clifflike

• “In two days, however, it would be lit with lanterns, thrust out on jutting poles from the bordering, clifflike house and strung with garlands and flags.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “We stood for a long time, all of us, on he summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above Thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.”

  Fictionaut: Cinnamon Roll

• “There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the fum reach of a man, ex tending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog.”

  Fictionaut: Labor Policy

• “This path angled down below the clifflike western face of the peak the castle stood on, wending its way curvaceously through pastures and forest and slope.”

  Fictionaut: Labor Policy

• “In John Updike's "The Beauty of the Lilies," fictional Presbyterian minister Clarence Wilmot's faith founders on the "clifflike riddle of predestination.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Highway To Heaven

• “Wearing a pink tie and a well-cut suit, the 63-year-old executive piloted his Mercedes-Benz sedan past the clifflike hull of a Royal Navy warship toward a training grounds one day recently.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Ahoy, Billionaires:

• “Nanagada's coasts were too rocky and clifflike to land on.”

  Crystal Rain

• “They nest in NYC, too - they like clifflike places to live.”

  Mostly birds of prey

• “Three wooden guard towers ringed the apron, and a stockade fence joined the towers and ran from the innermost towers to clifflike sections of the mountain.”

  Alector's Choice

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