Here and there are seen wire ropes extending from the low lands to the mountain sides, the upper ends of which are lost to sight, and which are used for sliding down bundles of compressed hay after it has been cut, made, and packed in places whither only men accustomed to scale precipices could possibly climb.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Having waded through the shallow water that lay between the ship's side and the land, they were now in the very act of climbing the steep precipices which here start, as it were, from the very verge of the sea.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
Her terror, too, at the giddy passes which they had to cross, with precipices yawning on either hand-so that it seemed as if a false step must send them rolling into the abyss-was so overpowering that the sublime spectacle of the snow-clad Alps seemed comparatively to produce but little impression on her.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind