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Definition of Clifflike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clifflike
Literary usage of Clifflike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"On the west of the plain of Champagne rises, 300 feet, with a curious clifflike
suddenness, the Plateau of Sezanne. The effect is as though a geological ..."
2. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by John Franklin Jameson (1909)
"... the land being clifflike, and not very elevated,) across Wyck Bay, (another
bay so called by our people, extending to the southeast,) the distance is ..."
3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"These houses were, and still are, built of stone, adobe, jacal, etc., sometimes
on the mesas, or tops of clifflike hills ; sometimes in 230 ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"This is planted upon the very brow of a little clifflike descent, and from this
vantage ground a fresh reach of slightly varied open country is spread out ..."
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