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Count; and, the boat soon after doubling a lofty head-land, the monastery of St. Claire appeared, seated near the margin of the sea, where the cliffs, suddenly sinking, formed a low shore within

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

If they creep along shore round the bottoms of all the bays, this computation may be true: but, except when the sea is rough, they stretch directly from one head-land to another, and even when the wind is contrary, provided the gale is not fresh, they perform the voyage in two days and a half, by dint of rowing: when the wind is favourable, they will sail it easily in fourteen hours.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

The ship that eventually heaves in sight off the head-land where Conan sits whetting his sword is manned by pirates of the Baracka Isles, off the coast of Zingara.

Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966

Then the men and women of Busa collected themselves hostilely together, with arms of all descriptions; and the vessel being unable to clear the head-land, the man in the vessel killed his wife, and threw the whole of her property into the river; they then threw themselves into the river through fear.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

In the first instance they made for a projecting head-land that seemed to bar their progress in that direction, and, much to the astonishment of the Pilot, they entered a cavern that formed the entrance to a natural tunnel.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

Practically, however, they were equi-distant because blockade-runners bound from either port, in order to evade the cruisers lying in wait off Abaco, were compelled to give that head-land a wide berth, by keeping well to the eastward of it.

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

Here we were standing on the high head-land looking out over the land of our quest.

The Trail of the Plume-Hunter 1910

Even as when as fisher on some head-land lets down with a long rod his baits for a snare to the little fishes below, casting into the deep the horn of an ox of the homestead, and as he catches each flings it writhing ashore, so writhing were they borne upward to the cliff.

Book XII Homer 1909

When the corporal had gone, Prescott went on with his plowing, but the crackle of the stubble and the thud of the heavy Clydesdales 'hoofs fell unheeded on his ears, and it was half-consciously that he turned his team at the head-land.

Prescott of Saskatchewan Harold Bindloss 1905

It went by, and I followed it at something above walking pace until upon the very verge of the head-land, where I had no will to risk my neck, it halted and began to be heaved up and down much like the poop-light of a vessel at sea.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903