promontory

A point of land, usually high and with a sheer drop, extending out into a body of water; a promontory.

Walk past trattorias and a solitary abbey to a rocky promontory with the sea always in full view and a clear sky overhead.

In 1869 they met at a place called Promontory in what is now the state of Utah , Many visitors came there for the great occasion.

down the other side of the mountains that ran out on the promontory.

Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

To avoid another shipwreck off Mount Athos, Xerxes had a canal dug behind the promontory .

Further North lay the city of Ashur on a rocky promontory overlooking an important crossing of the River Tigris.

Also lending aid to the defense of the Cove is a bank of massive cannons that line the rocky promontory high above the bay.

An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayria Irini .

NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.

This side of the promontory evidently formed a semicircular bay, which the sharp point sheltered from the breakers of the open sea.

Once I sat upon a promontory , and heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back.

The main house sits on a promontory at the rear of its approx. 2. 5 acres with panoramic views from every room.

A promontory of southeast Newfoundland, Canada, on the coast of the Avalon Peninsula.

The charming white architecture of the archipelago and the breathtaking cliffs give way to spectacular promontory viewings during a sunset.

A tapering extension of land projecting into water; a peninsula, cape, or promontory.

On the map that promontory looks like a nose , naughtily turned up.

They decided on Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake; some 690 track-miles from Sacramento and 1, 086 from Omaha.

Since once I sat upon a promontory.

Or piny promontory of the Arctic main.

Branch buds tall, prophylls 2-keeled, initially closed at front, on small promontory.

A spit of land; a promontory.

But downstream from this promontory , the larger river is officially called the Ganga for the first time.

Abdominal cavity: lumbar centrum, sacral promontory, abdominal aorta, inferior pole of right kidney, transverse colon, sigmoid colon, cecum

from a promontory, a riverbank