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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 Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel

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.

Mrs. Landry rose with precipitousness, and the beautiful lady, very red, followed.

From The Beautiful Lady by Tarkington, Booth

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

But unfortunately the precipitousness of the street encouraged its head-strong caprices, and a few seconds later all four shafts were broken, and the pantechnicon seemed to scent the open prairie.

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold