例文・使い方で印象づける「precipitous」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク... At daybreak they halted in the depths of another tremendous gorge with precipitous sides... 
Various 「Stories by English Authors: 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」
...At the bottom was a wady between steep, precipitous cliffs looking almost like walls erected by the hand of man...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...On a precipitous cañon cliff we found a hanging garden of cactus and of looped cactus-like vines that was a marvel to behold...
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」
...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」
...Some of these are too precipitous to sustain vegetation, others aremasses of quartz and granite...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...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」
...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」
...The next obstacle was a deep cañon with precipitous walls...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...On the side of the precipitous wall ofthe mesa south of the western mounds there is a row of small hemispherical depressions or pits, with agroove or line on one side...
Jesse Walter Fewkes 「Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895」
...Much, too, of the soilwas said to be unsuited for farming purposes, being so precipitous in someparts, and stony in others, as to be unfit for ploughing...
H. G. Nicholls 「The Forest of Dean」
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