Significados de rise precipitously em inglês

Just below the topsoil, radiation levels rise precipitously.

Norville was wearing a big blue housecoat, and when Tess saw the front of it rise precipitously, she raised the gun.

These two hills rise precipitously from the plain; and being capped by a wall-like battlement bear a strong resemblance to Steep Head in Port Warrender.

On one side the rock rose precipitously, ten feet above their heads.

Lee was smiling and Perlenmann's left eyebrow had risen precipitously.

The rocks rose precipitously on each side; it was evident that the water was deep.

On their left by the sea these rose precipitously, offering great difficulties for an assault.

The opposite side rose precipitously in lofty table-topped mountains, and the river was studded with canoes.

The facade with its three projecting towers rose precipitously from among the dark trees of the garden.

The land was tolerably level for a few hundred feet, and then it rose precipitously in a mountainside.

The lofty banks through which the Arkansas occasionally passes are of shale and sandstone, rising precipitously from the water.

The castle stood on a rock, rising precipitously on two of its sides, and was now being used as a barracks.

The spot which he attained for this purpose was the point of a projecting rock, which rose precipitously from among the trees.

Here at the shelter the woods had been pushed back to the edge of the hills that rose precipitously behind the clearing.

See the huge masses of rock rising precipitously on both sides of the glen and rearing their rugged heads towards the very heavens!

The land rises precipitously to the east of the site, so I had what seemed like a nice-size dragon exactly where I wanted it.