Reminds me of those pictures of mountain cliffs and high up in the middle of the face of the cliff grows a single tree out from a crevice. (redeeminggod.com)
But just then, luckily, another wave came along, a twin sister to the one that had grounded him there, and it swept Brojen off like a splinter and hurled him headfirst into the face of the cliffs. (si.com)
In the face of the cliff I recognized the same sedimentary features I'd seen at Joggins: pancake layers of geological strata, dark traces of coal, a scree of fallen rocks on the shoreline below. (discovermagazine.com)