Significados de frightful precipice em inglês

Here we are, standing on the edge of a frightful precipice.

On one side the ascent was easy, but the other overhung a frightful precipice.

We always walked then, and more than one fellow went tumbling down some frightful precipice.

His track went straight to the edge of a frightful precipice, and beyond that everything was hidden.

They dragged and rolled him down a slope toward a frightful precipice, over which he must fall.

Ahead of the train is a frightful precipice of monstrous height, and at its base beats a fathomless sea.

We shouted to him, but it was too late; he did not hear us, and over he went down a frightful precipice.

South of him the frightful precipice above Kingsport, north of him the vertical drop of nearly a mile to the river's mouth.

She experienced an immeasurable sense of relief, as though she had been dragged, just in time, from the edge of a frightful precipice.

That part of the fort stood on the brink of a frightful precipice which fell sheer away for hundreds of feet to the rocky coast.

Bitterly cold it was; yet we dared not move, for frightful precipices yawned around.

Why did men build houses in rows on the brink of these frightful precipices?

The angles of the declivities widened and the ledges narrowed, and frightful precipices met their gaze.

We were on the moraine of an old glacier, and saw nothing in front of us but frightful precipices and glaciers.

Their passes and defiles present the wildest scenery, partaking of the sublime rather than the beautiful, and abounding with frightful precipices.

We are, indeed, too much interested in the scenery to heed the frightful precipices within a few inches of our carriage-wheels.