Sentence examples for sheer precipice from inspiring English sources

At the falls, the river plunges over a sheer precipice to a maximum drop of 355 feet (108 metres).

Mr Potter was standing next to his girlfriend when he slipped and fell over a sheer precipice close to the peak of Sgurr Choinnich Mor, near Ben Nevis.

It is a gently sloping mountain on the El Pauji side, but has a tepui-like sheer precipice on the other.

The sensational 150km dirt track from the remote northern town of Chachapoyas to Celelendín climbed up to a height of more than 4,000m before descending along a crumbling ledge clinging to a sheer precipice.

It's a nice finger – or hoof – up to health and safety but, Jesus, does it really have to be a 1,000-metre 1,000-metrepice, with jusheere tiniest, crumbliest little ledges to cling to?

For Hakuin the aim of "seeing into one's own nature" can only be realized if one has "cut off the root of life": "You must be prepared to let go your hold when hanging from a sheer precipice, to die and return again to life" (Hakuin, 133 35).

'They had passed through crazed-looking villages washed in palest blue; crossed dry beds of torrents over fantastic bridges; skirted sheer precipices which no sage or broom could temper.

"They had passed through crazed looking villages washed in palest blue; crossed dry beds of torrents over fantastic bridges; skirted sheer precipices which no sage and broom could temper.

However, with the aid of an accomplice, Caravaggio did escape, evading the castle guard, scaling the ramparts, and lowering himself down a sheer 200-foot (61-metre) precipice and into a boat awaiting him below.

But his true passion was wingsuit flying — the enchantingly simple if technically daring pursuit that allows people to approximate bird flight — which frequently sent him over the edge of alpine precipices that, for their sheer scale and risk, put the London exploit to shame.

By sheer instinct, I jerked back from the precipice, carefully turned around, and grabbed a nearby metal railing to help me to my feet.