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- noun Plural form of
seacliff .
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Examples
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We lived on steep hills, on mountains and seacliffs or isolated areas where a car was a necessity for 30 years.
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The glade of pine trees surrounding it smelled as richly as the ocean back on the seacliffs at our house; and when I thought of the ocean and how I would be trading one smell for another, I felt a terrible emptiness I had to pull myself away from, just as you might step back from a cliff after peering over it.
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997
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One flashlight winks hungrily under seacliffs, and then the flare.
Unmanned Stephen Oliver
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The setting sun awakens our ancestral demand for bonfires big as cities, and a leisurely parade of gulls passing overhead mistake the darkening hours for seacliffs.
Unmanned Stephen Oliver
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Wales - with its stunning seacliffs, to the wild beauty of Arran, from the lakes and forests of
TravelDailyNews.com 2010
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He sees them in country lanes and rustic villages; on lonely moorlands ... he sees them on the hillsides ... in the woods, on the stepping-stones that cross the brook in the glen, along the seacliffs and on the water-ribbed sands; trespassing on the railway lines, making short cuts through the corn, sitting in the ferry-boats; he sees them in the crowded streets of smoky cities, in small rocky islands, in places far inland where the sea is known only as a strange tradition.
On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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