The canal is perched halfway up the valley-side with extensive views of Furness Vale, and the Peak District beyond from Marple through Strines, Disley, New Mills, Furness Vale and Bridgemont.

Perched halfway up a gently inclined hillside, the statue garden hugged the natural contour of the slope.

Perched halfway up Mount Judea in the Ozark Mountains, a stoutly built A-frame lodge stands in a thick grove of mountain pine.

Perched on the Interstate halfway between Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Stroud, population 3,100, had been a thriving community before a band of tornadoes swept through the state more than three months ago, killing 44 people, injuring hundreds more and destroying or damaging more than 8,000 homes.

Nara was perched safely halfway up the notched-pole ladder to the upper roof.

He didn't relish being perched halfway up a cliff.

A television camera was perched halfway up the stairs.

An almost intact stone building was perched halfway up the side facing him.

The Alpine-style building, perched halfway up a hill across the way from the railroad tracks, is a 19th-century enchantress.

"The tubs were perched on a wooden platform halfway down a bluff. . . . The baths oozed hot, sulfurous steam and its gaseous smell mixed with the spray of the ocean."