It stretched eighty miles, a handful of villages clinging to the sides of a highway that washed out every year or two.

Mr. Ivan pointed out local sights, like Bobovisce, a beautiful village clinging precariously to a mountainside.

The forest- and vine-covered hills plunge down toward the water on either bank, with little half-timbered villages clinging to the shore.

There before me was a picture-perfect valley, a white-washed village clinging to the far slope.

There are ancient forts and tiny villages clinging to the sides of precipices.

Where the valley narrowed we saw the first large village clinging to the hillside.

The rains washed away villages and hamlets clinging to the deforested hills along the border separating the two nations, which share the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.

The views were magnificent: red-roofed villages clinging to ridge-tops, onion-domed churches and romantic ruined towers on every good vantage point.

We moved down the hill, my quarry and I. There was a village clinging to the lakeside.

Haraz is as famous for the beauty of its landscapes as for its fortified villages clinging to nearly inaccessible rocky peaks.