precipitousness
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The precipitousness of the affair had taken her breath away and driven all thought in mad rout from her mind.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
Owing to the precipitousness of the banks, I was unable to gain my object, and was therefore compelled to remain in the stream.
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer
There is a stock story they tell of the Arrow Lakes, and which appears intended to convey to the simple tourist a graphic idea of the precipitousness of their rocky walls.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
Their great anxiety to trade for powder indicated their lack of that article and partly explained the precipitousness of their retreat.
From A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
The knoll fell away in bushy precipitousness to the plain below.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
