...It is on this precipitous declivity, broken bypointed crags, that the town is built... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...We started at daybreak, and after a long march along the sandy bed, hemmed in by high banks or by precipitous cliffs of sandstone, we arrived at the junction...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...From the time we had fairly entered the river it had been confined by heights somewhat precipitous on either side, rising to about 180 feet...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...As we proceeded, the country became rougher, the ravines more precipitous...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Its outer rim consisted also of low hills concealing a drop of precipitous cliffs...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...The water flowed at the bottom of a little ravine, precipitous in most places, but with gently sloping banks at the spot we had chosen...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...About 4 milesfrom our late camp we came suddenly upon a fine old solitary bull,feeding in a hollow between two high and precipitous ridges...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The oil bird; was discovered amongstthe precipitous rocks of the Adam's Peak range by Mr...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...Some way back I made some allusion to the wayin which many of the penguins were choosing sitesup the precipitous sides of the Cape at the back ofthe rookery...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
... to reach which they must make a Precipitous Climb of 1000 feet...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...In a few seconds the dog resumed its onward course, and led the way into a wild, dark spot, which was so overshadowed by trees and precipitous cliffs that the light of the sun scarce found entrance...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...Its nest, built of sea-weed orbents, is placed high up in the face of a precipitous cliff, generally ona narrow ledge, and in close proximity with others belonging tobirds of the same species...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The corn has been cut, and upon a stout, but a few rods from the woods, which here drop quickly down from the precipitous heights, we set up our bee-box, touched again with the pungent oil...
John Burroughs 「Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and, Other Papers」
...Between San Juan de Limaand Las Peñas the mountains extend to the sea; in this region rockypromontories form precipitous cliffs dropping into the sea...
William E. Duellman 「The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacán, México」
...These take firm hold of the rapid and precipitous ascentsand descents, which they encounter in travelling to and from the mines;in which journeys they carry 100 lbs...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...In Sundal, a narrow Norwegianvalley, shut in on both sides by precipitous mountains, there liveddown to the second half of the nineteenth century an old man whowas very superstitious...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
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