Hamlet vocabulary

I could see the cool green tree-tops swaying together in the breeze, and I felt sure I should make the next promontory without fail.

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)

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The climb to [Robert Louis Stevenson's] grave leads through a tangle of rain forest, then up a steep promontory, where foot-long lizards scampered over roots among foliage so dense that not even a passing burst of rain punctured the canopy.

J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.259 (2013)

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I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank. They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of “the solitary rocks and promontories” by them only inhabited;

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

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I have of late, — but wherefore I know not, — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory;

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet