precipitousness
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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 Arnold Bennett
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
With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet.
From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
