After parking the cart on the wide lawn directly behind St. Peter's Basilica, the guard escorted Langdon and Vittoria up a stone escarpment to a marble plaza off the back of the basilica.

The Renaissance Castle in Gola has been erected on a stone escarpment in 1580 by Leonard von Rohnau - this is confirmed by the inscription over the main entrance "In the name of God Amen.

She turned and glanced at the stone escarpment.

The pteridon managed to make it onto the space, although its left wing tip seemed to graze the rugged stone escarpment above the cave.

We glimpsed Auyan-tepui's stone escarpment and, finally, the water falling more than 3,000 feet from the top of the soaring mesa.

A stone escarpment rose on either side of the deep blue sea.

The western wall of the fortress, atop which the gun platform was situated, rose straight up from a stone escarpment.

Gomulka set the pinnace down with practiced ease behind a stone escarpment and Parker, his gaze nervously sweeping the jungle, used his gun barrel to urge Locklear out of the craft.

She walked on, following the line of the bluffs, peering down to see if she could spot new high-water marks on the stone escarpments.

Ribbed with sharp rocks, the cliff shaped itself into a stone escarpment.