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He put it back in his pocket and pushed the gas pedal until they were flying through the steep-sided gorge.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

Norway is a land of high, steep-sided mountains and long inlets, the fjords; Denmark and Sweden are lands of islands and lakes.

Notes and queries: Why didn't the Vikings learn to fly? The bad guy's bureaucratic henchmen; the difference between fur and hair 2011

In another outdoor new year tragedy, a man died after falling out of a canoe as he navigated his way down a steep-sided river gorge in Cornwall, police said.

Teenager who died on Scafell Pike is named as Lee Jones 2012

Far below, a gold river cut through the steep-sided gorge.

Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

In numerous places, where the water dashed against the steep-sided bluffs, rim-ice was unable to form.

Chapter V 2010

I almost passed it off as a swan, but a narrow, steep-sided channel with only a thin stream of water was hardly the place.

Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

As the morning gives way to afternoon, the anemic, late-winter sun burns through, lifting the heavy mist and exposing the dramatic steep-sided canyon.

A Nation Passing On the Port William Lyons 2011

Today the steep-sided pit is a refuge for chalk grassland plants and animals once frequent on the now arable-ised fields of the south Cambridgeshire chalk belt.

Country diary: Orwell, Cambridgeshire 2011

Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks.

Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland Phil Gates 2010

In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan.

The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat 2010