precipice
used in The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version

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Definition

a very steep cliff

or:

any dangerous situation

Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.
Chapter 14 (39% in)

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