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Meanings of precipitous cliffs in English

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Usage of precipitous cliffs in English
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Dunstanburgh's precipitous cliffs loom large again as you pass the golf course.
The Guardian
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The valley was ringed with precipitous cliffs falling sheer to its floor.
The Metal Monster
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In summer both birds breed on tiny ledges on the precipitous cliffs.
The Guardian
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It was completely surrounded by precipitous cliffs, arid, stony, rugged, treeless, unwatered.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
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For on three the low precipitous cliffs overhung the tumbling water.
The Broken Road
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At the last pitch up to the summit of the Sierras precipitous cliffs abounded.
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
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The precipitous cliffs which we have passed are formed of hard sandstone or limestone.
The Western United States: A Geographical Reader
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Wherever there were not precipitous cliffs there was an even snow-slope to the top.
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917
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A few of the panic-stricken mob had tried to climb the precipitous cliffs in vain.
The Jungle Girl
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Piang scanned the precipitous cliffs, the impenetrable jungle, in search of an avenue of escape.
The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy / A Book for Young a...
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The vale was narrow, and hemmed in on all sides by lofty and precipitous cliffs.
Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
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On each shore rose precipitous cliffs, which bewildered the eyes and chilled the heart of man.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
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High on either side rise black, broken, and precipitous cliffs, looking like piles of gigantic stones.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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About ten o'clock we climbed down a tremendous gash of a box canyon with precipitous cliffs.
The Land of Footprints
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In front of the house spread a long beach, which terminated in precipitous cliffs and rocky ledges.
The Errand Boy; Or, How Phil Brent Won Success
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Nine miles from Kohara it became a defile through which the river roared between low precipitous cliffs.
The Broken Road
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