"Its precipitous sides," he wrote, "which give no hold to the very snows, are such as to afford no means of access."

Hurst sprang up in front of her and held out his stick like a rail on the precipitous side.

But in the meantime there were things could be done, particularly seizure of a small hill with precipitous sides just below the Gergovian plateau.

I crept close to the precipitous side of the iceberg, and peered far down, hoping, still hoping.

As its name suggests there is a cave to be found on the cliffs on the precipitous eastern side of the peak.

I headed on, down the precipitous far side, the site of the 1820's rock slide that gave the peak its name.

The cave which took my fancy lay halfway up the precipitous side of a lofty cliff.

At daybreak they halted in the depths of another tremendous gorge with precipitous sides.

All valleys are deep, with steep, often precipitous, sides.

The precipitous rocky sides rose above them, and suddenly they were in darkness.