Sentence examples for steep precipice from inspiring English sources

The arrows disappeared, rocks and roots tripped us, the sun parched our throats, flies as big as hummingbirds tormented the horses, and every other path, it seemed, led to a steep precipice.

While a HuffPost analysis of Texas schools' performance under Perry found mixed results, education observers worry that the massive funding cuts coming out of the most recent legislative session leave Texas schools at the top of a steep precipice.

The explanation for the richness of fore-reef assemblages was that the substrate is high relief habitat (∼10 m) adjacent to a steep precipice bathed by impinging currents.

Onwards, the road clings to steep precipices before descending gently to Praia a Mare.

Listening to the original harmony is a little like jumping off a series of steep precipices into unseen landing places, and here Gesualdo's waywardness has been given even more room to roam.

Harbutt cuts to a long shot of the location (Lurline Bay in New South Wales), capturing the rider displaced from his bike and following his vehicle headfirst in a spectacular airborne trajectory off the steep rocky precipice into waters below.

Beneath the picturesque Monterey Bay is an underwater canyon more than two miles deep with steep rocky precipices.

Nonetheless, the middle Rhine (the section between the German cities of Bingen and Bonn), with such steep rock precipices as the Lorelei crag and numerous castles, still presents breathtaking vistas and attracts tourists.

The valley narrows into a winding ravine between steep wooded precipices and the train passes through many tunnels.

The form letter in use until just recently explained that Dr. Seuss's mail service was unreliable, because he lived on a steep and inaccessible precipice and because his correspondence had to travel by Budget, an ungainly Seuss beast, driven by Nudget, a Seuss Budget-driver.

Michael Rankin, 15, then clawed his way up the cliff, a precipice so steep that volunteer firemen who retrieved Mr. Rankin's body later said they could only climb it with ropes.