You have been walking for some months very near to the edge of a precipice.
Once it came to a little precipice and flung itself over undauntedly in an indignation of foam, gathering itself up rather dizzily among the mossy stones below.
To the islet upon which the castaways had first landed, the name of Safety Island; to the plateau which crowned the high granite precipice above the Chimneys, and from whence the gaze could embrace the whole of the vast bay, the name of Prospect Heights.
The sun was rising from the sea's horizon, and touched with golden spangles the prismatic rugosities of the huge precipice.
At half-past five the little band arrived at the precipice, and a short time after at the Chimneys.
After having passed the precipice, Herbert, the reporter, and Pencroft prudently stepped aside to stop and take breath.
It continued thus for a length of three miles, ending suddenly on the right with a precipice which looked as if cut by the hand of man.
" The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high.
A man's favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice; He can't pull it out no matter how hard he tries; He therefore decides to bury it alive.
Above them a great fortress extends the precipice way beyond its natural height.
To ride, visitors board a gray mat and pull it up over their feet to form a makeshift sled, then scoot themselves over the precipice.
A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had not a chance of reaching her.
An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
The Hares, oppressed with a sense of their own exceeding timidity, and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles, by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.
And when they looked round they found that they had been sleeping quite close to a precipice, and would certainly have fallen into it in the darkness if they had gone only a few paces further.
" said he angrily to himself, and seized the king's son and led him back again to the precipice by another way, but the lion which saw his evil design, helped its master out of danger here also.
That child of the human race has a power within him which keeps me at a distance; I cannot possibly reach the boy when he hangs from the branches of trees, over the precipice; or I would gladly tickle his feet, and send him heels over head through the air; but I cannot accomplish it.
