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 Stocking, Charles Francis

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

But it is often possible to ascertain from a distance, if the cliff can be got relieved against the sky, the approximate degree of its precipitousness.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

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 Springer, John S.

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)