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Sentences ending with steep

The rocky landscape was wild and desolate, and the path to be climbed steep. [10]
Fame beckoned him upward from her templed steep. [6]
The road was uphill--interminable uphill--and tolerably steep. [5]
The engineers reported that the railroad could come in, by taking a little sweep and crossing the stream on a high bridge, but the grades would be steep. [5]
There was only one possible place to ascend, and this was narrow and steep. [13]
He had had his day at that in South America, and as Jean Jacques Barbille had said, the water was swift and deep, and the banks of the Watloon high and steep! [11]
Presently the British "broke and fled for their lives down the rugged steep. [5]

Sentences containing steep two or more times

The mountains are very high and steep about Carson, Eagle and Washoe Valleys--very high and very steep, and so when the snow gets to melting off fast in the Spring and the warm surface-earth begins to moisten and soften, the disastrous land-slides commence. [5]
One must have from one hundred and fifty to five hundred feet of strong rope, to be used in lowering the party down steep declivities which are too steep and smooth to be traversed in any other way. [5]
Livy darling, we came through a-whooping today, 6 hours tramp up steep hills and down steep hills, in mud and water shoe-deep, and in a steady pouring rain which never moderated a moment. [5]

More example sentences with the word steep in them

My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to. [5]
A constant marvel with us, as we sped along the bases of the steep mountains on this journey, was, not that avalanches occur, but that they are not occurring all the time. [5]
Like Balancing Rock, which waited darkly over the steep gorge, ready to close forever the outlet to Deception Pass, that nameless thing, as certain yet intangible as fate, must fall and close forever all doubts and fears of the future. [13]
The mountain streams were all swollen and turbulent, and the steep declivities were furrowed in every direction by new channels. [6]
By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead. [5]
Thus, Quedlinburg was well suited to arouse poetic feelings in young hearts, steep the soul with love for the beautiful, time-honoured region, and yet fill it with the desire to make distant lands its own. [10]
After a rest we followed down a path which had been made in the steep inner frontage of the moraine, and stepped upon the glacier itself. [5]
How many trees we climbed, what steep cliffs we scaled, through what crevices we squeezed to add a rare egg to our collection; nay, we even risked our limbs and necks! [10]
The mountain side was so steep that the entire town had a slant to it like a roof. [5]
Our right flank was posted on a rather steep incline which dominated the French position. [2]
The military road was good, but rather steep, and there was a good deal of it. [5]
Behind our position was a steep and deep dip, making it difficult for artillery and cavalry to retire. [2]
The "city" of Virginia roosted royally midway up the steep side of Mount Davidson, seven thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and in the clear Nevada atmosphere was visible from a distance of fifty miles! [5]
Putting forth their utmost strength, the overloaded men labored up the steep and hardly distinguishable mountain path. [10]
The meadow sloped up to a belt of balsams and firs, a steep rocky knob, and climbing that on foot we stood upon the summit of Mitchell at one o'clock. [4]
It was not until morning that I beheld my retreat, when little wisps of vapour were straying over the surface of the lake, and the steep green slopes that rose out of the water on the western side were still in shadow. [9]
The moisture was trickling down its steep sides and had gathered into a reddish torrent on the rocky bottom. [10]
It seemed almost too steep to climb, but a practised eye could see from a distance the zigzag lines of the sheep-paths which scaled it like miniature Alpine roads. [6]
As soon as Tom was back we cut along the path, around the garden fence, and by and by fetched up on the steep top of the hill the other side of the house. [5]
It was interesting to watch the groups under the locusts, to see the management of the ferry, the mounting and dismounting of the riding-parties, and to study the colors on the steep hill opposite, halfway up which was a neat cottage and flower-garden. [4]
But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
It ran close to the edge of the steep hillside,--so close that there were times when every one of our forty digits curled up like a bird's claw. [6]
I have only to go a few steps up a narrow, steep street, lined with the queerest houses, where is an ever-running pipe of good water, to which all the neighborhood resorts, and I am within the grounds of the castle. [4]
Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady's finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop's hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some in the division. [5]
But after a tiresome march of almost half a mile, we came to a hill covered thick with a crumbly rubbish of stones, and so steep that no man of us all was now in a condition to climb it. [5]
We descended a ticklish path in the steep side of the moraine, and invaded the glacier. [5]
In Charley's day this gate had been often used, for it gave upon four steep wooden steps leading to a narrow shelf of rock below. [11]
By the time they got near Mozhaysk and began ascending the steep hill into the town, the cocks were already crowing. [2]
Crossing a road they descended a steep incline and saw several men lying on the ground; they also met a crowd of soldiers some of whom were unwounded. [2]
In the morning, the tenth day out, we crossed Green River, a fine, large, limpid stream--stuck in it with the water just up to the top of our mail-bed, and waited till extra teams were put on to haul us up the steep bank. [5]
Rivulets dashed into the streets from the gutters on the steep roofs of Leyden; the water in the canals and ditches grew turbid and rose towards the edges of the banks. [10]
As she climbed the steep steps of Mountain Street, worn with hard travel, she turned faint. [11]
Above it on the steep hillside are vineyards; and a winding path goes up to the Philosopher's Walk, which runs along for a mile or more, giving delightful views of the castle and the glorious woods and hills back of it. [4]
We drove about the steep hills and narrow, crooked streets of this old town during three hours, yesterday, in a sleigh, in a driving snow-storm. [5]
We scrambled up the steep bank at the shabby town of Ghizeh, mounted the donkeys again, and scampered away. [5]
It is beyond the river, up that steep road running into the sky, in the next adjoining hill town. [4]
From a distance the prevailing colour of the steep slope is ochre; it gives the effect of having been scraped bare in preparation for some gigantic enterprise. [9]
As they reached the middle of the steep bridge across the canal he involuntarily stood still, riveted by the view of the southwest. [10]
The ascent of the hill of the citadel is very steep, and we proceeded rather slowly. [5]
Since passing through the Gate of Baba, they had beheld on their way through the valley of the same name and their subsequent pilgrimage through the wilderness of Sin, nothing save valleys with steep precipices on either side. [10]
Murmuring and plashing, the forest stream dashed down its steep bed over rocks and amid moss-covered stones and smooth pebbles to the valley. [10]
About eight in the evening the fog lifted and showed us a well-worn path which led up a very steep rise to the left. [5]
We descended from the church by steep stone stairways which curved this way and that down narrow alleys between the packed and dirty tenements of the village. [5]
I was at the beginning of a deep gorge or valley, on one side of which was a steep sloping hill of grass and trees, and on the other a huge escarpment of mossed and jagged rocks. [11]
The current is swift, the banks are steep and high as a house down below there. [11]
Cumner's Son was supple and swift, and scarce an hour had passed ere he came to a steep place on the other side, with rough niches cut in the rocks, by which a strong man might lift himself up to safety. [11]
Then, as if suddenly instinct with life, it leaped hurtingly down to alight on the steep incline, to bound more swiftly into the air, to gather momentum, to plunge into the lofty leaning crag below. [13]
It is a striking, picturesque town, built up a steep promontory, the old part at the bottom, very dingy and mouldy, the new part at the top, very showy and elegant. [6]
It was a strange place of conflict, which the experienced soldier would never have selected voluntarily; for it was enclosed on both sides by lofty, steep, grey granite cliffs. [10]
Scrawled mounds of stone, like mountain waves, seemed to roll up to steep bare slopes and towers. [13]
The descent was steep, and our only drinkingvessel was M----'s cap. [5]
The same old steep path, leads there; but as to Wawer!--it would be improper to say Jungfrau Barbara--you will surer open your eyes--" Here she was summoned to the kitchen, and Wolf followed his little assistants into the street. [10]
We climbed the steep path to its summit, through breezy glades of thorn and oak. [5]
It was very steep on each side, and the river ran close by. [4]
I followed the steep lines up, inch by inch, with my eye, and noted the possibility or impossibility of following them with my feet. [5]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
These had high, steep banks on each side, and every time we flew down one bank and scrambled up the other, our party inside got mixed somewhat. [5]
The roofs were steep and high, with dormer windows and a sort of shelf at the gables. [11]
At the railway station at Darjeeling you find plenty of cab-substitutes --open coffins, in which you sit, and are then borne on men's shoulders up the steep roads into the town. [5]
You dig a square in the steep base of the mountain, and set up two uprights and top them with two joists. [5]
John used to spend hours in the top of a slender hickory-tree that a little detached itself from the forest which crowned the brow of the steep and lofty pasture behind his house. [4]
The steep verdant slope, whose base is at the water's edge is topped by a lofty rampart of broken, turreted rocks, which are exquisitely rich and mellow in color--mainly dark browns and dull greens, but splashed with other tints. [5]
On its southern side the citadel-rock was not so steep, and houses had been built upon it. [10]
Like an automaton she followed Lassiter down the steep trail of dust and bits of weathered stone; and when the little slides moved with her or piled around her knees she experienced no alarm. [13]
The Castle's picturesque shape; its commanding situation, midway up the steep and wooded mountainside; its vast size--these features combine to make an illumination a most effective spectacle. [5]
The noon sun seemed to steep the white vapor with light, and lure it upward by its ardent rays. [10]
I could not see how the peasants got up to that chalet --the region seemed too steep for anything but a balloon. [5]
He shouldered our satchels, overcoats, and alpenstocks, and we set out up the steep path. [5]
Nemu left the sanctuary to his left, and rode up the steep hill-path which was the nearest way from the plain to the valley of the tombs. [10]
Occasionally it was safest to dismount and lead them up slippery ascents; but this was also dangerous, for it was difficult to keep them from treading on our heels, in their frantic flounderings, in the steep, wet, narrow, brier-grown path. [4]
We had a rough time getting to the top, the sides was so steep and the bushes so thick. [5]
Returning down the rocky steep, I descried, solitary in that great waste of rock and snow, the form of a lady whom I supposed I had left sleeping at the inn, overcome with the fatigue of yesterday's tramp. [4]
We kept the road to the top, for Notre Dame de Lorette is as steep as Vimy. [9]
Looking neither to right nor left, she climbed the long hillside, and at last reached the summit, where, bundled in a steep corner, was the Rock of Red Pigeons. [11]
He has the rare peculiarity of standing by himself; he is peculiarly steep, too, and is also most oddly shaped. [5]
She tried to put Ditmar from her mind; she sought in desperation, not only to keep busy, but to steep and lose herself in this fierce creed as an antidote to the insistent, throbbing pain that lay ambushed against her moments of idleness. [9]
After the melancholy procession had passed around a steep mountain whose summit was crowned with a small Egyptian temple of Hathor and a number of monuments, it approached a bend in the valley which led to the ravine where the mines were located. [10]
Climbing the steep precipice was no easy task, but we succeeded, and were then lowered from above into the crevice. [10]
But at this point Wolfe had discovered a narrow path up a steep cliff. [11]
Outside it was pleasant now; so without much reflection she pushed open the shutter, wrapped a long, dark-hued kerchief about her head and stole down the steep steps and out through a little side door into the court-yard. [10]
And she lingered, perversely resolved to steep herself in the agony. [9]
To-morrow, perhaps, the perfect lawns where the robins hopped amidst the shrubbery would become again the rock-bound, windswept New England pasture above the sea, and screaming gulls circle where now the swallows hovered about the steep blue roof of a French chateau. [9]
That second stage once passed, the ascent thence to the top would be easier; for though nearly as steep, it had more ledges, and offered fair vantage to a man with a foot like a mountain goat. [11]
Twilight was coming on, the train was winding through the mountain passes, crossing and re-crossing a swift little stream whose banks were massed with alder; here and there, on the steep hillsides, blazed the goldenrod.... [9]
As he lay on his back in that room among the chimney tops trying vainly to solve the problem of how he was to earn his salt in the country, a visitor was climbing the last steep flight of stairs. [9]
The ridge back of the house, planted in corn, was as steep as the roof of his dwelling. [4]
At the descent of the high steep hill, down which a winding road led out of the town past the cathedral on the right, where a service was being held and the bells were ringing, Pierre got out of his vehicle and proceeded on foot. [2]
The parsonage was of only one story, with a steep, sloping roof. [9]
We turned out of one of the streets not far from the hotel, and found ourselves facing an ascent which looked like what I should suppose would be a pretty steep toboggan slide. [6]
At the foot of a steep precipice was the whirlpool from which Parpon, at great risk, had rescued the father of De la Riviere, and had received this lonely region as his reward. [11]
I do not object to the elevation of this mountain, nor to the uncommonly steep grade by which it attains it, but only to the other obstacles thrown in the way of the climber. [4]
These cars were not tilted back, but the seats were; this enables the passenger to sit level while going down a steep incline. [5]
The public does not demand that an actor shall come in at a private door and climb a steep staircase to get to the stage. [4]
They had made no other stoppages, but the weather continued rough, and the roads were often steep and heavy. [12]
The organ was muttering, censers were swinging, candles were glinting on the distant altar and robed priests were filing silently past them; the scene was one to sweep all frivolous thoughts away and steep the soul in a holy calm. [5]
The sidewalks were merely long, deep ditches, with steep snow walls on either side. [5]
It had a mediaeval look, queer dormers in a steep roof of red tiles, leaded windows buried deep in walls of rough stone. [9]
At these places long detours were necessary, on steep hillsides and through gullies, over treacherous sink-holes in the rocks, through quaggy places, heaps of brush, and rotten logs. [4]
It was exactly like plunging down a steep hillside that is covered thickly with light, soft snow. [4]

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