Sentence examples for precipitous road from inspiring English sources

In the background to this novel, the ansible offers the possibility of peace between nations; but it is the sharply observed foreground, the precipitous road towards war, that most strikes me now.

Having driven Richard Olney and our friend Jill Norman down the precipitous road that drops from Richard's home into the village, his directions to the vineyard were vague: "This exit will do... nearly there..

5 30 p.m. 1) DRINK AND A LIVE TRAIL MAP After the white-knuckle obstacle course along the expansion project of the Sea to Sky Highway, the precipitous road linking Vancouver and Whistler, unwind in front of the fire at the Mallard Lounge inside the Fairmont Chateau Whistler (4599 Chateau Boulevard in the Upper Village, 604-938-8000; www.fairmont.com/whistler).

We wound our way up a precipitous road and through the Lowari Tunnel, essentially a long, glorified cave that cuts through the side of the mountain and is totally unlit except for the odd lantern. .

Pompeii, for example, involves a long trip to Southern Italy, Positano, an unnerving drive along what the Monastero Santa Rosa Hotel called "the most precipitous road in Europe with vertigo-inducing vistas plunging down jagged cliffs to the azure Tyrrhenean Sea".

SANTIAGO TLAZOYALTEPEC is less than two hours' drive from the city of Oaxaca, up a precipitous dirt road flanked by cool forests of pine and evergreen oak.

It begins in familiar style with Bond flooring the accelerator of his Aston Martin and looking quite unperturbed as he weaves in and out of the oncoming traffic on a precipitous mountain road.

Twelve of us were wedged — somewhat precariously, I thought — in one of Asif's Pajeros, as he drove us along a precipitous mountain road on our way to an old hill station of the Raj for a family outing.

The precipitous public roads on which it ran, wending through a mountainous national park, were diabolically twisty, narrow and devoid of guardrails.

By now weary of motorways, I was pleased to find online a ride over the Pyrenees to Barcelona, bearing a little blue autoroute icon with a strike-through – meaning that it would mostly be on precipitous B-roads.

Anyone who has spent time on long-distance buses in the Andes will be familiar with the traditional huayno music piped over the PA system, soundtracking the hairpin turns on precipitous mountain roads.