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Definition of Precipices
1. precipice [n] - See also: precipice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipices
Literary usage of Precipices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1807)
"greater danger by the precipices of that hill, than he could have undergone by
... down the precipices, than by the fword. ..."
2. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"In the evening we perceived several further indications of approaching Italy;
and after sun-set the Adige, rolling its full tide between precipices, ..."
3. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"ALPINE ROADS, Precipices, AND AVALANCHES. (IV. 6. б.) This is a singularly graphic
description of the principal features of Alpine passes. ..."
4. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"... lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls. After one passes
the last of these he has a backward glimpse at the falls which is very ..."
5. Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad by Archibald Geikie (1882)
"Hence the precipices Fig. 2.—View of the Flagstone Cliffs of Holburn Head,
Caithness, showing how their vertical face is produced by the wedging off of ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... they should cast themselves headlong from some lofty rock ; and many precipices
were shown which had acquired fame by the number of religious suicides. ..."
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