Both Uses of
precipice
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil—an ordinary specimen of those smoothly-outlined protuberances of the globe which may remain undisturbed on some great day of confusion, when far grander heights and dizzy granite precipices topple down.†
Chpt 1-3
- Oak looked over the precipice.†
Chpt 4-6 *
Definition:
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(precipice) a very steep cliff
or:
any dangerous situation