"Clifflike" Quotes from Famous Books
... 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 fault had driven the original plateau from north to south throughout its entire length, and then as though there had been a general subsidence of the plain, giving rise to the clifflike formations ... — The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various |