He slithered down a perilously steep companionway to the main deck.

She is unnerved by the cats that race about the provider's home, the litter box by the front door and the perilously steep stairway.

But the horse would not budge; it had found a safe spot on the perilously steep and sandy slope and was not coming down without a fight.

The progress upward of humanity, we say, is like an army making its way slowly up a perilously steep slope.

The climb up the Eastern Conference standings is growing perilously steep for the Nets.

The stone buildings rose high, like aeries, with the fronts four or five stories high, and the backs often stretching nine or ten stories down the perilously steep hills.

Oliphant allowed himself to be led through the doorway, and up a narrow, perilously steep flight of stairs.

Clinging on to the mountainsides, its perilously steep cobbled streets were lined with pretty 19th-century houses with blue doors and balconies.

Through slippery, perilously steep cobblestone byways, slaves carried refined Portuguese ladies in ornate sedan chairs.

Murat, hanging awkwardly at the brink of the perilously steep and slippery roof, finally answered his quondam magician-with a curse.