...Lowering himself over the precipitous side of the gorge Tarzan halfclambered and half slid to the sandy floor beneath... 
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... The sides of these ranges are generally very precipitous, and there are rivulets between which are not perennial...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...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」
..." The scenery itself is fair and restful to the eye; there are no huge mountains, no precipitous dongas, yet an ever-changing kaleidoscope which prevents any monotony...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
...As we proceeded, the country became rougher, the ravines more precipitous...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...The frequent casualties among these precipitous paths, together with the healthfulness of the climate, have made it a proverb, that it is a natural death, at St...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
..."The ibex inhabits the most precipitous ground in the highest partsof the ranges where it is found, keeping above the forest (when thereis any), unless driven down by severe weather...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and 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」
...Then they usually repairto small lonely islands often with bold precipitous shores...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Approaching Limestone Creek, the road wounddown the face of a precipitous bluff, into the valleybelow...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...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」
...Two minutes later the old-man found himself facing aquite precipitous rocky ascent at the gully's end, and so, there being noalternative that he could see, he turned at bay to face his pursuers...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...There is an explanation required about this precipitous leap...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...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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