Places as threatened by this prose as a headland is by the bulldozer or a sea almond grove by the surveyor's string, or from blight, the mountain laurel. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Walcott - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Wednesday (8) we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland, which is called. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03] Reference
On the summit of the headland was a castle accessible on two sides only. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10] Reference
Around the headland was a short rocky beach backed by black slate cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
Captain Cook called the headland off which this circumstance occurred Cape Kidnappers. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference
From the top of the highest headland, which is divided into two nipple-like peaks, an extensive view can be obtained. From Wordnik.com. [Spinifex and Sand] Reference
Wednesday (8) we weyed, and plyed neerer the headland, which is called Caninoz,192 the wind being at East and by North. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
What I drew attention to was Traversi's assumption that The Dry Salvages would be a better poem if the reader took the "headland" and the "promontory" to be the same. From Wordnik.com. [Eliot's 'Headland'] Reference
He made the concession in his first big economic speech - one of his three '' headland '' addresses before Parliament resumes. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
The Africans who cluster about the bold headland of Cape. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The headland gained, the swaying wreck they soon espied. From Wordnik.com. [The Minstrel A Collection of Poems] Reference
But now a turn of a headland took the craft out of range. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
Around a rocky headland the view of a pleasant cove had just opened. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
"See thar," said he, as he pointed to a headland with a light - house. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Rocks, and this without doubt was the sacred headland which the title refers to. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The fine headland of Pentire reaches beyond, with its off-lying islet of Newland. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Old St. Ives seems to derive entirely from the little headland known as The Island. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The last headland swept past him; the river and the river bank were now lost to him. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Rhodes, when the topmasts of a ship could be seen rounding the headland nearest them. From Wordnik.com. [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference
There is some memory of Tregeagle around this headland, but his tale belongs more fully to. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
"Why, away up thar," said the captain, pointing towards the headland at the upper end of the village. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
"Ah! what would I not have given to have been on that headland yonder at the moment the ocean went out.". From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Linked to the jutting headland, a long range of sea-washed cliffs stretched as far as the eyes could reach. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
The two boats were still lying side by side, when round the distant headland appeared the bow of a battle ship. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
It stands on the summit of a bold headland, surrounded by fortifications, from which we had another splendid view. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
There was a tower, too, on the highest point on the headland from which a continual watch was kept above the town. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
To the right was a gorse-crowned cliff; to the left, and across the estuary, a headland ran far out into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
As for sail, or steam, we saw neither till we raised the cloudy headland that marked Cape St. Antonio on the skyline. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Barberton lies 2825 ft. above the sea and is built on the side of a valley named De Kaap, from a bold headland of the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
It seemed a very little while before they rounded the headland and entered the narrow funnel of cliffs leading into Polperro. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Bossiney has other attractions than such memories as this, having a delightful cove protected by the fine headland of Willapark. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Pentargon, the bay and headland beyond the Boscastle golf-links, is sometimes interpreted as "Arthur's Head," but this is doubtful. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
A low point concealed them from the headland, and the margin of the lake was fringed for some distance with dense and overhanging bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
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