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Lizard Head

noun

  1. a promontory in SW Cornwall, in SW England: the southernmost point in England.


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On the summit of the cliffs which form the Lizard Head stand two lighthouses, two hundred and twenty-three feet apart.

Some hundred years since, a transport-ship, filled with troops, was wrecked on the reef off the Lizard Head.

Lizard Head to the south loomed up ethereal as a cloud, so high it seemed to crash among the stars.

The grass was getting sere, there was new-fallen snow on Lizard Head, and winter was coming.

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