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1  She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  That habit came back to the poor dear, and that awful night on the cliff must have made her ill.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  On the summit of the East Cliff the new searchlight was ready for experiment, but had not yet been tried.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  I was waked by the flapping at the window, which had begun after that sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and which now I know so well.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  The wind had by this time backed to the east, and there was a shudder amongst the watchers on the cliff as they realized the terrible danger in which she now was.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The approach of sunset was so very beautiful, so grand in its masses of splendidly-coloured clouds, that there was quite an assemblage on the walk along the cliff in the old churchyard to enjoy the beauty.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Already it is arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey steps; for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell; I did not wait to catch another glance, but flew down the steep steps to the pier and along by the fish-market to the bridge, which was the only way to reach the East Cliff.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
13  White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  She says that as a child she used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit came back, and that once she walked out in the night and went to East Cliff, where Miss Murray found her; but she assures me that of late the habit has not returned.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX