The measuring device, a graduated column, sits below the level of the Nile at the bottom of a flight of precipitous steps, which the guard will cheerfully let y.

He managed, somehow, to twist himself about as they skidded down the precipitous steps.

"We really want to do it in concert with our friends and allies and not start taking immediate, precipitous steps, because there are some very sensitive issues here," he said.

I gave it her; and she regarded the now visible, but precipitous steps, as if calculating her capacity to descend.

Rockson considered that he could easily shove his particular guard off the precipitous topmost step and manage to land upon him.

Avoid precipitous steps.

He crowded so close upon Tyrus and the young queen that he nearly pushed them down the precipitous steps.

Like three of his lamented ancestors, the old man was taking the long plunge down the precipitous steps to the stone passage at the bottom.

She panted up the precipitous steps.

But he called on lawmakers to "avoid precipitous steps that may bring short-term budget relief but will cripple us in the long run."