Meanings of cliffy in английском

The coast of these inlets is steep and cliffy.

He stood a second on the cliffy north wall to look down on the quiet harbor.

At ten and three-quarter miles considerably ridgy, and passed large masses and cliffy hill, apparently of limestone.

Then it moved forward again, and passed over the cliffy end of the glacier into the pine-clad valley.

At the upper end of the inlet, its low, cliffy lining sinks, at both sides, into a beach.

Rounding Point Cunningham, they anchored near a red cliffy head, called by Captain King "Foul Point."

They came about in mid-channel and lay some hours with lowered sail in the lee of a cliffy island.

Prom the vast boss which constitutes the lower portion of Monte Rosa cliffy edges run upward to the summit.

Here we were again stopped for some time, finding a way by which we might ascend the cliffy sides.

It was rather high and cliffy; but there was nothing by which to judge of its connection with the main.

The headlands project boldly far into the sea; in front lie several islands, and behind dark forests and the cliffy Apennines.

The coast from Waldegrave's Isles to Point Drummond runs waving in a south-eastern direction, and forms bights and broad, cliffy heads.

In places it forms a basset, or outcrop, cresting the summit; and the eastern flank is cliffy, like that of the Tebribi.

The American Fall will then be transformed into a dry precipice, forming a simple continuation of the cliffy boundary of the Niagara gorge.

This proved to be a cape, composed of three cliffy points, near the northern part of which lay a cluster of black rocks.

Many little rivers run from all sides in cliffy valleys; and one of them, a few miles from Monastier, bears the great name of Loire.