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The route, almost continuous Z-bends on the edge of precipices, is one few drivers are willing to risk.
There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
After exiting the rear of the cave, we sat palavering between precipices of glacial ice and a slope of rock and snow.
Often no more than a single lane, it coils around villages perched on precipices, past waterfalls and over ancient stone bridges.
Gallipoli resembled a huge sandpit full of precipices, endless ravines and impassable ridges covered in thick scrub.
Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak.
It's important to reach out to human beings with some humanity and compassion to help bring them back from those precipices.
A trough-shaped reservoir cut into a deep valley enclosed by steep wooden slopes and rock precipices.
Only so can you give direction to your ambition and avoid precipices and dead ends.
One can also find precipices, craters, black beaches and natural coves on this island.
Yet the Mars Global Surveyor mission in June 2000 took photographs of gully-like formations on several precipices and crater walls on Mars.
And finally, we practised mountaineering techniques to traverse jungle ravines and precipices under the tutelage of Vienneau and Robinson.
The land is very steep and in places it falls abruptly down to the sea, with sheer cliff faces and precipices.
It feels like an innocuous moment, it should be an innocuous moment, but such moments are like serrated precipices.
Climb higher to the highland plateaus and precipices of Tarn Shelf, where you can look over the expansive lakes in the valley below.
This side remains uninhabited and presents a bold front of overhanging cliffs and lofty precipices of majestic grandeur and beauty.
And what are the most threatening precipices in the listing process that need to be circumnavigated?
If the working area is adjacent to water bodies, slopes or precipices, the boundary wire should be supplemented with a fence or the like.
The precept is the direction of the true happiness as when you do trekking, you follow the arrows especially if the trail is steep, or in the mountain, dangerous with the precipices.
Since the Black Mountains were not subject to glaciation, their slopes are covered with soil to the top, except for rocky precipices, and are heavily wooded.
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Flanked by sheer precipices, it was reached only by two narrow paths enfiladed by watch-towers, eyries, and batteries of boulders.
Amid the untamed forest and untrod precipices that lie beyond, all the beasts most inimical to man reside.
A mile away Hareshaw Lynn comes tumbling down, between seamed cliffs and verdurous precipices.
In many places the only traject was a narrow ledge, with deep precipices beneath, and often steep, rugged acclivities above.
He cried to the colossi sitting in their plain, and to the yellow precipices of the mountains of Libya.
The thin air refreshed him, and he sat on the edge of precipices with the best of them, and, when talk languished, flung pebbles into the void.
There are great, frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival.
Makalu was immediately opposite us with its colossal precipices.
Ever and anon, too, was heard the crash of falling trees, sometimes tumbling from crags and precipices, with tremendous sounds.
Both walls of the crevasse were sheer precipices of clear ice.
We senselessly risked our lives on the brinks of precipices.
How he avoided falling into precipices, off the quays, or down staircases is a great mystery.
Besides the numerous gangs of elk, large flocks of the ahsahta or bighorn, the mountain sheep, were to be seen bounding among the precipices.
A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls.
Their passes and defiles present the wildest scenery, partaking of the sublime rather than the beautiful, and abounding with frightful precipices.
I would rather face whole Hyde Parks of artillery than the ghastly forms of death which he has faced among the peaks and precipices of the mountains.
For several days he remained lurking among rocks and precipices, and almost famished, having but one remaining charge in his rifle, which he kept for self-defence.
This blast is said to be caused by a narrow gap or funnel in the mountains, through which the river forces its way between perpendicular precipices, resembling cut rocks.
He had grown very avaricious in his old age, and used to go off stealthily to hunt for non-existent and impossible gold among those perilous peaks and precipices.
A slanting ray lingered on the woody crests of the precipices that overhung some parts of the river, giving greater depth to the dark gray and purple of their rocky sides.
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