The trail wasn't three feet wide on the crest, and on either side the ridge fell away in precipices hundreds of feet deep. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
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. ❋ Christopher Snyder (2011)
We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible. ❋ Unknown (2010)
His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations: a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers, and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices, was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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! ❋ Unknown (2009)
In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and, on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards, with green sloping banks, and ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was a steep crag with cliffs and numerous precipices, making it exceedingly difficult to take by direct assault. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)
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!" ❋ Andy Isaacson (2011)
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 ❋ Unknown (2010)
The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side — the sound of the river raging among the rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around, spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence — and I ceased to fear, or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements, here displayed in their most terrific guise. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rather, I see language as a new continent and want to explore its meadows, precipices, mountains, and landscape. ❋ Unknown (2010)