As they sped northward past great promontories they saw several auks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

Huge capes or promontories tumbled into the St. Lawrence and became islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

The plateau appeared to be ending in a series of great capes or promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

And the promontories of the sea gate were starkly clear in the growing light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

Lovers 'Bay was a narrow inlet of the sea, formed by two projecting promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

The ice covered faces of the promontories glowed with the sheen of burnished metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

Head, one of the most famous of all Cornish promontories, is less than two miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway.] Reference

Here, surrounded by lofty rocks, whose promontories screen a wide extent of vale, he breaks forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

He was standing on a grassy plain, and the plain spread out on either hand to promontories of little trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Servant Problem] Reference

The whole of Sicily we claim because it is our own, and the fortress of Lilybaeum is one of its promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War] Reference

The coast line, accordingly, is most irregular -- a constant succession of sharp promontories and curving bays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Great Pilot, and thus obtain abundant entrance into the haven whose promontories run out from the eternal shore. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

The series of promontories upon which the Tusayan villages are built are exceptionally rich in these seeps and springs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference

Before us lies the water with its multifarious islands, bays, promontories, and coves, some of which we shall now explore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

Hercules, which are the two promontories (Gibraltar and Ceuta) on either side of the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

It had two remarkable promontories on it, one resembling a mitre, and the other a steeple; from whence we called it Mitre Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

England forming one of its promontories -- while its equatorial lands embraced Brazil and the whole stretch of ocean to the African Gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria] Reference

For leagues and leagues to the north and south, the scrofulous promontories lay barren under the blight of the merciless northern blasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eternal Maiden] Reference

On the south lay the Bay of Audierne, extending in the form of a crescent, the promontories of Penmarch and Raz forming the extreme points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

Half an hour later we were sailing away for Shanghai; and again we saw islands, promontories, and inlets quite like those of the day previous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

During our fortnight's stay at Maskat in 1895, we frequently in the evening coolness rowed about the harbour and examined its bays and promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Arabia] Reference

Remarkable for the brilliancy as well as beauty of the surrounding promontories, of which an enchanting view is presented as we descend from the downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference

Through some of the narrow promontories at this particular camp there were peculiar perforations suggesting immense windows looking into some fairer land.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

The approach here was through the straits, and was unlike any previous view, -- a wide entrance between two high promontories, with mountains on either side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

The great promontories of Hope's Nose and Berry Head stand between three and four miles apart at the northern and southern points of this rounded, shallow bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

The direction of marine currents is also liable to be changed by various accidents, as by the heaping up of new sandbanks, or the wearing away of cliffs and promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

They had been speeding along a country lane between tall oaks, and, breasting a hill, suddenly came upon the sea, half landlocked by curving bays and little promontories.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nest Builder] Reference

Early colonists from Greece, in search of a new home, found in its bays, islands, and promontories a touching resemblance to the intricate coast scenery of their own country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

The route lay through rocky defiles, with numerous tunnels, for we were cutting through the promontories on the sea coast, of which we occasionally caught magnificent glimpses.    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 were occasional picturesque points and promontories that jutted out into the sea; clustering around, were many large and smaller craft; once I counted thirty-six in one place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

Here and there the shores rise into cliffs, seamed at the top and inset on the face with slim white lady birches, or jut far into the waters as rocky promontories sparsely wooded with fir and balsam spruce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flamsted quarries] Reference

We sailed out into the finest part of the Inland Sea, where the shore was deeply indented with rocky promontories, which first ended in a high projection to our right; to the left was a continuous line of low islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

Even the sea cannot withstand the lava-stream, but retires on its approach; so that promontories stretching to a considerable distance from the shore are formed in this manner, when the molten matter hardens into stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonders of Creation] Reference