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Definition of Steepest
1. steep [adj] - See also: steep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steepest
Literary usage of Steepest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1828)
"... not have let go on the steepest part for all the gold and silver in the mines
of Peru."—pp. 154—156. Hammond and other divines the prophetic language. ..."
2. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"OWN the Andes on a hand-car; coasting upon the steepest railroad in the ...
The road is only 138 miles long, but it climbs up the steepest mountains of the ..."
3. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"The road is only 138 miles long, but it climbs up the steepest mountains of the
globe. It rises more than three miles in less than a hundred, ..."
4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... climb the steepest grades in easy curves, and are usually as smooth as a marble
table, free from obstacles, and carefully walled.in by parapets of stone ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Every one knows how roads in Europe climb the steepest grades in easy curves,
and are usually as smooth as a marble table, free from obstacles, ..."
6. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... Every one knows how roads in Europe climb the steepest grades in easy curves,
and are usually as smooth as a marble table, free from obstacles, ..."
7. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"The steepest Grade Admissible—When it is asked what is the steepest grade which
should be permitted on a given road there are many factors which must be ..."
8. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"The steepest Grade Admissible.—When it is asked what is the steepest grade which
should be permitted on a given road there are many factors which must be ..."
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