precipitousness
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Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.
From The Beautiful Lady by Booth Tarkington
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 first impression when one arrives at Hopi Point is of the nearness of the buttes, and the sheer precipitousness of the place upon which he stands.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
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 John Ruskin
