What is "precipice"

Usage examples of "precipice".

So on they went to the point, where the cyclopean wall of granite cliff which forms the western side of Lundy, ends sheer in a precipice of some three hundred feet, topped by a pile of snowwhite rock, bespangled with golden lichens.

It was of no use thinking of getting down on the canal side or by the court of the palace, and the church offered only precipices which led to nothing.

At last, she stopped short of a precipice so breathtaking, it outshadowed Grimke as a gull might outsoar a beetle.

Tatum hiked along the meandering brink of the precipice, hoping a navigable cleft or rift would show itself, enabling them to descend and backtrack along their original parafoil flight path.

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.

He made his way around a rocky precipice and finally caught sight of the beach Quain had mentioned.

Now as language in the irruption of its being, and questioning it as to its secret, commentary halts before the precipice of the original text, and assumes the impossible and endless task of repeating its own birth within itself: it sacralizes language.

In fact another five kilometres an hour on the speedometer might well have seen them over the precipice.

Then, with a strengthy fling of his arm, he hurled the precious bag of registered mail over the rim of the precipice, far down into the canyon, two hundred feet below.

And the limestone precipices of La Tourne stood dazzlingly white, catching the morning sunlight full in their face.

Morgan Leah stood at the edge of a trailside precipice and stared out from beneath the hood of his cloak.

We were in a bleak, unsheltered place, now, and had to trudge right along, in order to keep warm, though we rather expected to go over a precipice, sooner or later.

But overhead, the sky was of a brilliant blue, and here the breeze, though warm at mid-day, beating against the mountain through the moist belt of scrub which sloped down below the untimbered space at the foot of the precipice, was laden with pleasant odours.

Tom shut off his own motor and let the Hawk glide on her downward way in a volplane to earth, the great, ponderous tank came to a stop, on the very edge of the precipice at the foot of which rolled the river.

Then came the challenging letters from Henry Akeley which impressed me so profoundly, and which took me for the first and last time to that fascinating realm of crowded green precipices and muttering forest streams.