Sentence examples for cliff rising from inspiring English sources

Mr. Vaes's backdrop depicts a high cliff rising over a turbulent lake.

I couldn't see the cliff rising on one side or the drop-off on the other.

Where there is a cliff rising from a riverbank in New York City there is usually a striking view.

It twists around its cliff, rising steeply to the tower of its original church, now in ruins.

Only at its edge does the ice shelf become something more dramatic: a spectacular sheer cliff rising 100 feet above the ocean and extending 900 feet below the surface.

As they drove up the one-lane rutted switchbacks, with a sheer drop of 2,000 feet on one side and a 1,500-foot 1,500-footng on the other, they watcliffplants appearising each new elevation, as giantheuccas gave way totherves and oaks.

In the dry areas of western North America, Cercocarpus (mountain mahogany), Cowania (cliff rose), and Purshia (bitterbrush) are important browse plants for deer and other mammals.

In the cool, crystalline air of central Afghanistan, a sheer sandstone cliff rises dramatically from the floor of a high plateau.

Exposure of small roots (< 5 mm diameter) of cliff rose (Purshia stansburiana) directly overlying bare bedrock surfaces indicates that the process of denudation is ongoing and probably expanding in ecotonal areas.

Its looming granite cliff rises 763feett from the lake and, the guidebooks say, was holy to American Indians, whose legends turned it into the petrified corpse of a giant, sin-avenging moose.

The cliff rises steep behind it, and one catches sight, here and there, of the dark cracks of natural caves such as the one in which the first scrolls were found.