promontory

• Just below this little promontory, and in midstream, was anchored a long, squarely built flatboat It had three occupants. —  Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters
• On rounding this promontory, the party detailed to pursue the women glided into the bushes and disappeared. —  Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
• The other promontory, at the southeastern termination, is called Cape Heraclides. —  Edison's Conquest of Mars
• On the site alone an almost incredible amount of labor had been expended; for the rocky promontory--that primitively, as the result showed, had been broken and irregular--had been so cut away in some places, and so filled in in others, and the whole of it had been so carefully trimmed and smoothed, that in the end it became a huge mass of rock-work, in the regularity of which there was not perceptible the smallest flaw. —  The Aztec Treasure-House
• The result of our quest was as bad as it could be; for in one place or another among the rocks we found all five of the men who had been posted upon the promontory, and all of them were dead. —  The Aztec Treasure-House

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