Sentence examples for icy cliff from inspiring English sources

What did happen was that I came to a halt hanging upside down on the face of a blank, icy cliff.

I'd only take my nephew if there was ample time to discuss how believing in yourself is important, but not when it comes to hurling yourself off an icy cliff.

Outside this establishment, physically just a few yards from it but in every other way light-years from the Swiss good sense inside, is an icy cliff where a man named Heinz tries to inveigle passing foreigners to jump with him into the plunging void of the valley, hanging on to some flimsy-looking aluminum poles and a plastic tablecloth.

They are agile, methodical climbers, adapted to the insecure footing of snow-covered and icy cliffs, where predators are loath to follow.

It looks over the revised geography of Spitalfields, the retro-Georgian conversions, the icy cliffs of Bishopsgate, like one of Jack London's dark tenements.

"The song 'Iceland' is the closest to describing the feelings I had of loss and darkness and disconnection after the embolism," she said, referring to its images of icy cliffs and barren landscapes.

Assigned to the Army of the Alps, he fought a series of difficult winter engagements in which his troops sometimes foundered in deep snow and at other times skidded on icy cliffs.

"To some extent, the contrast between a 'boring' job and hanging off icy cliffs helps keep me mentally sharp".

I immediately began scanning the icy cliffs for places out of reach, marking them for later.

Everyone has an optimal level of arousal, from the couch potato who breaks a sweat just thinking of something as normally unrisky as bicycling to the daredevil who doesn't feel alive unless he's risking his life, say, climbing icy sheer cliffs, on a routine basis.

The other day, when my hulking pickup truck refused to drive any farther up a steep icy road on a cliff edge, we had to coast back down it in reverse.