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and over the final, endless precipice,
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On that cue everyone moved to the edge of the precipice to peer down into the darkness
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Much to everyone’s relief he landed safely on the other side, but this time barely twenty centimetres clear of the precipice
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Lucy had found a handhold but when the rope snapped taut she was torn free and fell screaming over the precipice
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Chris’ feet thumped against the rock, barely a centimetre clear of the precipice
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Standing at the very edge of a deep precipice, eyes glazed with excitement, he surveyed his imagined forces gathered on the plain below
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As the sun finally set, and the moon made ready to wash the precipice with its gentle radiance, the sky darkened, casting long shadows over the landscape
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Thomas’s hands were up in the air, as if he were standing at the very edge of a precipice, afraid of plunging to his death
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Hilderich turned around to look at the steps below searching for the keystone, this time with a healthier distance from the summit’s precipice
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As if trying to steer his mind away from a dark precipice, Molo was careful with his words, not only because the language was difficult to speak properly, but because he found the Pilgrim’s question deeply incisive, the answer still unknown to him
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Jade stopped at the precipice and took off her boots, placing them just inside
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“I will obey my master,” I said, and stepped away from the precipice without thinking
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Hilderich repeated his question, this time shouting, demanding, fury overtaking him despite the parts of his mind that warned him of teetering on a precipice of unfathomable depth, every step reeking with deadly danger:
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effect, 25 for even women, because they continued to circumcise their children, were flung down a precipice along with them,
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In a broader sense the Tea Parties and their associates represent an effort to pull at least the American segment of Western civilization back from the precipice of savagery
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throw themselves to the precipice from the wall of the city
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A huge waterfall was careening over a precipice more
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precipice with the power of water from a hundred fire hoses
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A precipice created a circle around her, the incline of it leading straight into the chasm that her cage had been placed over
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24 And when he could by no means destroy by his decrees the obedience to the law of the nation but saw all his threats and punishments without effect 25 for even women because they continued to circumcise their children were flung down a precipice along with them knowing beforehand of the punishment
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with kisses as his passion rose to a precipice with hers
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From your precipice you take these things as second nature but on second look, it is something you know but avoid eyeballing without a horse in the game
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I seemed upon a precipice where fought Abandon with Control
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Build fences by the precipice, post signs everywhere
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Though he stood on the precipice of the platform, next to the sloping front window, his
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The commander edged around a mound of rocks and out onto the large gulley precipice that overlooked the cavern
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They cautiously walked a little further until they stood on the edge of the precipice and became shocked by the sight that greeted them
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As he was formulating this decision, Jesus was seated under the shade of a tree on an overhanging ledge of rock with a precipice right there before him
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An elevator had been installed against the side of the precipice, large and strong enough to hold heavy machinery, so getting equipment and tools to within the cavern was a lot simpler
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They walked to the edge of the precipice and their jaws dropped as the stood and looked over the citadel and its inhabitants
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He then walked to the edge of the precipice
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Several members of the citadels community stood on the ridge of the jungle precipice and stared in tears down at their old homes main entrance
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All Norman and the citadel inhabitants could do was hold a memorial for his adopted son and Tar, but as only dust remained, a large brass plaque was made in their honour and placed on the wall of the precipice
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6 As the swine herders rushed into the village to spread the news of the taming of the lunatic, the dogs charged upon a small and untended herd of about thirty swine and drove most of them over a precipice into the sea
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A strong shudder shook Conan as he handled it, and he turned as though to cast it over the precipice; then he hesitated, and finally buckled it about his waist, under the Bakhariot girdle
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The vein crawled up a similar ramp on the other wall up which the acolytes had disappeared, and up it they went with taut nerves, not knowing what might be waiting for them among the jutting spurs of rock that fanged the lip of the precipice
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They stood among the rocky teeth that serrated the precipice brink, and from that spot a path wound up a gentle slope to a broad stair, consisting of half a dozen steps, a hundred feet across, cut out of a green jade-like substance
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The sun was sinking toward the distant crags when Conan, his garments hacked to tatters and the mail under them reeking and clotted with blood, his knife dripping and crusted to the hilt, strode over the corpses to where Yasmina Devi sat her horse among her nobles on the crest of the ridge, near a lofty precipice
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edge of some dizzying precipice
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look down at the bottom of the precipice
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Remedios the Beauty did not tell anyone that one of the men, taking advan-tage of the tumult, had managed to attack her stomach with a hand that was more like the claw of an eagle clinging to the edge of a precipice
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He saw the clowns doing cartwheels at the end of the parade and once more he saw the face of his miserable solitude when everything had passed by and there was nothing but the bright expanse of the street and the air full of flying ants with a few onlookers peering into the precipice of uncertain-ty
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the precipice of love
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He was teetering on the precipice
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Where his feet had but moments ago been on the trail, they now were perched on the very edge of a precipice
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Near dark, one of us spotted a small cave, or rather an overhang, on the side of a precipice not more than a hundred meters off the path, and decided this was where we were to spend this night
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was negotiating a precipice? All of us have come to that point in our
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step onto the precipice, I feign imbalance and fall forward into his
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As we step down off the granite precipice, I point to the trail in
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Before very long Si and I reached a huge precipice hanging out over a vast canyon, the edges of which could not be seen by the naked eye
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overwhelm you, then you feel on the precipice and can't cope
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A unique formula adding up to the two of them standing at the precipice of the rest of their lives
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Along the sheer cliffs of the seas, built upon its precipice was a cottage but
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” Miney stood on the precipice of herself, answering death row contestant questions, fearing, motivated, addicted to the threat of being eliminated
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He shrieked as he felt the balance begin to shift against him, tilting further out and uselessly wind-milling his arms, but his rising scream was abruptly silenced by a hard whack on the back, reversing his tip-out and propelling him face-first into the stony precipice
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“Come on!” yelled Nightfall, and Edgar opened his mouth to protest but Nightfall had already turned and begun to sprint across the undulating terrain toward the precipice some fifty yards off
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And she suddenly wanted very badly to be teased until her earth shattered and she was on the precipice of yet another universe of pleasure
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Even the Schmidts, those interesting people, have flapped up with screams of satisfaction into a nest on the side of a precipice
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And there are very few girls in Jena who would come out of it and take a situation on the side of a precipice for eight pounds a year
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Jacob was talked off the precipice, and the two friends crawled back to the
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She could see the precipice, sense its depth and sheerness
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Shiva’s touch brought Sati back from the precipice
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Sarah-Jane is in the best possible hands” Dr Bhatti went on to explain about Sarah being on the edge of a precipice, she go forward into a deep abyss or take a step back, the choice was really her own
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Finally, his mother, vaporous and muted, stood silent upon the precipice of his memories
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He loosed the girth so that the horse might rest a bit and glanced up only to see her standing at the edge of a very steep precipice, looking down
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The inner slopes are steep, like a precipice: I can't see any way down, but this is where I have to go
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there, their precipice could be heard over the stillness created by
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dribble down the rocks into the precipice beneath him
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precipice on the bottom of which the infinite ocean was awaiting
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We woke up the Germans, said bonjour to the French couple and walked to the wall at the edge of the precipice
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tottered on the brink of a steep precipice
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Joseph wasn’t sure he could accomplish such a graceful bound, given the fact that he was plummeting toward the precipice utterly out of control
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Joseph was dangling from a rope grappled precariously to a root upon a precipice
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life of all types, human and otherwise? Consequently, humanity sits on the precipice of widespread
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At Gamala, 4,000, besides 5,000 who threw themselves down a precipice
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precipice looking down at the Seven Spirits of Evil, in an abyss
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Loranni twisted away from the precipice of darkness
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Furthermore, since this world is teetering on the precipice of
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the precipice of its demise as we reach the three-quarter mark during this year of great decision
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But associated with the knowledge accumulated in our early years, by connecting touch with sight, we do know when certain combinations of colour rays strike the eye that there is a road for us to walk on, and that when certain other combinations occur there is a hole in front of us, or the edge of a precipice
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Springing to her feet, she joined him at the precipice
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Imagining themselves possessed of indestructible being, they are but phantoms dancing on the edge of that precipice beneath which is the gulf of oblivion, the everlasting death in hell
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For if there are some masterful spirits who can stand upon the edge of the precipice, observing—without any recoil—the millions falling in one broad unbroken stream into the fiery surges below, there, "Thick as leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa," to remain in torment forever—I was one of those, the majority of Christian spectators— who find repose for their minds alone in the feminine sleights of forgetting or overlaying the daily remembrance of the terrible fact,—that they live in a world, the certain destiny of whose dense unevangelised population—after every deduction for lunatics, idiots, and children dying in infancy—is of a character to fill the creation with everlasting dismay, and to draw from all ranks of being a shout of congratulation for those on whom the blessing of insanity or the hand of the infanticide fell
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“When we are on the precipice we change
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We are standing on a global precipice and we need to change our world
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"But just Heaven, that seldom fails to watch over and aid good intentions, so aided mine that with my slight strength and with little exertion I pushed him over a precipice, where I left him, whether dead or alive I know not; and then, with greater speed than seemed possible in my terror and fatigue, I made my way into the mountains, without any other thought or purpose save that of hiding myself among them, and escaping my father and those despatched in search of me by his orders
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But all my care and pains were unavailing, for my master made the discovery that I was not a man, and harboured the same base designs as my servant; and as fortune does not always supply a remedy in cases of difficulty, and I had no precipice or ravine at hand down which to fling the master and cure his passion, as I had in the servant's case, I thought it a lesser evil to leave him and again conceal myself among these crags, than make trial of my strength and argument with him
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It was a pictorial sheet, and Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background with her mouth wide open
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And coming closer to him: "What ill could come to me? There is no desert, no precipice, no ocean I would not traverse with you
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hurrying me to the brink of a precipice, plunging me into dark waves, or horrid
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At their feet fell the precipice where the limestone was quarried away
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and spur him down the precipice
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Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice
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At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable precipice
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But at the very moment when the dangerous weapon was in the act of descending, the subtle Huron rolled swiftly from beneath the danger, over the edge of the precipice, and falling on his feet, was seen leaping, with a single bound, into the center of a thicket of low bushes, which clung along its sides