...It is on this precipitous declivity, broken bypointed crags, that the town is built... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...Within the folds of the front line of mountains rise isolated hills of considerable magnitude, precipitous and abrupt, but scenically very picturesque...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
... At daybreak they halted in the depths of another tremendous gorge with precipitous sides...
Various 「Stories by English Authors: Africa」
...Hemmed in on all sides, amid a shower of lances and stones thrown from the mountain above, the Turks fled pell-mell down the rocky and precipitous ravines...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...From the time we had fairly entered the river it had been confined by heights somewhat precipitous on either side, rising to about 180 feet...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...On a precipitous cañon cliff we found a hanging garden of cactus and of looped cactus-like vines that was a marvel to behold...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Its outer rim consisted also of low hills concealing a drop of precipitous cliffs...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...There issome reason for the belief that certain changes of form may have takenplace in the buffaloes that have taken up a permanent residence inrugged and precipitous mountain regions...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The course, however, in such precipitous ground is notstraight from top to bottom, but slopes along the face of the bank,descending till the animal gains the level below...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Some of these are too precipitous to sustain vegetation, others aremasses of quartz and granite...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The corn has been cut, and upon a stout, but a few rods from the woods, which here drop quickly down from the precipitous heights, we set up our bee-box, touched again with the pungent oil...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...These take firm hold of the rapid and precipitous ascentsand descents, which they encounter in travelling to and from the mines;in which journeys they carry 100 lbs...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...The Raven builds its nest in high trees andamong inaccessible and precipitous rocks, especially in theHebrides, and lives on carrion, not disdaining fruit and grain...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...On the northern shore of the lake, rightunder the precipitous cliffs on which the modern village of Nemi isperched, stood the sacred grove and sanctuary of Diana Nemorensis,or Diana of the Wood...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In Sundal, a narrow Norwegianvalley, shut in on both sides by precipitous mountains, there liveddown to the second half of the nineteenth century an old man whowas very superstitious...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
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