straight-scarped

Updated: May 22, 2025

This Benoni, for reasons of his own, he desired to see. On a certain afternoon in one of the palaces of Tyre a man might have been sitting in a long portico, or verandah as we should call it, which overlooked the Mediterranean, whose blue waters lapped the straight-scarped rock below for this house was in the island city, not in that of the mainland where most of the rich Syrians dwelt.

Henry Rider Haggard - Pearl-Maiden