How To Use Precipice In A Sentence
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There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
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There is now a real movement in our society to pull our youngsters back from the edge of the precipice of self-annihilation and redirect our children toward a wholesome lifestyle which will allow them a chance to fulfill their potential.
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Those leaderships conduct us to the border of the precipice. The only way to avoid it is to wipe out the national borders, the imperialist ruling and the capitalist private property.
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Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted.
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My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again.
Brush of Darkness
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If the two don't speak to each other, the world edges closer to the precipice of total war.
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From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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She would almost stop, as though climbing a mountain, then rapidly rolling to right and left as she gained the summit of a huge sea, she steadied herself and paused for a moment as though affrighted at the yawning precipice before her.
Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
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To Holly, it looked as if the precipice was a straight fall, without so much as an angle to cushion the horse beneath them.
SEASONS OF GOLD
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In reality, the conferees knew the only country that had an industrial base capable of pulling the world back from the precipice was the United States.
Vince Farrell: Bretton Woods II
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The mountains were covered with good bunch-grass, (_festuca_;) the water of the streams was cold and pure; their bottoms were handsomely wooded with various kinds of trees; and huge and lofty picturesque precipices where the river cut through the mountain.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
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Just fancy, I'd begin with a clear leap over that chief's head -- the one there wi 'the feathers an' the long nose that's makin 'such hideous faces -- then away up the glen, over the stones, down the hollows, shoutin' like mad, an 'clearin' the brooks and precipices with a band o 'yellin' Redskins at my tail!
Twice Bought
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Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
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We, descendants of human suffering, are living in a fine mansion at the edge of a precipice.
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For the curbstone was a rocking precipice, and the street below it a grey and shimmering stream, that rolled, and flowed, and rolled, and never rested.
The Divine Fire
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At a little distance, was discovered a rude and dangerous passage, formed by an enormous pine, which, thrown across the chasm, united the opposite precipices, and which had been felled probably by the hunter, to facilitate his chace of the izard, or the wolf.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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We seem to teeter on the edge of the precipice, but get pulled back by the seat of our pants.
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Often no more than a single lane, it coils around villages perched on precipices, past waterfalls and over ancient stone bridges.
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Molokai -- "_Molokai ahina_," the "grey," lofty, and most desolate island -- along all its northern side plunges a front of precipice into a sea of unusual profundity.
Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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We soon left behind the ominous cone of Vesuvius, reported by the best judges to be at present in so unsound a state that nothing can prevent its early fall; sunset left us near the grand precipices of Anacapri, and morning found us with Ustica on our beam, and the semicircle of mountains which enchase the gem of Palermo gradually unfolding their beauties.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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The film opens with a shot of a climber dangling from a precipice.
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Both were trying to navigate their way safely over a Christological precipice that threatened either to divide Christ too much (Zwingli) or unite his natures too closely (Luther).
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This animal, if need be, will live on road-side croppings nearly as well as a mule, -- travel all day long on an easy "lope," never offering to stop till fatigue makes him fall, -- and, if you let him, will take you through _chaparrals_, and up and down precipices at whose bare suggestion an Eastern horse would break his legs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
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Our American democracy has reached a nadir and we are experiencing a constitutional crisis and threat to the rule of law this democracywas founded ondue to the gross incompetence, fraudand 'tyranny by the decider 'GWBush and his neo-con/big oil cabal ... we are on the precipice of watching our very democracy and republic as we know it crumble ..
Obama's Speech Accomplishes More Than It Appears
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There is no timber in this valley, and accordingly the scenery, though on a large scale, is neither impressive nor pleasing; the mountains are large swelling hummocks, grassed up to the summit, and though steeply declivitous, entirely destitute of precipice.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
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First imagine to yourself a superb position, a steep mountain, bristling with rocks, furrowed with ravines and precipices; upon the declivity is the castle.
English Villages
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I do not care a row of pins how badly they may be written, and what form of bumble-puppy grammar and composition is employed, as long as the writer will walk along the edge of a precipice with a sheer fall of thousands of feet on one side and a sheer wall on the other; or better still crawl up an arete with a precipice on either.
Travels in West Africa
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The downward slide is in danger of becoming a drop over the precipice.
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But in one place a nunatak about 250 feet high stood out in front of the precipice, and the ascent of this offered no great difficulty.
The South Pole~ The Eastern Sledge Journey
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But very mournful was that fast day at Mizpeh, as the Jews looked along the hillside to their own holy mountain crowned by no white marble and gold Temple flashing back the sunbeams, but only with the tall castle of their enemies towering over the precipice.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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It is too late to pull the rein when the horse is on the edge of the precipice.
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Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
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I am not truly on the edge of a precipice, she reassured herself.
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For a very brief moment the edifice of post-cold war global capitalism looked as if it was gazing over a very steep precipice.
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Its mihrab wall faced due south over the precipice towards far-distant Mecca.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Like all mountain roads which skirt precipices, it may seem "pokerish," but it is safe enough if the drivers are skilful and careful (all the drivers on this route are not only excellent, but exceedingly civil as well), and there is no break in wagon or harness.
Our Italy
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The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Acknowledging the fact that we are waltzing along a precipice is the first move in taking steps away from the edge.
Why so much about Peak Oil?
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Fancy yourself in a car which you do not know how to steer and cannot stop, with an inexhaustible supply of petrol in the tank, rushing along at fifty miles an hour on an island strewn with rocks and bounded by cliff precipices!
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The country was now on the edge of a precipice .
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In the original film, the ending was a ‘cliffhanger’ when the gang's coach carrying the Minis and their gold bullion loot was left balancing on a precipice.
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The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.
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If the weather is fair, she sits outside, often with her legs dangling over the precipice, the spyglass propped between her knees.
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There are also cliffs and precipices to be negotiated.
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This is where for centuries the native population used to kill bison by driving them over a precipice.
The Sun
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I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses.
Roman Holidays, and Others
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At Hissar he ascended the mountain, and, standing on the terreplein of the precipice in front of what is now Robert College, he marked the narrowness of the Bosphorus below, and thinking of the military necessity for a crossing defended on both shores, he selected a site for
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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There are solitary rock-columns that spring straight up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances; there are barren, perpendicular precipices, and soft, leaf-clad inclines; there are small points, and small inlets, and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker; there are majestic cliff-arches which project over the water; there are sharp stones that are constantly being sprayed by a white foam; and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark-green still water.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Wartah" = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the "Semitic" (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident.
Arabian nights. English
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It was like being taken to the top of a mountain only to find a steep precipice at your feet.
Times, Sunday Times
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We made our way along a vertiginous precipice, the vast drainage of Muddy Creek spread below us like some scarlet kingdom.
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Clift which is also perpendicular; between this abrupt extremity of the ledge of rocks and the perpendicular bluff the whole body of water passes with incredible swiftness. immediately at the cascade the river is about 300 yds. wide; about ninty or a hundred yards of this next the Lard. bluff is a smoth even sheet of water falling over a precipice of at least eighty feet, the remaining part of about 200 yards on my right formes the grandest sight I ever beheld, the hight of the fall is the same of the other but the irregular and somewhat projecting rocks below receives the water in it's passage down and brakes it into a perfect white foam which assumes
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Always the boy was about to plunge over the precipice.
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There is something Jurassic about the place, with layers of rainforest lining the mainland and shrouds of limestone precipices piercing low lying clouds, you can't help but feel as though time has been rewound by thousands of years.
Maria Russo: The Seductive Serenity of Krabi, Thailand
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I am standing on the edge of a precipice and ready to go over the edge - but there is nothing to catch my fall.
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No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
The Whale Tooth
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A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
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We stand on the edge of a precipice, staring into the void.
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The only relief from the flumes was the precipices; and the only relief from the precipices was the flumes, except where the ditch was far under ground, in which case we crossed one horse and rider at a time, on primitive log-bridges that swayed and teetered and threatened to carry away.
Chapter 8
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Now turned aside by an insurmountable precipice ; now starting back from a deep chasm.
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I was privately grateful that it was too dark to make out the edge of the precipice.
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No beetling precipice, of which she ever heard, had fallen and crushed so much as the sheep feeding in the valleys.
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We have at length arrived at the tall sandstone precipices of Dunnet, with their broad decaying fronts of red and yellow; but in vain may we ply hammer and chisel among them: not a scale, not a plate, not even the stain of an imperfect fucoid appears.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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In fact, it was teetering on the edge of a financial precipice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally we came to a plateau covered with a kind of gorse, and with laurel bushes scattered here and there; pushing through this, we wound, by a gradual ascent, to the summit of Whiteside, and the edge of the precipice.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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Some victims were stranded with a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, with nowhere to escape being crushed and trampled.
The Sun
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Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for things to begin the slippery slide into mediocrity before plunging off a precipice into idiocy.
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No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
The Whale Tooth
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Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice.
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Sisko peered upward and saw the precipice atop which he had stood before descending in the turbolift.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak.
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Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
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When it is in full springtime bloom it is partly divided by rocks that roughen the lip of the precipice, but this division amounts only to a kind of fluting and grooving of the column, which has a beautiful effect.
The Yosemite
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Besides the numerous gangs of elk, large flocks of the ahsahta or bighorn, the mountain sheep, were to be seen bounding among the precipices.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
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I hit a sheer precipice, so staggeringly dangerous that even I don't attempt it.
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It dwarfed the previous precipice silently, working privately, interiorly - a clandestine rusted watermark all to Billy's own that would forever leave Carrie second, at best, and the tiny, picturesque dancer in red and gold down on the court in first.
Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 3
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She once told me that, as a creative, you want to walk up to the edge of the precipice and look over, but make sure you don't fall off.
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We had left the _macchia_ far below us, and the road wound between and around sheer scarps of grey granite on the edge of precipices echoing the trickle of waters far below.
Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
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At last the climb moved above the forest line, and the path became a vertical craggy precipice.
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Occasionally the path hugged a precipice where updraughts hinted at deep chasms.
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He drives a stolen automobile off a precipice in sequence to dedicate self-murder though he survives .
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Higher and higher we climb, a steep precipice on one side.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
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Typically, the Manics are releasing their most personal and least polemical album as the world teeters on its most politically charged precipice for decades.
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The hanging Tower at Pisa is, we believe, some thirty feet or so off the perpendicular, and there is one at Caerphilly about seventeen; but these are nothing to the castles in the air we have seen built by the touch of a female magician; nor is it an unusual thing with artists of the fair sex to order their plumed chivalry to gallop down precipices considerably steeper than a house, on animals apparently produced between the tiger and the bonassus.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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The term "grup," borrowed from a Star Trek episode, was used in the article to describe grownups (Gen X leading the charge) stuck on the precipice of adulthood.
Schuyler Brown: Another Casualty of the Financial Crisis: Extended Adolescence
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But, after teetering at the edge of the precipice, he woke up one morning feeling miraculously restored.
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On the outside of the road are deep precipices; sometimes there are a few metres of rough ground between the metalled surface and the edge, but more often not.
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He was the only one who jumped over the precipice hoping that they'd be a tree to break his fall.
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The ridgy precipices, which formed the sides of these huge ravines, showed their splintery and rugged edges over the vapor, as if dividing from each other the descending streams of mist which rolled around them.
Anne of Geierstein
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Albert was, as the magistrate perceived, like a man, who, rolling to the bottom of a precipice, sees every branch and every projecture which might retard his fall fail him, and who feels a new and more painful bruise each time his body comes in contact with them.
The Widow Lerouge
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The nature of their progress, too, never direct, but winding by a narrow path along the sinuosities of the valley, and making many a circuit round precipices and other obstacles which it was impossible to surmount, added to the wild variety of a journey, in which, at last, the travellers totally lost any vague idea which they had previously entertained concerning the direction in which the road led them.
Anne of Geierstein
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This could tip them over the financial precipice.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were all financially scrambling on the edge of a precipice.
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In fact, it was teetering on the edge of a financial precipice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Witness the Swedish academy's citation, which told us that the seventy-five-year-old playwright ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’.
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If the winds are strong, beware of eddy currents coming off nearby trees, and for strips with a precipice at the approach end, be ready for a strong downdraft on short final.
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Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak.
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The howlers were skirting the scary precipice of extinction.
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I had found sublimity and wonder in the dread heights and precipices, in the roaring torrents, and the wastes of ice and snow; but as yet, they had taught me nothing else.
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It is in Ile Bourbon, on the verge of a precipice, on the summit of the cliff from which the transparent cascade, surmounted by a gorgeous rainbow, plunges into the lonely ravine of Bernica.
Indiana
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That was precisely what happened in the U.K. at the start of the last decade, with marketing literature on what came to be known as "precipice bonds" underemphasizing the three-for-one losses on some plans, and resulting in millions of pounds of redress being ordered by the Financial Services Authority.
The Structured Promise
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The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè.
In the Tennessee mountains,
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While they were endeavoring to force their way in at the front of the house, Wallace escaped by a back door, and got in safety to a rugged and rocky glen, near Lanark, called the Cartland crags, all covered with bushes and trees, and full of high precipices, where he knew he should be safe from the pursuit of the English soldiers.
Types of Children's Literature
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On this account I will call the precipice the Cliff without a
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Passing one very bad spot several yards in length, the heart of one of the party somewhat failed him, so he bestrided the shoulders of a mountaineer; but, when half way, he found himself overhanging a precipice of several hundred feet, with a path of a few inches wide, and the hill man tottering beneath him.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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This range is rocky and abrupt throughout, but at the extremity it rises in height, and becomes a sheer precipice.
EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon
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They go to stand on the viewing platform, teetering like divers on the precipice of hell, and click their camera shutters at the 16 acres of emptiness below.
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The metaphors vary but the message is the same: the debt bubble is about to burst, we are on the edge of a debt precipice, we are addicted to debt.
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This latest tax increase may push many small companies over the financial precipice.
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Government and Fed policies are again positioning us on the precipice of the next economic disaster.
Fed Should Learn From Hippocrates
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The west side of the building is nearly monolithic, appearing impregnable, with ribbon windows and a sheer precipice of craggy stone.
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I stood on the precipice gulping air, awestruck.
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The word precipice is defined as a very steep, overhanging place or a hazardous situation.
News for Opelika-Auburn News
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Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high.
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The mountain of Curu is volcanic, a chaos of rent rocks, beetling precipices, and masses of lava that have been disgorged from the burning crater.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Those of his soldiers who looked behind them saw the lesser ridge at its distance appear to grow, layered with the ghost image of a high, terraced precipice, with statued spires rising from its base.
Oberheim (Voices)
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“Wartah” = precipice, quagmire, quicksand and hence sundry secondary and metaphorical significations, under which, as in the “Semitic” (Arabic) tongues generally, the prosaical and material sense of the word is clearly evident.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So, yes, do I continue to oppose it and I do think the term precipice was a good choice of words, John.
CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009
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At the word rhododendron, a rather large, handsome fellow, dressed in a pretentious style, slipped from his mule and climbed the somewhat steep precipice in quest of the flowers which seemed to be so much in favor.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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She dropped the _tinaja_ beside the house and walked swiftly -- she feared to run lest she might attract attention -- to the edge of the precipice.
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
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She went very still, the sensation of being poised too near the edge of a precipice sweeping over her again.
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The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.
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Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
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The sound of a stone thrown over the precipice is heard for several li.
Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
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Two young women were in attendance, as was — in spirit only — William Cullen Bryant, poetical elegist of an Indian maiden thwarted in love who, legend said, had thrown herself off a precipice of this same mountain.
January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The scene is a little changed for the worse: the lovely landscape is now one undistinguished waste of snow, only a little diversified by the great variety of ever-greens in the woods: the romantic winding path down the side of the hill to our farm, on which we used to amuse ourselves with seeing the beaux serpentize, is now a confused, frightful, rugged precipice, which one trembles at the idea of ascending.
The History of Emily Montague
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On the brow of this precipice stood a great building of the same granite that formed the cliff, built on three sides of a square, the fourth side being open, save for a kind of battlement pierced at its base by a little door.
Allan Quatermain
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I think I even intended to gather up the sleeping bundle in my arms and take it away from this dreadful precipice.
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At the precipice of pubescence, the young naked initiates drop jaw to the erotic banquet," Mackert precisely preaches, "By which they are conducted through Salivia, the sopping tubeworm reclining pinkly through space, connecting first to second Earth.
Mndaily.com - all articles
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After exiting the rear of the cave, we sat palavering between precipices of glacial ice and a slope of rock and snow.
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It was as Mami had said, very strong, a kind of tableland ringed round with precipices that could only be climbed through a single narrow nek, and overshadowed by the great Quathlamba range.
The Ghost Kings
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If the winds are strong, beware of eddy currents coming off nearby trees, and for strips with a precipice at the approach end, be ready for a strong downdraft on short final.
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A loose rock tumbled over the precipice.
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This is primarily a Delightful Precipice album, with much bravura contrapuntal writing and Django's vision more focused than ever.
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But between the grandeur of the word 'theatre' and the littleness of the 'object', there is a precipice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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At the precipice of the roof, a stairwell circled its way to the bottom floor, where it jointed itself to a room that was probably once a bar.
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That will probably require the eurozone to move closer to the financial precipice.
Times, Sunday Times
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A slight carelessness on this precipice could cost a man his life.
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Had the republicans won or Hillary, we would surely have slidden off that precipice.
Clinton, Biden in 2016?
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Every time that France seemed to be on the verge of the precipice, that country, which some people called a decayed country, showed herself united; she showed that union in the minds and in the hearts which is the first condition of strength.
France and Her Allies
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A series of tragedies forced them to fight the three by-elections that brought them to the political precipice.
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Get lost in the mist on a peak such as Tryfan and you can easily stray over the edge of a precipice.
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Captain Bunting endeavoured to save himself by darting up the face of the precipice on his left, but the foot-hold was bad, and the bear proved about as nimble as himself, compelling him to leap down again and make for the nearest tree.
The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
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We stand upon the edge of a precipice, the fall from which we will not return.
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Turn right at the sign for White Bark Vista and you will stand witness to a granite panorama dominated by the sawtooth ridge of the Minarets - a banquet of peaks and precipices.
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The route, almost continuous Z-bends on the edge of precipices, is one few drivers are willing to risk.
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ALMOST A TRAGEDY which had only its upper board left; a pedestrianizing English youth came tearing down the path, was seized with an impulse to look over the precipice, and without an instant's thought he threw his weight upon that crazy board.
A Tramp Abroad
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Nina looked up at the precipice of the building towering above them, studded with lighted windows.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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The path arcs along the curve of the precipice, a 3,000-foot drop just inches away, but Douré is surefooted, singing quietly, insouciant.
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Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
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What you miss is tautness, and the tingling sense of teetering on the precipice, which might have been achieved with some cuts and tighter editing.
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Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice.
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Some victims were stranded with a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, with nowhere to escape being crushed and trampled.
The Sun
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gams" slept by hooking its horns into crevices of the rock, swinging thus at ease, over precipices; of another whom Federl once deterred from going on the mountains by telling how a chamois, if enraged, charged and butted; of a third who went home glad to have learned that the chamois produced their peculiar call by bringing up a hind leg and whistling through the hoof.
In the Quarter
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A rock, turning under his foot on the edge of the precipice, did not disconcert him.
All Gold Cañon
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The film opens with a shot of a climber dangling from a precipice.
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Next day, our road, in some places, lay along precipices, which over-hang the Nera or Nar, celebrated in antiquity for its white foam, and the sulphureous quality of its waters.
Travels through France and Italy
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In fact, it was teetering on the edge of a financial precipice.
Times, Sunday Times
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From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Only barely invigorated by government policy, the economy totters towards the precipice.
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It was a land of horror, where there was nothing but the abomination of desolation -- a land overstrewn with blasted fragments of fractured lava-blocks, intermixed with sand, from which there arose black precipices and giant mountains that poured forth rivers of fire and showers of ashes and sheets of flame.
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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Some victims were stranded with a concrete wall on one side and a precipice on the other, with nowhere to escape being crushed and trampled.
The Sun
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I stood on the precipice gulping air, awestruck.
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The King now stands on the brink of a political precipice.
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‘precipitium’ (Coryat) ‘precipice’; ‘aconitum’ (Shakespeare) ‘aconite’;
English Past and Present
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He approached the skittish animal once more and it backed away again, its rheumy red eyes wild with fear, until it was perched at the very lip of the precipice.
Excerpt: Water, Stone, Heart by Will North
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a giddy precipice
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She followed the sound of her voice until she suddenly found herself on the edge of a steep precipice.
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They stood at the edge of a precipice, made from of broken concrete.
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That duty is even more urgent when the council is edging towards a financial precipice.
