Sentence examples for sheer precipices from inspiring English sources

"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.

'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.

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

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

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.

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).

A sheer precipice or a slippery slope?

World's End is a sheer precipice with a 870 m drop.

The sheer precipice of World's End and Baker's Falls are among the tourist attractions of the park.