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What a pretty pair of clogs baby's gotten The street was narrow and very steep, and paved with round stones; on each side of it were slate-coloured houses, some high, some low; and in the middle of it stood baby, her curly yellow head bare, and her blue cotton frock lifted high with both fat hands.— A Pair of Clogs
So steep were the sides of this cone of lava, that it seemed to Alice that she was surrounded by precipices over which she must certainly tumble if she dared to move Here Keona left her, having first, however, said, in a low stern voice If you moves, you dies The poor child was too much terrified to move, even had she dared, for she, too, had heard the unaccountable cries of Poopy, although, owing to distance and the wild nature of these cries, she had failed to recognise the voice.— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
Here the ascent became very steep, and Moses put on what sporting men call a spurt, which took him far ahead of Nigel, despite the best efforts of the latter to keep up.— Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago
The glen was so steep, and the bed of the torrent so broken, that there was not a spot of clear water in its whole course.— Chasing the Sun
The eastern part is high and steep, and has few inhabitants.— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

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