precipitousness

Example Sentences

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Owing to the precipitousness of the banks, I was unable to gain my object, and was therefore compelled to remain in the stream.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.

With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet.

From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

There is a stock story they tell of the Arrow Lakes, and which appears intended to convey to the simple tourist a graphic idea of the precipitousness of their rocky walls.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

But unfortunately the precipitousness of the street encouraged its head-strong caprices, and a few seconds later all four shafts were broken, and the pantechnicon seemed to scent the open prairie.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

The first impression when one arrives at Hopi Point is of the nearness of the buttes, and the sheer precipitousness of the place upon which he stands.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton