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