Precipices
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At length they arrived at a point where the mountains sank into rough and unequal hillocks, and passed at once from the barren sterility of the
precipices
, to the imperfect culture of the neutral ground.
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One sees pines of incredible size across torrents, cottages suspended over precipices, and, a thousand feet below one, whole valleys when the clouds open.
By climbing the steep slope which began a few yards farther on, one came presently to high
precipices
fringed with oakwoods, which projected almost over the bed of the river.
Who, think you, will follow us far, on a November night, among these rocks and precipices?""Listen!" exclaimed Henry; "the dragoons are shouting to each other; they miss us already."
It is strange to see men blown by the wind over the precipices, but the ground was so slippery and there was nothing to which they could hold.
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