precipitousness

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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 Donnelly, Ignatius

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

The precipitousness of the affair had taken her breath away and driven all thought in mad rout from her mind.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

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 it is often possible to ascertain from a distance, if the cliff can be got relieved against the sky, the approximate degree of its precipitousness.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John