Meanings of beetle cliffs in English

On one side beetling cliffs shoot up, and against them

What brought him, walking on this particular evening, to the foot of the beetling cliffs?

His way then lay by darkling canons, rushing streams and stupendous beetling cliffs fringed with pines.

Birds, birds in myriads upon myriads, screamed and circled over the eerie heights of the beetling cliffs.

He was looking across to the wild headland of Hoy, where the red beetling cliffs reflected the sunlight.

The clouds are below us, and noiselessly break in foaming billows against the faces of the beetling cliffs.

I stand upon beetling cliffs, and look into chasms that yawn beneath, sleeping in the silence of desolation.

And then the earth smiles again, the beetling cliffs recede into distances, and we glide through a pleasant valley.

[Defined by Mei Yao-ch'en as "a narrow difficult way between beetling cliffs."

Here were the same irregular, beetling cliffs, the same isolated crags, with sharply outlined lower and minor levels of building.

It would not do, however, to approach too near to these beetling cliffs, the solidity of which was very doubtful.

And this was his kingdom,- aflower-throttledgorge, with beetling cliffs and crags, from which floated the blattings of wild goats.

On the 21st he made camp amidst the high and beetling cliffs, known a few years afterward as Scott's Bluffs.

Behind them were the deep ravines, broad valleys, black beetling cliffs, grand mountains, stupendous glaciers, and dreary desolation of Greenland.

As the mountains closed in upon him in a narrow passage between beetling cliffs thousands of feet high, Dermot's interest quickened.

They hugged the rocks so closely that most of the time their figures disappeared in the inky shadows of projecting or beetling cliffs and pillars.