back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A drop of sweat hightails it down Luke’s forehead and drops right off his nose, like those goats that fling themselves from cliffs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Standing baffled, quaking with fear, three feet from the edge of a nightmare cliff, I find myself, incredibly, moving toward it. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed the outer cave, and Harry helped Dumbledore back into the icy seawater that filled the crevice in the cliff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z That’s where the search focus is for now, on the cliffs and dunes. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But none of those rocks at the base of the cliff is an obviously human-made tool, as are Clovis points and Cro-Magnon tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back on the quad, Alex raced across the cliff tops with the sun already sinking in the west. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We’re standing at the edge of a steep cliff, and in the distance is an erupting volcano! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z For the most part, my coworkers seem content to occupy their little niche on the sheer cliff face of class inequality. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The seaward side of Storm's End perched upon a pale white cliff, the chalky stone sloping up steeply to half again the height of the massive curtain wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We walk toward the edge of the cliff where Deckers are jumping. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Hel hears it too, and we whirl to find Cain rounding a curve in the cliffs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Okay, he’s swimming hard now, through the chaos of currents that surround the cliffs...and then, he’s out of danger. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But it was a wave, a wave of earth, and it rippled under me along the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z From the lookout, they could also see the colored clay cliffs of Moshup Beach, but you couldn’t get down to the water without a hot walk of about half a mile. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I’m leaping off a cliff only to discover l can fly...and then realizing there’s nowhere to land. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There are many sea caves on the Island of the Blue Dolphins and some of them are large and go far back into the cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They sprint next to a fence, then along a narrow path on a cliff above the creek. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The men didn’t believe her, so Mom went right to the edge of the cliff and did a perfect swan dive into the water below. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There is no golden afternoon next to the cliff. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon Snow glanced up at the Wall, towering over them like a cliff of ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It may as well be the edge of a cliff. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Nhamo watched with amazement as a herd of cattle was led to a cliff jutting over the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Roz was climbing down one of the forest cliffs when the accident happened. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then like black smoke on the wind it recoiled and fled, formless, down the water towards the bright gate between the cliffs. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He is of middle age, cloaked in excremental mud, crabbing slowly along the knife tip of a cliff, his thin hair uncombed and hanging wet across his face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But what really catches my attention are the towering cliffs of blue ice on either side of us, forming our path. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The only road of old to Moria from the west had lain along the course of a stream, the Sirannon, that ran out from the feet of the cliffs near where the doors had stood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He’d driven his car off a cliff and had drowned in the Spokane River. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Well, not dropped so much as fallen off a cliff and tumbled straight down. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z To Annabeth’s left, the ground dropped off in a series of cliffs, like colossal steps leading deeper into the abyss. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Frightful saw the food fall onto the blazing-star leaves and seedpods, then flew to a tall hemlock at the top of the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Desert mallow spread out peach-colored blooms in pockets of soil, and everywhere late- blooming cliff roses swarmed with bees. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We moored the Queen Anne’s Revenge on the back side of the island where the cliffs rose straight up a good two hundred feet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Inigo moved to the cliff edge and knelt with his customary quick grace. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A quarter mile ahead of them, the long rocky strip of land curved in and met the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But Sam did not answer: he was staring back up the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Behind the tributes across from me, I can see nothing, indicating either a steep downward slope or even cliff. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Actually, when we did reach the sea, we found we were standing on a road carved into a cliff edge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Monet and his friend drove in a Land Rover up the long, straight red-dirt road that leads to Endebess Bluff, a prominent cliff on the eastern side of the volcano. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not like you’d actually do any of those things, but the feeling is there, like a wind at your back on the edge of a cliff, gently urging you. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Harry looked up at the stars still glimmering palely in the dark sky and listened to the sea washing backward and forward against the cliff: He was going to miss the sound. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Careful searches of cliffs near and far, however, have failed to unearth any human remains. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some had been killed between the sky and the ground; several more were wounded and lay on the cliff or among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z An hour later we arrived atop the Yellow Band, and a bottleneck ensued as each climber cautiously descended the vertical limestone cliff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to pull her back from the edge of a cliff. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Deen had shot her a cool look and turned silently to head back down the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The cliffs looked dimbable, barely—about as difficult as the lava wall bade at camp. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “There. It looks like the cliff is lower there.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z That night, long after lights-out, Joe and Roger sat up in the dark, joking, telling stories, trying to talk themselves down from an emotional cliff. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Beyond rose a sizable cliff, topped by trees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beowulf looked about him as he marched, taking everything in, tall cliffs and deep valleys, each tumbling stream and pebble winking brightly in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z The bridge is still attached at their end and it slaps the facing cliff but it’s burning so fierce it won’t be no time at all before the whole thing is just ash. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The dirt road followed the high cliff of the river on this side. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had become, myself, the mama I’d searched the cliffs for once in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The song is about three girls who drive to a carnival and plummet to their deaths when the truck flips over the side of a cliff. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There was soft grass on both sides of the river, and beyond the grass, trees and bushes sloped up to the bases of the cliffs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It rose like a cliff to merge with the gloomy sky, and from somewhere inside it came those bird cries that Tialys had referred to. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There were many birds about the cliffs and the rock-chimneys, and all day high in the air flocks of birds had been circling, black against the pale sky. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Lady, who was at the foot of the cliff, was cold and losing weight rapidly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “A few people, I guess. It’s dangerous, with cliffs and things. Why, I’ve read there’s more unexplored country in the mountains of Monterey County than any place in the United States.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I was standing on the edge of a cliff. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Are you mad? You jump off that cliff in your present condition, you die. I don’t care who you have in your pocket on the other side.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And the nephew with the round face and round eyes was the “inaccessible cliff.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Taylor’s face was as hard as the lava cliffs jutting up from the island green. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z A wide expanse of lush plains turns into a crystal-blue lagoon, surrounded by towering cliffs and smooth, steep rocks, their tops covered with vegetation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The moon came up, jumping right over a sea cliff to hang above the horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Drum hopped into a huckleberry patch at the edge of the cliff and lay down on his stomach. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A narrow tongue of land made a landing beach at the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Very cautiously he steered, watching before him and behind him and up and down the cliffs on either hand. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z At the base of the cliffs, hundreds of men with sledgehammers and crowbars climbed over piles of fallen rock, loosening them for the front loaders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I think of the wild forests, the cliffs, and the meadows over which they and their offspring will reign, I hope, forever. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To get up there, she would have to climb the sea cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sitting here, in my usual seat, though not on my usual day, I feel as though I am driving off a cliff. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just like the house way back there on the cliff. That’s where I want to be. Away from where things happen. In a hidden house that looks out on everything.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Together they looked up at the shadowy cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Taking deep breaths that filled his nostrils with the tang of salt and seaweed, he struck out for the shimmering, shrinking light now moving deeper into the cliff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “We have to jump off the cliff,” I told her quietly. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were safely harbored in the narrow waters, with a long, rocky island to starboard and the sheer white cliffs of the mainland to port. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Above the looming cliff, the pale wadded clouds reminded her of Einar's sheep when, after the snowmelt, they still huddled for warmth but with heads down moved across the meadow nibbling at new shoots. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It wasn’t exactly a spacious cavern, more an undercut in the face of the cliff, with a curtain of enormous icicles screening the entrance. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Matt lay back against the cliff, breathing hard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just as I was starting to wonder if we’d need climbing gear to get onto the island, its steep cliffs sloped down to meet us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He looked up the sheer face of the cliff as it rose far above him and tried to guess where the vases might have fallen. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She crossed the water to Gardner’s Island and alighted on a steep lava cliff of cracks and niches. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry my husband isn’t back yet, Captain Searle,” I said; “he must have gone down to the cliffs again, and he went into Kerrith before that. I haven’t seen him all day.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They stayed until the sun had gone to the end of the valley and the she-elk was a dark blue shadow on the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The cliff was still crumbling, the edge only twenty feet away now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Something had made him slip, yanking him—and Taisin and Kaede in turn— down to the right, where the cliff wall was nearly vertical. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was not life-threatening, as the rope-assisted passage across the cliff face had been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I watched one of them swing in to the cliff and disappear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel the plan moving inside me like thaw-time waters rising between cliffs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z At first it was just sprinkling, and the rocks and cliff mostly protected us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A few minutes later he was scrambling breathlessly along a path northwest of the City of the Dead, where the cliffs curved far inward toward the river. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I see an old castle on the edge of a cliff they call el Morro. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z To make matters worse, the path broke off entirely and sheer cliffs loomed ahead of them. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “We might be at the bottom of a cliff with no way up, and the cliff-ghasts at the top to see us when the fog clears.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She looked frantically for a quick way up the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The priests who painted her each year always cried when they stood back from the cliff and saw her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But, first, we’ve got to climb over jutting cliffs before we reach the easiest path to journey down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Now Mom’s taken his hand and is leading him to the edge of the cliff. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Whether it was this second huge loss or the life I’d taken with all the speed of vengeance back at the cliff, I wasn’t sure. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The entrance of the cave sat about seventy feet down the cliff face - a circle of black in the chalky yellow rock like the hole of a giant pencil sharpener. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When I reached the cliff, the animals had left the reef and gathered along the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z If Annabelle ran on US Route 12 and not the desolate 200, she’d be facing blind curves, and navigating tight spaces next to guardrails and steep, forested cliffs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from a manticore. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The base of the cliff was large boulders, some of them slippery with damp moss on their shadowed sides. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The men with picks and crowbars scurried away from the base of the cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had believed that on certain nights, when the moon rose full and wide as a corner of the sky, a person standing on the high sandstone cliff of that mesa could reach the moon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The young falcon was climbing the cliff, beating her wings, taking hold of rock cracks with the hook of her beak and her talons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I used all of my willpower to keep the ship from capsizing, but we were still spinning out of control, hurtling toward the cliffs on the opposite side of the strait. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Seagulls squawked from their cliff nests and soared away when the robot came too close. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Three spiral lighthouses took shape along the rocky coast, warning sailors away from the treacherous cliffs and quick riptides of Deliene’s coastline. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They can’t follow when the chimps cross a narrow, steep-sided valley by swinging from tree to tree, or when they climb the slender vines that often hang down a sheer cliff face. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Frightful watched Chup wing over her pine stub at the edge of the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z After her wonderful day on the cliffs, Ess begged constantly to return. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “One side a sheer cliff, the other side a thicket of brambles with no way through, and in the middle a big fallen tree. You had to have noticed it.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z If they found the dragon up in the cliffs and it attacked, would fool magic protect Anya, or only the fools wielding it? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It somewhat resembled a peregrine’s favorite nesting site—a cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He stood facing me, with his back to the sea cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She wiggled her bare toes and looked up at the sandstone cliffs where the swallows were inside their round mud nests, making high-pitched noises. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The old man turned away and went towards a heap of fallen stones and rock at the foot of the cliff behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A little way in, the passageway curved to the left, and Harry saw that it extended far into the cliff. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It whipped across the cliff tops, spiraled into the moonlit Channel. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Er—Hazel,” said Hawkbit, looking past him into the face of the dreary black cliff. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He picks up my basket and takes my hand, leading me to the shade of the cliffs and setting me down on a small boulder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It’s good to follow a rule, except when it leads you off a cliff. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Rocks showered into the cove from many places along the cliff, striking several of the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no cliff she hadn’t scaled, no food she hadn’t tasted. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She moved carefully away from the cliff’s edge, feeling her way in the dark to a mossy patch beside some bushes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Patches of orange lichen made the only bright color, and a high-water mark on the cliff walls showed that their landing site was not at all safe. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I dream Cordelia falling, from a cliff or bridge, against a background of twilight, her arms outspread, her skirt open like a bell, making a snow angel in the empty air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z All that was left, a cliff drop of some forty feet below the heat-buckled walk, was the shell of concrete with weirdly bent and rusted rods that had been its basement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming within strangling distance of the Crown Prince of Adarlan, son of the man who sentenced her to a slow, miserable death, her self-control balanced on a fragile edge—dancing along a cliff. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Billy told her what had happened to the buildings that used to form cliffs around the stockyards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We were out of the forest now, into wide open spaces of cliffs and grass and rocks and fog. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z These cliffs are the most famous in the whole of England, and they are hundreds of feet high. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z An echo came back from the cliffs and stirred more shrieking from far above. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They left the dunes and came along the cliff, and then seeing the smoke from the fire which I kept burning, they followed it, and at last reached my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z She could not control the strength of the gnarled roots that held it to the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We looked all around, at the beach and the cluster of stores down the way and the trees and bushes behind us climbing up the steep cliff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I turn and run out the door, past the grove, the tractor, the community building, past the houses and the reservoir ditches and out onto the cliff overlooking the sea. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do that too?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z From that point there was a sheer drop, for the cliff was slightly undercut, and even Gollum could not find a hold of any kind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I shout, grabbing onto her arms to keep us both from falling off the cliff, trying to keep the knife from accidentally killing her. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then she lifted herself, reached across, grabbed the now visible handhold with her uninjured arm, and pulled herself triumphantly across the cliff face and to the steps that would lead her to the top. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had touched the boat, had looked into the cabin, and all the while I sat on the cliffs and had not known. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She stopped and turned back to the cliff’s edge, as if she’d heard something. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z On the cliff, the men clutched at each other as they sought to keep from being blown away. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The long beach was empty under shadows that fell from the cliff out toward the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the fire, set into the side of a cliff, was a cave. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there were two on the cliff edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I stand in the high wind balanced, blackening the night with my stench, gazing down to cliffs that fall away to cliffs, and once again I am aware of my potential: I could die. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I mistake the latter for a recording until we pass through a clearing and I find water spilling off a twenty-foot-high cliff into a pool with shirtless Deckers and lifeguards. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z El Patron would have had a heart attack if he’d known how many cliffs Matt climbed and how many rattlesnakes he teased out of the rocks. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I’m without a flashlight, Farmer and Ti Jean decide to take a different route than the way we came—one without rivers to cross and steep cliffs to scramble down. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Inej glanced up to where the Ice Court stood like a great white sentinel on a massive cliff overlooking the harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Through a red glow of pain, he saw Annabeth a few yards away, wandering blindly toward the edge of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony—sticks, droppings, feathers, a broken egg and a dead nestling or two. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are in no condition to be hurling yourself off cliffs,” the auburn-haired girl said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Next thing, I’m diving through the crowd, knocking over drinks, people, not caring about anything except getting to the cliff path, the quickest way up the bluff. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The drive through the tribal lands of the Khyber Pass, winding between cliffs of shale and limestone, was just as I remembered it—Baba and I had driven through the broken terrain back in 1974. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the top of the cliff, they stopped to catch their breath. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Only one thing cast a shadow on a cliff in such a deserted place. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the fiery pain in their muscles became unbearable, they clung to the side of the cliff and rested, thinking of what their trainers in Britain had taught them: Never look down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The rope jerked, and Taisin screamed as she was pulled down the cliff face. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z An illusion flickered to life on the ground, showing a rocky cliff that dropped off into the sea. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He nodded to the coast-guard and went off down the cliff towards the cove. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the distance could be dimly seen a line of bare cliffs, and in their midst, taller than the rest, one great grey wall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The landscape had started to change, and here and there amongst the green were slashes of black where the Precambrian rock grafted sharp hills and cut into craggy cliffs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z At the top of the handle, the space dropped off with one of those craggy cliffs of shale rock. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He saw no such marks, absolutely none, then remembered that Leon Longbridge had told him no peregrine falcon would nest near Delhi—no cliffs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I felt like a man sliding down a steep cliff, clutching at shrubs and tangles of brambles and coming up empty-handed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “If the shanties were gone, think what a resort site this very cliff might be.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Some of them ran along the edge of the cliff, but two sat down behind her as she grimly approached Taisin with the rope. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now they were over the t p of the cliffs and in a few minutes the valley land of Narnia had sunk out of sight behind them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z We head for a structure crouching on the lip of the southern cliffs like a black toad. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He heard the water, flowing into the pool, drop by drop from the big crack in the side of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They roared northwest through the bend at Krum Elbow and continued another two miles alongside forest and cliff until they came to a dock marked “Hyde Park Station.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But as the car raced along the edge of the cliff, the prime minister had a tough time keeping his mind on the gorgeous view. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as she feared the cliff and the climbing she must learn to do, Claire feared the sea more. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And it was climbing up the cliff face. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Its colossal curtain walls rose beside the lake, sheer and sudden as mountain cliffs, while atop their battlements the rows of wood-and-iron scorpions looked as small as the bugs for which they were named. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Megadon was anchored atop a rocky plateau, on the edge of an immense cliff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A goshawk flew overhead; a rock fell off the cliff and bounced past the blazing-star flowers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Reaching from the cliff face to the far horizon is the bluest, flattest, sweetest sight I’ve ever seen. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Harry looked up at the cliff again and felt goose bumps. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z His face looked like he was terrified, as if he were gripping the edge of a cliff or something. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We stood at the river’s edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z As we drew nearer the cliffs, I began to notice odd shapes lurking underwater. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Night was coming and I left the cave, going along the foot of the hill that led to the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The cliffs of blue ice lining our path take on a darker, more ominous color, and the frozen beasts inside them start to look alive. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile we butt our heads on cliffs of ice in a cold dusk full of ashes. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The windshield fills with enough canyons, bluffs, mesas, and cliffs for a dozen Road Runner cartoons. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly Hercules’s expression was like the cliffs of Gibraltar—a solid, unforgiving sheet of stone. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To the dismay of the Japanese climbers, however, the ladder was falling apart and had become partially detached from the rock, so ninety minutes of strenuous climbing were required to surmount this 20-foot cliff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Tayo had been drowsing in the sun with his back against the cliff rock; he sat up stiffly and looked at her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Then she descended from the rock and threw herself over the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It held on to the surface of the water like fingers gripping the edge of a cliff. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Helene cranes her neck back and stares up the sheer cliff face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Had it been only twenty-four hours before that she had leapt from rock to rock, had climbed and grasped and pulled herself up the sheer cliff? Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The cliffs at their left were overhung, and they could not be seen from above; but the path made many bends, and at each bend they gripped their sword-hilts and went forward cautiously. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The old bull bore down upon him, swinging his head and bellowing so loud it echoed against the cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A narrow set of steps was carved into the cliff, leading to the top. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A storage garage was built into the cliff. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We need to find her before the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Malcolm looked all around the horizon and saw nothing as clear as an island or a tree or a cliff; but wasn’t that something ahead—a thicker blackness at one point? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The drought, possibly caused by a mega-Nino, pushed the society, already so close to the edge, over the cliff. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The way she keeps crying and carrying on, you’d think he jumped off a cliff.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Kaede looked at the Academy’s iron foundation, sunken into the top of the rocky cliff. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He took one last look at the cliffs, but there was no going back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A cliff frowned upon their right; to their left rose grey slopes, dim and shadowy in the late night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I made my way through the heavy brush and, moving swiftly, down the ravine until I came to the sea cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z By consulting the module map, I was able to locate the exact spot in the cliff where the entrance to the tomb was supposed to be buried. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After a few hours, all the bags were filled, and it was time to climb the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He did not like what he saw and flew back toward his cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “High peaks, impassable cliffs, steep snow-slopes, and sharply descending glaciers could be seen in all directions, with stretches of snow-plain overlaying the ice sheet of the interior.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They made white fangs on the cliffs, not as they burst up, but as the water streamed down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a shot I could make with my eyes closed—except that the legionnaires are hauling the harness back up the cliff face and into the tower. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The western cliffs burned amber in the last of the sunshine. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At the foot of the turf cliff, Hazel and his companions were crouching under the low branches of two or three spindle trees. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a walkway of twisting trees, I see cliffs forming around the shimmering dark water ahead. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “I was the one who saw him fall over the cliff.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A waterfall rushed off one cliff and fed a river that wound its way through a great meadow in the center of the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Going down the cliff, we’ll reach water. An escape. A way out.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z For the first quarter of the journey, the road was a series of zigs and zags that followed the Swat River on one side and hugged sheer cliffs on the other. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Our guide at the Fun in the Sun desk says the beach is popular with cliff divers, too. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On top of the cliff, where the short turf was, there were myriads of puffins busy with their burrows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s sort of a relief to not feel like I could fall off a cliff at any moment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z We took the table right at the back—which meant the one stuck out closest to the cliff edge—and when we sat down it felt like we were virtually suspended over the sea. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as he’d figured, a hundred yards uphill the highway cut through the base of the cliff. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They were on a cliff overlooking a beach. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They yank up the other harnesses along the cliff, strap themselves in, and begin rappelling down. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “The cliffs are unscalable, and the northern road is the only way in or out. You’ll have to get through a guarded checkpoint before you even reach the ringwall.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She hadn’t seen Håkon since he had fallen off the cliff the day before. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z A wooden box was set against the cliff wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Retreating to his dead limb, he watched the lightning buzz around the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Together we would walk along the cliff looking at the sea, and though the white men’s ship did not return that spring, it was a happy time. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A mouth yawned in the cliff, and it was that Davos steered for, as he had sixteen years before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that, a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Hundreds jumped from the cliffs near Marpi Point or waded into the ocean and drowned before our shocked Marines could reach them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd’s horse was on the other side of the flat area, tethered to a live tree that grew beside the river that roared over the cliff’s edge. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The cliffs here fell away easily to a wide shelf that was partly covered when the tide came in. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon they stood on the edge of a cliff, looking down on the dry lake bed. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z By the time he reached the little county seat, the bunting was spread out by the yard, flags flew from almost every house, a long unused cannon boomed from the cliffs above the river. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But as I jumped to my feet and Ulape screamed and other cries sounded along the cliff, I saw a figure lying on the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed the last few feet up to the foot of the cliff, where a narrow defile led a little way into the shadow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In the morning the gulls flew out from their nests in the crevices of the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Tam Lin got down and led the horse under a cliff, where it would have shade. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the bottom stretched a nightmarish version of the Grand Canyon: a river of fire cutting a path through a jagged obsidian crevasse, the glowing red current casting horrible shadows across the cliff faces. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z From far off across the great cavern, echoes answered, and his voice bounded from cliff to cliff, doubling and diminishing and causing those distant ghosts to pause in their endless procession and look up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Eighteen hours later, his body was discovered at the base of a cliff of ice. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lord Primus of Stormhold, his beard freshly shaven, watched it sail from the cliff top until it was lost to view. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He felt as if he were standing on the edge of the sea cliff with the green waves roaring in and their yellow froth churning at the tops—and he was ready to leap. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I stumbled to the edge of the cliff overlooking the deep valley that was shrouded in darkness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He called the love song over cliff and river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The spray of it half blinded the Company as they crouched against the cliff, and when the air cleared again they saw that the path was blocked behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Somehow, they managed not to fall off as Arion scaled the cliffs, jumping from foothold to foothold with impossible speed and agility. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The fool took his opportunity to escape from the cliff’s edge, heading away from Håkon and yelling as he pulled more watery missiles out of the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The efrits rip Helene away, and as they do, I spot a niche in the cliff that runs all the way down to the desert floor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He went right over Delhi and the mountain, heading for his cliff in the Schoharie Valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By late afternoon, the terrain had changed from one of sun-beaten peaks and barren cliffs to a greener, more rural landscape. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “Make for the top of the cliff,” said the dragonfly rider, “and give yourself up to the Africans. They’re your best hope.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All the way up that cliff, bullets kept spraying the sand in our faces and bouncing off the rocks around us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest ended abruptly at the bottom of a cliff. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Surely this cliff was high enough to see all the way there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I pointed to the cliff wall that bordered this little section of forest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The fourth and final approaching creature was able to stop in time, teetering on the very edge of the cliff, a spike and a claw holding it in place. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Instead of falling to the ground, he swung into the cliff, colliding roughly with the stone wall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Just think about how they eight-dive in formation by the cliffs. I hate their guts, but their guts can also be a work of art.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She pointed off to the right side of the road, northward to the gray cliffs, and said, “This is the place I told Ivan about.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Off to the side, there was a ruddy glow lighting the cliffs of granite. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z SpagBol never again tasted as good as it had that first time on the cliffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I trudge along the base of the cliffs, watching the horizon pale as the sun rises. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No, hug the cliff of Skylla, take your ship through on a racing stroke. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He tied the mare to a juniper tree at the mouth of the canyon, and walked up the narrow trail, with the cliffs closer on both sides as he walked farther into the canyon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Werfel’s voice echoed around the rocks and stones and cliffs, over the skeletons of the fallen dead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Soon she could see little groups of animals moving toward the cliff as they had on that first evening. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a month ago Marrero had been found at the foot of a cliff, having supposedly lost control of his car. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the maps, waterfalls are the blue lines going through brown contour lines drawn closely together, thereby indicating a steep incline or cliff. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A great ring-wall of stone, like towering cliffs, stood out from the shelter of the mountain-side, from which it ran and then returned again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He was too badly damaged to leap over the falls or to wade through the rapids or to climb down the cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He would have caught me if I had not, in my blind panic, tumbled over a cliff. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The sea surge that had drawn up the coastal waters of Maine poured past the cliffs and tore along the ragged coast. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Tally looked around, realizing that she was up on the cliffs, tangled in her sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z And there was our robot, clamping her hands onto a wet block of stone on the side of the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When they came to the corner they looked round and saw that the path ran on over a level strip under the face of a low cliff overhung with trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The grassland between the stream and cliff was thick with them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the cliffs, a white dragon is stirring to life, its movements cracking the ice that encases it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If he had survived that fall from the cliff, then Annabeth must have too. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The tomb’s entrance was buried in the side of a crumbling cliff. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She came upon another cave on the western cliff, facing the oncoming storm. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sky was white and overcast as it had been when I came away from the cliffs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “She was cliff diving in Arizona and she landed wrong when she hit the water. Broke her neck and drowned. They said she didn’t feel any pain.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z There was no way he’d walked by himself out to the cliffs at night dressed like that. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Having learned that day that duck hawks prefer to nest on cliffs, I settled for this site. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see his face, but I was sure he was coming to rescue me from the top of that cliff. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Over and over in his mind appeared the image of the familiar mummy-shaped outline of the western hills, and the sheer red cliffs that hid the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Hazel liked the great outdoors—but climbing a two-hundred-foot cliff on a stairway without rails, with a bad-tempered weasel on her shoulder? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She remembered white cliffs towering over the ocean, swarming with seabirds nesting in high caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Port Tallon itself was at the very end of the cliffs, tucked in against the sea. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Rounding the corner they saw before them a low cliff, some five fathoms high, with a broken and jagged top. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A visual image of the cliffs along the Schoharie was the next site to check. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She landed on a rock that stuck out from the cliff and shook the excitement out of her feathers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Matt stared up at the impossibly distant bushes peeking over the top of the cliff until he was dizzy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Rising four hundred feet over the night-time sprawl of modern Athens, the sheer cliffs were topped with a crown of limestone walls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She began to follow his instructions, leaning against the cliff toward the nest. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Night came and though I was afraid to leave the cliff I knew that I could never stay there until morning, that I would go to sleep and fall. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark tide flowed up to the walls from cliff to cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were all grateful that tradition called for the ruler to mount the cliff alone, for the mountain can only use its powers for one person at a time. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z And ahead: wasn’t that a fold in the wall of the cliff? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The women jumping one after another from the cliff, their beautiful silk dresses billowing in the air—pink, red, green, blue . . . indeed, like flowers falling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes the road snaked along the side of a cliff, and the only thing between us and the sharp drop was a piddly railing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Soon the god’s shining boat would touch the tops of the western cliffs, and the working day would be done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z A gust of wind blows out of the desert, knocking us hard against the cliff face, and I almost lose control of the ropes again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Then there came a sudden, furious sound like nails on a slate as the draccus clawed madly against the base of the cliff. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The hill was so steep that from where Genie was standing, it looked like his parents had just driven off a cliff. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A police car followed the sports car over the cliff before Ryan added, “Brad isn’t very friendly to me. He’s sort of a loner.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z When we were Yearlings, the Commandant ordered Helene to rappel down the cliffs again and again until she could drop with nothing but a clenched jaw to betray her terror. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Don't have to bury him yet! 'Tain't a cliff he dropped!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z If she were there, the cliffs, the brightening sky, the trees, the stag, the waterfall would suddenly snap into position around her, sane again, well organized; but she was not, and the morning was crazy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z "I don't remember this cliff," said Jack, crestfallen, "so this must be the bit of the coast I missed." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her chin was pressed to the foot of the cliffs in a passion of devotion, and occasionally she gave her tail a wag. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the whole room held its breath, waiting for Tessa’s disembodied reply as, somewhere underneath the chalk cliffs, she sat staring at the green flashes on her screen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It’s like leaning into the wind at the edge of a cliff. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he glanced up at the great cliff rising up, away on their left. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There were no beaches, for the cliffs dropped straight down into the water that lay darkened by the cold reflection of their heights. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He peered over the edge of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were on the edge of a cliff that seemed to look out over a sea of pale mist. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He’s making it sound like I stabbed him in the back or pushed him off a cliff. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the September moonlight, several weeks later, King Pellinore was sitting on the cliff top with his fiancee, staring out to sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Back and forth I went: a half mile safe, a curve, a half mile edging the side of the cliff. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I thought someone must hear it, someone walking the cliffs late at night, some fisherman from Kerrith away beyond me in the bay, whose boat I could not see. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Clarisse pointed to the top of the cliffs, and I got the feeling something lived up there that I did not want to meet. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the Deeping-stream, swollen by the rain, churned and fretted in its choked path, and spread slowly in cold pools from cliff to cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When Percy and Annabeth caught up, they found themselves at the edge of another massive cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I saw Madrid come up over the plain, a compact white sky-line on the top of a little cliff away off across the sun-hardened country. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Where the pink cliffs rose out of the ground there were often narrow tracks winding upwards. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z So they proceeded after that as if they were climbing a dangerous mountain, until the rocks became an uncompromising cliff, overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Ku-Ang fell backward off the cliff, slowly turning and spinning in the air. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I shiver, imagining myself on the way to school, tumbling down a cliff, my parrot skirt flying up around me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Then we turned up Church Street and rented this reality DVD, Life Against Death, which had a lot of cliffs, as well as fires, animal attacks, and skydiving accidents. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a winter of strong winds and rain and wild seas that crashed against the cliffs, so I would not have gone out much even if Rontu had been there. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Ramo had disappeared from the cliff and I knew that he was now running along the trail that led to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d gone crazy and killed himself, I thought-—gotten so sick of this cheerful but futureless eternity that he’d guzzled rat poison or taken a dive off a cliff. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z We tried to climb down a cliff, and a woman fell into a gorge and died. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When they came to this country, they headed for the things that looked like high rocky cliffs to them, which happened to be tall buildings and skyscrapers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z We passed Rosie’s house and at the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the humpback bounded forward, and as the ship reached the cliff face, he jumped up and suddenly there was a rope in his hand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It changes again to a boy on the edge of a cliff, his gaze on the horizon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was hard enough being a child of Pluto, but she’d pulled off some serious magic on that cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The quick darkness in the carriage cars when they shot through a tunnel made them wonder if maybe there was a wall ahead to crash into or a cliff hanging over nothing. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She even leaned out over the cliff face to see where he was pointing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The road was dark, but a distant light rose over the familiar cliffs of the river valley. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We came to the cliff and looked down. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z We climb another cliff, and I am breathing too hard to speak. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The bears took Lyra up a gully in the cliffs, where the fog lay even more thickly than on the shore. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z It was cool, which helped, for it had been very hot on the cliff face, and the sun had made it hard to see at times, shimmering as it did on the granite. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I gathered gull eggs on the cliff and Ramo speared a string of small fish in one of the tide pools. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He had lifted her from her nest on a cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z By the time I reach the cliff path that leads down to the dunes, my whole body shakes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Brockley Falls,” Wilf says, nodding his head to where we can see in the distance the river tumbling off a low cliff. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He looks over to the cliff where people, mostly teenagers, are leaping into the ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His quad hit a rock and bounced upward, landed briefly on the footpath, then continued over the edge of the cliff. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I thought of Lord Lucan standing on a cliff, deciding whether or not to throw himself off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Percy couldn’t see how far the cliff dropped. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He could see Frodo below him, a grey forlorn figure splayed against the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The how. I want to know the how. I look at the cliff and it looms there, unclimbable.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Of course, a vein of iron in the cliff might carry her down safely. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mom and Lori could paint, and Dad and Brian and I could climb the cliffs and study the canyon’s geological strata. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Left alone, the eyases explored the flowers, the rocks, and the crevasses in the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Hold on tight,” Vivi says, and her steed kicks up off the cliff and into the air. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The boy took them to the cliff where he had been on the previous day. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the further side it reared up again, many fathoms at a single leap: a great grey cliff loomed before them, cut sheer down as if by a knife stroke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I’m not sure I want to be in the same room with Tris, knowing that we might be on the verge of ending, like standing on the edge of a cliff. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Huge clay cliffs loomed over her in colors of chocolate, pearl, and rust. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Freddie sprang over the rubble at the base of the cliff like a mountain goat. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In fifty paces, with a swift bend round a jutting bastion of the cliff, it took them out of sight from the Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She only has time to swipe it off the top of the cliff before Kento tackles her. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The posture was the same as that day she faced Pong at the cliff’s edge, but this was a very different girl. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I stood at the top of a stone tower, overlooking rocky cliffs and the ocean below. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I twisted around as far as I could, hunting wildly for her shape on the cliffs, but there was nothing, or, rather, there was everything but my mother. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z They also discovered, among the piles of stones at the base of a cliff, some stones whose shapes suggested the possibility of their being crude tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cliff was about sixty feet high and set back from the river. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In her mind’s eye, she could see in the distance, off toward the west, the grayish smear of cliffs cutting through the forest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z At the base of the cliffs, I fall to the sand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He was a bird of the cliffs, open river valleys, and the bottoms of clouds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z That he had climbed out, many admired, for the cliff was steep and jagged and the world beyond unknown; few had the courage that Einar had had. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And then, from the sea cliffs, there came new sounds. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Boys hollered from below, their yelps leaping up the cliff face. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Across the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord had built a rampart of stone. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And then, just when I was sure I was finished, a shriek ten times as loud as mine came blaring off the cliff. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z My stomach still felt sick as hell, so I handed it all to him, and we wandered into this campsite area that was on a cliff overlooking the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I don’t see Jude on the beach or the street or anywhere on the cliffs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I keep seeing my sister plummeting down, like she did in the GoPro video and a million times before, bungee jumping and cliff diving with reckless abandon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z From time to time, anger at Dumbledore crashed over him again, powerful as the waves slamming themselves against the cliff beneath the cottage, anger that Dumbledore had not explained before he died. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The farther in they went, the closer the cliffs pressed to either side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She couldn't look more different from that confident, defiant girl he'd last seen on the cliff's edge. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The thief had thrown both vases from the same spot on the cliff; the other one should be somewhere nearby. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I tuck a smaller fragment of the rock into my pocket and start climbing back up the cliff face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z He said more, but I did not hear it, for at that instant in my great excitement I moved a small rock, which clattered down the cliff and fell at his feet. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time, he made his way back and forth between the cliff and the river, up and down over the rocks and sand. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The white wolf padded along the man trail beneath the icy cliff. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Lady was headed home to the cliff above the Schoharie River where she had been raised. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As the vial dropped toward the ground, Frank kicked it over the cliff before it could explode. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before them the turf, dotted with white flowers sloped down to the brow of a cliff. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z And those that came behind and did not fall stood at the cliff’s edge, listening. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Her boots scraped against the cliff wall until suddenly— finally—her toe found a tiny outcropping in the glacier wall, no wider than a hand span. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We sped up the river, the cliffs looming up on either side of us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She felt like a rock climber facing a sheer cliff, searching for cracks and handholds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Jason knelt in front of the bandit, at the edge of the cliff, where he was an easy target. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I was climbing those cliffs when the rocks started to fall.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Something is sparkling on a narrow ledge about five feet below the cliff’s edge. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z What Haukelid did not yet know was that a remote factory perched on the side of a cliff in Norway was the key to Germany’s top-secret atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sciron wiggled his toes, and more zombie café odor wafted across the cliffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It had crossed the dirt path and avoided the feet of those watching the rescue efforts, draping over the cliff. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The peregrines in the cliffs sat stoically, their mutton-chop-whiskers made streaky by the rain and the wet feathers standing upright on their heads. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m not going to jump off any cliffs, if that’s what you mean.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She does as I ask while I grab a bow from my back and scan the cliffs for a harness. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If Annabeth’s mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn’t Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Grumbling to himself, the man went on until he found a buffalo. It had just fallen over a cliff and was already dead. ‘Wonderful!’ cried the hunter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He took his buckets and jars and his crowbar and put his sandwiches in one pocket and his thermos bottle in another pocket and he went down the cliff to the tidal flat. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with a sigh, a kind of moan, I start very carefully down the cliffs that lead to the fens and moors and Hrothgar’s hall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The porter brought Sefia and Archer to a secluded pier in the western arc of the harbor, inside the long, tall arm of the cliff. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I was standing on top of a cliff, and he was leaning out of a helicopter trying to grab my hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z As they walked along the cliff that fronted the Sound, Dicey asked him where he’d been. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was on the top of a wind-swept cliff purged to the bone by the airs of the Atlantic, under which the little fishing village nestled among the dunes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When I screamed, he didn’t even flick an ear but came on, driving like an avalanche now, thunder booming from his hooves across the cliffs. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z He began to worry at the things he saw dancing before him, wondered if this revelation had been the final push that sent him over the cliff of insanity. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The she-elk was bigger than life, painted in pale lavender clay on the south face of sandstone, along the base of the cliff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When I came out of that curve, I was in the outside lane, the one nearest to the side of the cliff. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The peach was rushing closer and closer to it every second, and closer also to the towering white cliffs that came first. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z She knocked them off, getting several bites from the soldiers in the process, and hauled her belongings to the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Waiting for Christmas that year felt like waiting to walk off the edge of a cliff. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The path was visible in the dusk, a deep rut worn in ages of passage, running now gently up in a long trough with cliffs on either side. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z That night they camped on a stony shelf with a rock-wall behind them, in which there was a shallow cave, a mere scoop in the cliff. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I had hidden the canoe and climbed the cliff with the ten cormorant skins slung over my back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabs my hand and we run toward the cliff together. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We were once again near a cliff edge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “A cliff troll. He has a seeing stone. If we can successfully bargain with him, he should be able to reveal Stan’s location.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The demon ladies were picking their way down the cliff, jumping from ledge to ledge like mountain goats. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By the time we reached the cliff site with the paintings, we had finished our water. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now that the troop was close to the sleeping cliff, the animals spread out and applied themselves to digging in the soil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I swing toward the cliff face and scrabble for a handhold. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Black windows pierced the flat blank cliffs of white, occasionally flashing a reflection of the moon as the canoe floated by. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z There was only one route out of the trap they were in, and that was a narrow defile ahead, where a dry riverbed emerged from a fold in the cliffs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Other animals, too, lived in the area around the cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Piper strolled along the cliffs of the Acropolis unchallenged. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The red rock that he could see at the top of the cliff vanished like a curtain, and he could see figures and blue sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In Seatown, her father had attended a ball at a grand estate on the cliffs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the Butterflies, they were ambushed and murdered on a lonely mountain road, their car thrown over a cliff to make it all look like an accident. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Jinny prayed the whole way up the sandy path, past the cabins, and along the stream: Not the cliffs, not the cliffs, not the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She looks back at the water, her eyes glazed over, her mind far away, on the top of a cliff in Arizona. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The sun was so low, she couldn’t see it past the cliffs anymore. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then turning her maimed head away, she rolled aside and began to crawl, claw by claw, towards the opening in the dark cliff behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “We were in a jungle, and there was an erupting volcano...and I climbed down a cliff to get Ma this sparkling stone—quartz, she called it.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z I used to love living on the cliffs—surfed and swam so much that even when I was out of the water, I could feel the ground rocking under my feet like a moored boat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Red and White Bundle’s royal palace was built on a cliff over a bend in the river. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the stony cliffs beneath her cracked and fissured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Pax galloped down the cliff, tore across the valley bottom, and strained up the final long rise to the meadow. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And she’d take her up through the boulders to the cliffs, where the winds rushed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I could see our car bursting through the rail-ing and plunging down the cliff. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I’d bet she could fall off a cliff and then, bleeding and broken, still laugh about it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He breathed deeply, trying to find a trace of the locust-blossom perfume, but all he smelled was the white clay plaster, as timeless as the cliffs where it came from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Dark fell before we found any shelter of cliff or cave to setup the tent in, so that despite all our care things got wet. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Presently he came up over the edge of the cliff. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The sun was up as I went along the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Rondon and a group of camaradas were clearing a trail over the hills and cliffs so they could drag the remaining canoes overland. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Our environments change from jungle to city to towering cliffs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I could see her broadside on from here, the red underwater section showing against the black of the top-sides, and the single funnel leaning rakishly towards the cliffs beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It made me feel like I was falling off a cliff. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The Jeep had gone off the cliff on a bad turn. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thunder echoed against the cliffs, but Robert did not go. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The towers of a castle on the cliffs peek through the distant mist. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I tucked her in my sweater and leaned against the cliff, facing the bulletlike dive of the falcon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z While these doubts were passing through Sam’s slow but shrewd mind, he stood gazing out towards the dark cliff of Cirith Gorgor. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He tackled cliffs that more than once left him dangling halfway be-tween talus and rim.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He peered with elaborate caution between branches at the edge and could see Robert sitting on guard at the top of the cliff. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A few miles up the valley the river cuts in under a high cliff from which vines and ferns hang down. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I, Nhamo, have taken this cliff for my own,” she said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In some places the mountain fell away, leaving sheer cliffs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The whale was a mountain so high she could not see the cliffs beyond, only the sunlit clouds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond its stony course they saw a beaten path that wound its way under the feet of the westward cliffs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Get me to the shadow of the cliff—and hurry!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z To the left, pine-clad slopes, frowning cliffs, narrow gorges, and blue peaks stretched away as far as the eye could reach. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The only other option was to hike upriver atop the cliff. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Even if she did manage to tie up, she didn’t think she had the strength to climb any cliffs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It is one of the great sights of Christendom—hundreds of thousands of stones, perfectly hewn and fit together, shimmering in the sun like a waterfall on a cliff face. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Swinging back and forth across the great waterway, she searched for a cliff like the one she had been raised on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And when that spray fell back in sheets to the following waves, it left Turner still standing on the top of the cliff, knees still flexed, toes still clenched. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z To avoid her, we would have to skirt right next to Scylla’s cliffs. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Watchers on the cliff began to look for the red sails and a meeting was held to plan what to do if the Aleuts came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliff’s foot. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He soared along the cliff and landed with a crash on a ledge about a hundred feet away. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It was no more than a shallow alcove hewn into the face of the cliff, with an offering table against one wall and a small stone statue of Thutra opposite. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z On the second day, the boy climbed to the top of a cliff near the camp. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not far from the cliff face, Duchess lost her lift and fell down through leaves and twigs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z And it was like stepping off the cliff on a tightrope. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I quickly grab him and pull him back from the ledge before he can swoon off the cliff, and I hold him tight. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Waiting for dark, they watched nervously up the cliff to the house whose lighted windows looked out over the silver river. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Moving to the edge of a cliff, however, he stared somberly at the yellow mountains in front of us and the yellow mountains beyond those mountains and over Lac de Péligre. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He looked upward toward the cliff and back at my father. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just back there, for Christ sake. One side cliff, other side brambles, and in the middle a big fallen-down oak with about this much clearance.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t really a cliff, but with Styx around it sure felt like one. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “Did you maybe lose it up at the cliffs yesterday?” asked Eevie, who was standing at the table scraping the honey from the candy platter with a finger. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “But the thing is, jumping off cliffs is kinda my thing. That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There are tufts of vegetation sprouting out of the cliff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I left the breakwater and the cove and climbed up the path over the cliffs towards the rest of the people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were sharp claw marks on the cliff wall and broken rocks scattered around the churned-up earth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As I gazed up at its sheer cliffs, tops disappearing in a reef of ghostly clouds, the idea that this was a magical place didn’t seem so ridiculous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Surmounting this cliff demanded tremendous strength and skill; nothing so technically challenging had ever been climbed at such extreme altitude. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He felt as though he were standing on a cliff over the sea. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I got to the small cliff above the island, the next likely place, but he wasn’t there, either. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You write poems, Pellinore,” they told him, “or go and sigh on the cliffs, there’s a good fellow.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I promise you, on the River Styx, that as soon as you surrender what I want, I will not shoot you. I will send you right back down that cliff.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They spent the morning on the cliffs, taking it in turns to flash a mirror at the mainland. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The ghouls scrabbled back down the rocky cliffs to the road, beneath a sky the color of bad blood, and they headed towards Ghulheim. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They suggested that the planet was totally covered with water—except perhaps for an occasional limestone-encrusted island, like the cliffs of Dover. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of the cliff they halted, facing the early morning sun. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo studied the cliff top and muttered under his breath. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Even though they’re high above us, I duck and tug at the belt on Ma’s overcoat to pull her back from the edge of the cliff. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It was kind of like standing on the edge of a cliff, wondering what it would be like to jump. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Look, if anything happens to me or Boots, don’t let that spinner drink us. Toss us off the cliff, in a river, anything, okay?” he said. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And in his final letter Ruess nonchalantly confesses to his brother: I have had a few narrow escapes from rattlers and crumbling cliffs. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Above deck, she tried to keep her eyes fixed on the horizon—the white cliffs that always seemed just a mile or so to the east. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “He must have gone while I was climbing up the cliff,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My breath caught like I was plunging off a cliff, and my heart started to slam against my chest. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z He started creeping back the other way, along the cliff, and me and Rondell followed him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The sandstone cliffs were home to Buddhist monks who carved caves in them to use as living quarters and as sanctuary for weary traveling pilgrims. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I felt my brain screech to a halt, like a cartoon character about to careen off a cliff. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He drove through the town and down to the cliff below which his tidal flat lay. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later he thrust out his feet and landed on a cliff ledge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Move, move now, so your back is not to the cliff edge! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The bears crept to the edge of the cliff. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “If you hadn’t told me,” was the bitter response, “I’d never realize it. Let’s get back to the cliff. I’m roasting.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “It’s not quite as exciting as the cliffs, but you’ll like the bees.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The cheerful one-armed man with salty skin and a shoulder that ended abruptly like a cliff emerged from the shadows of the jagged beach and walked towards her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered her words to the little girl: “The cliffs won’t let you fall,” she had said. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A sea of sand dunes stretches below the cliffs, lifeless and unforgiving. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The car skidded, then rolled when the shoulder turned to cliff, a blurred, chopped nightmare where sound and light cut through us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z I took down the shells I had put up to scare the gulls and tossed them and the abalones over the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been a while since they’d come up to the cliffs alone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Most likely she’s near the Indian Ladder where Outlet Falls plunges off the cliff. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Veturius crests the cliff and ducks beneath the clothes fluttering on the line, heading down the slaves’ corridor. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z From her vantage point on top of the cliff, Kaede kept an eye on Con as he shoved one of the larger packs along. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind rushed all around the cliffs there, creating a roaring, blustery sound that kept most birds and animals away. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z They had gone only a mile or so from the cliff when the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had run into the side of a cliff. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If I wandered off, I stood a very good chance of going over a cliff, and nobody was likely to find me until the next thaw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every March for ten years he had made this plunge from high above Sam’s mountain to his aerie on the cliff. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “How else do you plan to get back up the cliffs?” he asks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Ralph ran stumbling along the rocks, saved himself on the edge of the pink cliff, and screamed at the ship. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We emerged at the base of a cliff, on a plain of black volcanic sand. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She gazed inland toward the cliff, illuminated by flames from below. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She watched the starlit cliff with its murmuring baboons until dawn. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Nights watching TV together, gasping when MacGyver was hanging on the edge of a cliff and sighing with relief when he rescued himself. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared up at the stars as she thought of a story to tell Mother, whose jar rested at the base of the cliff with the rest of Nhamo’s belongings. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Happiness seemed to float on the breeze, but I had one more cliff to climb. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The cliffs loomed higher and ever higher overhead as he approached the mountain-root from which they sprang, and the lane of water grew narrower. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The yellow VW spun twice before coming to a stop at the edge of the cliff. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “The wind! The wind has died down, up at the cliffs. I threw some snaps over the edge, and the wind didn’t catch them. They fell.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He had dismounted from his robot, and was sitting, back against the cliff. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Tree-ear made his way around the base of the cliff to the river. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Instead we ate a small quantity of dried abalone, and afterwards my brother Ramo climbed over the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Thalia backed Luke to the edge of a cliff, but still they fought on, next to the golden coffin. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The eastern faces of the Ephel Dúath were sheer, falling in cliff and precipice to the black trough that lay between them and the inner ridge. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Even with the birds singing above her as she climbed up to the cliffs. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Southwest, past desert farms and cliff dwellings, to the Mississippian societies in the Midwest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I went on sitting there on the cliff. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The shadows of the willow leaves made her skin look mottled and dark, the way the iron deposits streaked the yellow sandstone cliffs dark orange. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Carved into the side of the cliff was a little plaza with two big bronze statues. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The only ready source of water was at the bottom of the cliff, and there was no way down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Down from the wall leapt Gimli with a fierce cry that echoed in the cliffs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A deep chasm opened up under her, a fissure cut into the cliffs by the sea. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Do you have any idea how high this cliff is?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Half-way up a fissure in one of the steepest cliffs, with most of its buttons burst, the counterfeit Beast was arguing with its stomach. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To the south were the cliffs, and the wide stone bridge to the Great Keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The truth. That I was trying to keep him from falling off a cliff.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw that he could climb the cliff but this was not necessary. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The three of us snuck up to the cliff again, watched them climb back into their driver’s seats and take off down the highway, the lead car’s lights spinning but making no sound. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The cliff tops were beginning to come into view. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He said farewell to them, all the people he knew in all the world, and looked about once at the village that straggled and huddled there under the cliffs, over the riversprings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I hopped down from the tree and made my way back to the cliff wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She pointed to a few trees overhanging the cliff below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Drawn to the cliff and the waterfall, she flew lower and lower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The glacier that hung from the cliffs at their backs was their reservoir of water: chipping ice and bringing it inside to melt on the stove was a critical job. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She held it to her lips briefly, trying to impart a message, a thank-you, a goodbye; then she threw it as hard as she could out into the night beyond the cliff. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I crawled through the grass to the edge of the cliff and peered out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He’s about twenty feet from the edge of the cliff. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I gazed with wonder at thirty-foot-long icicles hanging from the cliffs like crystalline stalactites. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He got to his feet, leaning against the wall of the cliff to steady himself. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He grabbed Annabeth right before they both charged off the side of the cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For the last time Judge Ford stared out the side window to the cliff where the Westing house once stood. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The cliffs along the river were getting taller. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The cliff is pocked with knobs of jutting rock, some of which deteriorate as soon as I touch them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Green Boys kept an eye on Old Mom, and when she “accidentally” dropped a ball of yarn over the cliff, they watched where it landed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed out of sight, and then a rope ladder unfurled from the ledge, unwinding all the way to the base of the cliff. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z For the first hours, the drama of die storm kept them fascinated, amazed at its power, wondering when the next peal of thunder would shake the cliffs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I baked these and boiled mussels for breakfast, then I curled up behind a willow and watched the cliff. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I found nothing in the canoes under the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top of the cliff I looked down at each of the sea elephants and tried to choose the smallest of the six. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias had called the cliffs unscalable, and Inej had to admit that they would present a challenge even for the Wraith. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Back to the cliff, Mike. He’s out of the rut and he’ll be taking orders now. I’m getting hot.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was a ledge, a little cliff, with a small hollow underneath. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z His power overran the world, from the foot of my cliff to the northern sea to the impenetrable forests south and east. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z At last slow morning crept up the cliff and raised the Westing house, the house of whispers, the house of death. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z It loomed above them, an icy cliff seven hundred feet high. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This was the ominous cramp in her belly, the windless cliffs, the bleary sunrise. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And suddenly he saw that he was in the picture that was revealed to him in the mirror of Galadriel in Lórien: Frodo with a pale face lying fast asleep under a great dark cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Slowly, silently, a door opened in the cliff. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped it without slowing down, then flew over the cliff, over Frightful, over Drum, over the woods, and out of sight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps a conference, because two sets of footprints seemed to lead off while one remained pacing the cliff edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He and Qhorin might be able to climb the cliffs, but not with the horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But from Digger’s point of view, we were only hanging out under our cliff, where we hung out a million times over the last thirteen years. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The men took the trail that led to the beach, but the women hid themselves among the brush on the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was moving higher into the sky, and the cliffs of the mesa radiated the sun’s warmth. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z His steps inside sounded hollow, like a sandstone cave in the cliffs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I found him sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking across the valley. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been dead a long time and from his footsteps on the earth I could see that he had never reached the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Now his face looked like the granite face of a cliff, twisted and sculpted by anger and hatred. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He blinked his eyes and looked away to the shade below the cliffs where the rabbit brush was green and yellow daisies were blooming. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z After seeing Dr. Thorn turn into a monster and plummet off the edge of a cliff with Annabeth, you’d think nothing else could shock me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There they had gathered in the shadow of the cliffs, until the assault above was hottest and nearly all the men of the defence had rushed to the wall’s top. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Roger, sitting on the very edge of the cliff, looked somberly back at the island as he worked with his fingers at a loose tooth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “But I have a really great idea. Next time why don’t you have your brother jump dead drunk off this cliff instead of mine?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The cliffs were steep here and very high, but we wove a stout rope of bull kelp and fastened it to rocks at the top of the cliff so that it hung to the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he and Annabeth reached the bottom of the cliff alive, they didn’t have much to look forward to. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z At this point the raven toppled over a small cliff into a gully. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it will stall. Stay north of the cliff at least for a while. Please, listen to me!” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z |
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