precipices

The trail wasn't three feet wide on the crest, and on either side the ridge fell away in precipices hundreds of feet deep.

Chapter 26 2010

The trail wasn't three feet wide on the crest, and on either side the ridge fell away in precipices hundreds of feet deep.

Chapter 26 1908

The peak rises abruptly, by a series of cliffs which may properly be termed precipices, a clear 5000 feet above the glaciers which surround its base.

Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The great hills rose sheer and rugged a mile away; the cocoanuts ceased at a lower level, and where I stood the precipices were a mass of wild trees, bushes, and creepers.

White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

I went weak in the knees, and for the first time in a lifetime of peering over precipices, just for a look, I had to disobey the ingrained mother's voice that always leads me back from the edge: "Don't get too close!"

High-Flying Adventure Andy Isaacson 2011

Even going over to have a chat with a co-worker felt like was apparently designed to feel like dropping by someone's college dorm room — people had plants, pic's of loved ones, mini-posters with kittens dangling from precipices with the message: “HANG IN THERE!” printed above or underneath — you had to have an occasion to do so.

Boredom & Ennui Christopher Snyder 2011

The ravines and the precipices, the smoking waterfalls and the raging torrents, had always the effect of sanctifying my life until one white and shining morning I felt compelled to cry out to the Maker of the Universe, God of the mountains and the glaciers, preserve me!

Excerpt: The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd 2009

Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains; the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees, formed a scene of singular beauty.

Chapter 9 2010

I knew I was going to die, and I kept remembering the thousand waterfalls falling to waste down the pans "(precipices)" of the windward Koolau

THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

Rather, I see language as a new continent and want to explore its meadows, precipices, mountains, and landscape.

Elif Shafak - An interview with author 2010