| We drove back to L.A. through the Santa Monica Mountains on the Mulholland Highway, portions of which curve along steep drop-offs. |
| The road twists vertiginously around sharp drop-offs, and nighttime is when poisonous fer-de-lance snakes slither across the road. |
| This, we soon discovered, is a craggy ridge only four feet wide, with precipitous 1,500-foot drop-offs on both sides. |
| I don't think about the rocks or the sheer ice or the exposed drop-offs or the avalanche danger. |
| Exquisite rock islands cloaked in dense foliage are fringed by the shelves of coral reefs covered in crystal water leading you to precipitous drop-offs. |
| As with many publishers of newspapers, Tribune Company has experienced drop-offs in revenues from classified advertisement. |
