steep

• Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night beyond the point where the rainbow rays of the colored suns reached into it The Mangaboos drove the horse and the kitten and the piglets into this dark hole and then, having pushed the buggy in after them--for it seemed some of them had dragged it all the way from the domed hall--they began to pile big glass rocks within the entrance, so that the prisoners could not get out again This is dreadful!" —  Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
• Far up the steep is a cave in which the bones of many of the old savages were deposited in the days of civil war and inhuman sacrifices. —  The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient
• Half way up the steep was a yawning cave, black as night beyond the point where the rainbow rays of the colored suns reached into it. —  Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
• A few yards before the steep was a large hole in the Tonse, the water foaming up through it; into this ovis ammon threw himself, and was carried under the snow. —  Forest & Frontiers
• Caster Semenya, South Africa Runner In Gender Controversy, To Receive Big Welcome A learning curve this steep is always going to cause suspicion. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

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