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done with very great haste and without due deliberationor:
very steep
- She had not seen him since the day when she had alighted from his carriage so precipitously at Five Points.3.19 (59% in)
- Swearing, sweating men hauled the heavy guns up the precipitous slopes, for mules could not climb the hillsides.3.17 (49% in)
There are no more uses of "precipitous" in Gone with the Wind.
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