Sentence examples for precipice a from inspiring English sources

You're looking down from a thousand-foot precipice, a view that dazzled Mark Twain.

We also review Caroline Moorehead's "Dancing to the Precipice," a biography of the French aristocrat Lucie Dillon, also known as the Marquise de la Tour du Pin, who survived the Terror to churn butter in upstate New York.

A hard-blowing, occasionally brilliant tenor saxophonist, Mr. Gayle was notorious in the early 1990's as the living redux of the first free-jazz era; more recently he has pulled back from the precipice a bit.

And as I put my arms around this unknown girl, I felt like I was teetering on the brink of a precipice, a precipice that Ruby was in danger of falling over.

When he did, it was a glimpse of a near-escape a pursuit, a precipice, a locked door, anear-escape and he was grateful to wake in sunlight and the warmth of his attic room.

After repeatedly vowing that he would not seek re-election, Mr. Berlusconi on Wednesday abruptly accused his successor of dragging Italy "to the brink of a precipice," a situation that had led supporters to call for Mr. Berlusconi's return to politics, he said.

Sauriol graded "Occupation" and the following "Precipice" A-. Television Without Pity gave the episode a B. In 2007, the episode was nominated for a 59th Primetime Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series", but lost to HBO's The Sopranos series finale "Made in America".

He told the Daily Mail that Neil Kinnock was like a man being "chased towards a precipice by a lynch mob".

Like all floorless dive coasters, Valravn will dangle riders over a precipice for a few heart-pounding seconds before the train descends straight down a vertical drop.

Davies described the original nature of her death falling over a precipice during a fight with Capricorn as "fleeting".

Idso, a Heartland Institute grantee and former environmental science director at Peabody Energy, the world's largest private sector coal company, told the gathering, according to Al Jazeera: "We are rapidly approaching a dangerous precipice -- a precipice defined by an insatiable desire by far too many policymakers to regulate the use of fossil fuels.