Both Uses of
precipitous
in
Gone with the Wind
- Swearing, sweating men hauled the heavy guns up the precipitous slopes, for mules could not climb the hillsides.†
Chpt 3.17
- She had not seen him since the day when she had alighted from his carriage so precipitously at Five Points.†
Chpt 3.19 *
Definition:
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(precipitous) done with very great haste and without due deliberation
or:
very steep