All 3 Uses of
precipice
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- I knew a young lady of the last "romantic" generation who after some years of an enigmatic passion for a gentleman, whom she might quite easily have married at any moment, invented insuperable obstacles to their union, and ended by throwing herself one stormy night into a rather deep and rapid river from a high bank, almost a precipice, and so perished, entirely to satisfy her own caprice, and to be like Shakespeare's Ophelia.†
Chpt 1
- Indeed, if this precipice, a chosen and favorite spot of hers, had been less picturesque, if there had been a prosaic flat bank in its place, most likely the suicide would never have taken place.†
Chpt 1
- Have you ever felt, have you ever dreamt of falling down a precipice into a pit?†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(precipice) a very steep cliff
or:
any dangerous situation