The Only Use of
promontory
in
Jane Eyre
- They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of "the solitary rocks and promontories" by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape "Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls,
Boils round the naked, melancholy isles
Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge
Pours in among the stormy Hebrides."†p. 10.6
Definition:
a high point of land or rock that overlooks land at lower elevation -- often a rocky one that juts out into the sea