Sentence examples for stone cliff from inspiring English sources

In the Southwest, the monumental stone cliff dwellings that remain are eloquent testimony to the culture that existed there.

The Colonel would have run us on and on into the night, I thought, had it not been for a stone cliff jutting out into the sea; here we came up short.

CAIRO — A huge chunk of a stone cliff that towers over the eastern end of this city crashed down on Saturday morning, crushing dozens of apartment blocks and trapping and killing whole families, residents and officials said.

As we pulled up to the Gulf of Poets — which got its name after Lord Byron swam the five miles from Porto Venere to Lerici in 1822, supposedly to meet his friend Shelley — we saw the hulking Gothic church of San Pietro, built upon the ruins of a temple to Venus, looming from a stone cliff above the village.

Next to Halamish is an Israeli military base, and in the valley between Nabi Saleh and the settlement, across the highway and up a dirt path, a small freshwater spring, which Palestinians had long called Ein al-Qaws, bubbles out of a low stone cliff.

At the top of the mountain there were jagged stone cliffs.

They wanted its great citadel, perched on and dug into sheer stone cliffs above an oxbow in the Alzette River.

So when the principal designers were selected, they toured Utah, whose landscapes include winding canyons, otherworldly rock formations and looming stone cliffs.

Jumbled stone, cliffs, conical hills, highlands, potholes, granite erratics and more than 10,000 lakes are all part of the state's haphazard landscape.

United Architects' proposal reimagines the old modern dream of the vertical city, recasting it in the far more ancient image of dwellings carved into stone cliffs.

The archaeological site of Bamiyan, about 100 miles west of Kabul in Afghanistan, is set in a broad, flat valley flanked by high stone cliffs.