This Castle taketh the iust compasse of the hill, and no other hill neere it, it is so steepe downe, and so high and ragged, that it will tyre any man or euer he be halfe way vp.
Then they steepe it first in sea water, washing it afterward with fresh water, and so it is made very good and sauorie paste, whereof they make either meat or bread, as they thinke good.
A good dayes iourney thence is a steepe mountaine, ouer which is no passage, sauing by one narrow path called Demir Capi, which was in times past called the yron gate.
Take such meate as they loue, as Wheate, Barley, and lay the same to steepe in the lees of Wine, or else in the juyce of Hemlockes, and sprinckle the same in places where Birds use to haunt.
Take white Pease, and steepe them eight or nine daies in the Gall of an Oxe: then cast the same where they use to haunt.
The soile of this Island is of certaine mountaines not very steepe with caues in them, and as farre as wee could descrie by the coast, there appeared no signe of any plaine countrey.
But one way left, But that thy base feare dares not let thee look on; And that way will I take, though it seeme steepe And every step stuck with affrights and horrours, Yet on the end hangs smyling peace and honour, And I will on.
And now (methincks) I dare securely looke on The steepe and desprat follyes my indiscretion Like a blind careles foole had allmost cast me on.
Ilands, two of which are as steepe and vpright as any wall, so that it was not possible to climbe them: and betweene them there is a little rocke.
My Lord, I will steepe this Letter in Sack, and make him eate it Prin.
And lastly the place, hauing a steepe cliffe adioyning, affordeth an oportunitie to the fact.
Besides the Cliffe, on which the house abbutteth, is steepe enough to shoulder off the waues, and the ground about it, plaine and large enough for vse and recreation.
Was that the King that spurd his horse so hard, Against the steepe vprising of the hill?
Stay my Lord, And let your Reason with your Choller question What 'tis you go about: to climbe steepe hilles Requires slow pace at first.
Why art thou heere Come from the farthest steepe of India?
This prettie talking, and our horses walking Downe this steepe hill, spends time with equall profit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steepe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
