precipitousness
Example Sentences
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With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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 John S. Springer
There is a river there called the Kaoma, running into the lake, the sides of which are similar in precipitousness to the rocks before us.'
From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Ignatius Donnelly
The precipitousness of the affair had taken her breath away and driven all thought in mad rout from her mind.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
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 Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
