| 单词 | cliff rose |
| 例句 | 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 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 To the left of the path, the cliff rose like a giant castle wall. In New York’s Shawangunk Mountains, old haunts and old friends 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Now this defile was no more than a deep channel bored by the torrent, and on one side of it the cliff rose precipitously to the height of a hundred feet. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z A cliff rose behind the steamer, and then for some miles the dazzling sea broke in a fringe of lace-like foam on a beach of yellow sand. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z “This is where the cave ought to be,” pointing at a spot where the sandy cliff rose nearly perpendicular; “and then we ought to have a hut over it.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The roaring river tumbled over the rocks on the left hand, while on the right the sheer cliff rose higher and higher. Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch Schoolgirls Among Cowboys 2011-06-14T02:00:23.130Z The wall-like, reddish-brown cliff rose almost sheer above, with gulls and puffins and guillemots and cormorants perched on its rugged crags, or rising to circle screaming in the air. The Head Girl at the Gables High over our heads on the cliff rose their white columns in the darkness; and the same instant, like phantoms, they were gone. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI On the west side a cliff rose straight from the water. A Mountain Boyhood He knew the spot whence he had started; it was just beyond the point where the cliff rose to its highest. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real A high cliff rose in front—our only refuge. The Mistress of Shenstone When the river was in flood, Adamkot must stand on its very brink, but at present its sheer cliff rose from an expanse of sand and mud. The Path to Honour “Steady, my lads, steady!” said Billy Waters, giving a pull at the rudder, so as to run the boat more west towards where the cliff rose high and black against the darkening sky. In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" On the right, the cliff rose sheer upwards. The Fugitives The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar Morgan leaned against the deck-rail and looked westwards towards a point where the Dover cliff rose highest and then swept round. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real To the north, almost it seemed within touch of his hands, the temple cliff rose black, formidable, and impressive, a gigantic wall of silence. The Dragon Painter And even on the larboard hand, where the cliff rose sheer from the water, the rocky face was only bare here and there, the rest of the cliff being thickly clothed with vegetation. The Missing Merchantman Looking around he saw a cliff rose, into which he shot his dart, and at the same instant 393 he observed a deer falling in the shrub. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 The cliff rose to our right, a mass of gray-black rock, pitted and broken, fantastically indented, unreal in the moonlight. The White Invaders Behind it, the jagged, precipitous cliff rose another five hundred to the heights of the upper rim. Brigands of the Moon The conformation of the rocks, beetling above it, had led her to imagine that a straight wall of cliff rose abruptly just at the back of the ledge. The Short Cut There the cliff rose steeply to a lighthouse, standing on a bare summit; dipped, and rose again. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Where the sun sets, The Holy Young Woman The cliff rose arrow Has swallowed And withdrawn it. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 379-468 A high cliff rose menacingly to their right, bare of the slightest trace of vegetation, while in the opposite direction the plain assumed a dead level, mirages appearing occasionally in the far distance. The Strange Case of Cavendish Not down the mountain from above, for the cliff rose sheer for at least three hundred feet. The Killer In the midst of the little meadow a cliff rose perpendicularly out of the ground. Invisible Links Above the cliff rose the kitchen garden, and from its lower path we looked over the wall's parapet upon the cisterns. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Behind him the cliff rose upwards, in front and, to his right, and left a concave wall, straight down to the beach. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk At my right the cliff rose straight upward for thou-sands of feet. Pellucidar High over our heads on the cliff rose their white columns in the darkness; and the same instant, like phantoms, they were gone. Merry Men The cliff rose above them and fell away below. Sons and Lovers Behind and beside me, the cliff rose perpendicularly, and before me was this grim and terrific visage. Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker The soft masses of the lofty bank of wooded cliff rose higher and higher. Prose Idylls, New and Old It could not be turned because the cliff rose sheer on one flank while the icy St Lawrence lashed the other. The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton On the right the cliff rose, a vast barrier, and cut the sky in two. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories The cliff rose high above Paul and Clara on their right hand. Sons and Lovers The waterfall, plunging from a still higher level, made a barrier on one side of them, and on the other side the cliff rose, a sheer wall of rock. The Scotch Twins On the right the cliff rose precipitous, and from its side had tumbled a confused heap of broken rock, running out into the glen. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn At the back of this indentation the sheer cliff rose to the height of several hundred feet, and behind it and above it the great Babyan Peak towered up towards the heavens. Allan's Wife The cliff rose above them, a wall broken here and there by the offtake of narrow ravines, filled with forest trees. Long Live the King! A sheer cliff rose behind this museum, which it was impossible for one to climb. Beasts, Men and Gods He had come to the lake, but at a point where the cliff rose high like a mountain, and steep like a wall. The Scouts of the Valley |
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