The bank has subsided on one side, revealing a small curved cliff of chalk and stone.
Dizzy, I fall off the terrible cliff of fear down into the abysmal forest of fright.
Huang Ren Zhong's striped parasol stands out against the muddy cliff of excavated earth.
Yes, a 101-foot-high cliff of black granite, which presides over the 13th green.
It all adds up to a giddying urban cliff of lifts and loos.
When Cyprus's banks teetered on the cliff of financial disaster in 2011, we saw bail-ins.
A "fiscal cliff" of sudden, severe tax increases and spending cuts looms at the end of this year.
Equally charismatic and dangerous are the great scientists who launch themselves off the cliff of plausibility and never return.
The snow at the shed's metal top, irregular as the cliff of a glacier, looks ready to slide down.
But mostly, people's dreams run to a big Barratt home, a rectory, a 19th-century cliff of stucco.
True, the foreground is rocky, a stagelike platform of lava-formed terraces backed by a cliff of cracked, blocky stones.
