Meanings of great headland in English

One afternoon I was sitting on the great headland overlooking the sea.

Still farther to leeward was a great headland, and I bore off for that.

And so talking, while they wondered, she brought them across the hill to the great headland.

The road was now turning away from the coast to avoid a great headland jutting out to sea.

Fancy it could not be, for it was past midnight and I stood alone on the great headland.

Going northward, along the coast past Pescadero and Halfmoon Bay, they saw the great headland of Point San Pedro.

The rock was a sort of shelf in the sea, and stood out some ten furlongs from the great headland.

Derrinrush, the great headland stretching nearly a mile into the lake, said to be one of the original forests, was extending inland.

A searchlight from one of the ironclads was playing on the great headland up the river, where it makes its first resolute turn.

And then just notice the mountains over there-they'rein Mexico, I'm told-andthis great headland in the other direction; it's called Point Loma.

The great headland and the whole rib of the promontory is wind-swept and washed with air; the billows of the atmosphere roll over it.

Then the great headland of Hoy loomed into sight, its yellow and red cliffs gleaming across the water as if sunshine always bathed them.

The day a riot of sunlight and summer, and the great headland with its high lighthouse thrust its huge brown knees into the water.

Below Wolstanbury which thrusts itself out into the Weald like a great headland nearly seven hundred feet in height, lies Pyecombe to the south-west.

Then the wood stops abruptly, and the road runs out on the bare hillside and winds round the great headland to the Valley of Rocks.

There were cliffs at a little distance, great headlands and rocky spires.