precipice-foot

Updated: May 28, 2025

He turned and ran up the precipice-foot to the first steep ascent of the steeple-sloped break in the wall of the abyss. A day of anxiety, only partly relieved by those tiny flashes of light so far, far down in the awful depths; then the long night of ceaseless watching.

Robert Ames Bennet - Out of the Depths: A Romance of Reclamation