The ceiling stayed solid above them at about eight hundred feet, and at times the sheer cliffs seemed about to close in.

The massif is bordered by sheer cliffs up to 150 meters ( 492 ft ) high.

Due to extreme land erosion, the top soil was swept away, and in some places at the coast, sheer cliffs as high as 25 metres ( 82 ft ) have developed.

These form the rugged Karkaar mountain ranges that extend from the northwestern border with Ethiopia eastward to the tip of the Horn of Africa, where they end in sheer cliffs at Caseyr.

The production crew took nine months to build the set at the top of sheer cliffs, constructing Golden Hall and surrounding buildings at the top, with the gatehouse and more buildings at its foot.

Areas with sheer cliffs would be most hazardous, with only few places for drivers to pull over to allow others to proceed in the opposite direction.

Crowder's Mountain State Park is noted for its resident raptors and sheer vertical cliffs which drop.

Among the more spectacular features are the sheer cliffs themselves, and numerous gorges, waterfalls, rock shelters, and natural stone arches.

This 3, 143-foot peak, located between Helen and Cleveland, is dramatically rimmed by sheer cliffs and has the distinction of being the highest point on Georgia's Piedmont Plateau.

The Port Campbell National Park is a protected national park in Victoria, Australia, 190 kilometres south-west of Melbourne ; featuring an array of sheer cliffs overlooking offshore islets, rock stacks, gorges, arches, and blow-holes.

The castle is described as being like an immense island of stone, its every outline familiar to the inhabitants, who know: " every bay, inlet and headland of the great stone island of the Groans, of its sheer cliffs, of its crumbling outcrops, the broken line of the towers ".

The shape of Hart's Location is unusual: about long and wide, with crooked boundaries that echo the paths of the upper Saco River and U. S. Route 302 ( near the centerline of the town ), pinched from both sides between steep mountains and in some areas sheer cliffs above.

The long, narrow island is surrounded by sheer cliffs over.

Alderney is similar to the other Channel Islands in having sheer cliffs broken by stretches of sandy beach and dunes.

The following quarter of a mile involves a scramble along narrow ledges, many of which may have nearly sheer cliffs of 1, 000 feet ( 305 m ) or more just off the edge.

Iwate faces the Pacific Ocean to the east with sheer, rocky cliffs along most of the shoreline interrupted by a few sandy beaches.

It is similar in structure to the other sandstone plateaus of the central Sahara, with its southern rim rising in sheer cliffs separated by wadis.

It is best known as the settlement nearest to the caves in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden, caves in the sheer desert cliffs and beneath, in the marl terrace.

Daunted by the sheer cliffs, his party avoided the area and pressed far inland.

The sheer cliffs here are a result of earthquakes.

Its site, with sheer cliffs on one side and a natural valley on the other, afforded an excellent defensive location.

Several portions of the road run alongside sheer cliffs that drop hundreds of feet at the edges, and there are no guardrails.

The setting is peaceful and sheltered, as the canyon at this point is quite narrow, overgrown by bushes and tall cottonwood trees, with the clear waters of the creek flowing close to the road, and sheer reddish cliffs rising above.

The entire northern coast is dominated by cliffs: gently sloping cliffs on the east coast, and vertical sheer cliffs on the west coast.

On the south and north sides of the promontory, there are comparatively few buildings, while, at the west end there is a sheer precipice to the sea.

His superiors had emphasized that marines tortured others for the sheer pleasure.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

It is even true that some among them use the sheer fact of conformity -- `` everyone does it '' -- as a criterion for conduct.

For sheer ambition, take the Decca series titled modestly `` Wisdom ''.

He had a mean, unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit, and someone invented the name Trig for him.

When they're on, the top edges are planed even with the sheer batten.

Centrally, however, the administrative problem was more complex and the sheer prestige of office was very likely an unfair advantage.

They overran the 7th Cav's forward machine-gun positions through sheer weight of numbers, over piles of their own dead.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Not altogether a successful play, `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' overcomes through sheer vitality and power what in a lesser work might be crippling.

With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.

Or maybe it's sheer xenophobia.

Most apparent is their sheer bulk ; complexes averaged more than 200 rooms each, and some enclosed up to 700 rooms.

The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.

Anchors achieve holding power either by " hooking " into the seabed, or via sheer mass, or a combination of the two.

Although local police were surprised by the size of N30, law enforcement agencies have since reacted worldwide to prevent the disruption of future events by a variety of tactics, including sheer weight of numbers, infiltrating the groups to determine their plans, and preparations for the use of force to remove protesters.

This way, any ABM defense system could be overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of warheads.

Bioinformaticians continue to produce specialized automated systems to manage the sheer volume of sequence data produced, and they create new algorithms and software to compare the sequencing results to the growing collection of human genome sequences and germline polymorphisms.

Once again, however, there is a lack of archaeological proof for this reconstruction, and the sheer number of brochs, sometimes in places with a lack of good land, makes it problematic.

The hoplites ' ash spears, rather than shivering ... could instead stab and stab again, and those of the enemy who avoided their fearful jabbing might easily be crushed to death beneath the sheer weight of the advancing men of bronze.

In terms of technology, art and culture, as well as sheer size, Constantinople was without parallel anywhere in Europe for a thousand years.

With innate talent, passion, diligence, discipline, self-motivation and tenacity, being the core factors of achieving success to becoming a celebrity, fame and fortune sometimes occurs spontaneously with relatively little effort due to sheer luck, being fortunate with connections, or simply being at the right place during the right time.

" The sheer volume of the literature that has grown up around it inspired Pat Hayes to quip that the field of cognitive science ought to be redefined as " the ongoing research program of showing Searle's Chinese Room Argument to be false.