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There was on the promontory a small town, or rather village, also called Actium.
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Actually, climbers are just about anywhere boulders or a promontory can be found.
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Promontory was founded by Eugene A. Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency.
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The Moors built their castle atop a nearby promontory around the 8th-9th century.
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Carthage was built on a promontory with inlets to the sea to the north and south.
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All Saints Tower was semi-circular and guarded the end of the rock promontory.
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Otherwise, potter round the port to the Ste Barbe chapel on the Bloscon promontory.
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Promontory scrutinized foreclosures for Wells Fargo, Bank of America and PNC.
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Cap-Vert is a rocky promontory extending west from the main sandy areas of Senegal.
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- A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- A promontory is a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (when it may be called a peninsula or headland).
- A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff
- Latin promontorium = a headland, i.e., part of land jutting into the sea - used for a bony prominence.
- An area of seafloor or reef jutting out creating an elbow shaped reef.
- Another word for headland, a piece of land jutting out into the sea
- A protrusion into the middle ear, at its labyrinthine wall, produced by the basal turn of the cochlea.
- Fuck. These people are worse than Sardis. Promontory is a new development area on Promontory hill. These are newer houses of usually poor quality. These people typically have 1-3 children, one of which drive a Honda prelude, and they themselves drive a Toyota Echo and an SUV. ...
