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Definition of Cliffs
1. cliff [n] - See also: cliff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliffs
Literary usage of Cliffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"When on alluvial cones and other deposits with definite constructional slopes,
fault scarps may be distinguished from abandoned shore-line cliffs (266) by ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"On the 10th day of March, 1866, the Pioneer Iron Company entered into an agreement
with and leased to the Iron cliffs Company for the period of ten years ..."
3. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1905)
"... only intermittently bare and pink ; much of the front has a graded slope,
green with forest trees. cliffs of bare and precipitous rock occupy only about ..."
4. Collected Poems by Alfred Noyes (1920)
"THE WHITE cliffs WODEN made the red cliffs, the red walls of England. ... •Thor
made the black cliffs, the battlements of England, Climbing to Tintagel ..."
5. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1897)
"The boldest and highest cliffs are found at the west end, and between Silver
Canon and ... These cliffs, although furnishing excellent geological sections, ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Its likeness may be found wild on the cliffs of the southeastern coast of England
to-day. A Curled Kale is shown in Fig. 290. The thick, tender leaves of ..."
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