precipitousness

Example Sentences

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With characteristic precipitousness Flame jumped to her feet.

From Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

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 Franck, Harry Alverson

The precipitousness of the affair had taken her breath away and driven all thought in mad rout from her mind.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

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 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)

But unfortunately the precipitousness of the street encouraged its head-strong caprices, and a few seconds later all four shafts were broken, and the pantechnicon seemed to scent the open prairie.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold