Precipice
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"There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge. To indulge, for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot." --"The Imp of the Perverse" (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe |
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- A very steep cliff.
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent...
- 1719- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- The brink of a dangerous situation.
- to stand on a precipice
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