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precipice
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  • As the ground flattened, a huge stone precipice rose up ahead of him,  (source)
    precipice = a very steep cliff face
  • They stand on the precipice of adulthood, and it is now up to them to decide what kind of people they will be.  (source)
    precipice = edge of a dangerous situation
  • Given the treacherous nature of the local topography (most of the cliffs that riddle the region are composed of Navajo sandstone, a crumbly stratum that erodes into smooth, bulging precipices) and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario.  (source)
    precipices = steep cliffs
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  • Then suddenly, as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, it dropped like a stone...  (source)
    precipice = cliff
  • After lunch, they followed the trail for another three hours on horseback, sometimes on tracks that ran to the edge of steep precipices, the danger heightening Sophia's senses.†  (source)
  • We stood rooted in place at the edge of the precipice, the four of us pressed against Jalil's arms, staring down at the snake.  (source)
    precipice = a very steep drop
  • If one was to be blind drunk in the twenties and thirties, one somehow managed it on public transport, or on roads that would terrify a sober man with mountain passes, rock cuts, and precipices.†  (source)
  • At last they were going in single file along the edge of a precipice and Shasta shuddered to think that he had done the same last night without knowing it.  (source)
    precipice = very steep cliff
  • From the true trail branched many false trails that sometimes looked easier and more attractive; all these really led to the edges of precipices, beneath which lay the abyss of eternity.†  (source)
  • We all wait to hear the woman jump over a precipice...  (source)
    precipice = a very steep cliff
  • The thin air refreshed him, and he sat on the edge of precipices with the best of them, and, when talk languished, flung pebbles into the void.†  (source)
  • Goblins had scaled the Mountain from the other side and already many were on the slopes above the Gate, and others were streaming down recklessly, heedless of those that fell screaming from cliff and precipice, to attack the spurs from above.  (source)
    precipice = a very steep cliff face
  • She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others—likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear.†  (source)
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